The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the Brentford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Brentford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 13 27 16
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -11
Permanent jobs citing Games 8 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentford 10.39% 1.361% 1.923%
As % of the General category 29.63% 4.167% 4.762%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Average salary - £39,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Brentford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
27 48 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentford 35.06% 32.65% 40.38%
Number of salaries quoted 8 12 12
Average salary £36,400 £70,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-48.00% +40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Games
London

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brentford Games Jobs Demand Trend

Games
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Games across the Brentford region.

Brentford Games Salary Trend

Games
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brentford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Games.

1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
2 8 (88.89%) Broadband
2 8 (88.89%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (88.89%) Java
2 8 (88.89%) Web Services
2 8 (88.89%) Scrum
2 8 (88.89%) Extreme Programming
2 8 (88.89%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (88.89%) TDD
2 8 (88.89%) Pair Programming
2 8 (88.89%) Spring
2 8 (88.89%) Shell Script
2 8 (88.89%) FitNesse
2 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (88.89%) Kanban
2 8 (88.89%) Groovy
2 8 (88.89%) Scala
2 8 (88.89%) REST
2 8 (88.89%) User Stories
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
3 1 (11.11%) Online Games
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
3 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Informix

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brentford 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (88.89%) Web Services
1 8 (88.89%) Spring
1 8 (88.89%) REST
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
2 1 (11.11%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 8 (88.89%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
1 1 (11.11%) Informix
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) FitNesse
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Java Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Senior Java Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Senior Developer
1 8 (88.89%) Agile Java Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Software Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) Scrum
1 8 (88.89%) Extreme Programming
1 8 (88.89%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (88.89%) TDD
1 8 (88.89%) Pair Programming
1 8 (88.89%) Continuous Integration
1 8 (88.89%) Kanban
1 8 (88.89%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Java
1 8 (88.89%) Shell Script
1 8 (88.89%) Groovy
1 8 (88.89%) Scala
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle