The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Social Gaming in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Social Gaming 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Social Gaming
Rank 739 747 825
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +78
Permanent jobs citing Social Gaming 129 138 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.118% 0.115% 0.044%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.352% 0.343% 0.129%
Number of salaries quoted 115 133 53
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +35.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £64,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,250 £35,000 £32,000
% change year-on-year
-2.14% +9.37%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
36608 40240 44254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.61% 33.39% 34.47%
Number of salaries quoted 30048 33939 37135
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%

Social Gaming
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Social Gaming within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Social Gaming Jobs Demand Trend

Social Gaming
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Social Gaming within the UK.

Social Gaming Salary Trend

Social Gaming
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Social Gaming over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Social Gaming Salary Histogram

Social Gaming
Top 20 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Social Gaming within the UK 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
England +8 121 £50,000 +5.26% 15
London +9 105 £50,000 +5.26% 10
City of London +33 43 £50,000 -16.31% 4
Scotland - 8 £30,000 - 1
Dundee - 8 £30,000 - 1
South East +20 7 £37,500 +25.00% 1
Kent - 6 £37,500 -
Warwickshire - 4 - -
West Midlands - 4 - -
Yorkshire - 3 £30,000 - 4
Leamington Spa - 3 - -
Somerset - 2 £25,000 -
Bath - 2 £25,000 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £26,250 - 4
South West - 2 £25,000 -
Leeds - 1 £31,000 -
Portsmouth - 1 £45,000 -
Wakefield - 1 £21,500 - 2
Warwick - 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 £45,000 -

Social Gaming
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Social Gaming 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 Social Gaming.

1 257 (100.00%) Games
2 91 (35.41%) Java
2 91 (35.41%) JavaScript
3 74 (28.79%) Apple iOS
4 69 (26.85%) Facebook
5 68 (26.46%) Android
6 65 (25.29%) C++
7 64 (24.90%) CSS
8 58 (22.57%) HTML
9 56 (21.79%) Game Development
10 50 (19.46%) OO
10 50 (19.46%) Linux
11 46 (17.90%) ActionScript
12 42 (16.34%) Social Network
13 40 (15.56%) HTML5
14 39 (15.18%) Online Games
15 38 (14.79%) Git (software)
15 38 (14.79%) Scrum
16 36 (14.01%) Mobile Games
16 36 (14.01%) Degree
16 36 (14.01%) Social Media
17 35 (13.62%) HTTP
18 34 (13.23%) E-Commerce
18 34 (13.23%) Photoshop
19 33 (12.84%) Agile Software Development
20 32 (12.45%) Computer Science
20 32 (12.45%) Flash
21 31 (12.06%) ActionScript 3.0
22 30 (11.67%) OpenGL
23 28 (10.89%) Objective-C

Social Gaming
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Social Gaming 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 Social Gaming. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 64 (24.90%) CSS
2 58 (22.57%) HTML
3 40 (15.56%) HTML5
4 32 (12.45%) Flash
5 30 (11.67%) OpenGL
6 25 (9.728%) CSS3
7 22 (8.560%) jQuery
8 21 (8.171%) Web Services
9 20 (7.782%) JSON
10 18 (7.004%) REST
11 17 (6.615%) Ajax
11 17 (6.615%) XML
12 16 (6.226%) Spring
12 16 (6.226%) iOS SDK
13 15 (5.837%) Google Maps API
13 15 (5.837%) J2EE
14 11 (4.280%) JSP
15 10 (3.891%) JMS
16 9 (3.502%) J2ME
16 9 (3.502%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 19 (7.393%) Amazon AWS
2 12 (4.669%) Amazon EC2
3 9 (3.502%) Apache
4 7 (2.724%) Facebook Platform
5 3 (1.167%) MTS
5 3 (1.167%) Tomcat
6 2 (0.778%) Jetty
7 1 (0.389%) CMS
7 1 (0.389%) nginx
7 1 (0.389%) Magento
7 1 (0.389%) lighttpd
7 1 (0.389%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 34 (13.23%) Photoshop
2 13 (5.058%) Adobe Illustrator
3 5 (1.946%) InDesign
4 4 (1.556%) Adobe After Effects
5 3 (1.167%) Maya
5 3 (1.167%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 35 (13.62%) HTTP
2 12 (4.669%) DNS
3 9 (3.502%) AMQP
4 8 (3.113%) SMTP
5 6 (2.335%) Internet
6 5 (1.946%) TCP/IP
7 3 (1.167%) Ethernet
7 3 (1.167%) SSL
8 1 (0.389%) Wireless
8 1 (0.389%) ICMP
8 1 (0.389%) LAN
8 1 (0.389%) WAN
8 1 (0.389%) DHCP
8 1 (0.389%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.171%) NoSQL
2 12 (4.669%) MySQL
2 12 (4.669%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.724%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.335%) Hadoop
4 6 (2.335%) RDBMS
5 5 (1.946%) Apache Cassandra
6 4 (1.556%) OLTP
7 3 (1.167%) StreamInsight
7 3 (1.167%) Big Data
7 3 (1.167%) Redis
8 1 (0.389%) SQLite
8 1 (0.389%) QlikView
8 1 (0.389%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.389%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.389%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.389%) BigTable
8 1 (0.389%) HBase
8 1 (0.389%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.389%) Mahout
Development Applications
1 38 (14.79%) Git (software)
2 24 (9.339%) Subversion
3 21 (8.171%) Maven
4 15 (5.837%) JUnit
5 10 (3.891%) TestNG
6 5 (1.946%) Cucumber
7 4 (1.556%) PhoneGap
7 4 (1.556%) Selenium
7 4 (1.556%) Eclipse
8 3 (1.167%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.389%) QuickTest Pro
9 1 (0.389%) Ant
9 1 (0.389%) FitNesse
9 1 (0.389%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.389%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.389%) Jasmine
9 1 (0.389%) Hudson
9 1 (0.389%) GitHub
General
1 257 (100.00%) Games
2 15 (5.837%) Marketing
3 12 (4.669%) Finance
4 7 (2.724%) Advertising
5 5 (1.946%) Publishing
6 2 (0.778%) Retail
7 1 (0.389%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.389%) Legal
7 1 (0.389%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 150 (58.37%) Developer
2 36 (14.01%) Games Developer
2 36 (14.01%) Designer
3 30 (11.67%) Front-End Developer
4 22 (8.560%) Software Engineer
5 21 (8.171%) iOS Developer
6 20 (7.782%) C++ Developer
6 20 (7.782%) Flash Developer
6 20 (7.782%) Junior
7 19 (7.393%) Senior Developer
7 19 (7.393%) Junior Developer
8 17 (6.615%) Programmer
9 15 (5.837%) C++ Games Developer
10 14 (5.447%) User Experience Designer
11 13 (5.058%) Java Developer
12 11 (4.280%) Graduate
12 11 (4.280%) Junior Flash Developer
12 11 (4.280%) Graduate Developer
13 9 (3.502%) Mobile Software Engineer
14 8 (3.113%) Flash Games Developer
Miscellaneous
1 42 (16.34%) Social Network
2 39 (15.18%) Online Games
3 36 (14.01%) Mobile Games
3 36 (14.01%) Social Media
4 32 (12.45%) Computer Science
5 25 (9.728%) iPad
5 25 (9.728%) Mobile App
6 23 (8.949%) iPhone
7 12 (4.669%) Augmented Reality
8 11 (4.280%) Open Source
8 11 (4.280%) Blackberry
9 10 (3.891%) Flash Games
9 10 (3.891%) Mathematics
10 8 (3.113%) Cloud Computing
10 8 (3.113%) Animation
11 6 (2.335%) Blog
12 5 (1.946%) N-Tier
13 4 (1.556%) Statistics
14 3 (1.167%) Replication
14 3 (1.167%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 74 (28.79%) Apple iOS
2 68 (26.46%) Android
3 50 (19.46%) Linux
4 6 (2.335%) UNIX
5 4 (1.556%) Windows
6 3 (1.167%) CentOS
6 3 (1.167%) Mac OS X Server
7 2 (0.778%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (21.79%) Game Development
2 50 (19.46%) OO
3 38 (14.79%) Scrum
4 34 (13.23%) E-Commerce
5 33 (12.84%) Agile Software Development
6 24 (9.339%) Continuous Integration
7 23 (8.949%) TDD
7 23 (8.949%) Web Development
8 19 (7.393%) Analytics
9 18 (7.004%) Automated Testing
10 16 (6.226%) Unit Testing
11 13 (5.058%) OOP
12 12 (4.669%) MVC
13 11 (4.280%) Memory Management
13 11 (4.280%) Multithreading
14 10 (3.891%) Workflow
15 8 (3.113%) Event-Driven Architecture
15 8 (3.113%) SOA
16 7 (2.724%) OOD
16 7 (2.724%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 91 (35.41%) Java
1 91 (35.41%) JavaScript
2 65 (25.29%) C++
3 46 (17.90%) ActionScript
4 31 (12.06%) ActionScript 3.0
5 28 (10.89%) Objective-C
6 22 (8.560%) SQL
7 21 (8.171%) PHP
8 14 (5.447%) Python
8 14 (5.447%) C
9 12 (4.669%) C#
10 10 (3.891%) Scala
11 8 (3.113%) Bash shell
12 7 (2.724%) Erlang
13 6 (2.335%) AspectJ
14 5 (1.946%) Perl
15 4 (1.556%) Ruby
15 4 (1.556%) T-SQL
16 3 (1.167%) Lua
17 1 (0.389%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 36 (14.01%) Degree
2 6 (2.335%) PhD
3 1 (0.389%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (10.12%) QA
System Software
1 6 (2.335%) Xen
2 1 (0.389%) NFS
Systems Management
1 8 (3.113%) Nagios
2 3 (1.167%) Puppet
Vendors
1 69 (26.85%) Facebook
2 25 (9.728%) Google
3 23 (8.949%) Twitter
4 15 (5.837%) Adobe
5 7 (2.724%) Sony
6 6 (2.335%) Apple
6 6 (2.335%) Salesforce.com
7 5 (1.946%) Perforce
8 4 (1.556%) Microsoft
9 3 (1.167%) Juniper
9 3 (1.167%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.167%) Remedy
9 3 (1.167%) Cisco
9 3 (1.167%) Brocade
10 2 (0.778%) Tableau
11 1 (0.389%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.389%) Terracotta
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Client Server
Salary: £55k to £70k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Central London / West End
Global leader in social gaming is a skilled C++ Developer with games development experience... The games are developed using C++ for mobile based games and ActionScript3 / Flash for...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £60k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Global leader in social gaming is a skilled C++ Developer with games development experience... The games are developed using C++ for mobile based games and ActionScript3 / Flash for...
Client Server
Salary: £45k to £60k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Flash Games Developer required to join this ever evolving gaming company... Essential skills are as follows: - Games industry Knowledge - Programming in Action Script 3 - Senior role in at...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25,000 - 35,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
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Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 30,000 - 35,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
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Salary: £50k to £65k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
City, London
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Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + bonus, stock options, benefits
Posted: 15 June 2013
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Salary: £45000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £45000 - £55600 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
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Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 3 June 2013
City, London
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Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
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Salary: Negotiable
Posted: 17 June 2013
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Salary: £35000.00 - £70000.00 per annum
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