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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Gaming
Rank - 249 205
Permanent jobs citing Social Gaming 0 2 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West - 0.028% 0.525%
As % of the Miscellaneous category - 0.107% 2.099%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 35
Average salary - £31,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.16%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £33,750 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-3.70% +12.50%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1973 1877 1715
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 27.67% 26.62% 24.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1670 1557 1488
Average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Social Gaming Salary Trend

Social Gaming
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 2 (100.00%) Games
1 2 (100.00%) Facebook
2 1 (50.00%) Facebook Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Replication
2 1 (50.00%) Interactive TV
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) CakePHP
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Magento
2 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Apache
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) MVC

Social Gaming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) CakePHP
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Magento
1 1 (50.00%) Facebook Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DBA
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server DBA
1 1 (50.00%) SQL DBA
1 1 (50.00%) PHP Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Teradata DBA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Replication
1 1 (50.00%) Interactive TV
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Facebook
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft