The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 21 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 79 62 64
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +2
Permanent jobs citing Games 4 21 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 0.526% 2.770% 0.839%
As % of the General category 2.210% 9.333% 2.597%
Number of salaries quoted 3 20 4
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
181 225 154
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 23.82% 29.68% 32.29%
Number of salaries quoted 152 195 146
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% +11.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,750 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
East Sussex

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Games Salary Trend

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 16 (57.14%) Google
2 12 (42.86%) Social Media
3 11 (39.29%) MySQL
4 9 (32.14%) Web Development
5 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 8 (28.57%) HTML5
6 7 (25.00%) CSS3
6 7 (25.00%) Facebook
6 7 (25.00%) Twitter
6 7 (25.00%) Web Application Development
6 7 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
6 7 (25.00%) SaaS
6 7 (25.00%) Google Maps API
6 7 (25.00%) Kanban
6 7 (25.00%) Kohana
6 7 (25.00%) YAML
6 7 (25.00%) PHP
6 7 (25.00%) CSS
6 7 (25.00%) SOAP
6 7 (25.00%) XML
6 7 (25.00%) Linux
6 7 (25.00%) OO
6 7 (25.00%) XHTML
6 7 (25.00%) RSS
6 7 (25.00%) CRM
6 7 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 7 (25.00%) W3C
6 7 (25.00%) MVC
6 7 (25.00%) Symfony
6 7 (25.00%) Zend

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 (28.57%) HTML5
2 7 (25.00%) CSS3
2 7 (25.00%) Google Maps API
2 7 (25.00%) Kohana
2 7 (25.00%) YAML
2 7 (25.00%) CSS
2 7 (25.00%) SOAP
2 7 (25.00%) XML
2 7 (25.00%) XHTML
2 7 (25.00%) RSS
2 7 (25.00%) Symfony
2 7 (25.00%) CakePHP
2 7 (25.00%) jQuery
2 7 (25.00%) Ajax
3 2 (7.143%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) SPSS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) VoIP
1 5 (17.86%) LDAP
1 5 (17.86%) Asterisk PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) MySQL
2 2 (7.143%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.571%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.571%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) JIRA
1 3 (10.71%) Selenium
General
1 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 2 (7.143%) German Language
Job Titles
1 14 (50.00%) Developer
2 7 (25.00%) Mid-Level PHP Developer
2 7 (25.00%) PHP Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (17.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (17.86%) Administrator
3 5 (17.86%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (17.86%) Desktop Administrator
4 4 (14.29%) Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Data Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Java Developer
5 3 (10.71%) C++ Developer
5 3 (10.71%) QA Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Applications Developer
6 2 (7.143%) Programmer
6 2 (7.143%) Applications Support
6 2 (7.143%) Java Applications Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Programmer
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Games Programmer
7 1 (3.571%) C++ Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Social Media
2 7 (25.00%) SaaS
2 7 (25.00%) W3C
3 4 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.571%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Ubuntu
2 5 (17.86%) Mac OS X
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Mac OS X Server
2 5 (17.86%) Mac OS
2 5 (17.86%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.571%) Android
3 1 (3.571%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Web Development
2 7 (25.00%) Web Application Development
2 7 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
2 7 (25.00%) Kanban
2 7 (25.00%) OO
2 7 (25.00%) CRM
2 7 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 7 (25.00%) MVC
2 7 (25.00%) Scrum
3 5 (17.86%) Information Security
3 5 (17.86%) Project Planning
3 5 (17.86%) Information Security Management
3 5 (17.86%) Security Management
3 5 (17.86%) ITIL
4 4 (14.29%) Game Development
5 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (10.71%) Automated Testing
5 3 (10.71%) Software Testing
5 3 (10.71%) Financial Analysis
6 1 (3.571%) Competitor Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 7 (25.00%) PHP
2 7 (25.00%) PHP5
3 5 (17.86%) C++
3 5 (17.86%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (3.571%) Lua
5 1 (3.571%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 3 (10.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Samba
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Google
2 7 (25.00%) Facebook
2 7 (25.00%) Twitter
2 7 (25.00%) Zend
3 1 (3.571%) Perforce
3 1 (3.571%) Tableau