Games Programmer Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Games Programmer role in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Games Programmer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Scotland 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Game Programmer
Rank 112 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Games Programmer 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.082% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £325 £250
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £22.50
All Job Titles
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2251 2492 2593
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 92.71% 93.86% 94.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1087 1216 1275
Average daily rate £350 £338 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £220 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 110 96
Average hourly rate £15.50 £22.50 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.11% +47.15%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Games Programmer
UK

Games Programmer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Games Programmer Jobs Demand Trend

Games Programmer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Games Programmer Daily Rate Trend

Games Programmer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games Programmer within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Dundee - 1 - -
Games Programmer
UK

Games Programmer
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region that cited Games 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 Games Programmer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Games
1 2 (100.00%) Games
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) JNI
1 2 (100.00%) 3D Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Game Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics

Games Programmer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) JNI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Games
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) 3D Programming
1 2 (100.00%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
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