The first table below looks at the demand for the Gameplay Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Gameplay Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gameplay Programmer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Gameplay Programmer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
199 251 236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 96.60% 95.08% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 113 113
Average daily rate £331 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.41% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £188 £135
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £430 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 46 36
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.51 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.32% +16.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.16 £12.05 £11.02
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £83.70 £25.00 £22.48
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Gameplay Programmer
North West

Gameplay Programmer
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Gameplay Programmer in their job title 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 with Gameplay Programmer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Animation
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science

Gameplay Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Gameplay Programmer in their job title 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 with Gameplay Programmer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Animation
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree