Social Gaming Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Gaming in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Social Gaming over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Gaming
Rank 522 576 570
Rank change year-on-year
+54 -6
Contract jobs citing Social Gaming 7 8 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.014% 0.023%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.057% 0.056% 0.081%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 14
Average daily rate £400 £405 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.23% +8.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £90 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
Search 22 Social Gaming jobs
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 12308 14298 17184
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.53% 24.52% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 7390 8376 10196
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 536 662 725
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.36
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.15 £45.00 £42.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%

Social Gaming
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Social Gaming Jobs Demand Trend

Social Gaming
Daily Rate Trend

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

Social Gaming Daily Rate Trend

Social Gaming
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Social Gaming within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Social Gaming Daily Rate Histogram

Social Gaming
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Social Gaming within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +45 7 £400 -1.23%
London +38 6 £400 -1.23%
City of London - 2 £375 -
South East - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 - -
Brighton - 1 - -

Social Gaming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Social Gaming 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 Social Gaming.

1 15 (100.00%) Games
2 9 (60.00%) Java
3 8 (53.33%) Online Games
4 5 (33.33%) OO
4 5 (33.33%) QA
4 5 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (26.67%) TDD
5 4 (26.67%) Ruby
5 4 (26.67%) Objective-C
5 4 (26.67%) Selenium
5 4 (26.67%) OOP
5 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 4 (26.67%) WebDriver
5 4 (26.67%) Social Media
5 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
5 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
6 3 (20.00%) REST
6 3 (20.00%) Big Data
6 3 (20.00%) Scala
6 3 (20.00%) MVC
6 3 (20.00%) Degree
6 3 (20.00%) Automated Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Ajax
7 2 (13.33%) JSON
7 2 (13.33%) Physics
7 2 (13.33%) iPhone
7 2 (13.33%) Python
7 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
7 2 (13.33%) C++
7 2 (13.33%) HTTP

Social Gaming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Social Gaming 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 Social Gaming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) Ajax
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) OpenGL
2 2 (13.33%) iOS SDK
3 1 (6.667%) CSS3
3 1 (6.667%) OpenGL ES
3 1 (6.667%) HTML5
3 1 (6.667%) Flash
3 1 (6.667%) J2EE
3 1 (6.667%) CSS
3 1 (6.667%) SOAP
3 1 (6.667%) Web Services
3 1 (6.667%) Cocoa
3 1 (6.667%) Apache Flex
3 1 (6.667%) Google Maps API
3 1 (6.667%) Adobe AIR
3 1 (6.667%) Spring
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Photoshop
1 1 (6.667%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Selenium
1 4 (26.67%) WebDriver
1 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.667%) Jasmine
2 1 (6.667%) Capybara
2 1 (6.667%) RSpec
2 1 (6.667%) Eclipse
2 1 (6.667%) Xcode
2 1 (6.667%) FitNesse
General
1 15 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Test Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) iOS Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Designer
4 1 (6.667%) Flash ActionScript Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Junior
4 1 (6.667%) Games Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Flash Developer
4 1 (6.667%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.667%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) User Experience Designer
4 1 (6.667%) Flex Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Junior Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) UI Designer
4 1 (6.667%) Junior Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) Online Games
2 4 (26.67%) Social Media
3 2 (13.33%) Physics
3 2 (13.33%) iPhone
3 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
3 2 (13.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (6.667%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (6.667%) iPad
4 1 (6.667%) Mobile Games
4 1 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (6.667%) Social Network
4 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
4 1 (6.667%) RIA
4 1 (6.667%) Graphic Design
4 1 (6.667%) Grid Computing
4 1 (6.667%) Economics
4 1 (6.667%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) OO
1 5 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (26.67%) TDD
2 4 (26.67%) OOP
3 3 (20.00%) MVC
3 3 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 2 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (13.33%) Web Development
4 2 (13.33%) Product Management
4 2 (13.33%) Analytics
5 1 (6.667%) Game Development
5 1 (6.667%) Multithreading
5 1 (6.667%) BDD
5 1 (6.667%) Memory Management
5 1 (6.667%) Parallel Programming
5 1 (6.667%) Project Management
5 1 (6.667%) Scrum
5 1 (6.667%) Test Automation
5 1 (6.667%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (60.00%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) Ruby
2 4 (26.67%) Objective-C
2 4 (26.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) Scala
4 2 (13.33%) Python
4 2 (13.33%) C++
5 1 (6.667%) ActionScript 3.0
5 1 (6.667%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Adobe
1 2 (13.33%) Facebook
2 1 (6.667%) Twitter
2 1 (6.667%) Google
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