The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank - 50 31
Permanent jobs citing Games 0 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf - 1.013% 0.939%
As % of the General category - 1.194% 1.190%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 2
Average salary - £100,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +158.06%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
189 335 168
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 84.00% 84.81% 78.87%
Number of salaries quoted 156 290 125
Average salary £80,000 £72,500 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.34% +3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £41,750 £47,500 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £115,000 £90,000 £100,000
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 Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Games Salary Trend

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 3 (50.00%) OO
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) Online Games
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (16.67%) Java Concurrency
3 1 (16.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 1 (16.67%) HTML5
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
3 1 (16.67%) Mockito
3 1 (16.67%) Clojure
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Guice
3 1 (16.67%) Qt
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Spring
3 1 (16.67%) Maven
3 1 (16.67%) Google
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) WPF
3 1 (16.67%) Silverlight
3 1 (16.67%) CSS
3 1 (16.67%) STL
3 1 (16.67%) Windows

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Java Concurrency
2 1 (16.67%) Boost C++ Libraries
2 1 (16.67%) HTML5
2 1 (16.67%) Guice
2 1 (16.67%) Qt
2 1 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (16.67%) WPF
2 1 (16.67%) Silverlight
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) STL
2 1 (16.67%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Mockito
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) Maven
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Java Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Scala Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C++ Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Online Games
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) Scala
3 1 (16.67%) Clojure
3 1 (16.67%) C
3 1 (16.67%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google