The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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 495 524 554
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +30
Contract jobs citing Game Development 46 41 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.099% 0.070% 0.052%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.140% 0.104% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 20
Average daily rate £273 £350 £198
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.14% +77.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £165 £140
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 £350 £251
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £213
% change year-on-year
- +64.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
Average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +183.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £42.50 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £42.50 £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +183.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
32894 39591 41969
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.99% 67.83% 67.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 19661 22733 23826
Average daily rate £413 £403 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.48% -8.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 1284 1487
Average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.68 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Game Development Daily Rate Trend

Game Development
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Game Development within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Game Development Daily Rate Histogram

Game Development
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Game Development within the UK.

Game Development Hourly Rate Trend

Game Development
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Game Development within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Game Development Hourly Rate Histogram

Game Development
Top 23 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 UK 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
England +44 40 £273 -22.14%
South East +37 20 £275 -
Surrey - 12 - -
Guildford - 11 - -
London +21 9 £260 -20.00%
Berkshire +21 5 - -
East of England +16 5 £450 +28.57%
Cambridgeshire +15 5 £450 -
Cambridge +13 5 £450 -
Scotland -9 4 - -
Kent - 4 £255 -
North West - 4 - -
Merseyside - 3 - -
Liverpool - 3 - -
City of London +20 2 £325 +20.93%
Dundee - 2 - -
Reading - 2 - -
West Midlands +2 1 £200 -42.85%
Warwickshire -4 1 £200 -
East Midlands -5 1 - -
Leicestershire -9 1 - -
Manchester - 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 - -

Game Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 91 (100.00%) Games
2 66 (72.53%) C++
3 50 (54.95%) C#
4 33 (36.26%) C
5 31 (34.07%) SQL
6 27 (29.67%) Microsoft
6 27 (29.67%) Computer Science
7 25 (27.47%) Test Automation
8 24 (26.37%) Degree
9 21 (23.08%) MS Excel
9 21 (23.08%) Visual Studio
10 20 (21.98%) MS Visio
11 19 (20.88%) Data Mining
12 18 (19.78%) Cloud Computing
12 18 (19.78%) Automated Testing
13 17 (18.68%) Code Coverage
13 17 (18.68%) Software Architecture
13 17 (18.68%) Process Architecture
13 17 (18.68%) Test Strategy
14 15 (16.48%) MSBuild
14 15 (16.48%) Python
15 14 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
15 14 (15.38%) Lua
16 12 (13.19%) Google
16 12 (13.19%) Scrum
16 12 (13.19%) Windows
16 12 (13.19%) Java
16 12 (13.19%) Windows Azure
17 11 (12.09%) Google App Engine
17 11 (12.09%) Objective-C

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 8 (8.791%) WCF
2 6 (6.593%) .NET
2 6 (6.593%) REST
3 5 (5.495%) HTML5
3 5 (5.495%) OpenGL
3 5 (5.495%) Web Services
4 3 (3.297%) Unity DI Container
4 3 (3.297%) Cocoa
4 3 (3.297%) Flash
5 2 (2.198%) Middleware
5 2 (2.198%) Symfony
5 2 (2.198%) CodeIgniter
5 2 (2.198%) CakePHP
5 2 (2.198%) JNI
5 2 (2.198%) Cocoa Touch
5 2 (2.198%) OpenGL ES
5 2 (2.198%) iOS SDK
6 1 (1.099%) Node.js
6 1 (1.099%) CSS3
6 1 (1.099%) Underscore.js
Application Platforms
1 12 (13.19%) Windows Azure
2 11 (12.09%) Google App Engine
3 6 (6.593%) IIS
4 1 (1.099%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 21 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 20 (21.98%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.198%) Maya
4 1 (1.099%) Adobe After Effects
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.297%) Wireless
2 1 (1.099%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (20.88%) Data Mining
2 3 (3.297%) MySQL
2 3 (3.297%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (23.08%) Visual Studio
2 15 (16.48%) MSBuild
3 14 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (3.297%) NUnit
4 3 (3.297%) Git (software)
5 1 (1.099%) Xcode
5 1 (1.099%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.099%) Ant
General
1 91 (100.00%) Games
2 4 (4.396%) Marketing
3 2 (2.198%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.099%) Multimedia
4 1 (1.099%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 32 (35.16%) Developer
2 19 (20.88%) Programmer
3 14 (15.38%) Software Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) Build Engineer
4 11 (12.09%) Games Developer
5 10 (10.99%) Development Engineer
6 7 (7.692%) C++ Developer
6 7 (7.692%) C++ Programmer
7 6 (6.593%) Games Programmer
7 6 (6.593%) Software Development Engineer
7 6 (6.593%) Senior Programmer
7 6 (6.593%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.495%) C++ Games Developer
8 5 (5.495%) C# Developer
8 5 (5.495%) Software Developer
9 4 (4.396%) Mobile Developer
10 3 (3.297%) Gameplay Developer
10 3 (3.297%) Software Test Engineer
10 3 (3.297%) C++/C# Developer
10 3 (3.297%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (29.67%) Computer Science
2 18 (19.78%) Cloud Computing
3 10 (10.99%) Mobile Games
4 8 (8.791%) Augmented Reality
5 7 (7.692%) Mathematics
6 6 (6.593%) Kinect
7 5 (5.495%) Animation
7 5 (5.495%) iPhone
8 4 (4.396%) 3D Graphics
8 4 (4.396%) Online Games
8 4 (4.396%) Physics
8 4 (4.396%) Streaming Video
8 4 (4.396%) Visualisation
9 3 (3.297%) Mobile App
10 2 (2.198%) Blackberry
10 2 (2.198%) iPad
11 1 (1.099%) Social Gaming
11 1 (1.099%) Social Media
11 1 (1.099%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 12 (13.19%) Windows
2 7 (7.692%) Apple iOS
2 7 (7.692%) Android
3 4 (4.396%) Windows 8
4 3 (3.297%) Mac OS X
5 2 (2.198%) Linux
5 2 (2.198%) Windows XP
5 2 (2.198%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (2.198%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.099%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.47%) Test Automation
2 18 (19.78%) Automated Testing
3 17 (18.68%) Code Coverage
3 17 (18.68%) Software Architecture
3 17 (18.68%) Process Architecture
3 17 (18.68%) Test Strategy
4 12 (13.19%) Scrum
5 11 (12.09%) Risk Assessment
6 9 (9.890%) MVC
7 6 (6.593%) Regression Testing
8 5 (5.495%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (5.495%) Analytics
8 5 (5.495%) Continuous Integration
9 4 (4.396%) OO
9 4 (4.396%) Manual Testing
9 4 (4.396%) Kanban
9 4 (4.396%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (4.396%) Software Engineering
9 4 (4.396%) Data Analysis
9 4 (4.396%) 3D Modelling
Programming Languages
1 66 (72.53%) C++
2 50 (54.95%) C#
3 33 (36.26%) C
4 31 (34.07%) SQL
5 15 (16.48%) Python
6 14 (15.38%) Lua
7 12 (13.19%) Java
8 11 (12.09%) Objective-C
9 7 (7.692%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.396%) PHP
11 3 (3.297%) ActionScript
12 2 (2.198%) ActionScript 3.0
13 1 (1.099%) GLSL
13 1 (1.099%) HLSL
13 1 (1.099%) Ruby
13 1 (1.099%) VB6
13 1 (1.099%) PowerShell
13 1 (1.099%) VB
Qualifications
1 24 (26.37%) Degree
2 3 (3.297%) MCTS
2 3 (3.297%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.297%) MCP
2 3 (3.297%) MCAD
2 3 (3.297%) MCSD
3 2 (2.198%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.198%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.099%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (29.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.19%) Google
3 5 (5.495%) Sony
4 2 (2.198%) Autodesk
4 2 (2.198%) Zend
5 1 (1.099%) Facebook
5 1 (1.099%) Twitter
5 1 (1.099%) Perforce
5 1 (1.099%) Adobe
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