The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile 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 Mobile 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 Miscellaneous 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Mobile Game
Rank - - 102
Contract jobs citing Mobile Games 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire - - 0.054%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - - 0.268%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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 £37.50 - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
392 318 373
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 21.08% 14.15% 20.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 170 155
Average daily rate £310 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.14% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £203 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £466 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 9 30
Average hourly rate £12.50 £21.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.47% +5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.05 £11.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.00 £30.00 £47.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -13.20%
Mobile Games
England

Mobile Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Mobile Games Daily Rate Trend

Mobile Games
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Backbone.js
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas

Mobile Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Backbone.js
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5 Canvas
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Front-End Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript
1 1 (100.00%) ActionScript 3.0
West Yorkshire
A fantastic contract opportunity has arisen at a games company whom create web and mobile games for some of the biggest brands... Experience designing casual games, mobile games,...
Real Staffing
Rate: £250 - £330 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013