Online Games Contracts in the North West

Online Gaming
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Online Games in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Online Games over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Online Games 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.036% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.14% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
England median daily rate £443 £338 £513
% change year-on-year +31.11% -34.15% -6.82%

All Generic Skills
North West

Online Games is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 740 1,085 1,390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.69% 33.70% 34.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 493 726 1,056
10th Percentile £289 £291 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £352
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +24.35%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £586
90th Percentile £672 £675 £671
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 49 64
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.68 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.22 £12.39
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.98 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +49.23% +4.75%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £38.59
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.01
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year +33.33% -15.09% +0.88%

Online Games
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Online Games as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Online Games in the North West

Online Games
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Online Games in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Online Games in the North West

Online Games
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Online Games within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester - 1 £500 - 1
Online Games
England

Online Games
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Games Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Online Gambling
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Full Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL