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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 82 86 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Permanent jobs citing Games 10 16 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 1.134% 1.302% -
As % of the General category 3.891% 4.134% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 16 0
Average salary £30,000 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Gloucestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
257 387 384
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 29.14% 31.49% 34.66%
Number of salaries quoted 218 319 309
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £30,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,250 £55,000
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 Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Gloucestershire Games Salary Histogram

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (46.67%) Mobile Games
2 6 (40.00%) iPhone
2 6 (40.00%) C#
3 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) Photoshop
3 5 (33.33%) Adobe
3 5 (33.33%) Android
3 5 (33.33%) Advertising
3 5 (33.33%) Maya
3 5 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (33.33%) Social Media
3 5 (33.33%) iPad
3 5 (33.33%) Apple iOS
4 4 (26.67%) Game Development
4 4 (26.67%) Swift 3D
4 4 (26.67%) Learning Management System
4 4 (26.67%) SCORM
4 4 (26.67%) Multimedia
4 4 (26.67%) Adobe After Effects
4 4 (26.67%) E-Learning
4 4 (26.67%) Publishing
4 4 (26.67%) ActionScript 3.0
4 4 (26.67%) ActionScript 2.0
4 4 (26.67%) Degree
4 4 (26.67%) Graphic Design
4 4 (26.67%) Social Network
4 4 (26.67%) Flash
4 4 (26.67%) Dreamweaver
4 4 (26.67%) CSS
4 4 (26.67%) HTML

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (26.67%) CSS
1 4 (26.67%) Flash
1 4 (26.67%) HTML
2 3 (20.00%) LAMP
2 3 (20.00%) Ajax
3 2 (13.33%) .NET
4 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
4 1 (6.667%) EDI
4 1 (6.667%) EDIFACT
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (33.33%) Photoshop
1 5 (33.33%) Maya
1 5 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (26.67%) Adobe After Effects
2 4 (26.67%) Swift 3D
3 1 (6.667%) CINEMA 4D
3 1 (6.667%) 3ds Max
3 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) SMTP
1 3 (20.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) MySQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Dreamweaver
2 3 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (33.33%) Advertising
2 4 (26.67%) Publishing
2 4 (26.67%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Developer
1 5 (33.33%) Programmer
2 4 (26.67%) Games Programmer
2 4 (26.67%) Graphic Designer
2 4 (26.67%) Designer
3 3 (20.00%) LAMP Developer
4 1 (6.667%) CRM Developer
4 1 (6.667%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (6.667%) C# Web Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Art Director
4 1 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (6.667%) .NET Developer
4 1 (6.667%) C# Developer
4 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (6.667%) .NET Web Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst
4 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Mobile Games
2 6 (40.00%) iPhone
3 5 (33.33%) Social Media
3 5 (33.33%) iPad
4 4 (26.67%) Learning Management System
4 4 (26.67%) E-Learning
4 4 (26.67%) SCORM
4 4 (26.67%) Graphic Design
4 4 (26.67%) Social Network
5 3 (20.00%) Social Gaming
6 1 (6.667%) TRADACOMS
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Android
1 5 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 3 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Game Development
2 3 (20.00%) Web Development
2 3 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (6.667%) OO
3 1 (6.667%) CRM
3 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.667%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) ActionScript
3 4 (26.67%) ActionScript 3.0
3 4 (26.67%) ActionScript 2.0
4 3 (20.00%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) PHP
5 1 (6.667%) C++
5 1 (6.667%) VBA
5 1 (6.667%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Adobe
2 3 (20.00%) Perforce
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
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