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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Games 2 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn 9.524% - -
As % of the General category 16.67% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Runcorn
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
12 11 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Runcorn 57.14% 22.45% 9.091%
Number of salaries quoted 10 10 0
Average salary £35,000 £36,250 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.44% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
Cheshire

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Runcorn 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 Runcorn region.

Runcorn Games Salary Trend

Games
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 4 (100.00%) C++
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Perforce
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Twitter
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (50.00%) Lua
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (50.00%) Maya
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Assembly Language
2 2 (50.00%) COM
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
3 1 (25.00%) Sony
3 1 (25.00%) Game Development
3 1 (25.00%) QA

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Runcorn 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 2 (50.00%) COM
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Maya
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Programmer
1 4 (100.00%) C++ Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) Tools Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) C++ Games Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) C# Programmer
2 2 (50.00%) Games Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (50.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Resource Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C++
2 2 (50.00%) Lua
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Assembly Language
2 2 (50.00%) Python
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) PHP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Perforce
2 2 (50.00%) Twitter
3 1 (25.00%) Sony