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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 76 68 93
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +25
Permanent jobs citing Games 11 4 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.951% 0.558% 0.847%
As % of the General category 2.011% 1.370% 2.387%
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 9
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £21,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +86.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £40,000 £19,988
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
547 292 377
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 47.28% 40.73% 35.47%
Number of salaries quoted 461 257 334
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £57,500 £51,200
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
South East

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

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

Kent Games Salary Histogram

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 9 (75.00%) Marketing
2 6 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
2 6 (50.00%) Social Gaming
2 6 (50.00%) Facebook
2 6 (50.00%) Twitter
2 6 (50.00%) Social Media
2 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (50.00%) CRM
2 6 (50.00%) PhD
2 6 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
2 6 (50.00%) Advertising
2 6 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (33.33%) Internet
3 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 3 (25.00%) MTS
4 3 (25.00%) MSMQ
4 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (25.00%) COM
4 3 (25.00%) CSS
4 3 (25.00%) C#
4 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
4 3 (25.00%) MVC
4 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (25.00%) Retail
4 3 (25.00%) Memcached

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 6 (50.00%) .NET
2 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (25.00%) COM
2 3 (25.00%) CSS
2 3 (25.00%) Memcached
2 3 (25.00%) HTML5
2 3 (25.00%) Esper
2 3 (25.00%) LINQ
2 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (25.00%) AppFabric
2 3 (25.00%) LINQ to SQL
2 3 (25.00%) Task Parallel Library
Application Platforms
1 3 (25.00%) MTS
1 3 (25.00%) MSMQ
1 3 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.333%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (25.00%) Big Data
2 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
2 3 (25.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (25.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (25.00%) StreamInsight
2 3 (25.00%) Redis
2 3 (25.00%) Hadoop
General
1 9 (75.00%) Marketing
2 6 (50.00%) Advertising
3 3 (25.00%) Retail
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (8.333%) Law
5 1 (8.333%) Legal
5 1 (8.333%) Financial Institution
5 1 (8.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Product Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Product Manager
2 3 (25.00%) Front-End Developer
3 1 (8.333%) Designer
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Computing
1 6 (50.00%) Social Gaming
1 6 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (8.333%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) UNIX
1 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CRM
1 6 (50.00%) Scrum
2 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 3 (25.00%) MVC
3 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (25.00%) Kanban
3 3 (25.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
1 3 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (8.333%) Lua
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) PhD
2 1 (8.333%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) SLA
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Facebook
1 6 (50.00%) Twitter
1 6 (50.00%) Salesforce.com
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.333%) Apple