The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT jobs advertised for the Runcorn region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Game Development over the 3 months to 21 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 Runcorn region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Games Development
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £27,500 £40,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-31.25% +23.07%
All Processes & Methodologies
Runcorn
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
20 41 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn 95.24% 83.67% 63.64%
Number of salaries quoted 18 37 13
Average salary £29,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-34.44% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £30,000 £28,225
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £65,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Game Development
Cheshire

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Runcorn 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 Runcorn region.

Runcorn Game Development Salary Trend

Game Development
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Games
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce
1 1 (100.00%) Maya
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) Lua
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Maya
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Programmer
1 1 (100.00%) Tools Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Lua
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce