The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Game Development 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Games Development
Rank 68 - 70
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 19 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 1.839% - 0.750%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.544% - 1.083%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 3
Average salary £32,500 - £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +14.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
747 435 554
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 72.31% 68.61% 69.25%
Number of salaries quoted 631 386 499
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Game Development
Oxfordshire

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Game Development across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Oxford Game Development Jobs Demand Trend

Game Development
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Game Development across the Oxford region.

Oxford Game Development Salary Trend

Game Development
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing Game Development 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 Game Development.

1 20 (100.00%) Games
2 17 (85.00%) Degree
3 14 (70.00%) MySQL
4 12 (60.00%) C
4 12 (60.00%) C#
4 12 (60.00%) C++
4 12 (60.00%) Perl
4 12 (60.00%) PHP
4 12 (60.00%) Mathematics
4 12 (60.00%) Physics
4 12 (60.00%) Computer Science
4 12 (60.00%) Multithreading
5 8 (40.00%) Publishing
6 6 (30.00%) Google
6 6 (30.00%) Marketing
6 6 (30.00%) Web Development
6 6 (30.00%) SEO
6 6 (30.00%) E-Commerce
6 6 (30.00%) Project Management
6 6 (30.00%) Online Marketing
6 6 (30.00%) Social Media
7 5 (25.00%) Data Protection
7 5 (25.00%) Legal
8 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
8 2 (10.00%) Online Games
8 2 (10.00%) Web Services
8 2 (10.00%) Linux
8 2 (10.00%) Apache
8 2 (10.00%) Amazon AWS

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing Game Development 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 Game Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) Apache
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (70.00%) MySQL
General
1 20 (100.00%) Games
2 8 (40.00%) Publishing
3 6 (30.00%) Marketing
4 5 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (60.00%) Programmer
1 12 (60.00%) Senior Programmer
2 7 (35.00%) Games Programmer
2 7 (35.00%) Senior Games Programmer
3 6 (30.00%) Web Manager
4 5 (25.00%) Development Manager
4 5 (25.00%) Web Development Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Server Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (10.00%) Administrator
6 1 (5.000%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Web Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Mathematics
1 12 (60.00%) Physics
1 12 (60.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (30.00%) Social Media
3 2 (10.00%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Multithreading
2 6 (30.00%) Web Development
2 6 (30.00%) SEO
2 6 (30.00%) E-Commerce
2 6 (30.00%) Project Management
2 6 (30.00%) Online Marketing
3 5 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) C
1 12 (60.00%) C#
1 12 (60.00%) C++
1 12 (60.00%) Perl
1 12 (60.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (85.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Google