Cheshire Games Jobs

This section looks at the prevalence of the term 'Games' in IT jobs within the Cheshire region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 23 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Games
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grantham Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Havant Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Hove Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Loughborough Macclesfield Maidenhead Malton Manchester Mansfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newry Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tayside Thame Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 23 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	122	114
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching permanent IT job ads	27	23
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	1.467 %	1.294 %
Salaries quoted	18	21
Average minimum salary	£27,000	£28,143
Average salary	£38,208	£29,262
% change on same period last year	+30.57 %
Average maximum salary	£49,417	£30,381
UK excluding London average salary	£35,635	£35,666
% change on same period last year	-0.08 %
General Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1840	1778
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.968 %	0.730 %
Salaries quoted	1699	1580
Average minimum salary	£36,904	£36,311
Average salary	£41,143	£39,535
% change on same period last year	+4.06 %
Average maximum salary	£45,381	£42,760
UK excluding London average salary	£40,883	£42,368
% change on same period last year	-3.50 %
Games North West

Games
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Games across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Games
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section 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 23 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	-	5	£32,350	-
Crewe	-	3	£27,500	-
Macclesfield	-25	2	£37,500	+47.05 %
Runcorn	-	1	-	-

Games North West

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 July 2008, 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 16 (35.56 %) C++ 2 10 (22.22 %) C 3 7 (15.56 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 7 (15.56 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (15.56 %) Degree 4 6 (13.33 %) Mathematics 4 6 (13.33 %) OpenGL 4 6 (13.33 %) DirectX 4 6 (13.33 %) 3D Graphics 5 5 (11.11 %) Windows 5 5 (11.11 %) Java 6 4 (8.889 %) SQL 6 4 (8.889 %) Finance 7 3 (6.667 %) Health 7 3 (6.667 %) Advertising

7 3 (6.667 %) SEO 7 3 (6.667 %) Microsoft 7 3 (6.667 %) .NET 7 3 (6.667 %) CSS 7 3 (6.667 %) SMS 7 3 (6.667 %) Marketing 7 3 (6.667 %) Web Analytics 7 3 (6.667 %) Pay per click 7 3 (6.667 %) Altiris 7 3 (6.667 %) SoftGrid 7 3 (6.667 %) Internet Marketing 8 2 (4.444 %) Software Packaging 8 2 (4.444 %) VB6 8 2 (4.444 %) Nortel Meridian 8 2 (4.444 %) QA

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 July 2008, 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 6 (13.33 %) OpenGL 1 6 (13.33 %) DirectX 2 3 (6.667 %) .NET 2 3 (6.667 %) CSS 3 2 (4.444 %) J2EE 3 2 (4.444 %) HTML 3 2 (4.444 %) Software Packaging 4 1 (2.222 %) AJAX 4 1 (2.222 %) Application Packaging 4 1 (2.222 %) ASP 4 1 (2.222 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (2.222 %) EJB 4 1 (2.222 %) JSP 4 1 (2.222 %) Servlets 4 1 (2.222 %) J2ME 4 1 (2.222 %) J2SE	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.222 %) Tomcat 1 1 (2.222 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.667 %) SMS 2 2 (4.444 %) HTTP 2 2 (4.444 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (4.444 %) SSL 2 2 (4.444 %) Nortel Meridian 3 1 (2.222 %) SAN 3 1 (2.222 %) VPN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.444 %) SQL Server 2 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) JUnit 1 1 (2.222 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 6 (13.33 %) 3D Graphics 2 4 (8.889 %) Finance 3 3 (6.667 %) Health 3 3 (6.667 %) Advertising 3 3 (6.667 %) Marketing 4 1 (2.222 %) Online Games
Job Titles 1 10 (22.22 %) Programmer 2 9 (20.00 %) Developer 3 7 (15.56 %) Project Manager 3 7 (15.56 %) Change Manager 3 7 (15.56 %) Business Change Manager 3 7 (15.56 %) Business Project Manager 3 7 (15.56 %) Business Manager 3 7 (15.56 %) Business Change Project Manager 4 4 (8.889 %) Games Developer 4 4 (8.889 %) Games Programmer 5 3 (6.667 %) Senior Programmer 5 3 (6.667 %) Account Manager 6 2 (4.444 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) VB Developer 6 2 (4.444 %) Senior Support Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) VB6 Developer 6 2 (4.444 %) Senior Games Programmer 7 1 (2.222 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.33 %) Mathematics 2 2 (4.444 %) EPoS
Operating Systems 1 5 (11.11 %) Windows 2 2 (4.444 %) Windows XP 2 2 (4.444 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (2.222 %) Linux 3 1 (2.222 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (15.56 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (6.667 %) SEO 2 3 (6.667 %) Web Analytics 2 3 (6.667 %) Pay per click 2 3 (6.667 %) Internet Marketing 3 1 (2.222 %) Unit Testing 3 1 (2.222 %) Load Balancing 3 1 (2.222 %) Agile Software Development 3 1 (2.222 %) OO
Programming Languages 1 16 (35.56 %) C++ 2 10 (22.22 %) C 3 5 (11.11 %) Java 4 4 (8.889 %) SQL 5 2 (4.444 %) DHTML 5 2 (4.444 %) VB 5 2 (4.444 %) VB6 6 1 (2.222 %) C# 6 1 (2.222 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (2.222 %) VBScript 6 1 (2.222 %) JavaScript 6 1 (2.222 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 7 (15.56 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 7 (15.56 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.444 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (2.222 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 2 (4.444 %) Tivoli 1 2 (4.444 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 3 (6.667 %) Microsoft 1 3 (6.667 %) Altiris 2 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 2 2 (4.444 %) Cisco 2 2 (4.444 %) Sun 2 2 (4.444 %) HP 2 2 (4.444 %) Nortel 3 1 (2.222 %) Citrix 3 1 (2.222 %) Sony 3 1 (2.222 %) VMware