The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT jobs advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Game Development 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South East region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Games Development
Rank 413 420 423
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 21 28 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.095% 0.117% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.132% 0.160% 0.089%
Number of salaries quoted 8 27 12
Average salary £30,250 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.37% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,100 £27,500 £30,150
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £31,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-22.50% +14.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
15889 17498 16770
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 72.03% 73.22% 70.46%
Number of salaries quoted 12990 14918 14408
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Game Development
England

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Game Development Salary Trend

Game Development
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Game Development across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East Game Development Salary Histogram

Game Development
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Game Development within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Oxfordshire -5 16 £32,500 +18.18%
Hampshire - 3 £25,000 -
Surrey -1 2 £26,500 -35.75% 1
Game Development
England

Game Development
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 59 (100.00%) Games
2 29 (49.15%) C++
3 25 (42.37%) Degree
4 21 (35.59%) MySQL
5 19 (32.20%) PHP
5 19 (32.20%) Computer Science
6 17 (28.81%) C
7 16 (27.12%) Perl
8 14 (23.73%) C#
8 14 (23.73%) Publishing
8 14 (23.73%) Web Development
9 12 (20.34%) Mathematics
9 12 (20.34%) Physics
9 12 (20.34%) Multithreading
9 12 (20.34%) Linux
10 10 (16.95%) Social Media
10 10 (16.95%) Marketing
11 9 (15.25%) Animation
11 9 (15.25%) Python
12 8 (13.56%) E-Commerce
12 8 (13.56%) Java
12 8 (13.56%) Flash
12 8 (13.56%) Project Management
12 8 (13.56%) SEO
12 8 (13.56%) Google
12 8 (13.56%) Online Marketing
13 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
14 6 (10.17%) Legal
14 6 (10.17%) Lua
14 6 (10.17%) Data Protection

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 8 (13.56%) Flash
2 4 (6.780%) HTML5
3 3 (5.085%) Web Services
4 2 (3.390%) cocos2d
5 1 (1.695%) XNA
5 1 (1.695%) Symfony
5 1 (1.695%) jQuery
5 1 (1.695%) LAMP
5 1 (1.695%) XHTML
5 1 (1.695%) HTML
5 1 (1.695%) .NET
5 1 (1.695%) J2EE
5 1 (1.695%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.085%) Amazon AWS
1 3 (5.085%) Apache
2 2 (3.390%) CMS
3 1 (1.695%) Drupal
3 1 (1.695%) WordPress
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Spreadsheet
2 4 (6.780%) Photoshop
2 4 (6.780%) Maya
2 4 (6.780%) Adobe Illustrator
2 4 (6.780%) Adobe After Effects
3 1 (1.695%) 3ds Max
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.780%) Internet
2 1 (1.695%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (35.59%) MySQL
2 4 (6.780%) OLTP
2 4 (6.780%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (1.695%) Xcode
1 1 (1.695%) Eclipse
General
1 59 (100.00%) Games
2 14 (23.73%) Publishing
3 10 (16.95%) Marketing
4 6 (10.17%) Legal
5 1 (1.695%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 18 (30.51%) Programmer
2 13 (22.03%) Senior Programmer
3 11 (18.64%) Developer
4 10 (16.95%) Games Programmer
5 8 (13.56%) Senior Games Programmer
5 8 (13.56%) Web Manager
5 8 (13.56%) C++ Developer
6 7 (11.86%) Administrator
7 6 (10.17%) Development Manager
7 6 (10.17%) Technical Designer
7 6 (10.17%) Web Development Manager
7 6 (10.17%) Designer
8 5 (8.475%) Games Developer
8 5 (8.475%) Graduate
9 4 (6.780%) DBA
9 4 (6.780%) Author
9 4 (6.780%) MySQL DBA
9 4 (6.780%) Database Engineer
10 3 (5.085%) C++ Programmer
10 3 (5.085%) C++ Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (32.20%) Computer Science
2 12 (20.34%) Mathematics
2 12 (20.34%) Physics
3 10 (16.95%) Social Media
4 9 (15.25%) Animation
5 6 (10.17%) iPad
5 6 (10.17%) Open Source
6 4 (6.780%) Replication
6 4 (6.780%) Graphic Design
6 4 (6.780%) Statistics
7 3 (5.085%) Online Games
7 3 (5.085%) Mobile Games
8 2 (3.390%) Psychology
8 2 (3.390%) Social Gaming
9 1 (1.695%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (1.695%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.34%) Linux
2 6 (10.17%) Android
2 6 (10.17%) Apple iOS
3 5 (8.475%) Mac OS X
3 5 (8.475%) Windows
4 4 (6.780%) Solaris
4 4 (6.780%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (23.73%) Web Development
2 12 (20.34%) Multithreading
3 8 (13.56%) E-Commerce
3 8 (13.56%) Project Management
3 8 (13.56%) SEO
3 8 (13.56%) Online Marketing
4 7 (11.86%) Software Engineering
5 6 (10.17%) Data Protection
5 6 (10.17%) Analytics
6 5 (8.475%) Web Application Development
7 4 (6.780%) ITIL
7 4 (6.780%) Web Design
7 4 (6.780%) Change Management
7 4 (6.780%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (6.780%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (6.780%) Load Testing
8 3 (5.085%) Load Balancing
9 2 (3.390%) OOP
9 2 (3.390%) Data Analysis
10 1 (1.695%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 29 (49.15%) C++
2 19 (32.20%) PHP
3 17 (28.81%) C
4 16 (27.12%) Perl
5 14 (23.73%) C#
6 9 (15.25%) Python
7 8 (13.56%) Java
8 6 (10.17%) Lua
9 3 (5.085%) ActionScript
9 3 (5.085%) JavaScript
10 2 (3.390%) ActionScript 3.0
10 2 (3.390%) Objective-C
11 1 (1.695%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (42.37%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (13.56%) Google
2 4 (6.780%) Adobe
2 4 (6.780%) Facebook
3 2 (3.390%) Perforce
3 2 (3.390%) Tableau
4 1 (1.695%) Zend
4 1 (1.695%) Twitter
4 1 (1.695%) Apple
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