The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 21 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 124 89 134
Rank change year-on-year
-35 +45
Permanent jobs citing Games 19 61 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.773% 2.422% 1.032%
As % of the General category 1.627% 5.304% 2.076%
Number of salaries quoted 13 53 31
Average salary £45,000 £44,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.27% -2.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,200 £37,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,200 £63,700 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1168 1150 1638
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 47.52% 45.65% 49.70%
Number of salaries quoted 891 864 1250
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £61,600 £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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Games Salary Histogram

Games
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Watford +6 10 £44,500 +1.13%
St Albans - 5 £45,000 -
Games
East of England

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 75 (58.59%) Finance
1 75 (58.59%) Retail
2 69 (53.91%) UNIX
3 65 (50.78%) Java
4 60 (46.88%) E-Commerce
5 59 (46.09%) DB2
6 55 (42.97%) Oracle
7 53 (41.41%) Linux
8 51 (39.84%) SQL
8 51 (39.84%) IBM
9 49 (38.28%) Windows
9 49 (38.28%) AIX
10 48 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
10 48 (37.50%) WebSphere
11 44 (34.38%) J2EE
12 43 (33.59%) HTTP
13 35 (27.34%) Tomcat
13 35 (27.34%) IIS
13 35 (27.34%) IBM HTTP Server
14 31 (24.22%) Perl
14 31 (24.22%) MQSeries
15 27 (21.09%) MVC
16 24 (18.75%) Web Development
17 23 (17.97%) Management Information System
17 23 (17.97%) Internet
17 23 (17.97%) JavaScript
17 23 (17.97%) HTML
17 23 (17.97%) Jenkins
18 22 (17.19%) .NET
18 22 (17.19%) Sun

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 48 (37.50%) WebSphere
2 44 (34.38%) J2EE
3 23 (17.97%) HTML
4 22 (17.19%) .NET
5 21 (16.41%) CSS
6 18 (14.06%) JDBC
6 18 (14.06%) Middleware
7 15 (11.72%) Web Services
8 12 (9.375%) XML
9 11 (8.594%) Spring
10 10 (7.813%) JSP
10 10 (7.813%) XHTML
10 10 (7.813%) JSTL
11 9 (7.031%) REST
11 9 (7.031%) Spring MVC
11 9 (7.031%) Struts
12 8 (6.250%) Ruby on Rails
13 6 (4.688%) ASP.NET
13 6 (4.688%) Ajax
13 6 (4.688%) SAP BSP
Application Platforms
1 48 (37.50%) WebSphere Application Server
2 35 (27.34%) Tomcat
2 35 (27.34%) IIS
2 35 (27.34%) IBM HTTP Server
3 31 (24.22%) MQSeries
4 19 (14.84%) Apache
5 5 (3.906%) ESB
5 5 (3.906%) CMS
6 3 (2.344%) NetWeaver
7 2 (1.563%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.781%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 9 (7.031%) MS Office
2 8 (6.250%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.781%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.781%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 5 (3.906%) SAP BPC
2 2 (1.563%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 43 (33.59%) HTTP
2 23 (17.97%) Internet
3 16 (12.50%) Firewall
4 9 (7.031%) FTP
5 7 (5.469%) DNS
6 4 (3.125%) HTTPS
6 4 (3.125%) SNMP
6 4 (3.125%) TCP/IP
7 3 (2.344%) SAN
8 1 (0.781%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (46.09%) DB2
2 11 (8.594%) Big Data
3 10 (7.813%) Apache Cassandra
3 10 (7.813%) NoSQL
4 8 (6.250%) SAP BW
5 6 (4.688%) RDBMS
6 3 (2.344%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.344%) MySQL
7 1 (0.781%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.781%) TOAD
7 1 (0.781%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.781%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.781%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 23 (17.97%) Jenkins
2 14 (10.94%) Ant
2 14 (10.94%) Subversion
3 12 (9.375%) Eclipse
4 11 (8.594%) JUnit
5 10 (7.813%) Maven
6 9 (7.031%) Rational Application Developer
6 9 (7.031%) WebSphere Studio Application Developer
7 4 (3.125%) Visual Studio
8 3 (2.344%) Cucumber
8 3 (2.344%) Selenium
8 3 (2.344%) RSpec
9 1 (0.781%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.781%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.781%) NetBeans
General
1 75 (58.59%) Finance
1 75 (58.59%) Retail
2 13 (10.16%) Telecoms
3 10 (7.813%) Advertising
4 9 (7.031%) Online Betting
5 7 (5.469%) Legal
6 5 (3.906%) Publishing
7 4 (3.125%) Marketing
8 2 (1.563%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.563%) Military
8 2 (1.563%) French Language
8 2 (1.563%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.781%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 41 (32.03%) Developer
2 35 (27.34%) Analyst
3 23 (17.97%) Support Analyst
4 21 (16.41%) Architect
5 20 (15.63%) Java Developer
6 13 (10.16%) Infrastructure Architect
7 12 (9.375%) Administrator
8 11 (8.594%) Applications Support
9 10 (7.813%) J2EE Developer
9 10 (7.813%) Java/J2EE Developer
10 9 (7.031%) Technical Delivery Manager
10 9 (7.031%) Senior Architect
10 9 (7.031%) Operations Support Analyst
10 9 (7.031%) Service Manager
10 9 (7.031%) Services Delivery Manager
10 9 (7.031%) Technical Manager
10 9 (7.031%) Operations Analyst
10 9 (7.031%) Delivery Manager
10 9 (7.031%) Technical Services Manager
10 9 (7.031%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 23 (17.97%) Management Information System
2 13 (10.16%) Online Games
3 12 (9.375%) FMCG
4 6 (4.688%) Blackberry
4 6 (4.688%) Spread Betting
4 6 (4.688%) iPhone
5 5 (3.906%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.344%) SaaS
7 2 (1.563%) EPoS
7 2 (1.563%) Visualisation
7 2 (1.563%) Mathematics
8 1 (0.781%) Enterprise Storage
8 1 (0.781%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.781%) GPGPU
8 1 (0.781%) W3C
8 1 (0.781%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 69 (53.91%) UNIX
2 53 (41.41%) Linux
3 49 (38.28%) Windows
3 49 (38.28%) AIX
4 9 (7.031%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 9 (7.031%) SUSE
4 9 (7.031%) Solaris
5 7 (5.469%) Android
6 1 (0.781%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.781%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (46.88%) E-Commerce
2 27 (21.09%) MVC
3 24 (18.75%) Web Development
4 19 (14.84%) Agile Software Development
5 18 (14.06%) Continuous Integration
6 16 (12.50%) Service Delivery
7 15 (11.72%) OO
8 13 (10.16%) TDD
9 12 (9.375%) Information Security
9 12 (9.375%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (8.594%) Content Management
10 11 (8.594%) CRM
10 11 (8.594%) Project Management
11 10 (7.813%) ITIL
12 9 (7.031%) Test Automation
12 9 (7.031%) RAD
13 8 (6.250%) SOA
13 8 (6.250%) Information Management
13 8 (6.250%) Scrum
13 8 (6.250%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 65 (50.78%) Java
2 51 (39.84%) SQL
3 31 (24.22%) Perl
4 23 (17.97%) JavaScript
5 18 (14.06%) Bash shell
6 9 (7.031%) ABAP
6 9 (7.031%) Shell Script
7 8 (6.250%) C#
7 8 (6.250%) Ruby
8 6 (4.688%) VB
8 6 (4.688%) Korn
9 3 (2.344%) Python
9 3 (2.344%) C++
9 3 (2.344%) PHP
10 1 (0.781%) GLSL
10 1 (0.781%) AWK
10 1 (0.781%) VC++
10 1 (0.781%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (9.375%) CISSP
2 9 (7.031%) Sun Certification
3 5 (3.906%) GIAC
4 4 (3.125%) Degree
5 3 (2.344%) CISM
6 2 (1.563%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.563%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.563%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.781%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (9.375%) PCI DSS
1 12 (9.375%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.563%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (3.906%) Nessus
2 4 (3.125%) Netcool
2 4 (3.125%) Netcool/OMNIbus
2 4 (3.125%) Control-M
2 4 (3.125%) Tivoli
3 3 (2.344%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (1.563%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 1 (0.781%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 55 (42.97%) Oracle
2 51 (39.84%) IBM
3 22 (17.19%) Sun
4 18 (14.06%) Microsoft
5 15 (11.72%) Dell
5 15 (11.72%) SAP
6 12 (9.375%) JBoss
7 11 (8.594%) Red Hat
8 10 (7.813%) HP
9 7 (5.469%) Symbian
10 6 (4.688%) Apple
11 4 (3.125%) BMC
12 2 (1.563%) JDA
12 2 (1.563%) hybris
12 2 (1.563%) RedPrairie
13 1 (0.781%) Endeca
13 1 (0.781%) Business Objects
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