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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Online Gaming
Rank 208 201 200
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -1
Permanent jobs citing Online Games 12 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.217% 0.019% 0.060%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.865% 0.065% 0.224%
Number of salaries quoted 12 0 3
Average salary £32,500 - £47,000
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 - £40,600
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 - £53,400
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-16.25% +6.66%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1387 1530 1341
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 25.04% 29.34% 26.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1091 1273 1133
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,815 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.96% +6.66%
Online Games
England

Online Games
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Online Games Jobs Demand Trend

Online Games
Salary Trend

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

Yorkshire Online Games Salary Trend

Online Games
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Online Games across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire Online Games Salary Histogram

Online Games
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Online Games within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
West Yorkshire - 11 £32,500 -
Online Games
England

Online Games
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Online 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 Online Games.

1 34 (100.00%) Games
2 14 (41.18%) Degree
3 13 (38.24%) Java
3 13 (38.24%) E-Commerce
4 12 (35.29%) MS Excel
4 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
4 12 (35.29%) VBA
4 12 (35.29%) Bugzilla
4 12 (35.29%) JIRA
4 12 (35.29%) Statistics
4 12 (35.29%) Automated Testing
4 12 (35.29%) HP Quality Center
5 10 (29.41%) Facebook
6 8 (23.53%) Social Gaming
6 8 (23.53%) Hudson
6 8 (23.53%) Spring Integration
6 8 (23.53%) Spring
6 8 (23.53%) Maven
6 8 (23.53%) Subversion
6 8 (23.53%) Apache Flex
6 8 (23.53%) BlazeDS
6 8 (23.53%) J2EE
6 8 (23.53%) Oracle
6 8 (23.53%) RDBMS
7 7 (20.59%) Flash
7 7 (20.59%) ActionScript
7 7 (20.59%) Flash Games
7 7 (20.59%) ActionScript 3.0
8 6 (17.65%) C++
9 5 (14.71%) JavaScript

Online Games
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Online 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 Online Games. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (23.53%) J2EE
1 8 (23.53%) Spring
1 8 (23.53%) Apache Flex
1 8 (23.53%) BlazeDS
1 8 (23.53%) Spring Integration
2 7 (20.59%) Flash
3 5 (14.71%) jQuery
4 4 (11.76%) Ajax
5 3 (8.824%) amfPHP
6 2 (5.882%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 5 (14.71%) Facebook Platform
Applications
1 12 (35.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.941%) DNS
1 1 (2.941%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) RDBMS
2 5 (14.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (35.29%) Bugzilla
1 12 (35.29%) JIRA
2 8 (23.53%) Hudson
2 8 (23.53%) Subversion
2 8 (23.53%) Maven
General
1 34 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 20 (58.82%) Developer
2 18 (52.94%) Analyst
3 12 (35.29%) Test Analyst
3 12 (35.29%) Statistical Analyst
4 8 (23.53%) Java Developer
4 8 (23.53%) Senior Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Games Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Flash Developer
5 7 (20.59%) Flash Games Developer
6 6 (17.65%) Programmer
7 5 (14.71%) Java Software Developer
7 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Analyst Programmer
7 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Programmer
7 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Software Engineer
7 5 (14.71%) Java Analyst Programmer
7 5 (14.71%) Java Programmer
7 5 (14.71%) Senior Java Developer
7 5 (14.71%) Developer Analyst
7 5 (14.71%) Senior Analyst Developer
7 5 (14.71%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Statistics
2 8 (23.53%) Social Gaming
3 7 (20.59%) Flash Games
4 1 (2.941%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) E-Commerce
2 12 (35.29%) Automated Testing
3 5 (14.71%) OO
4 3 (8.824%) Data Analysis
4 3 (8.824%) MVC
5 1 (2.941%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (2.941%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) Java
2 12 (35.29%) VBA
3 7 (20.59%) ActionScript 3.0
3 7 (20.59%) ActionScript
4 6 (17.65%) C++
5 5 (14.71%) JavaScript
5 5 (14.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 14 (41.18%) Degree
Systems Management
1 12 (35.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 10 (29.41%) Facebook
3 8 (23.53%) Oracle