Games Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Games over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category for the Manchester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 70 69 69
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Contract jobs citing Games 5 14 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.536% 1.084% 0.288%
As % of the General category 1.479% 3.196% 0.711%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 12 2
Average daily rate £300 £350 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £279 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £395 £273
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £325 £263
% change year-on-year
-6.92% +23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £22.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +44.44%
Search 10 Games jobs in Manchester
All of the General Category
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 338 438 422
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 36.23% 33.90% 40.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 207 171
Average daily rate £353 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.85% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £250 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £546 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 19
Average hourly rate £14.50 £30.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.66% +66.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+2.00% -3.84%
Games
North West

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Manchester Games Jobs Demand Trend

Games
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Games across the Manchester region.

Manchester Games Daily Rate Trend

Games
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Manchester region.

Manchester Games Hourly Rate Trend

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Games also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Games.

1 10 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) HTML
2 8 (50.00%) UML
2 8 (50.00%) Internet
3 7 (43.75%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
3 7 (43.75%) Eclipse
3 7 (43.75%) RDBMS
3 7 (43.75%) IBM
3 7 (43.75%) Interwoven
3 7 (43.75%) Tridion
3 7 (43.75%) Finance
3 7 (43.75%) ATG
3 7 (43.75%) Log4j
3 7 (43.75%) Subversion
3 7 (43.75%) Content Management
3 7 (43.75%) XMLBeans
3 7 (43.75%) Ajax
3 7 (43.75%) Blue Martini
3 7 (43.75%) Web 2.0
3 7 (43.75%) HPUX
3 7 (43.75%) Solaris
3 7 (43.75%) Linux
3 7 (43.75%) UNIX
3 7 (43.75%) XHTML
3 7 (43.75%) MQSeries
3 7 (43.75%) E-Commerce
3 7 (43.75%) OO
3 7 (43.75%) RAD
3 7 (43.75%) JMS

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Games also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (50.00%) HTML
2 7 (43.75%) XMLBeans
2 7 (43.75%) Ajax
2 7 (43.75%) XHTML
2 7 (43.75%) JMS
2 7 (43.75%) J2EE
2 7 (43.75%) EJB
2 7 (43.75%) JDBC
2 7 (43.75%) JSP
2 7 (43.75%) Servlets
2 7 (43.75%) Struts
2 7 (43.75%) XML
2 7 (43.75%) XSLT
2 7 (43.75%) WebSphere
2 7 (43.75%) JSTL
3 3 (18.75%) Flash
4 2 (12.50%) CSS
4 2 (12.50%) HTML5
4 2 (12.50%) WPF
5 1 (6.250%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 7 (43.75%) MQSeries
1 7 (43.75%) WebSphere Application Server
Business Applications
1 7 (43.75%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) RDBMS
1 7 (43.75%) DB2
2 1 (6.250%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (43.75%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
1 7 (43.75%) Eclipse
1 7 (43.75%) Log4j
1 7 (43.75%) Subversion
1 7 (43.75%) Ant
1 7 (43.75%) JUnit
2 1 (6.250%) Xcode
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
1 7 (43.75%) Retail
2 1 (6.250%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Java Developer
2 7 (43.75%) J2EE Developer
2 7 (43.75%) Java/J2EE Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) iOS Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) JavaScript Developer
4 1 (6.250%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Flash Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Web 2.0
2 1 (6.250%) Digital Media
2 1 (6.250%) Social Network
2 1 (6.250%) CCTV
2 1 (6.250%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (43.75%) HPUX
1 7 (43.75%) Solaris
1 7 (43.75%) Linux
1 7 (43.75%) UNIX
2 1 (6.250%) Android
2 1 (6.250%) Apple iOS
2 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) UML
2 7 (43.75%) Content Management
2 7 (43.75%) E-Commerce
2 7 (43.75%) OO
2 7 (43.75%) RAD
3 2 (12.50%) OOP
3 2 (12.50%) Project Management
3 2 (12.50%) Game Development
4 1 (6.250%) Time Management
4 1 (6.250%) Data Migration
4 1 (6.250%) Migration
4 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.250%) Scrum
4 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.250%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (6.250%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) JavaScript
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
3 7 (43.75%) Java
3 7 (43.75%) Perl
3 7 (43.75%) XPath
3 7 (43.75%) Bash shell
4 3 (18.75%) C#
5 2 (12.50%) ActionScript
6 1 (6.250%) VB6
6 1 (6.250%) ActionScript 3.0
6 1 (6.250%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (6.250%) Objective-C
6 1 (6.250%) C++
6 1 (6.250%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) IBM
1 7 (43.75%) Interwoven
1 7 (43.75%) ATG
1 7 (43.75%) Blue Martini
1 7 (43.75%) Elastic Path
HTML5/Javascript Developer
Manchester, North West
Front-End HTML5/Javascript Developer (HTML5/Javascript/Games)My client has a fantastic contract opportunity for a front-end developer, specialising in HTML5 and Javascript.The client is...
Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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