The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 24 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 84 64 70
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +6
Permanent jobs citing Games 11 10 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.939% 1.179% 1.437%
As % of the General category 2.103% 2.825% 2.887%
Number of salaries quoted 8 8 9
Average salary £42,500 £36,250 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.24% +0.69%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
523 354 485
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 44.66% 41.75% 49.79%
Number of salaries quoted 319 256 383
Average salary £45,000 £38,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.88% -6.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £21,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
Scotland

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Glasgow Games Salary Histogram

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 12 (46.15%) Java
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 10 (38.46%) PHP
2 10 (38.46%) TDD
3 8 (30.77%) C++
3 8 (30.77%) Internet
3 8 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
4 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
4 7 (26.92%) Web Development
4 7 (26.92%) QA
4 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
4 7 (26.92%) Python
4 7 (26.92%) C#
5 6 (23.08%) Linux
5 6 (23.08%) Scrum
6 5 (19.23%) C
6 5 (19.23%) SQL
6 5 (19.23%) .NET
6 5 (19.23%) Ant
6 5 (19.23%) Puppet
6 5 (19.23%) Selenium
6 5 (19.23%) Multithreading
6 5 (19.23%) Web Testing
6 5 (19.23%) Test Scripting
7 4 (15.38%) Physics
7 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
7 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (15.38%) Finance
7 4 (15.38%) GIS

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 5 (19.23%) .NET
2 3 (11.54%) Hibernate
2 3 (11.54%) ASP.NET
2 3 (11.54%) EJB
2 3 (11.54%) PowerMock
3 2 (7.692%) Qt
3 2 (7.692%) Boost C++ Libraries
3 2 (7.692%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.692%) WCF
3 2 (7.692%) WPF
3 2 (7.692%) OpenGL
3 2 (7.692%) STL
4 1 (3.846%) Ajax
4 1 (3.846%) COM
4 1 (3.846%) jQuery
4 1 (3.846%) Django
Application Platforms
1 8 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Internet
2 2 (7.692%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) GIS
2 3 (11.54%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (26.92%) Jenkins
2 5 (19.23%) Ant
2 5 (19.23%) Selenium
3 3 (11.54%) JUnit
3 3 (11.54%) EasyMock
4 2 (7.692%) Hudson
General
1 4 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (7.692%) Banking
2 2 (7.692%) Investment Banking
2 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.846%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Software Engineer
1 10 (38.46%) Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Tester
2 5 (19.23%) Software Tester
2 5 (19.23%) Java Developer
2 5 (19.23%) Senior Tester
2 5 (19.23%) Senior Software Tester
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) C Software Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 3 (11.54%) C# Developer
4 3 (11.54%) Java Software Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Software Testing Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) WPF Developer
5 2 (7.692%) Testing Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) C++/Java Developer
5 2 (7.692%) C++ Developer
5 2 (7.692%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (7.692%) Senior C Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) Physics
1 4 (15.38%) Computer Science
2 3 (11.54%) Derivative
2 3 (11.54%) iPhone
2 3 (11.54%) iPad
2 3 (11.54%) Mobile App
3 2 (7.692%) Equity Derivative
3 2 (7.692%) Mathematics
3 2 (7.692%) Fixed Income
3 2 (7.692%) Equities
4 1 (3.846%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 6 (23.08%) Linux
2 1 (3.846%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) TDD
2 7 (26.92%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (26.92%) Web Development
3 6 (23.08%) Scrum
4 5 (19.23%) Multithreading
4 5 (19.23%) Web Testing
4 5 (19.23%) Test Scripting
5 4 (15.38%) Unit Testing
5 4 (15.38%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (11.54%) MVC
6 3 (11.54%) OOD
7 2 (7.692%) Software Testing
7 2 (7.692%) Algorithmic Trading
7 2 (7.692%) UML
7 2 (7.692%) OOP
7 2 (7.692%) Automated Testing
7 2 (7.692%) OO
8 1 (3.846%) Project Management
8 1 (3.846%) OOA/OOD
8 1 (3.846%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
2 10 (38.46%) PHP
3 8 (30.77%) C++
4 7 (26.92%) Python
4 7 (26.92%) C#
5 5 (19.23%) C
5 5 (19.23%) SQL
6 3 (11.54%) Objective-C
7 2 (7.692%) Scala
7 2 (7.692%) Shell Script
7 2 (7.692%) Perl
8 1 (3.846%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (46.15%) Degree
2 2 (7.692%) PhD
2 2 (7.692%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (26.92%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) Oracle
2 2 (7.692%) Razor Risk
2 2 (7.692%) Microsoft
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Posted: 24 May 2013