The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games 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 General category for the Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 38 62 62
Rank change year-on-year
+24 0
Permanent jobs citing Games 50 5 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 4.985% 0.740% 1.845%
As % of the General category 17.30% 2.174% 5.776%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 15
Average salary £37,500 £21,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+74.41% -42.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,900 £21,500 £25,800
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £47,500 £44,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
289 230 277
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 28.81% 34.02% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 222 202 247
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,850 £27,500 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Games
Oxfordshire

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

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

Oxford Games Salary Histogram

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 35 (54.69%) Degree
2 30 (46.88%) Mathematics
3 25 (39.06%) Computer Science
3 25 (39.06%) C
3 25 (39.06%) C++
4 21 (32.81%) Apache
4 21 (32.81%) Linux
4 21 (32.81%) Game Development
5 20 (31.25%) MySQL
6 19 (29.69%) Online Games
7 18 (28.13%) PHP
8 17 (26.56%) Perforce
9 16 (25.00%) Web Services
9 16 (25.00%) Load Balancing
9 16 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
10 13 (20.31%) Flash
10 13 (20.31%) OOP
11 12 (18.75%) OO
11 12 (18.75%) Perl
11 12 (18.75%) ActionScript
11 12 (18.75%) Java
11 12 (18.75%) C#
11 12 (18.75%) 3D Graphics
11 12 (18.75%) Objective-C
11 12 (18.75%) Physics
11 12 (18.75%) Open Source
11 12 (18.75%) ActionScript 3.0
11 12 (18.75%) Multithreading
12 11 (17.19%) Web Development
12 11 (17.19%) SQL

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 16 (25.00%) Web Services
2 13 (20.31%) Flash
3 5 (7.813%) Ajax
3 5 (7.813%) LAMP
4 1 (1.563%) CSS
4 1 (1.563%) XHTML
4 1 (1.563%) .NET
4 1 (1.563%) Symfony
4 1 (1.563%) jQuery
4 1 (1.563%) HTML5
4 1 (1.563%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 21 (32.81%) Apache
2 16 (25.00%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (4.688%) IIS
4 1 (1.563%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) DNS
2 5 (7.813%) SMTP
3 3 (4.688%) SAN
3 3 (4.688%) Firewall
4 1 (1.563%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (31.25%) MySQL
2 6 (9.375%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (7.813%) Subversion
General
1 8 (12.50%) Publishing
2 6 (9.375%) Marketing
3 5 (7.813%) Legal
Job Titles
1 25 (39.06%) Programmer
2 16 (25.00%) Administrator
2 16 (25.00%) Linux Administrator
2 16 (25.00%) Server Administrator
3 12 (18.75%) Senior Programmer
4 7 (10.94%) Games Programmer
4 7 (10.94%) Senior Games Programmer
5 6 (9.375%) Analyst
5 6 (9.375%) Web Manager
6 5 (7.813%) Development Manager
6 5 (7.813%) Web Development Manager
7 4 (6.250%) Developer
8 3 (4.688%) Web Developer
9 2 (3.125%) Games Designer
9 2 (3.125%) Designer
9 2 (3.125%) Support Engineer
9 2 (3.125%) Lead Designer
10 1 (1.563%) Project Manager
10 1 (1.563%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 1 (1.563%) C++ Developer
Miscellaneous
1 30 (46.88%) Mathematics
2 25 (39.06%) Computer Science
3 19 (29.69%) Online Games
4 12 (18.75%) 3D Graphics
4 12 (18.75%) Physics
4 12 (18.75%) Open Source
5 6 (9.375%) Statistics
5 6 (9.375%) Social Media
5 6 (9.375%) Mobile App
6 3 (4.688%) Mobile Games
7 2 (3.125%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 21 (32.81%) Linux
2 3 (4.688%) Windows
2 3 (4.688%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (3.125%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.125%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.81%) Game Development
2 16 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 13 (20.31%) OOP
4 12 (18.75%) OO
4 12 (18.75%) Multithreading
5 11 (17.19%) Web Development
6 6 (9.375%) SEO
6 6 (9.375%) E-Commerce
6 6 (9.375%) Project Management
6 6 (9.375%) Market Research
6 6 (9.375%) Online Marketing
6 6 (9.375%) Data Analytics
6 6 (9.375%) Analytics
7 5 (7.813%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (7.813%) Data Protection
8 4 (6.250%) Software Engineering
9 3 (4.688%) Network Load Balancing
10 2 (3.125%) Business Development
11 1 (1.563%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 25 (39.06%) C
1 25 (39.06%) C++
2 18 (28.13%) PHP
3 12 (18.75%) Perl
3 12 (18.75%) ActionScript
3 12 (18.75%) Java
3 12 (18.75%) C#
3 12 (18.75%) Objective-C
3 12 (18.75%) ActionScript 3.0
4 11 (17.19%) SQL
5 5 (7.813%) Python
6 1 (1.563%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (54.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.125%) QA
System Software
1 3 (4.688%) Active Directory
1 3 (4.688%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.563%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 5 (7.813%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (26.56%) Perforce
2 6 (9.375%) Google
3 3 (4.688%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.688%) VMware
3 3 (4.688%) Twitter
4 1 (1.563%) Zend
4 1 (1.563%) Facebook
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