The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the Stevenage region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 17 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 General category for the Stevenage region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank - 23 -
Permanent jobs citing Games 0 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage - 7.576% -
As % of the General category - 22.22% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 10 0
Average salary - £50,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
Stevenage
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
88 45 76
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stevenage 51.76% 34.09% 32.07%
Number of salaries quoted 24 37 75
Average salary £41,250 £59,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.08% +68.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £40,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,750 £50,000 £64,500
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
Games
Hertfordshire

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stevenage 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 Stevenage region.

Stevenage Games Salary Trend

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) OpenGL
2 2 (66.67%) DirectX
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Military
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) French Language
2 2 (66.67%) Italian Language
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
3 1 (33.33%) RSpec
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (33.33%) CakePHP
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Internet
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) OO

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Stevenage 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 (66.67%) OpenGL
1 2 (66.67%) DirectX
2 1 (33.33%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (33.33%) CakePHP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
1 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) RSpec
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (66.67%) Military
1 2 (66.67%) French Language
1 2 (66.67%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) C++
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared