The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 110 104 65
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -39
Permanent jobs citing Games 10 20 52
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.559% 1.038% 3.138%
As % of the General category 1.745% 2.770% 10.44%
Number of salaries quoted 2 20 38
Average salary £39,250 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.14% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
573 722 498
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 32.03% 37.47% 30.05%
Number of salaries quoted 427 638 430
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,200 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
North West

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire Games Salary Histogram

Games
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Runcorn - 2 - -
Wilmslow - 1 £26,000 -
Chester - 1 - -
Games
North West

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 14 (50.00%) C++
2 13 (46.43%) Mathematics
3 11 (39.29%) Degree
4 10 (35.71%) Game Development
4 10 (35.71%) HTML
4 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
5 9 (32.14%) C
5 9 (32.14%) 3D Graphics
5 9 (32.14%) Physics
5 9 (32.14%) Computer Science
6 8 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (28.57%) CSS
7 7 (25.00%) Marketing
8 6 (21.43%) Music
9 5 (17.86%) XHTML
9 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
9 5 (17.86%) Internet
10 4 (14.29%) Perforce
10 4 (14.29%) Scrum
10 4 (14.29%) Visual Studio
10 4 (14.29%) Velocity
10 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (14.29%) TDD
10 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 4 (14.29%) User Stories
11 3 (10.71%) Twitter
11 3 (10.71%) Planning Poker
11 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
11 3 (10.71%) Ajax
11 3 (10.71%) C#

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (35.71%) HTML
2 8 (28.57%) CSS
3 5 (17.86%) XHTML
4 4 (14.29%) Velocity
5 3 (10.71%) Ajax
6 2 (7.143%) jQuery
6 2 (7.143%) HTML5
6 2 (7.143%) CSS3
6 2 (7.143%) COM
7 1 (3.571%) Mason
7 1 (3.571%) WebSphere
7 1 (3.571%) JSON
7 1 (3.571%) .NET
7 1 (3.571%) RSS
7 1 (3.571%) JMS
7 1 (3.571%) Middleware
7 1 (3.571%) XML-RPC
7 1 (3.571%) SOAP
7 1 (3.571%) Web Services
7 1 (3.571%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) Apache
1 1 (3.571%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.571%) MS Exchange
1 1 (3.571%) CICS
1 1 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (3.571%) ESB
1 1 (3.571%) WebSphere Message Broker
Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Maya
2 1 (3.571%) MS Office
2 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Internet
2 1 (3.571%) Firewall
2 1 (3.571%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.571%) MySQL
1 1 (3.571%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.571%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (25.00%) Marketing
2 6 (21.43%) Music
3 3 (10.71%) Advertising
4 1 (3.571%) Banking
4 1 (3.571%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (42.86%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Programmer
3 7 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
3 7 (25.00%) Tools Programmer
4 5 (17.86%) Software Programmer
4 5 (17.86%) Analyst
4 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
5 4 (14.29%) Business Analyst
5 4 (14.29%) Graduate
5 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 4 (14.29%) C++ Programmer
5 4 (14.29%) Graduate Software Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (14.29%) Agile Business Analyst
6 2 (7.143%) C# Programmer
6 2 (7.143%) C++ Games Programmer
6 2 (7.143%) Games Programmer
7 1 (3.571%) Technical Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Perl Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Mathematics
2 9 (32.14%) Physics
2 9 (32.14%) Computer Science
2 9 (32.14%) 3D Graphics
3 2 (7.143%) Client/Server
3 2 (7.143%) W3C
3 2 (7.143%) Social Media
4 1 (3.571%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.571%) Mainframe
4 1 (3.571%) Streaming Music
4 1 (3.571%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.143%) Linux
2 1 (3.571%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.571%) Windows 7
2 1 (3.571%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Game Development
2 8 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (14.29%) TDD
3 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 4 (14.29%) User Stories
3 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (14.29%) Scrum
4 3 (10.71%) Planning Poker
4 3 (10.71%) Waterfall
5 2 (7.143%) Resource Management
5 2 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (3.571%) ITIL
6 1 (3.571%) OOP
6 1 (3.571%) OO
6 1 (3.571%) EAI
6 1 (3.571%) SOA
6 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (3.571%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (50.00%) C++
2 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 9 (32.14%) C
4 3 (10.71%) C#
5 2 (7.143%) PHP
5 2 (7.143%) SQL
5 2 (7.143%) Python
5 2 (7.143%) Assembly Language
5 2 (7.143%) Lua
6 1 (3.571%) Java
6 1 (3.571%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) SLA
1 1 (3.571%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.571%) Nagios
1 1 (3.571%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Perforce
3 3 (10.71%) Twitter
4 1 (3.571%) Cisco
4 1 (3.571%) NETGEAR
4 1 (3.571%) TIBCO
4 1 (3.571%) webMethods
4 1 (3.571%) Sony
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