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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 20 6 -
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -
Permanent jobs citing Games 2 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ealing 2.439% 20.00% -
As % of the General category 9.524% 58.33% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 0
Average salary £50,000 £39,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.58% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Ealing
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
21 12 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ealing 25.61% 34.29% 37.21%
Number of salaries quoted 20 12 11
Average salary £60,000 £40,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -27.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £39,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
London

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ealing 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 Ealing region.

Ealing Games Salary Trend

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ealing 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 (71.43%) Waterfall
2 18 (64.29%) Online Games
2 18 (64.29%) Linux
3 17 (60.71%) Scrum
4 15 (53.57%) UNIX
4 15 (53.57%) Release Management
5 13 (46.43%) Degree
5 13 (46.43%) Windows
5 13 (46.43%) J2EE
5 13 (46.43%) MySQL
5 13 (46.43%) C
5 13 (46.43%) C++
5 13 (46.43%) Java
5 13 (46.43%) Perl
5 13 (46.43%) PHP
5 13 (46.43%) Apache
6 12 (42.86%) C#
7 10 (35.71%) HTML
7 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
7 10 (35.71%) CSS
7 10 (35.71%) Python
7 10 (35.71%) E-Commerce
7 10 (35.71%) HTTP
7 10 (35.71%) TCP/IP
7 10 (35.71%) XML
7 10 (35.71%) Configuration Management
7 10 (35.71%) Internet
7 10 (35.71%) TDD
7 10 (35.71%) LAMP
7 10 (35.71%) Refactoring

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ealing 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 13 (46.43%) J2EE
2 10 (35.71%) HTML
2 10 (35.71%) CSS
2 10 (35.71%) XML
2 10 (35.71%) LAMP
2 10 (35.71%) HTML5
3 1 (3.571%) SOAP
3 1 (3.571%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 13 (46.43%) Apache
2 2 (7.143%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (35.71%) HTTP
1 10 (35.71%) TCP/IP
1 10 (35.71%) Internet
2 3 (10.71%) Wireless
2 3 (10.71%) SAN
2 3 (10.71%) DNS
2 3 (10.71%) Kerberos
2 3 (10.71%) LAN
2 3 (10.71%) WAN
2 3 (10.71%) SSH
2 3 (10.71%) Network Security
2 3 (10.71%) iSCSI
2 3 (10.71%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (10.71%) OpenLDAP
2 3 (10.71%) NAS
3 2 (7.143%) VLAN
3 2 (7.143%) VPN
3 2 (7.143%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (46.43%) MySQL
2 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (10.71%) Informix
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Subversion
2 5 (17.86%) WinRunner
2 5 (17.86%) QuickTest Pro
2 5 (17.86%) Selenium
3 2 (7.143%) Git (software)
3 2 (7.143%) JIRA
General
1 4 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (46.43%) Developer
2 10 (35.71%) Senior Developer
2 10 (35.71%) Technical Leader
3 5 (17.86%) Release Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Test Leader
5 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (7.143%) Senior Linux Administrator
6 2 (7.143%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.143%) Administrator
6 2 (7.143%) Product Manager
6 2 (7.143%) Senior Systems Administrator
6 2 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Support Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.571%) Tester
7 1 (3.571%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 18 (64.29%) Online Games
2 10 (35.71%) Computer Science
3 4 (14.29%) Open Source
4 1 (3.571%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 18 (64.29%) Linux
2 15 (53.57%) UNIX
3 13 (46.43%) Windows
4 3 (10.71%) Ubuntu
5 2 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.571%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (71.43%) Waterfall
2 17 (60.71%) Scrum
3 15 (53.57%) Release Management
4 10 (35.71%) E-Commerce
4 10 (35.71%) Configuration Management
4 10 (35.71%) TDD
4 10 (35.71%) Refactoring
5 5 (17.86%) Regression Testing
5 5 (17.86%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (17.86%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (14.29%) Automation Testing
6 4 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 4 (14.29%) Automated Testing
6 4 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Time Management
8 2 (7.143%) Product Management
8 2 (7.143%) Game Development
8 2 (7.143%) Competitor Analysis
8 2 (7.143%) Systems Analysis
8 2 (7.143%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) C
1 13 (46.43%) C++
1 13 (46.43%) Java
1 13 (46.43%) Perl
1 13 (46.43%) PHP
2 12 (42.86%) C#
3 10 (35.71%) JavaScript
3 10 (35.71%) Python
3 10 (35.71%) Bash shell
4 6 (21.43%) SQL
5 3 (10.71%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 13 (46.43%) Degree
2 5 (17.86%) ISEB
2 5 (17.86%) ISTQB
3 2 (7.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (7.143%) CCNA
3 2 (7.143%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (7.143%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) QA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Samba
1 3 (10.71%) NFS
1 3 (10.71%) Squid
2 2 (7.143%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.143%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Nagios
1 3 (10.71%) Puppet
2 1 (3.571%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) VMware
1 3 (10.71%) Red Hat
1 3 (10.71%) EMC
1 3 (10.71%) HP
1 3 (10.71%) Cisco
2 2 (7.143%) Atlassian
2 2 (7.143%) Dell
3 1 (3.571%) Google