The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT contracts advertised for the Runcorn region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Games over the 3 months to 21 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 Runcorn 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Games 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Runcorn - - -
As % of the General category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £258
% change year-on-year
- +26.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £40.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-56.25% +77.77%
All of the General Category
Runcorn
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Runcorn - 7.143% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £350 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +64.47%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £10.11 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
- -5.66%
Games
Cheshire

Games
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn 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 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) Web Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Progressive Enhancement
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) LESS
1 1 (100.00%) Graceful Degradation
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn 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 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) CSS3
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) LESS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Web Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Progressive Enhancement
1 1 (100.00%) Graceful Degradation
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript