South Wales Games Jobs

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term 'Games' in IT jobs within the South Wales region together with a comparison to our General terms category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aldershot Ashton-under-Lyne Aylesbury Banbury Barking Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Brentford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Cranleigh Crawley Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Hull Ipswich Isle of Man Kenilworth Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Maidenhead Malton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Reigate Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swindon Tayside Thame Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	82	94
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching permanent IT job ads	15	7
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.622 %	0.692 %
Salaries quoted	14	7
Average minimum salary	£26,500	£32,857
Average salary	£31,179	£38,571
% change on same period last year	-19.16 %
Average maximum salary	£35,857	£44,286
UK excluding London average salary	£36,876	£36,250
% change on same period last year	+1.72 %
General South Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	572	1012
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.318 %	0.426 %
Salaries quoted	524	928
Average minimum salary	£33,514	£32,298
Average salary	£37,691	£36,535
% change on same period last year	+3.16 %
Average maximum salary	£41,868	£40,773
UK excluding London average salary	£41,142	£41,949
% change on same period last year	-1.92 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Games across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Games across the South Wales region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the South Wales region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Games within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cardiff	+12	11	£32,818	-3.47 %
Newport	-	2	£24,750	-
Bridgend	-	1	£26,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 17 (65.38 %) C++ 2 16 (61.54 %) OpenGL 3 13 (50.00 %) DirectX 4 12 (46.15 %) DTV 5 8 (30.77 %) Internet 5 8 (30.77 %) Visual Studio 5 8 (30.77 %) VoIP 5 8 (30.77 %) Quicktime 6 6 (23.08 %) Degree 7 5 (19.23 %) Linux 8 4 (15.38 %) ActiveX 8 4 (15.38 %) MPEG 8 4 (15.38 %) Education 8 4 (15.38 %) Mobile Games 8 4 (15.38 %) Streaming Video

8 4 (15.38 %) Multimedia 9 3 (11.54 %) Ubuntu 9 3 (11.54 %) Lua 9 3 (11.54 %) CentOS 9 3 (11.54 %) Red Hat Linux 9 3 (11.54 %) SUSE 9 3 (11.54 %) Samba 9 3 (11.54 %) Debian 9 3 (11.54 %) Cocoa 9 3 (11.54 %) Xcode 9 3 (11.54 %) Fedora 9 3 (11.54 %) Lisp 9 3 (11.54 %) Red Hat 9 3 (11.54 %) Mac OS X 9 3 (11.54 %) Firewall

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 16 (61.54 %) OpenGL 2 13 (50.00 %) DirectX 3 4 (15.38 %) ActiveX 4 3 (11.54 %) Cocoa	Application Platforms 1 3 (11.54 %) Apache
Applications 1 8 (30.77 %) Quicktime	Communications & Networking 1 8 (30.77 %) VoIP 1 8 (30.77 %) Internet 2 3 (11.54 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.846 %) Broadband
Development Applications 1 8 (30.77 %) Visual Studio 2 3 (11.54 %) Xcode 3 1 (3.846 %) TestDirector	General 1 4 (15.38 %) Education 1 4 (15.38 %) Mobile Games 1 4 (15.38 %) Multimedia 2 1 (3.846 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 18 (69.23 %) Developer 2 13 (50.00 %) Software Engineer 3 12 (46.15 %) C++ Developer 4 11 (42.31 %) C++ Software Engineer 5 9 (34.62 %) Software Developer 6 7 (26.92 %) C++ Software Developer 7 4 (15.38 %) Software Programmer 7 4 (15.38 %) Programmer 7 4 (15.38 %) C++ Programmer 8 3 (11.54 %) Systems Administrator 8 3 (11.54 %) Administrator 8 3 (11.54 %) Linux Administrator 8 3 (11.54 %) Linux Systems Administrator 9 2 (7.692 %) Games Developer 10 1 (3.846 %) Software Tester 10 1 (3.846 %) Tester 10 1 (3.846 %) Graduate 10 1 (3.846 %) Test Specialist 10 1 (3.846 %) Senior Software Engineer 10 1 (3.846 %) Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 12 (46.15 %) DTV 2 4 (15.38 %) Streaming Video 2 4 (15.38 %) MPEG
Operating Systems 1 5 (19.23 %) Linux 2 3 (11.54 %) Mac OS X 2 3 (11.54 %) SUSE 2 3 (11.54 %) Debian 2 3 (11.54 %) Fedora 2 3 (11.54 %) Ubuntu 2 3 (11.54 %) CentOS 2 3 (11.54 %) Red Hat Linux 2 3 (11.54 %) UNIX 3 2 (7.692 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (3.846 %) Software Testing 1 1 (3.846 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 17 (65.38 %) C++ 2 3 (11.54 %) Java 2 3 (11.54 %) Lisp 2 3 (11.54 %) Shell Script 2 3 (11.54 %) Lua 3 2 (7.692 %) C 4 1 (3.846 %) SQL 4 1 (3.846 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 6 (23.08 %) Degree 2 2 (7.692 %) ISEB
System Software 1 3 (11.54 %) Samba	Vendors 1 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 1 3 (11.54 %) Red Hat