The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Gaming
Rank 154 149 155
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +6
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 3 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.096% 0.145% 0.029%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.327% 0.557% 0.111%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 1
Average salary £42,000 £36,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -4.00%
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-16.25% +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
917 897 900
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 29.30% 26.08% 26.18%
Number of salaries quoted 525 625 633
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Online Games
UK

Online Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh -2 2 £42,000 +16.66%
Online Games
UK

Online Games
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Games
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
2 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Physics
2 2 (66.67%) OO
2 2 (66.67%) PhD
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Haskell
3 1 (33.33%) Erlang
3 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) OCaml
3 1 (33.33%) F#
3 1 (33.33%) Clojure
3 1 (33.33%) BDD

Online Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
1 1 (33.33%) Spring
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
General
1 3 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Scala Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Java Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Hedge funds
2 2 (66.67%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Scala
2 2 (66.67%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Clojure
3 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (33.33%) Haskell
3 1 (33.33%) Erlang
3 1 (33.33%) OCaml
3 1 (33.33%) F#
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) PhD
2 1 (33.33%) Degree