The first table below looks at the demand for Game Development skills in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Game Development over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Games Development
Rank - - 198
Permanent jobs citing Game Development 0 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire - - 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £31,500
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +14.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4235 3916 3620
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 77.64% 75.44% 71.58%
Number of salaries quoted 3278 3201 3069
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Game Development
England

Game Development
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Game Development across the Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Yorkshire Game Development Jobs Demand Trend

Game Development
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Game Development across the Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Game Development Salary Trend

Game Development
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Game Development 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 Game Development.

1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++
2 1 (50.00%) HTML

Game Development
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Game Development 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 Game Development. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Flash Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Objective-C
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) ActionScript
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) C++