The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our General category.

Gaming
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank112156148
Rank change year-on-year
Up+44Down-8
Matching permanent IT job ads275519731549
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.285 %1.609 %1.622 %
As % of the General category5.076 %3.326 %3.328 %
Number of salaries quoted251416411341
Average salary£45,000£40,000£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50 %-11.11 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£67,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %+7.69 %
IT Job Market, General CategoryAll General Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
542715931346540
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK45.01 %48.37 %48.74 %
Number of salaries quoted456244848337646
Average salary£50,000£52,500£52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£80,000£85,000£85,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£41,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.65 %+2.50 %

Games
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Games within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the General category.

Games Demand Trend

Games
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Games within the UK.

Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Games Salary Histogram

Games
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+432673£45,000+5.88 %
LondonUp+522046£47,500-
City of LondonUp+37366£47,500-5.00 %
South EastUp+6266£40,000+6.66 %
East of EnglandDown-19115£41,500+10.66 %
North WestDown-2379£35,000+16.66 %
BerkshireDown-1475£40,000+14.28 %
SurreyDown-2669£42,500-10.52 %
HertfordshireUp+4159£44,000-2.22 %
HampshireUp+2049£37,500-28.57 %
YorkshireDown-1643£37,500+16.27 %
GuildfordUp+541£38,750+38.39 %
South WestUp+334£40,000+23.07 %
ManchesterDown-733£32,500+8.33 %
North EastDown-1133£30,000+50.00 %
SouthamptonNew entry-33£32,500-
ScotlandDown-2832£36,000-
West MidlandsDown-6032£42,500+61.90 %
HarrowDown-131£45,000-5.26 %
West YorkshireDown-1827£37,500+3.44 %
CambridgeshireDown-5227£39,000+4.00 %
BelfastNew entry-27£15,500-
County AntrimNew entry-27£15,500-
Northern IrelandNew entry-27£15,500-
LeedsDown-2325£37,500-10.71 %
CambridgeDown-3824£39,000+4.00 %
MerseysideNo change022£40,000+1.91 %
East MidlandsDown-2422£37,500-
East SussexUp+421£35,000+7.69 %
LiverpoolUp+221£40,000+1.91 %

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

11843 (33.19 %)Java
21635 (29.44 %)Online Games
31064 (19.16 %)C#
41018 (18.33 %)JavaScript
5965 (17.38 %)Degree
6952 (17.14 %).NET
7916 (16.50 %)CSS
8905 (16.30 %)HTML
9895 (16.12 %)Scrum
10878 (15.81 %)Linux
11870 (15.67 %)Agile Software Development
12863 (15.54 %)SQL
13820 (14.77 %)E-Commerce
14807 (14.53 %)TDD
15806 (14.51 %)C++
16743 (13.38 %)OO
17739 (13.31 %)Finance
18704 (12.68 %)SQL Server
19652 (11.74 %)Windows
20642 (11.56 %)Internet
21638 (11.49 %)Flash
22620 (11.17 %)MVC
23605 (10.90 %)J2EE
24579 (10.43 %)UNIX
25562 (10.12 %)PHP
26546 (9.833 %)Spring
27534 (9.616 %)Oracle
28521 (9.382 %)ASP.NET
29509 (9.166 %)XML
30480 (8.644 %)QA

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1952 (17.14 %).NET
2916 (16.50 %)CSS
3905 (16.30 %)HTML
4638 (11.49 %)Flash
5605 (10.90 %)J2EE
6546 (9.833 %)Spring
7521 (9.382 %)ASP.NET
8509 (9.166 %)XML
9442 (7.960 %)HTML5
10440 (7.924 %)Ajax
11436 (7.852 %)Hibernate
12345 (6.213 %)WCF
13336 (6.051 %)ASP.NET MVC
14323 (5.817 %)jQuery
15322 (5.799 %)Web Services
16234 (4.214 %)LINQ
17214 (3.854 %)NHibernate
18210 (3.782 %)CSS3
19202 (3.638 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
20192 (3.458 %)REST
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1335 (6.033 %)Apache
2146 (2.629 %)Tomcat
3135 (2.431 %)IIS
495 (1.711 %)CMS
570 (1.261 %)SharePoint
668 (1.225 %)WebLogic
668 (1.225 %)ActiveMQ
764 (1.153 %)SAS
862 (1.117 %)Confluence
959 (1.062 %)ESB
1041 (0.738 %)Oracle Coherence
1137 (0.666 %)Drupal
1226 (0.468 %)MS Exchange
1325 (0.450 %)ColdFusion
1325 (0.450 %)WordPress
1422 (0.396 %)Magento
1517 (0.306 %)Oracle Service Bus
1615 (0.270 %)Jetty
1615 (0.270 %)Exchange Server 2003
1714 (0.252 %)Amazon AWS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1225 (4.052 %)MS Visio
2213 (3.836 %)Photoshop
3161 (2.899 %)MS Excel
4144 (2.593 %)Adobe Illustrator
543 (0.774 %)Fireworks
642 (0.756 %)MS Office
730 (0.540 %)MS Project
823 (0.414 %)3ds Max
920 (0.360 %)Maya
1018 (0.324 %)InDesign
1018 (0.324 %)OmniGraffle
1117 (0.306 %)MATLAB
1212 (0.216 %)MS PowerPoint
1311 (0.198 %)SPSS
148 (0.144 %)Adobe After Effects
155 (0.090 %)FreeHand
164 (0.072 %)Acrobat
173 (0.054 %)Spreadsheet
173 (0.054 %)Mudbox
182 (0.036 %)Google Apps
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
136 (0.648 %)SAP ERP
221 (0.378 %)Oracle ERP
317 (0.306 %)Google Analytics
411 (0.198 %)Oracle EBS
57 (0.126 %)Dynamics CRM
64 (0.072 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
64 (0.072 %)Oracle 11i
73 (0.054 %)WebTrends
73 (0.054 %)Cognos Planning
73 (0.054 %)Sage 50
82 (0.036 %)Oracle BPM
82 (0.036 %)assyst
82 (0.036 %)Line 500
91 (0.018 %)Oracle EBS R12
91 (0.018 %)SAP APO
91 (0.018 %)Oracle Applications
91 (0.018 %)SoftGrid
91 (0.018 %)Summit
91 (0.018 %)SiteCatalyst
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1642 (11.56 %)Internet
2244 (4.394 %)HTTP
3193 (3.476 %)TCP/IP
4107 (1.927 %)SAN
578 (1.405 %)DNS
674 (1.333 %)Firewall
746 (0.828 %)VPN
844 (0.792 %)Intranet
934 (0.612 %)VLAN
1030 (0.540 %)LDAP
1129 (0.522 %)NAS
1225 (0.450 %)AMQP
1225 (0.450 %)SSL
1324 (0.432 %)Wireless
1421 (0.378 %)iSCSI
1520 (0.360 %)LAN
1520 (0.360 %)WAN
1616 (0.288 %)DHCP
1616 (0.288 %)DAB
1616 (0.288 %)Network Security
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1704 (12.68 %)SQL Server
2430 (7.744 %)MySQL
3392 (7.059 %)SQL Server 2008
4171 (3.079 %)Data Warehouse
5148 (2.665 %)RDBMS
698 (1.765 %)NoSQL
781 (1.459 %)MongoDB
874 (1.333 %)DB2
969 (1.243 %)SQL Server 2005
1068 (1.225 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1161 (1.099 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1257 (1.026 %)Informix
1356 (1.008 %)ETL
1453 (0.954 %)PostgreSQL
1547 (0.846 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1639 (0.702 %)Apache Cassandra
1735 (0.630 %)Oracle 8/8i
1833 (0.594 %)Oracle 10g
1833 (0.594 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
1932 (0.576 %)Hadoop
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1442 (7.960 %)Subversion
2261 (4.700 %)Selenium
3242 (4.358 %)NUnit
4211 (3.800 %)Rhino Mocks
5172 (3.097 %)Eclipse
6146 (2.629 %)JUnit
7126 (2.269 %)Moq
8119 (2.143 %)Ant
8119 (2.143 %)Maven
9110 (1.981 %)Git (software)
10109 (1.963 %)JIRA
11105 (1.891 %)Visual Studio
1298 (1.765 %)Cucumber
1377 (1.387 %)TestNG
1472 (1.297 %)Synon
1567 (1.207 %)QuickTest Pro
1664 (1.153 %)FitNesse
1761 (1.099 %)Xcode
1852 (0.936 %)RSpec
1946 (0.828 %)FishEye
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1739 (13.31 %)Finance
2377 (6.789 %)Marketing
3344 (6.195 %)Telecoms
4329 (5.925 %)Retail
5292 (5.258 %)Banking
6150 (2.701 %)Online Betting
7110 (1.981 %)Music
885 (1.531 %)Advertising
982 (1.477 %)Law
1072 (1.297 %)Front Office
1161 (1.099 %)Publishing
1258 (1.044 %)Multimedia
1351 (0.918 %)Investment Banking
1445 (0.810 %)German Language
1542 (0.756 %)Back Office
1640 (0.720 %)Pharmaceutical
1732 (0.576 %)Billing
1732 (0.576 %)Legal
1828 (0.504 %)Electronics
1925 (0.450 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
12699 (48.60 %)Developer
2728 (13.11 %)Java Developer
3551 (9.923 %)Analyst
4461 (8.302 %)Senior Developer
5424 (7.636 %).NET Developer
6257 (4.628 %)Business Analyst
7248 (4.466 %)C# Developer
8216 (3.890 %)Architect
9215 (3.872 %)Flash Developer
10213 (3.836 %)Project Manager
11211 (3.800 %)Web Developer
12204 (3.674 %)Senior Java Developer
13192 (3.458 %)C++ Developer
14189 (3.404 %)Administrator
15184 (3.314 %)C# .NET Developer
16175 (3.151 %)Software Developer
16175 (3.151 %)Junior
17169 (3.043 %)Programmer
18165 (2.971 %)Java/J2EE Developer
19157 (2.827 %)Designer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11635 (29.44 %)Online Games
2462 (8.320 %)Computer Science
3298 (5.366 %)iPhone
4285 (5.132 %)Social Media
5216 (3.890 %)Social Gaming
6208 (3.746 %)Open Source
7197 (3.548 %)Mathematics
8192 (3.458 %)iPad
9155 (2.791 %)Online Gambling
10136 (2.449 %)Spread Betting
11130 (2.341 %)Mobile Games
12117 (2.107 %)Social Network
1398 (1.765 %)Physics
1489 (1.603 %)Flash Games
1581 (1.459 %)Digital Media
1680 (1.441 %)3D Graphics
1776 (1.369 %)Management Information System
1874 (1.333 %)Clustering
1874 (1.333 %)Graphic Design
1971 (1.279 %)New Media
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1878 (15.81 %)Linux
2652 (11.74 %)Windows
3579 (10.43 %)UNIX
4359 (6.465 %)Android
5291 (5.240 %)Apple iOS
678 (1.405 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
767 (1.207 %)Solaris
864 (1.153 %)Windows Server 2008
958 (1.044 %)Windows Server 2003
1049 (0.882 %)Mac OS X
1137 (0.666 %)Windows Mobile
1236 (0.648 %)CentOS
1324 (0.432 %)Debian
1423 (0.414 %)Windows 7
1522 (0.396 %)Mac OS
1522 (0.396 %)Windows XP
1615 (0.270 %)Windows Phone 7
1714 (0.252 %)Windows Vista
189 (0.162 %)Ubuntu
189 (0.162 %)AIX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1895 (16.12 %)Scrum
2870 (15.67 %)Agile Software Development
3820 (14.77 %)E-Commerce
4807 (14.53 %)TDD
5743 (13.38 %)OO
6620 (11.17 %)MVC
7321 (5.781 %)Game Development
8319 (5.745 %)Multithreading
9316 (5.691 %)BDD
10279 (5.024 %)Web Application Development
11269 (4.844 %)Project Management
12244 (4.394 %)UML
13242 (4.358 %)Continuous Integration
14219 (3.944 %)SOA
15210 (3.782 %)Web Development
16206 (3.710 %)Unit Testing
17202 (3.638 %)Kanban
18188 (3.386 %)Automated Testing
19186 (3.350 %)OOP
20180 (3.241 %)Business Intelligence
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11843 (33.19 %)Java
21064 (19.16 %)C#
31018 (18.33 %)JavaScript
4863 (15.54 %)SQL
5806 (14.51 %)C++
6562 (10.12 %)PHP
7474 (8.536 %)ActionScript
8450 (8.104 %)Python
9343 (6.177 %)Perl
10290 (5.222 %)C
11281 (5.060 %)ActionScript 3.0
12247 (4.448 %)Ruby
13223 (4.016 %)Objective-C
14161 (2.899 %)Bash shell
15130 (2.341 %)VB.NET
16107 (1.927 %)VB
17105 (1.891 %)T-SQL
18101 (1.819 %)Scala
1992 (1.657 %)Shell Script
2084 (1.513 %)PL/SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1965 (17.38 %)Degree
2334 (6.015 %)Microsoft Certification
3284 (5.114 %)MCP
4283 (5.096 %)MCTS
5276 (4.970 %)MCSD
6275 (4.952 %)MCAD
7114 (2.053 %)ISEB
845 (0.810 %)ISTQB
944 (0.792 %)Cisco Certification
1035 (0.630 %)MCSE
1128 (0.504 %)RHCE
1224 (0.432 %)PhD
1224 (0.432 %)RHCT
1322 (0.396 %)Security Cleared
1421 (0.378 %)CCNP
1520 (0.360 %)ITIL Certification
1617 (0.306 %)PMI Certification
1617 (0.306 %)CCNA
1715 (0.270 %)CCSP
1813 (0.234 %)MCITP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1480 (8.644 %)QA
234 (0.612 %)ISO 9001
319 (0.342 %)SLA
414 (0.252 %)PCI DSS
513 (0.234 %)WCAG
68 (0.144 %)ISO/IEC 27001
74 (0.072 %)Basel III
83 (0.054 %)ISO/IEC 17799
92 (0.036 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
92 (0.036 %)WAI
101 (0.018 %)Data Quality
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1110 (1.981 %)VMware Infrastructure
296 (1.729 %)Active Directory
339 (0.702 %)Hyper-V
426 (0.468 %)XenApp
520 (0.360 %)VMware ESX
618 (0.324 %)Oracle RAC
716 (0.288 %)Xen
716 (0.288 %)XenDesktop
814 (0.252 %)Oracle RMAN
98 (0.144 %)ISA Server
107 (0.126 %)Veritas Cluster Server
107 (0.126 %)vSphere
107 (0.126 %)NFS
115 (0.090 %)NLBS
124 (0.072 %)Nmap
124 (0.072 %)VMware ESXi
124 (0.072 %)SRDF
132 (0.036 %)Varnish
132 (0.036 %)Samba
132 (0.036 %)XenServer
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
128 (0.504 %)SCOM
225 (0.450 %)Puppet
320 (0.360 %)Nagios
416 (0.288 %)SCCM
515 (0.270 %)NetBackup
611 (0.198 %)WSUS
611 (0.198 %)Data Guard
710 (0.180 %)HP Quality Center
89 (0.162 %)Cacti
89 (0.162 %)Munin
98 (0.144 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
98 (0.144 %)Cobbler
107 (0.126 %)Backup Exec
116 (0.108 %)WMI
116 (0.108 %)MOM
116 (0.108 %)Red Hat Satellite
123 (0.054 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
132 (0.036 %)ZABBIX
141 (0.018 %)Oracle Statspack
141 (0.018 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1534 (9.616 %)Oracle
2412 (7.419 %)Microsoft
3200 (3.602 %)Facebook
4179 (3.223 %)VMware
5169 (3.043 %)JBoss
6163 (2.935 %)Google
7149 (2.683 %)Adobe
8140 (2.521 %)Red Hat
9111 (1.999 %)Cisco
1080 (1.441 %)Apple
1169 (1.243 %)Twitter
1246 (0.828 %)Atlassian
1343 (0.774 %)SAP
1442 (0.756 %)Perforce
1538 (0.684 %)Citrix
1634 (0.612 %)IBM
1733 (0.594 %)Symbian
1832 (0.576 %)Zend
1931 (0.558 %)NetApp
2025 (0.450 %)Veritas