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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 30 - 26
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Games 7 0 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 3.911% - 4.098%
As % of the General category 12.28% - 15.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 3
Average salary £50,000 - £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
57 98 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 31.84% 41.35% 27.05%
Number of salaries quoted 44 91 31
Average salary £50,000 £55,000 £48,375
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +13.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,900 £40,500 £37,300
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £73,250
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
Hampshire

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the Farnborough region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Farnborough Games Salary Histogram

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 7 (87.50%) C#
2 5 (62.50%) Degree
3 4 (50.00%) Network Design
3 4 (50.00%) OpenGL
3 4 (50.00%) DirectX
3 4 (50.00%) TickIT
3 4 (50.00%) Aerospace
3 4 (50.00%) C++
3 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (50.00%) UML
3 4 (50.00%) ISO 9001
3 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (50.00%) Requirements Management
4 3 (37.50%) Bing Maps
4 3 (37.50%) Silverlight
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 3 (37.50%) .NET
4 3 (37.50%) Migration
4 3 (37.50%) ESRI
4 3 (37.50%) ArcGIS
4 3 (37.50%) Finance
4 3 (37.50%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (12.50%) NetScreen
5 1 (12.50%) Ruby
5 1 (12.50%) VLAN
5 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (12.50%) MVC

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 4 (50.00%) OpenGL
1 4 (50.00%) DirectX
2 3 (37.50%) Bing Maps
2 3 (37.50%) Silverlight
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (12.50%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) ArcGIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) NetScreen
1 1 (12.50%) VLAN
1 1 (12.50%) Firewall
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Web Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (12.50%) Replication
2 1 (12.50%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Network Design
1 4 (50.00%) UML
1 4 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) C++
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Ruby
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) TickIT
1 4 (50.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) ESRI
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco
2 1 (12.50%) Juniper