The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Gaming in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Social Gaming over the 3 months to 19 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 Miscellaneous category for the London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Gaming
Rank 502 511 626
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +115
Permanent jobs citing Social Gaming 105 134 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.237% 0.252% 0.038%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.591% 0.634% 0.091%
Number of salaries quoted 97 131 22
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -13.63%
UK excluding London average salary £34,250 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
-2.14% +9.37%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
17778 21141 25211
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 40.17% 39.74% 42.10%
Number of salaries quoted 14665 18149 20977
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £90,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Social Gaming
England

Social Gaming
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Social Gaming across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

London Social Gaming Jobs Demand Trend

Social Gaming
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Social Gaming across the London region.

London Social Gaming Salary Trend

Social Gaming
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Social Gaming across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Social Gaming Salary Histogram

Social Gaming
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Gaming within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +33 43 £50,000 -16.31% 4
Social Gaming
England

Social Gaming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Social Gaming 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 Social Gaming.

1 212 (100.00%) Games
2 84 (39.62%) Java
2 84 (39.62%) JavaScript
3 64 (30.19%) Apple iOS
4 60 (28.30%) CSS
5 58 (27.36%) Android
6 57 (26.89%) HTML
6 57 (26.89%) C++
7 49 (23.11%) OO
7 49 (23.11%) Facebook
8 47 (22.17%) Game Development
9 42 (19.81%) Social Network
10 41 (19.34%) Linux
11 37 (17.45%) ActionScript
11 37 (17.45%) Git (software)
11 37 (17.45%) HTML5
12 35 (16.51%) HTTP
12 35 (16.51%) Scrum
13 33 (15.57%) E-Commerce
14 32 (15.09%) Photoshop
15 31 (14.62%) Degree
15 31 (14.62%) Computer Science
16 30 (14.15%) Online Games
17 29 (13.68%) Agile Software Development
18 28 (13.21%) Objective-C
18 28 (13.21%) OpenGL
19 25 (11.79%) Google
19 25 (11.79%) CSS3
19 25 (11.79%) Mobile App
20 24 (11.32%) Continuous Integration

Social Gaming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Social Gaming 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 Social Gaming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 60 (28.30%) CSS
2 57 (26.89%) HTML
3 37 (17.45%) HTML5
4 28 (13.21%) OpenGL
5 25 (11.79%) CSS3
6 21 (9.906%) Web Services
7 20 (9.434%) JSON
7 20 (9.434%) jQuery
8 18 (8.491%) REST
9 17 (8.019%) Flash
10 16 (7.547%) XML
10 16 (7.547%) Spring
10 16 (7.547%) iOS SDK
11 15 (7.075%) Google Maps API
11 15 (7.075%) J2EE
12 12 (5.660%) Ajax
13 11 (5.189%) JSP
14 10 (4.717%) JMS
15 9 (4.245%) J2ME
16 8 (3.774%) YUI
Application Platforms
1 17 (8.019%) Amazon AWS
2 12 (5.660%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (1.887%) Apache
4 3 (1.415%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.943%) Jetty
6 1 (0.472%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 32 (15.09%) Photoshop
2 11 (5.189%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (2.358%) InDesign
4 4 (1.887%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (1.415%) Maya
Communications & Networking
1 35 (16.51%) HTTP
2 9 (4.245%) AMQP
3 7 (3.302%) DNS
4 5 (2.358%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.415%) SSL
5 3 (1.415%) Internet
5 3 (1.415%) Ethernet
5 3 (1.415%) SMTP
6 1 (0.472%) Wireless
6 1 (0.472%) LAN
6 1 (0.472%) WAN
6 1 (0.472%) DHCP
6 1 (0.472%) VPN
6 1 (0.472%) ICMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (7.547%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.302%) MongoDB
3 6 (2.830%) RDBMS
4 4 (1.887%) OLTP
5 3 (1.415%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.943%) MySQL
6 2 (0.943%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.472%) BigTable
7 1 (0.472%) HBase
7 1 (0.472%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.472%) Mahout
7 1 (0.472%) QlikView
7 1 (0.472%) SQLite
7 1 (0.472%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.472%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.472%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.472%) Apache Hive
Development Applications
1 37 (17.45%) Git (software)
2 21 (9.906%) Maven
3 18 (8.491%) Subversion
4 15 (7.075%) JUnit
5 10 (4.717%) TestNG
6 5 (2.358%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.887%) Eclipse
7 4 (1.887%) Selenium
7 4 (1.887%) PhoneGap
8 3 (1.415%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.472%) GitHub
9 1 (0.472%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.472%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.472%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.472%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.472%) Hudson
9 1 (0.472%) Ant
9 1 (0.472%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 212 (100.00%) Games
2 12 (5.660%) Finance
3 6 (2.830%) Marketing
4 2 (0.943%) Retail
4 2 (0.943%) Publishing
5 1 (0.472%) Legal
5 1 (0.472%) Advertising
5 1 (0.472%) Telecoms
5 1 (0.472%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 126 (59.43%) Developer
2 30 (14.15%) Designer
3 28 (13.21%) Games Developer
4 27 (12.74%) Front-End Developer
5 22 (10.38%) Software Engineer
6 21 (9.906%) iOS Developer
7 20 (9.434%) C++ Developer
8 15 (7.075%) C++ Games Developer
8 15 (7.075%) Programmer
9 14 (6.604%) User Experience Designer
10 13 (6.132%) Senior Developer
10 13 (6.132%) Java Developer
11 11 (5.189%) Graduate
11 11 (5.189%) Junior
11 11 (5.189%) Graduate Developer
12 10 (4.717%) Junior Developer
13 9 (4.245%) Mobile Software Engineer
14 8 (3.774%) Lead Developer
15 7 (3.302%) Flash Developer
16 6 (2.830%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.81%) Social Network
2 31 (14.62%) Computer Science
3 30 (14.15%) Online Games
4 25 (11.79%) Mobile App
5 24 (11.32%) Social Media
6 22 (10.38%) Mobile Games
6 22 (10.38%) iPad
7 20 (9.434%) iPhone
8 12 (5.660%) Augmented Reality
9 11 (5.189%) Open Source
9 11 (5.189%) Blackberry
10 10 (4.717%) Mathematics
11 6 (2.830%) Animation
11 6 (2.830%) Blog
12 5 (2.358%) N-Tier
13 4 (1.887%) Statistics
14 3 (1.415%) Online Gambling
14 3 (1.415%) Physics
15 2 (0.943%) Cloud Computing
15 2 (0.943%) Flash Games
Operating Systems
1 64 (30.19%) Apple iOS
2 58 (27.36%) Android
3 41 (19.34%) Linux
4 6 (2.830%) UNIX
5 3 (1.415%) CentOS
5 3 (1.415%) Mac OS X Server
5 3 (1.415%) Windows
6 2 (0.943%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (23.11%) OO
2 47 (22.17%) Game Development
3 35 (16.51%) Scrum
4 33 (15.57%) E-Commerce
5 29 (13.68%) Agile Software Development
6 24 (11.32%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (10.85%) TDD
8 18 (8.491%) Web Development
8 18 (8.491%) Automated Testing
9 16 (7.547%) Unit Testing
9 16 (7.547%) Analytics
10 12 (5.660%) OOP
11 11 (5.189%) Memory Management
12 10 (4.717%) Workflow
13 8 (3.774%) SOA
13 8 (3.774%) MVC
13 8 (3.774%) Multithreading
13 8 (3.774%) Event-Driven Architecture
14 7 (3.302%) Mobile Application Development
14 7 (3.302%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 84 (39.62%) Java
1 84 (39.62%) JavaScript
2 57 (26.89%) C++
3 37 (17.45%) ActionScript
4 28 (13.21%) Objective-C
5 23 (10.85%) ActionScript 3.0
6 14 (6.604%) C
7 13 (6.132%) SQL
8 11 (5.189%) PHP
9 10 (4.717%) Scala
10 9 (4.245%) C#
10 9 (4.245%) Python
11 8 (3.774%) Bash shell
12 7 (3.302%) Erlang
13 6 (2.830%) AspectJ
14 5 (2.358%) Perl
15 4 (1.887%) Ruby
16 3 (1.415%) Lua
17 1 (0.472%) Haskell
17 1 (0.472%) MAXScript
Qualifications
1 31 (14.62%) Degree
2 1 (0.472%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (9.906%) QA
System Software
1 6 (2.830%) Xen
2 1 (0.472%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (1.415%) Puppet
1 3 (1.415%) Nagios
Vendors
1 49 (23.11%) Facebook
2 25 (11.79%) Google
3 17 (8.019%) Twitter
4 15 (7.075%) Adobe
5 7 (3.302%) Sony
6 6 (2.830%) Apple
7 3 (1.415%) Brocade
7 3 (1.415%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.415%) Cisco
7 3 (1.415%) Juniper
8 1 (0.472%) Terracotta
8 1 (0.472%) Bloomberg
London
Job Role: Java DeveloperLocation: London, CentralSalary: £55k to £70k + bonus + benefitsJava Developer / Java Software Engineer x 2 (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Java, Agile, Scrum). Global leader in online social...
Client Server
Salary: £55k to £70k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Central London / West End
Global leader in social gaming is a skilled C++ Developer with games development experience... The games are developed using C++ for mobile based games and ActionScript3 / Flash for...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £60k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Global leader in social gaming is a skilled C++ Developer with games development experience... The games are developed using C++ for mobile based games and ActionScript3 / Flash for...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £60k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Global leader in online social gaming is seeking passionate backend Java Developers with a genuine love of technology to join their team in their fabulous Central London office.....
Client Server
Salary: £50k to £65k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
City, London
Over the last year or so we have seen two explosive growth areas in the IT market; social gaming and mobile application development... They are seeking ambitious C++...
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + bonus, stock options, benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £55600 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
bridgenoble
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
London
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Salary: £35000.00 - £70000.00 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
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