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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 68 51 56
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +5
Permanent jobs citing Games 1 5 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 0.161% 1.008% 1.325%
As % of the General category 0.395% 1.742% 2.749%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 5
Average salary £32,500 £27,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.37% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
253 287 291
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 40.81% 57.86% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 202 188 217
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,800 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
South West

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset Games Salary Trend

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 Dorset region over the 3 months to 23 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
Bournemouth -1 1 £32,500 +62.50%
Games
South West

Games
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 (60.00%) OOD
1 3 (60.00%) Fortran
1 3 (60.00%) OpenGL
1 3 (60.00%) DirectX
1 3 (60.00%) C++
1 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (60.00%) Physics
1 3 (60.00%) UML
1 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (20.00%) Magento
2 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
2 1 (20.00%) nginx
2 1 (20.00%) Social Gaming
2 1 (20.00%) PHP
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (20.00%) CMS
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 3 (60.00%) OpenGL
1 3 (60.00%) DirectX
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Magento
1 1 (20.00%) nginx
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (20.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (20.00%) Developer
1 1 (20.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (60.00%) Physics
2 1 (20.00%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) OOD
1 3 (60.00%) UML
1 3 (60.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Fortran
1 3 (60.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) PHP