Games Jobs in Cambridge
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 100 103 65
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -38
Permanent jobs citing Games 22 27 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.219% 1.337% 3.165%
As % of the General category 4.762% 4.779% 9.139%
Number of salaries quoted 14 26 59
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category		 462 565 755
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 25.60% 27.97% 34.63%
Number of salaries quoted 360 475 660
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
Cambridgeshire

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cambridge Games Salary Histogram

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 20 (66.67%) C
1 20 (66.67%) C++
1 20 (66.67%) Degree
2 14 (46.67%) Java
3 12 (40.00%) C#
4 11 (36.67%) HTML
4 11 (36.67%) CSS
4 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
4 11 (36.67%) ISEB
4 11 (36.67%) Performance Testing
4 11 (36.67%) Software Testing
4 11 (36.67%) ISTQB
4 11 (36.67%) QA
4 11 (36.67%) User Stories
5 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
6 7 (23.33%) Mathematics
6 7 (23.33%) Physics
7 6 (20.00%) Marketing
7 6 (20.00%) 3D Graphics
8 4 (13.33%) Mobile Games
8 4 (13.33%) Creative Marketing
8 4 (13.33%) Mobile Marketing
9 3 (10.00%) Twitter
10 2 (6.667%) Cisco IOS
10 2 (6.667%) Online Games
10 2 (6.667%) Game Development
10 2 (6.667%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (6.667%) Marketing Strategy
10 2 (6.667%) Test Automation
10 2 (6.667%) Brand Management

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 11 (36.67%) HTML
1 11 (36.67%) CSS
2 1 (3.333%) .NET
2 1 (3.333%) Cocoa
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (6.667%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (6.667%) iSCSI
1 2 (6.667%) Intrusion Detection
1 2 (6.667%) Wireless
1 2 (6.667%) TCP/IP
1 2 (6.667%) SAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Xcode
General
1 6 (20.00%) Marketing
2 2 (6.667%) Finance
2 2 (6.667%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) QA Engineer
2 8 (26.67%) Developer
3 6 (20.00%) C++ Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Marketing Manager
5 2 (6.667%) UNIX Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 2 (6.667%) Test Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) Software Developer
6 1 (3.333%) .NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Team Leader
6 1 (3.333%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Development Team Leader
6 1 (3.333%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Computer Science
2 7 (23.33%) Mathematics
2 7 (23.33%) Physics
3 6 (20.00%) 3D Graphics
4 4 (13.33%) Mobile Games
5 2 (6.667%) Online Games
5 2 (6.667%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (6.667%) Social Media
5 2 (6.667%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (3.333%) iPhone
6 1 (3.333%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.667%) Debian
1 2 (6.667%) UNIX
1 2 (6.667%) Windows
1 2 (6.667%) Linux
2 1 (3.333%) Android
2 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) Performance Testing
1 11 (36.67%) Software Testing
1 11 (36.67%) User Stories
2 4 (13.33%) Creative Marketing
2 4 (13.33%) Mobile Marketing
3 2 (6.667%) Game Development
3 2 (6.667%) Marketing Strategy
3 2 (6.667%) Test Automation
3 2 (6.667%) Brand Management
3 2 (6.667%) Product Marketing
3 2 (6.667%) Information Security
4 1 (3.333%) OO
4 1 (3.333%) Scrum
4 1 (3.333%) TDD
4 1 (3.333%) Software Engineering
4 1 (3.333%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (66.67%) C
1 20 (66.67%) C++
2 14 (46.67%) Java
3 12 (40.00%) C#
4 11 (36.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.667%) Python
6 1 (3.333%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 20 (66.67%) Degree
2 11 (36.67%) ISEB
2 11 (36.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.333%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Twitter
2 2 (6.667%) Cisco
2 2 (6.667%) HP
2 2 (6.667%) Juniper
C# .NET Developer / Architect - Ecommerce
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Senior C# .NET Developer / Architect... KEYWORDS: C#, ASP.NET, .NET, ASP.NET MVC, TDD, SQL SERVER, TEST DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT, SCRUM, AGILE, SQL, WEB, DEVELOPER, DEVELOPMENT, SOFTWARE, PROGRAMMING, ARCHITECT,...
Oho Group Ltd.
Salary: £35000 to £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Software Developer / Software Engineer - Java / PHP
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (CB1), East Anglia
With a background gained as a Software Developer / Software Engineer or similar, your skills and experience should highlight the following: - Proven experience using Java / Mule / PHP... Postgres/MySQL/...
Guru Careers
Salary: £Highly Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Software Developer / Software Engineer - Java / PHP
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Postgres/MySQL/Oracle/Hadoop and using UNIX/Linux operating systems... A Computer Science degree (or equivalent) is or exposure to any of the following is advantageous: Design Patterns,...
Guru Careers
Salary: £Highly Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Tools Content Engineer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
If you have excellent C++/C programming skills, strong architecture and planning skills, have a solid understanding of rendering, animation and IPC techniques and you would like to...
Amiqus
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 21 May 2013
GUI Developer - GUI, ActionScript, games, Flash Player, Scaleform, Lua, 3D Graphics, Cambridge, to £30k
Cambridge, East Anglia
Your portfolio will be broad, and also includes extending existing UI framework (Flash/Flex, Kendo, for example)... Knowledge of Flash and ActionScript is essential, and you will know...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £30k
Posted: 26 April 2013
Head of Game Intelligence - (Games Studio)
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (CB1), East Anglia
Read on...With 3 Guinness world records; a Queen's Award for Enterprise (2011) a Deloitte Technology Fast 50 (2010); a Sunday Times Top 100 company to work...
Guru Careers
Salary: £Highly Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Marketing Product Manager - Connectivity, "Internet of Things", Consumer Electronics, Roadmapping, Cambridge, to c£60,000 + Benefits
Cambridge
Specification: - Technical degree in engineering, computer science or similar discipline; and proven commercial experience in a technical marketing role, gaining experience in business development, product marketing and / or...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£60,000 + Benefits
Posted: 26 April 2013
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