Online Games Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Online Games 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the South East 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
Online Gaming
Rank 210 232 253
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +21
Contract jobs citing Online Games 13 10 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.167% 0.098% 0.057%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.830% 0.519% 0.302%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 5
Average daily rate £225 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.76% +8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £395 £295 £300
% change year-on-year
+33.89% -1.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £27.50
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 1566 1928 1984
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.12% 18.96% 18.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 716 816 823
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £214 £223 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 178 184
Average hourly rate £23.22 £27.50 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-15.56% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.65 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Online Games
England

Online Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Online Games Jobs Demand Trend

Online Games
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Online Games Daily Rate Trend

Online Games
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Online Games across the South East region.

South East Online Games Hourly Rate Trend

Online Games
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Online Games within the South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Surrey +21 10 - -
East Sussex - 2 £225 -
Berkshire +17 1 - -
Online Games
England

Online Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Online 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 Online Games.

1 15 (100.00%) Games
2 10 (66.67%) C#
2 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 10 (66.67%) .NET
2 10 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (66.67%) Release Management
2 10 (66.67%) SCOM
2 10 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (66.67%) Windows Azure
3 8 (53.33%) Python
3 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
3 8 (53.33%) Scrum
3 8 (53.33%) Ruby
4 3 (20.00%) Degree
5 2 (13.33%) JIRA
5 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
5 2 (13.33%) QA
5 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (13.33%) Internet
5 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
5 2 (13.33%) MySQL
5 2 (13.33%) CSS
5 2 (13.33%) PHP
5 2 (13.33%) HTML
5 2 (13.33%) Automated Testing
5 2 (13.33%) Social Media
5 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (6.667%) Music

Online Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Online 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 Online Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) CSS
2 2 (13.33%) HTML
3 1 (6.667%) jQuery
3 1 (6.667%) HTML5
3 1 (6.667%) Ajax
3 1 (6.667%) Zend Framework
Application Platforms
1 10 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 10 (66.67%) Windows Azure
2 1 (6.667%) WordPress
2 1 (6.667%) Drupal
Applications
1 10 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 15 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (6.667%) Music
2 1 (6.667%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) PHP Developer
2 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 1 (6.667%) PHP MySQL Developer
3 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.667%) Web Producer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
1 2 (13.33%) Social Media
2 1 (6.667%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.667%) Mobile Games
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Release Management
2 8 (53.33%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (53.33%) Scrum
3 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
3 2 (13.33%) Automated Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Web Development
4 1 (6.667%) Game Development
4 1 (6.667%) Validation
4 1 (6.667%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
1 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 8 (53.33%) Python
2 8 (53.33%) Ruby
3 2 (13.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 10 (66.67%) SCOM
2 1 (6.667%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) Zend
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