Games Contracts in Surrey
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram 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 Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Games over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 40 62 71
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +9
Contract jobs citing Games 40 35 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 3.457% 2.126% 1.646%
As % of the General category 8.791% 7.042% 4.335%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 27 20
Average daily rate £213 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.00% +4.16%
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £260
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +25.00%
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 455 497 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 39.33% 30.19% 37.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 297 356
Average daily rate £413 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £510
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 39 27
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +66.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £13.88 £13.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.10 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
Games
South East

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Games Daily Rate Trend

Games
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Games across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Surrey Games Daily Rate Histogram

Games
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 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 +10 27 £213 -5.55%
Woking -5 1 £425 +18.05%
Games
South East

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 29 (56.86%) Microsoft
2 25 (49.02%) C#
3 20 (39.22%) Python
4 18 (35.29%) Game Development
5 17 (33.33%) C++
5 17 (33.33%) .NET
6 16 (31.37%) MS Excel
6 16 (31.37%) Scrum
7 13 (25.49%) JavaScript
8 12 (23.53%) Visual Studio
9 11 (21.57%) Automated Testing
9 11 (21.57%) Windows Azure
9 11 (21.57%) Computer Science
10 10 (19.61%) Degree
10 10 (19.61%) Release Management
10 10 (19.61%) Online Games
10 10 (19.61%) Continuous Integration
10 10 (19.61%) SCOM
10 10 (19.61%) Amazon EC2
10 10 (19.61%) SQL
11 9 (17.65%) C
11 9 (17.65%) IIS
12 8 (15.69%) PHP
12 8 (15.69%) Business Intelligence
12 8 (15.69%) Ruby
12 8 (15.69%) Test Strategy
12 8 (15.69%) MSBuild
12 8 (15.69%) PowerShell
12 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
13 7 (13.73%) Animation

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 17 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (5.882%) Web Services
3 2 (3.922%) WCF
3 2 (3.922%) Cocoa Touch
3 2 (3.922%) REST
3 2 (3.922%) Cocoa
3 2 (3.922%) Middleware
4 1 (1.961%) Flash
4 1 (1.961%) CSS
4 1 (1.961%) SOAP
4 1 (1.961%) OpenGL
4 1 (1.961%) DirectX
4 1 (1.961%) XHTML
4 1 (1.961%) WinForms
4 1 (1.961%) OpenGL ES
4 1 (1.961%) Qt
4 1 (1.961%) jQuery
4 1 (1.961%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 11 (21.57%) Windows Azure
2 10 (19.61%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (17.65%) IIS
4 2 (3.922%) CMS
5 1 (1.961%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.961%) WordPress
5 1 (1.961%) Drupal
5 1 (1.961%) Joomla!
Applications
1 16 (31.37%) MS Excel
2 6 (11.76%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.922%) Maya
4 1 (1.961%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) Data Mining
2 4 (7.843%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.961%) MySQL
3 1 (1.961%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Visual Studio
2 8 (15.69%) MSBuild
3 7 (13.73%) Ant
4 1 (1.961%) Bugzilla
4 1 (1.961%) JIRA
General
1 3 (5.882%) Marketing
2 1 (1.961%) Electronics
2 1 (1.961%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (21.57%) Developer
2 8 (15.69%) Automation Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Development Engineer
3 7 (13.73%) Programmer
4 6 (11.76%) PHP Developer
5 4 (7.843%) Network Engineer
6 3 (5.882%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.882%) Software Development Engineer
6 3 (5.882%) Audio Engineer
7 2 (3.922%) Audio Programmer
7 2 (3.922%) Build Engineer
7 2 (3.922%) Mobile Applications Developer
7 2 (3.922%) Mobile Developer
7 2 (3.922%) Gameplay Programmer
7 2 (3.922%) C++ Programmer
7 2 (3.922%) C++ Developer
8 1 (1.961%) Project Manager
8 1 (1.961%) Games Developer
8 1 (1.961%) Senior Developer
8 1 (1.961%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.57%) Computer Science
2 10 (19.61%) Online Games
3 7 (13.73%) Animation
4 6 (11.76%) Kinect
5 4 (7.843%) Mathematics
5 4 (7.843%) Visualisation
5 4 (7.843%) Streaming Video
6 3 (5.882%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.922%) Physics
7 2 (3.922%) iPhone
7 2 (3.922%) Mobile App
7 2 (3.922%) iPad
7 2 (3.922%) Blackberry
8 1 (1.961%) 3D Graphics
8 1 (1.961%) Social Media
8 1 (1.961%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Windows
2 4 (7.843%) Windows 8
3 3 (5.882%) Android
4 2 (3.922%) Apple iOS
4 2 (3.922%) Linux
5 1 (1.961%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (35.29%) Game Development
2 16 (31.37%) Scrum
3 11 (21.57%) Automated Testing
4 10 (19.61%) Release Management
4 10 (19.61%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (15.69%) Business Intelligence
5 8 (15.69%) Test Strategy
5 8 (15.69%) Test Automation
6 6 (11.76%) Code Coverage
6 6 (11.76%) Analytics
6 6 (11.76%) Software Architecture
6 6 (11.76%) Process Architecture
7 5 (9.804%) Build Automation
8 4 (7.843%) Data Analysis
8 4 (7.843%) Software Engineering
8 4 (7.843%) Regression Testing
9 3 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (5.882%) Load Testing
10 2 (3.922%) User Stories
10 2 (3.922%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 25 (49.02%) C#
2 20 (39.22%) Python
3 17 (33.33%) C++
4 13 (25.49%) JavaScript
5 10 (19.61%) SQL
6 9 (17.65%) C
7 8 (15.69%) PHP
7 8 (15.69%) Ruby
7 8 (15.69%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.922%) GLSL
8 2 (3.922%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.961%) Java
9 1 (1.961%) HLSL
Qualifications
1 10 (19.61%) Degree
2 3 (5.882%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.843%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.961%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (19.61%) SCOM
2 1 (1.961%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.961%) SCCM
Vendors
1 29 (56.86%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.922%) Autodesk
3 1 (1.961%) Perforce
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