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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank - 105 82
Permanent jobs citing Games 0 6 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex - 0.431% 1.705%
As % of the General category - 1.207% 3.492%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 19
Average salary - £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
370 497 630
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 38.91% 35.68% 48.84%
Number of salaries quoted 312 412 504
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,900 £26,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
East of England

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Games Salary Trend

Games
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) CGI
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) 3D Graphics
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Animation
2 1 (50.00%) ReSharper
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Augmented Reality
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Motion Graphics
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) CGI
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) ReSharper
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Junior
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Director
1 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Junior C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) 3D Graphics
1 1 (50.00%) Animation
1 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (50.00%) Augmented Reality
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
1 1 (50.00%) Motion Graphics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python