Game Development Contracts in Surrey
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Game Development 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Surrey 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
Games Development
Rank 68 - 98
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Game Development 12 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.043% - 0.107%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.448% - 0.149%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £120
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £213
% change year-on-year
- +64.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +183.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 829 1105 1345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 72.09% 68.63% 71.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 625 697
Average daily rate £415 £350 £404
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -13.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 57 37
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Game Development
South East

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Game Development across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Surrey Game Development Jobs Demand Trend

Game Development
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Game Development across the Surrey region.

Surrey Game Development Daily Rate Trend

Game Development
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Game Development within the Surrey 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
Guildford - 11 - -
Game Development
South East

Game Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Game Development 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 Game Development.

1 18 (100.00%) Games
2 12 (66.67%) C++
3 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 8 (44.44%) Scrum
4 8 (44.44%) C#
4 8 (44.44%) SQL
4 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
5 7 (38.89%) MS Excel
6 6 (33.33%) MS Visio
6 6 (33.33%) Data Mining
6 6 (33.33%) Windows
6 6 (33.33%) Python
6 6 (33.33%) C
6 6 (33.33%) Code Coverage
6 6 (33.33%) Degree
6 6 (33.33%) Automated Testing
6 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 6 (33.33%) Software Architecture
6 6 (33.33%) Process Architecture
6 6 (33.33%) Kinect
6 6 (33.33%) Test Strategy
7 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
8 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
8 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
8 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
8 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
8 4 (22.22%) Streaming Video
8 4 (22.22%) Animation
8 4 (22.22%) Windows 8

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Game Development 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 Game Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) Middleware
1 2 (11.11%) Cocoa
1 2 (11.11%) WCF
1 2 (11.11%) Cocoa Touch
1 2 (11.11%) REST
2 1 (5.556%) DirectX
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) IIS
2 1 (5.556%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (5.556%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) MS Excel
2 6 (33.33%) MS Visio
3 2 (11.11%) Maya
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) Data Mining
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.556%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.556%) MSBuild
2 1 (5.556%) Ant
General
1 18 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (5.556%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Development Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Developer
2 5 (27.78%) Programmer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) C++ Developer
3 2 (11.11%) C++ Programmer
3 2 (11.11%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Audio Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Audio Programmer
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Applications Developer
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (5.556%) C++ Games Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Programmer
4 1 (5.556%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Games Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Kinect
3 4 (22.22%) Visualisation
3 4 (22.22%) Streaming Video
3 4 (22.22%) Animation
4 2 (11.11%) Blackberry
4 2 (11.11%) iPad
4 2 (11.11%) Physics
4 2 (11.11%) iPhone
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
5 1 (5.556%) Online Games
5 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows 8
3 2 (11.11%) Android
3 2 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Scrum
2 6 (33.33%) Code Coverage
2 6 (33.33%) Automated Testing
2 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 6 (33.33%) Software Architecture
2 6 (33.33%) Process Architecture
2 6 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 5 (27.78%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Data Analysis
4 4 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 4 (22.22%) Analytics
5 3 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (11.11%) MVC
6 2 (11.11%) Load Testing
6 2 (11.11%) User Stories
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.556%) Release Management
7 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) C++
2 8 (44.44%) C#
2 8 (44.44%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Python
3 6 (33.33%) C
4 5 (27.78%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) Objective-C
6 1 (5.556%) GLSL
6 1 (5.556%) HLSL
6 1 (5.556%) PowerShell
6 1 (5.556%) Ruby
6 1 (5.556%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Autodesk
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