The first table below looks at the demand for the Games Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Games Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

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
Game Developer
Rank 524 576 567
Rank change year-on-year
+52 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Games Developer 10 10 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.017% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.018% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 11
Average daily rate £300 £350 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +33.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £328 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £350 £320
UK excluding London average daily rate £225 £350 £250
% change year-on-year
-35.71% +40.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £24.50
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43445 54854 55821
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.19% 92.53% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 24929 30221 30365
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2155 2623 2895
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Games Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Games Developer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Games Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Games Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Games Developer within the UK.

Games Developer Daily Rate Trend

Games Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Games Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Games Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Games Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Games Developer
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games Developer within the UK 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
England +54 8 £225 -35.71%
London +28 3 £450 +28.57%
City of London +12 3 £450 +44.00%
North West - 3 - -
Merseyside - 3 - -
Liverpool - 3 - -
West Midlands +9 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - -
South East - 1 £225 -
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Berkshire - 1 £225 -
Slough - 1 £225 -
Shipston-on-Stour - 1 - -
Reading - 1 £225 -
Maidenhead - 1 £225 -

Games Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Games Developer in their job title 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 with Games Developer in their job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Games
2 11 (55.00%) Game Development
3 10 (50.00%) C#
4 9 (45.00%) Mobile Games
5 8 (40.00%) C++
6 5 (25.00%) Objective-C
6 5 (25.00%) Physics
6 5 (25.00%) iPhone
7 4 (20.00%) HTML5
7 4 (20.00%) Mathematics
7 4 (20.00%) MVC
7 4 (20.00%) Java
7 4 (20.00%) OpenGL
8 3 (15.00%) .NET
8 3 (15.00%) C
8 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
8 3 (15.00%) MCP
8 3 (15.00%) MCAD
8 3 (15.00%) MCSD
8 3 (15.00%) 3D Graphics
8 3 (15.00%) Scrum
8 3 (15.00%) NUnit
8 3 (15.00%) MCTS
8 3 (15.00%) WCF
8 3 (15.00%) Kanban
8 3 (15.00%) Git (software)
8 3 (15.00%) 3D Modelling
8 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
8 3 (15.00%) Web Application Development

Games Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Games Developer in their job title 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 with Games Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (20.00%) HTML5
1 4 (20.00%) OpenGL
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) WCF
2 3 (15.00%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (10.00%) cocos2d
3 2 (10.00%) Cocoa
3 2 (10.00%) Flash
4 1 (5.000%) CSS
4 1 (5.000%) HTML
4 1 (5.000%) Cocoon
4 1 (5.000%) Node.js
4 1 (5.000%) WebGL
4 1 (5.000%) Underscore.js
4 1 (5.000%) Backbone.js
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Photoshop
1 1 (5.000%) Maya
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) NUnit
1 3 (15.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (10.00%) Xcode
3 1 (5.000%) Dreamweaver
3 1 (5.000%) LLVM
General
1 20 (100.00%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 9 (45.00%) Mobile Games
2 5 (25.00%) Physics
2 5 (25.00%) iPhone
3 4 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (15.00%) 3D Graphics
5 2 (10.00%) iPad
5 2 (10.00%) Animation
6 1 (5.000%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
6 1 (5.000%) Social Gaming
6 1 (5.000%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Game Development
2 4 (20.00%) MVC
3 3 (15.00%) Scrum
3 3 (15.00%) Kanban
3 3 (15.00%) 3D Modelling
3 3 (15.00%) Web Application Development
4 2 (10.00%) Analytics
4 2 (10.00%) OO
5 1 (5.000%) Web Development
5 1 (5.000%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) C#
2 8 (40.00%) C++
3 5 (25.00%) Objective-C
4 4 (20.00%) Java
5 3 (15.00%) C
5 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 2 (10.00%) ActionScript
7 1 (5.000%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (5.000%) Lua
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (15.00%) MCP
1 3 (15.00%) MCAD
1 3 (15.00%) MCSD
1 3 (15.00%) MCTS
2 2 (10.00%) Degree