The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Games in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Games over the 3 months to 21 May 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 West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Gaming
Rank 145 141 108
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -33
Permanent jobs citing Games 30 27 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.813% 0.836% 1.259%
As % of the General category 2.577% 2.804% 3.571%
Number of salaries quoted 21 21 10
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% +3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £37,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £39,000 £47,800
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All of the General Category
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
General category
1164 963 1036
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 31.53% 29.81% 35.26%
Number of salaries quoted 927 775 772
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,275 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
Games
Yorkshire

Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Games Salary Trend

Games
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Games across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Games Salary Histogram

Games
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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Leeds -10 27 £43,000 +14.66%
Wakefield - 2 £21,500 -
Games
Yorkshire

Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 40 (47.06%) E-Commerce
2 34 (40.00%) Online Games
3 25 (29.41%) Bugzilla
3 25 (29.41%) JIRA
4 24 (28.24%) Automated Testing
4 24 (28.24%) HP Quality Center
5 21 (24.71%) Degree
6 20 (23.53%) SQL
7 17 (20.00%) OO
8 16 (18.82%) Java
8 16 (18.82%) MVC
8 16 (18.82%) Project Management
9 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
9 13 (15.29%) JavaScript
9 13 (15.29%) VBA
9 13 (15.29%) .NET
9 13 (15.29%) MS Excel
9 13 (15.29%) Statistics
9 13 (15.29%) .NET Framework
10 12 (14.12%) PDA
10 12 (14.12%) CRM
10 12 (14.12%) ERP
10 12 (14.12%) N-Tier
10 12 (14.12%) T-SQL
10 12 (14.12%) C#
10 12 (14.12%) PHP
10 12 (14.12%) QA
10 12 (14.12%) jQuery
10 12 (14.12%) Windows Phone
10 12 (14.12%) .NET Compact Framework

Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 13 (15.29%) .NET
1 13 (15.29%) .NET Framework
2 12 (14.12%) jQuery
2 12 (14.12%) .NET Compact Framework
3 11 (12.94%) Flash
3 11 (12.94%) SOAP
4 10 (11.76%) Web Services
4 10 (11.76%) ASP.NET
4 10 (11.76%) WPF
5 9 (10.59%) Apache Flex
5 9 (10.59%) BlazeDS
5 9 (10.59%) Spring Integration
5 9 (10.59%) Spring
6 8 (9.412%) J2EE
6 8 (9.412%) HTML
7 5 (5.882%) CSS
7 5 (5.882%) Ajax
8 4 (4.706%) amfPHP
9 3 (3.529%) CSS3
9 3 (3.529%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.882%) Facebook Platform
2 1 (1.176%) Apache
2 1 (1.176%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.176%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (15.29%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.176%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.059%) Internet
2 4 (4.706%) HTTP
3 1 (1.176%) LDAP
3 1 (1.176%) Broadband
3 1 (1.176%) DHCP
3 1 (1.176%) DNS
3 1 (1.176%) SAN
3 1 (1.176%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.176%) OpenVPN
3 1 (1.176%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.76%) MySQL
1 10 (11.76%) SQL Server
1 10 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (10.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (29.41%) Bugzilla
1 25 (29.41%) JIRA
2 11 (12.94%) Subversion
3 9 (10.59%) Hudson
3 9 (10.59%) Maven
4 1 (1.176%) Git (software)
General
1 6 (7.059%) Banking
2 1 (1.176%) Finance
2 1 (1.176%) Marketing
2 1 (1.176%) Online Betting
Job Titles
1 41 (48.24%) Developer
2 35 (41.18%) Analyst
3 24 (28.24%) Test Analyst
4 15 (17.65%) Software Developer
5 13 (15.29%) Senior Developer
5 13 (15.29%) Statistical Analyst
6 11 (12.94%) Technical Analyst
6 11 (12.94%) Flash Developer
6 11 (12.94%) Technical Test Analyst
7 9 (10.59%) Java Developer
8 8 (9.412%) Senior Software Developer
9 7 (8.235%) PHP Developer
9 7 (8.235%) Games Developer
9 7 (8.235%) Flash Games Developer
10 6 (7.059%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (7.059%) Web Developer
10 6 (7.059%) Project Manager
10 6 (7.059%) Business Analyst
10 6 (7.059%) Software Engineer
11 5 (5.882%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 34 (40.00%) Online Games
2 13 (15.29%) Statistics
3 12 (14.12%) PDA
3 12 (14.12%) N-Tier
4 9 (10.59%) Social Gaming
5 7 (8.235%) Flash Games
6 5 (5.882%) Wiki
7 3 (3.529%) Mobile App
8 2 (2.353%) Social Media
9 1 (1.176%) Device Driver
9 1 (1.176%) Computer Science
9 1 (1.176%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (1.176%) Online Gambling
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.12%) Windows Phone
2 9 (10.59%) Linux
3 1 (1.176%) Windows
3 1 (1.176%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.176%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (47.06%) E-Commerce
2 24 (28.24%) Automated Testing
3 17 (20.00%) OO
4 16 (18.82%) MVC
4 16 (18.82%) Project Management
5 12 (14.12%) CRM
5 12 (14.12%) ERP
6 11 (12.94%) Test Strategy
7 9 (10.59%) Agile Software Development
8 6 (7.059%) Stakeholder Management
9 4 (4.706%) Build Automation
9 4 (4.706%) Workflow
10 3 (3.529%) Data Analysis
11 2 (2.353%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (2.353%) Waterfall
11 2 (2.353%) Mobile Application Development
11 2 (2.353%) Scrum
11 2 (2.353%) Extreme Programming
11 2 (2.353%) TDD
11 2 (2.353%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 20 (23.53%) SQL
2 16 (18.82%) Java
3 13 (15.29%) JavaScript
3 13 (15.29%) VBA
4 12 (14.12%) T-SQL
4 12 (14.12%) C#
4 12 (14.12%) PHP
5 11 (12.94%) ActionScript
6 9 (10.59%) ActionScript 3.0
7 7 (8.235%) C++
8 2 (2.353%) C
9 1 (1.176%) Perl
9 1 (1.176%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.176%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.176%) Objective-C
9 1 (1.176%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 21 (24.71%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.12%) QA
System Software
1 10 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.176%) NFS
2 1 (1.176%) Samba
2 1 (1.176%) vSphere
2 1 (1.176%) VirtualBox
2 1 (1.176%) SpamAssassin
Systems Management
1 24 (28.24%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (5.882%) Puppet
3 1 (1.176%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (15.29%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.94%) Facebook
3 9 (10.59%) Oracle
4 1 (1.176%) Apple
4 1 (1.176%) Perforce
4 1 (1.176%) Google
4 1 (1.176%) Twitter
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