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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Gaming
Rank 406 427 400
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -27
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 28 21 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.127% 0.088% 0.160%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.411% 0.293% 0.543%
Number of salaries quoted 16 15 38
Average salary £35,000 £46,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.91% +5.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £24,000 £29,350
10% offered a salary of more than £41,250 £47,300 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +4.16%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
6807 7175 6996
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 30.86% 30.02% 29.39%
Number of salaries quoted 5650 6109 6115
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,250 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Online Games
England

Online Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Online Games Salary Trend

Online Games
Salary Histogram

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

South East Online Games Salary Histogram

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 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oxfordshire - 17 £37,500 -
Surrey +13 8 £35,000 -23.91% 1
Berkshire +14 1 £45,000 +35.33% 2
East Sussex - 1 £37,500 - 1
Hampshire - 1 £42,500 -
Online Games
England

Online Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 52 (100.00%) Games
2 29 (55.77%) .NET
3 28 (53.85%) C#
4 27 (51.92%) HTML
4 27 (51.92%) JavaScript
4 27 (51.92%) ASP.NET
4 27 (51.92%) CSS
5 26 (50.00%) SQL
5 26 (50.00%) Microsoft
5 26 (50.00%) jQuery
6 25 (48.08%) Web Application Development
6 25 (48.08%) IIS
6 25 (48.08%) Ajax
7 22 (42.31%) Visual Studio
8 20 (38.46%) PHP
8 20 (38.46%) Linux
9 19 (36.54%) MS Excel
9 19 (36.54%) ASP
9 19 (36.54%) SQL Server
10 18 (34.62%) VB
11 17 (32.69%) Web Services
11 17 (32.69%) Apache
11 17 (32.69%) Amazon AWS
11 17 (32.69%) Load Balancing
12 5 (9.615%) Blog
13 4 (7.692%) MVC
14 3 (5.769%) Firewall
14 3 (5.769%) Shell Script
14 3 (5.769%) VMware
14 3 (5.769%) Publishing

Online Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 29 (55.77%) .NET
2 27 (51.92%) HTML
2 27 (51.92%) ASP.NET
2 27 (51.92%) CSS
3 26 (50.00%) jQuery
4 25 (48.08%) Ajax
5 19 (36.54%) ASP
6 17 (32.69%) Web Services
7 3 (5.769%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.923%) XML
8 1 (1.923%) COM
8 1 (1.923%) WCF
8 1 (1.923%) HTML5
8 1 (1.923%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 25 (48.08%) IIS
2 17 (32.69%) Apache
2 17 (32.69%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 19 (36.54%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.769%) Firewall
1 3 (5.769%) DNS
1 3 (5.769%) SAN
2 2 (3.846%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (36.54%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.846%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (42.31%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.923%) NUnit
2 1 (1.923%) JIRA
2 1 (1.923%) Selenium
General
1 52 (100.00%) Games
2 3 (5.769%) Publishing
3 1 (1.923%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (53.85%) Developer
2 23 (44.23%) .NET Developer
3 21 (40.38%) ASP.NET Developer
4 20 (38.46%) Linux Administrator
4 20 (38.46%) Administrator
5 19 (36.54%) Web Developer
6 18 (34.62%) .NET Web Developer
7 17 (32.69%) Server Administrator
8 7 (13.46%) C# Developer
9 6 (11.54%) C# Web Developer
9 6 (11.54%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (11.54%) C# .NET Developer
10 3 (5.769%) Junior
10 3 (5.769%) Systems Support
10 3 (5.769%) 3rd Line Support
10 3 (5.769%) Junior Developer
10 3 (5.769%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 3 (5.769%) Systems Administrator
10 3 (5.769%) Linux Support
11 2 (3.846%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.615%) Blog
2 1 (1.923%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.923%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (38.46%) Linux
2 3 (5.769%) Windows
2 3 (5.769%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (5.769%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (48.08%) Web Application Development
2 17 (32.69%) Load Balancing
3 4 (7.692%) MVC
4 3 (5.769%) Network Load Balancing
4 3 (5.769%) Software Engineering
4 3 (5.769%) Game Development
5 2 (3.846%) Web Development
5 2 (3.846%) E-Commerce
6 1 (1.923%) Scrum
6 1 (1.923%) Automated Testing
6 1 (1.923%) Software Testing
6 1 (1.923%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (1.923%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (1.923%) TDD
6 1 (1.923%) UML
6 1 (1.923%) OO
6 1 (1.923%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 28 (53.85%) C#
2 27 (51.92%) JavaScript
3 26 (50.00%) SQL
4 20 (38.46%) PHP
5 18 (34.62%) VB
6 3 (5.769%) Shell Script
6 3 (5.769%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (1.923%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.769%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.769%) Terminal Services
2 1 (1.923%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.769%) VMware
2 3 (5.769%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.923%) Sun
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Salary: Negotiable
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Salary: £23-25,000 + Bens
Posted: 12 June 2013
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Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum
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