The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Games over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Yorkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 113 101 86
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -15
Contract jobs citing Games 4 21 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.205% 0.866% 1.048%
As % of the General category 0.618% 2.419% 2.837%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 15
Average daily rate £425 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.76% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £263
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +23.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
+50.00% -41.17%
All of the General Category
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
General category
647 868 705
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 33.21% 35.81% 36.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 545 382
Average daily rate £370 £380 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -0.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £265 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £380 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 21
Average hourly rate £18.00 £16.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.80 £9.90 £11.08
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.38 £50.00 £28.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £24.99 £26.00
% change year-on-year
+0.05% -3.89%
Games
England

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Games Jobs Demand Trend

Games
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Games across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Games Daily Rate Trend

Games
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Games across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Yorkshire Games Daily Rate Histogram

Games
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Games across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Games Hourly Rate Trend

Games
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
West Yorkshire -14 2 £425 +30.76% 22
South Yorkshire +2 1 £225 - 3
North Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Games
England

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 6 (30.00%) MS Office
2 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (30.00%) Online Betting
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (25.00%) SQL
4 4 (20.00%) Internet
4 4 (20.00%) Project Management
4 4 (20.00%) Online Games
4 4 (20.00%) Big Data
5 3 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
5 3 (15.00%) Degree
5 3 (15.00%) Network Load Balancing
5 3 (15.00%) QA
5 3 (15.00%) Service Management
5 3 (15.00%) Change Management
5 3 (15.00%) Clustering
5 3 (15.00%) HTTP
5 3 (15.00%) Retail
5 3 (15.00%) Content Management
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (15.00%) PHP
5 3 (15.00%) Java
5 3 (15.00%) MySQL
5 3 (15.00%) UML
5 3 (15.00%) Apache
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
6 2 (10.00%) UNIX

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 2 (10.00%) J2EE
1 2 (10.00%) JDBC
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
1 2 (10.00%) MapReduce
1 2 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.000%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) Apache
2 2 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 2 (10.00%) MQSeries
2 2 (10.00%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.00%) IBM HTTP Server
Applications
1 6 (30.00%) MS Office
2 1 (5.000%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.000%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 4 (20.00%) Internet
2 3 (15.00%) HTTP
3 2 (10.00%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (20.00%) Big Data
3 3 (15.00%) MySQL
4 2 (10.00%) DB2
4 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (10.00%) Hadoop
4 2 (10.00%) Apache Hive
4 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Talend Open Studio
General
1 6 (30.00%) Online Betting
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.000%) Marketing
5 1 (5.000%) Legal
5 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.000%) Publishing
5 1 (5.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Business Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Release Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Data Architect
5 2 (10.00%) Coordinator
5 2 (10.00%) Operations Support Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence Project Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Agile Business Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Project Planner
6 1 (5.000%) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Online Games
2 3 (15.00%) Clustering
3 1 (5.000%) Social Media
3 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.000%) Online Gambling
3 1 (5.000%) BBC
3 1 (5.000%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (35.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) UNIX
2 2 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) AIX
2 2 (10.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 4 (20.00%) Project Management
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Architecture
4 3 (15.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (15.00%) Service Management
4 3 (15.00%) Change Management
4 3 (15.00%) Content Management
4 3 (15.00%) UML
4 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 2 (10.00%) RDF
5 2 (10.00%) ERP
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
5 2 (10.00%) Scrum
5 2 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 2 (10.00%) Requirements Management
5 2 (10.00%) Data Transformation
5 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (10.00%) Data Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) PHP
2 3 (15.00%) Java
3 2 (10.00%) Perl
3 2 (10.00%) Scala
3 2 (10.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) IBM
2 2 (10.00%) Talend
2 2 (10.00%) Cloudera
3 1 (5.000%) Sony
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