The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 53 40 43
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +3
Permanent jobs citing Games 34 40 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 3.786% 5.797% 2.750%
As % of the General category 9.770% 16.53% 7.447%
Number of salaries quoted 28 36 14
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% +42.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,550 £35,000 £26,450
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
348 242 188
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 38.75% 35.07% 36.94%
Number of salaries quoted 259 231 177
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +1.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Games
Surrey

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Guildford Games Salary Histogram

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 50 (39.37%) C#
2 42 (33.07%) C++
3 41 (32.28%) JavaScript
3 41 (32.28%) CSS
3 41 (32.28%) jQuery
4 38 (29.92%) SQL
5 37 (29.13%) PHP
6 36 (28.35%) HTML
7 31 (24.41%) .NET
8 26 (20.47%) SQL Server
9 25 (19.69%) XML
9 25 (19.69%) Linux
9 25 (19.69%) Degree
10 24 (18.90%) Online Games
10 24 (18.90%) ASP.NET
10 24 (18.90%) Photoshop
10 24 (18.90%) Flash
11 23 (18.11%) Ajax
11 23 (18.11%) Web Application Development
12 22 (17.32%) Microsoft
12 22 (17.32%) Visual Studio
13 20 (15.75%) IIS
13 20 (15.75%) VB
14 19 (14.96%) ASP
14 19 (14.96%) MS Excel
15 17 (13.39%) CMS
15 17 (13.39%) XHTML
15 17 (13.39%) WordPress
15 17 (13.39%) Drupal
15 17 (13.39%) Joomla!

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 41 (32.28%) CSS
1 41 (32.28%) jQuery
2 36 (28.35%) HTML
3 31 (24.41%) .NET
4 25 (19.69%) XML
5 24 (18.90%) Flash
5 24 (18.90%) ASP.NET
6 23 (18.11%) Ajax
7 19 (14.96%) ASP
8 17 (13.39%) XHTML
9 11 (8.661%) JSON
9 11 (8.661%) CodeIgniter
10 6 (4.724%) JMS
10 6 (4.724%) Web Services
10 6 (4.724%) MSMQ
10 6 (4.724%) XSD
11 3 (2.362%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (2.362%) ASP.NET MVC
12 1 (0.787%) HTML5
12 1 (0.787%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 20 (15.75%) IIS
2 17 (13.39%) CMS
2 17 (13.39%) Joomla!
2 17 (13.39%) Drupal
2 17 (13.39%) WordPress
3 6 (4.724%) ESB
Applications
1 24 (18.90%) Photoshop
2 19 (14.96%) MS Excel
3 7 (5.512%) Adobe Illustrator
4 6 (4.724%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (4.724%) Spreadsheet
5 4 (3.150%) Adobe After Effects
5 4 (3.150%) Maya
6 2 (1.575%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.575%) SPSS
7 1 (0.787%) 3ds Max
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.362%) WAN
1 3 (2.362%) FTP
1 3 (2.362%) SNMP
1 3 (2.362%) TCP/IP
1 3 (2.362%) VPN
1 3 (2.362%) Internet
1 3 (2.362%) OSPF
1 3 (2.362%) BGP
1 3 (2.362%) H.323
1 3 (2.362%) Firewall
1 3 (2.362%) Wireless
1 3 (2.362%) WPA
1 3 (2.362%) VLAN
1 3 (2.362%) Cisco PIX
1 3 (2.362%) MRTG
1 3 (2.362%) NetScaler
1 3 (2.362%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (20.47%) SQL Server
2 13 (10.24%) MySQL
3 6 (4.724%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (17.32%) Visual Studio
2 11 (8.661%) Subversion
2 11 (8.661%) Git (software)
3 10 (7.874%) Xcode
4 4 (3.150%) QuickTest Pro
5 3 (2.362%) WinRunner
5 3 (2.362%) Selenium
6 2 (1.575%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.575%) MSBuild
6 2 (1.575%) Ant
General
1 13 (10.24%) Marketing
2 9 (7.087%) Finance
3 3 (2.362%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.787%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 63 (49.61%) Developer
2 27 (21.26%) Web Developer
3 20 (15.75%) .NET Developer
4 19 (14.96%) C# Developer
4 19 (14.96%) ASP.NET Developer
5 18 (14.17%) .NET Web Developer
6 13 (10.24%) C++ Developer
6 13 (10.24%) Programmer
6 13 (10.24%) PHP Developer
6 13 (10.24%) C++/C# Developer
7 11 (8.661%) Analyst
8 10 (7.874%) Games Programmer
9 9 (7.087%) Designer
10 7 (5.512%) Software Developer
10 7 (5.512%) Lead Developer
10 7 (5.512%) Senior Developer
10 7 (5.512%) Senior Web Developer
11 6 (4.724%) Software Architect
11 6 (4.724%) Graduate Software Developer
11 6 (4.724%) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (18.90%) Online Games
2 10 (7.874%) Computer Science
3 9 (7.087%) Animation
3 9 (7.087%) Mathematics
4 6 (4.724%) iPad
5 5 (3.937%) Graphic Design
6 3 (2.362%) SecurID
6 3 (2.362%) Blog
7 2 (1.575%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.787%) Device Driver
8 1 (0.787%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (19.69%) Linux
2 15 (11.81%) Windows
3 10 (7.874%) Android
3 10 (7.874%) Mac OS
3 10 (7.874%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.362%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (18.11%) Web Application Development
2 14 (11.02%) MVC
3 10 (7.874%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (7.874%) Automated Testing
3 10 (7.874%) Game Development
4 8 (6.299%) Software Testing
4 8 (6.299%) Technical Architecture
4 8 (6.299%) Time Management
5 6 (4.724%) Business Development
5 6 (4.724%) SOA
5 6 (4.724%) OO
6 5 (3.937%) TDD
6 5 (3.937%) Test Scripting
6 5 (3.937%) Waterfall
7 4 (3.150%) Web Design
8 3 (2.362%) Business Analysis
8 3 (2.362%) Change Management
8 3 (2.362%) UML
8 3 (2.362%) Network Management
8 3 (2.362%) BPMN
Programming Languages
1 50 (39.37%) C#
2 42 (33.07%) C++
3 41 (32.28%) JavaScript
4 38 (29.92%) SQL
5 37 (29.13%) PHP
6 20 (15.75%) VB
7 12 (9.449%) Java
8 7 (5.512%) Python
9 6 (4.724%) T-SQL
10 5 (3.937%) Perl
10 5 (3.937%) Bash shell
11 2 (1.575%) PowerShell
11 2 (1.575%) RPG
12 1 (0.787%) C
12 1 (0.787%) Embedded C
12 1 (0.787%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.787%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 25 (19.69%) Degree
2 11 (8.661%) ISEB
3 8 (6.299%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.362%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.362%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (2.362%) Cacti
Vendors
1 22 (17.32%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.449%) Perforce
3 10 (7.874%) Google
4 7 (5.512%) Progress
5 5 (3.937%) Adobe
6 4 (3.150%) Cisco
7 3 (2.362%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.362%) Citrix
7 3 (2.362%) Juniper
8 2 (1.575%) Twitter
9 1 (0.787%) Apple
9 1 (0.787%) Autodesk
9 1 (0.787%) QNX
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