Games Contracts in Watford

Gaming
Hertfordshire > Watford

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in contract job vacancies advertised in Watford. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Games over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 7 11 24
Rank change year-on-year +4 +13 +1
Contract jobs citing Games 12 12 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Watford 11.65% 9.38% 1.79%
As % of the General category 21.82% 14.12% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 3
10th Percentile - £575 £248
25th Percentile £363 £632 £343
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% +45.00% -
75th Percentile £428 £880 -
90th Percentile £625 £950 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £375 £725 £500
% change year-on-year -48.28% +45.00% +17.65%

All General Skills
Watford

Games is in the General Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Watford with a requirement for common skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for common skills 55 85 87
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Watford 53.40% 66.41% 51.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 54 52
10th Percentile £278 £320 £185
25th Percentile £363 £483 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £601 £425
Median % change year-on-year -37.55% +41.29% +14.01%
75th Percentile £454 £834 £578
90th Percentile £578 £975 £659
Hertfordshire median daily rate £425 £513 £460
% change year-on-year -17.07% +11.41% -3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £13.00 - £26.25
25th Percentile £13.19 - £31.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £50.01 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -70.01% +42.89% +105.88%
75th Percentile £15.75 - £38.50
90th Percentile £16.20 - £44.80
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £48.50 £60.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -19.17% +22.45% +8.89%

Games
Job Vacancy Trend in Watford

Job postings citing Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Watford.

Job vacancy trend for Games in Watford

Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Watford

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Games in Watford.

Daily rate trend for Games in Watford

Games
Daily Rate Histogram in Watford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Games in Watford over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Games in Watford

Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Watford by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (8.33%) MySQL
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Git
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Marketing
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Electronics
4 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Lead
2 7 (58.33%) Test Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Data Migration Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) Lightning Web Components
1 2 (16.67%) REST
1 2 (16.67%) Visualforce
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) Node.js
2 1 (8.33%) React
2 1 (8.33%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 6 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 6 (50.00%) Test Management
2 6 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) Change Management
4 2 (16.67%) CRM
4 2 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
4 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
4 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (16.67%) Product Backlog
4 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (16.67%) Service Delivery
4 2 (16.67%) Web Development
5 1 (8.33%) Data Migration
5 1 (8.33%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Apex Code
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) PHP
3 1 (8.33%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) PMP
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (8.33%) Puppet
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
1 2 (16.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) SAP