Mobile Games Contracts
 
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 Mobile Games in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Mobile Games over the 3 months to 17 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.

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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mobile Game
Rank 519 569 583
Rank change year-on-year
+50 +14
Contract jobs citing Mobile Games 11 9 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.024% 0.015% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.090% 0.063% 0.029%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 3
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £308 £281 £335
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £350 £455
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £350 -
% change year-on-year
-13.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 12228 14275 17282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.35% 24.50% 28.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7363 8396 10253
Average daily rate £430 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £251 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 541 663 728
Average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.17% -1.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.49 £12.50 £11.32
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £45.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%

Mobile Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Mobile Games Jobs Demand Trend

Mobile Games
Daily Rate Trend

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

Mobile Games Daily Rate Trend

Mobile Games
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Mobile Games within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Mobile Games Daily Rate Histogram

Mobile Games
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Mobile Games Hourly Rate Trend

Mobile Games
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Games within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +48 9 £375 +7.14%
London +18 5 £400 +14.28%
City of London +13 4 £413 +43.47%
South East - 4 £303 -
Scotland - 2 - -
Kent - 2 £275 -
Dundee - 1 - -
Brighton - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £330 -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Southampton - 1 £330 -

Mobile Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mobile 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 Mobile Games.

1 26 (100.00%) Games
2 10 (38.46%) Game Development
3 8 (30.77%) C#
4 7 (26.92%) Objective-C
5 6 (23.08%) Java
5 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
6 5 (19.23%) CSS
6 5 (19.23%) Android
6 5 (19.23%) iPhone
6 5 (19.23%) Apple iOS
7 4 (15.38%) Mobile App
7 4 (15.38%) jQuery
7 4 (15.38%) Online Games
7 4 (15.38%) HTML5
7 4 (15.38%) C++
8 3 (11.54%) PHP
8 3 (11.54%) Physics
8 3 (11.54%) CSS3
8 3 (11.54%) Xcode
9 2 (7.692%) 3D Programming
9 2 (7.692%) Analytics
9 2 (7.692%) HTML5 Canvas
9 2 (7.692%) Computer Science
9 2 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (7.692%) JNI
9 2 (7.692%) Degree
9 2 (7.692%) Social Media
9 2 (7.692%) iPad
9 2 (7.692%) ActionScript 3.0
9 2 (7.692%) ActionScript

Mobile Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Mobile 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 Mobile Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (19.23%) CSS
2 4 (15.38%) jQuery
2 4 (15.38%) HTML5
3 3 (11.54%) CSS3
4 2 (7.692%) Cocoa
4 2 (7.692%) Flash
4 2 (7.692%) J2ME
4 2 (7.692%) JNI
4 2 (7.692%) HTML
4 2 (7.692%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (3.846%) Ajax
5 1 (3.846%) Java SE
5 1 (3.846%) Apache Flex
5 1 (3.846%) Hibernate
5 1 (3.846%) Spring
5 1 (3.846%) iOS SDK
5 1 (3.846%) Robotlegs
5 1 (3.846%) Backbone.js
5 1 (3.846%) cocos2d
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.846%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.692%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (11.54%) Xcode
2 1 (3.846%) JIRA
2 1 (3.846%) Git (software)
2 1 (3.846%) Flash Builder
General
1 26 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (3.846%) Music
2 1 (3.846%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (84.62%) Developer
2 9 (34.62%) Games Developer
3 6 (23.08%) Senior Developer
4 5 (19.23%) Programmer
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Programmer
5 4 (15.38%) Mobile Developer
6 3 (11.54%) iOS Developer
6 3 (11.54%) Front-End Developer
7 2 (7.692%) Senior Games Programmer
7 2 (7.692%) JavaScript Developer
7 2 (7.692%) Senior Games Developer
7 2 (7.692%) Games Programmer
7 2 (7.692%) Senior iOS Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Junior Games Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Android Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Test Engineer
8 1 (3.846%) Junior Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Flash Developer
8 1 (3.846%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) iPhone
2 4 (15.38%) Online Games
2 4 (15.38%) Mobile App
3 3 (11.54%) Physics
4 2 (7.692%) Computer Science
4 2 (7.692%) Social Media
4 2 (7.692%) iPad
5 1 (3.846%) Social Gaming
5 1 (3.846%) Client/Server
5 1 (3.846%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 5 (19.23%) Android
1 5 (19.23%) Apple iOS
2 2 (7.692%) Windows
3 1 (3.846%) Linux
3 1 (3.846%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Game Development
2 2 (7.692%) Analytics
2 2 (7.692%) 3D Programming
2 2 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (3.846%) Automated Testing
3 1 (3.846%) Software Testing
3 1 (3.846%) Web Development
3 1 (3.846%) Unit Testing
3 1 (3.846%) Product Management
3 1 (3.846%) OOP
3 1 (3.846%) E-Commerce
3 1 (3.846%) Project Management
3 1 (3.846%) MVC
3 1 (3.846%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (30.77%) C#
2 7 (26.92%) Objective-C
3 6 (23.08%) Java
3 6 (23.08%) JavaScript
4 4 (15.38%) C++
5 3 (11.54%) PHP
6 2 (7.692%) ActionScript
6 2 (7.692%) ActionScript 3.0
7 1 (3.846%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (7.692%) Degree
2 1 (3.846%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) QA
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