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Game Development Contracts in Merseyside
 
Demand Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Game Development over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Merseyside 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Games Development
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Game Development 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.571% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.381% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £240
% change year-on-year
- +45.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-23.52% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 126 167 157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 65.97% 66.27% 57.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 88 81
Average daily rate £363 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £263 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 12
Average hourly rate - £17.51 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -22.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Game Development
North West

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Game Development across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Merseyside Game Development Jobs Demand Trend

Game Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Game Development within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Liverpool - 3 - -
Game Development
North West

Game Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Game Development 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 Game Development.

1 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Games
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 3 (75.00%) Kanban
2 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
2 3 (75.00%) 3D Modelling
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) NUnit
2 3 (75.00%) MCTS
2 3 (75.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (75.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) C++
2 3 (75.00%) MCP
2 3 (75.00%) MCAD
2 3 (75.00%) MCSD
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) OpenGL
2 3 (75.00%) Unity DI Container
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Games
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) CSS

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing Game Development 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 Game Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
2 3 (75.00%) Unity DI Container
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) OpenGL
2 3 (75.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) jQuery
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) CSS3
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) NUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Games Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C++ Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C++/C# Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Gameplay Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C++ Games Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Developer
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) 3D Graphics
1 3 (75.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) MVC
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
1 3 (75.00%) Kanban
1 3 (75.00%) 3D Modelling
1 3 (75.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (75.00%) C
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) MCP
1 3 (75.00%) MCAD
1 3 (75.00%) MCSD
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (75.00%) MCTS
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