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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Gaming
Rank 104 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 18 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.982% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.647% - -
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-16.25% +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
680 423 484
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 37.10% 28.74% 29.88%
Number of salaries quoted 585 365 444
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +8.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,600 £25,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Online Games
South East

Online Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire Online Games Jobs Demand Trend

Online Games
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Online Games across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Online Games Salary Trend

Online Games
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Online Games within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Oxford - 17 £32,500 -
Online Games
South East

Online Games
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Online 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 Online Games.

1 18 (100.00%) Games
2 17 (94.44%) Web Services
2 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 17 (94.44%) Apache
2 17 (94.44%) Load Balancing
2 17 (94.44%) Amazon AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Publishing
3 3 (16.67%) Game Development
4 2 (11.11%) MySQL
5 1 (5.556%) IIS
5 1 (5.556%) Windows
5 1 (5.556%) Firewall
5 1 (5.556%) VMware
5 1 (5.556%) DNS
5 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
5 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.556%) SAN
5 1 (5.556%) Terminal Services
5 1 (5.556%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering

Online Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Online 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 Online Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (94.44%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 17 (94.44%) Apache
1 17 (94.44%) Amazon AWS
2 1 (5.556%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) DNS
1 1 (5.556%) SAN
1 1 (5.556%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) MySQL
General
1 18 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Administrator
1 17 (94.44%) Server Administrator
1 17 (94.44%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (5.556%) IT Support
2 1 (5.556%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 17 (94.44%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.556%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (94.44%) Load Balancing
2 3 (16.67%) Game Development
3 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
3 1 (5.556%) Network Load Balancing
System Software
1 1 (5.556%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.556%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.556%) VMware