The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT contracts advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Games 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 terms in our General category for the Welwyn Garden City region.

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
Gaming
Rank - - 14
Contract jobs citing Games 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City - - 2.703%
As % of the General category - - 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £263
% change year-on-year
- +23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £32.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +44.44%
All of the General Category
Welwyn Garden City
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
22 13 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 66.67% 32.50% 70.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 6
Average daily rate £675 £419 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+61.19% -1.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £404 £156
10% offered a daily rate of more than £800 £434 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 6
Average hourly rate £14.50 £11.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+31.81% -24.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -3.84%
Games
Hertfordshire

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Welwyn Garden City region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Welwyn Garden City Games Jobs Demand Trend

Games
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region citing 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 Games.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) E-Learning
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Online Games

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region citing 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 Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) E-Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Online Games
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL