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

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games 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 over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 104 101 113
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +12
Contract jobs citing Games 16 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.656% 0.151% 0.036%
As % of the General category 1.544% 0.278% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 1
Average daily rate £475 £300 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+58.16% +20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £263
% change year-on-year
- +23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £9.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +11.11%
All of the General Category
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 1036 1440 1542
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 42.48% 54.36% 54.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 743 811
Average daily rate £380 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £476 £527
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 30 21
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £8.52 £10.25 £9.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.90 £35.00 £41.46
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Games
UK

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Games Hourly Rate Trend

Games
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Edinburgh +14 6 £419 +50.90%
Stirling - 5 £475 -
Glasgow -20 3 £419 +39.58%
Dundee - 2 - -
Aberdeen - 1 - -
Games
UK

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 11 (61.11%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) C#
2 7 (38.89%) ActionScript
2 7 (38.89%) Flash
3 5 (27.78%) Linux
3 5 (27.78%) Web Services
3 5 (27.78%) C++
3 5 (27.78%) PHP
3 5 (27.78%) Scrum
3 5 (27.78%) Interactive TV
3 5 (27.78%) IPTV
3 5 (27.78%) Interactive Media
3 5 (27.78%) Web Application Development
4 4 (22.22%) Game Development
4 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (16.67%) Android
5 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 3 (16.67%) WPF
6 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
6 2 (11.11%) Multithreading
6 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (11.11%) Scala
6 2 (11.11%) 3D Programming
6 2 (11.11%) Open Source
6 2 (11.11%) ActionScript 3.0
6 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
6 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
6 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 7 (38.89%) Flash
2 5 (27.78%) Web Services
3 3 (16.67%) WPF
4 2 (11.11%) Hibernate
4 2 (11.11%) Spring
4 2 (11.11%) JNI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.11%) MongoDB
2 2 (11.11%) NoSQL
General
1 5 (27.78%) Interactive Media
2 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
3 1 (5.556%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Software Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Software Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Interactive Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior Interactive Developer
2 5 (27.78%) UI Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Senior UI Developer
2 5 (27.78%) UI Programmer
3 3 (16.67%) Agile C# Developer
3 3 (16.67%) C# Developer
3 3 (16.67%) WPF Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Programmer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Games Programmer
4 2 (11.11%) Games Programmer
4 2 (11.11%) Java Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Programmer
5 1 (5.556%) Games Developer
5 1 (5.556%) C++ Developer
5 1 (5.556%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Interactive TV
1 5 (27.78%) IPTV
2 3 (16.67%) Mathematics
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Games
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (11.11%) Open Source
4 1 (5.556%) iPhone
4 1 (5.556%) Animation
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 3 (16.67%) Android
3 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
3 2 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Scrum
1 5 (27.78%) Web Application Development
2 4 (22.22%) Game Development
2 4 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (11.11%) Multithreading
3 2 (11.11%) 3D Programming
4 1 (5.556%) Web Development
4 1 (5.556%) OO
4 1 (5.556%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) C#
2 7 (38.89%) ActionScript
3 5 (27.78%) C++
3 5 (27.78%) PHP
4 2 (11.11%) Objective-C
4 2 (11.11%) Scala
4 2 (11.11%) ActionScript 3.0
5 1 (5.556%) Lua
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