Mobile Games Jobs

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Mobile Games in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Mobile Games over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

Mobile Game UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	814	850	922
Rank change year-on-year	+36	+72
Permanent jobs citing Mobile Games	58	74	49
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.066%	0.076%	0.044%
As % of the Miscellaneous category	0.16%	0.18%	0.11%
Number of salaries quoted	52	69	41
Median salary	£41,250	£62,500	£44,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-34.00%	+40.44%
90% offered a salary of more than	£20,750	£44,500	£37,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£60,000	£80,000	£55,000
UK excluding London median salary	£32,500	£28,750	£44,500
% change year-on-year	+13.04%	-35.39%

Mobile Games is in the generic IT skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Generic IT Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills	37011	40133	45320
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	42.02%	41.34%	40.94%
Number of salaries quoted	28923	32860	36156
Median salary	£50,000	£50,000	£47,500
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than	£30,000	£29,500	£28,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£80,000	£75,000	£77,500
UK excluding London median salary	£42,500	£42,500	£40,000
% change year-on-year	-	+6.25%

Mobile Games
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Mobile Games as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Miscellaneous category.

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Mobile Games.

Mobile Games
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Mobile Games over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Mobile Games in the UK

Mobile Games
Top 21 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Games within the UK over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+32	53	£42,500	-32.00%	11
London	-5	37	£56,000	-10.40%	9
West Midlands	+23	13	£20,000	-46.66%	2
Birmingham	-	8	£20,000	-
City of London	+28	5	£56,000	-10.40%	1
Scotland	+18	5	£40,000	-	1
Halesowen	-	3	£20,000	-	2
Glasgow	+17	2	£40,000	-
Edinburgh	-	2	£40,000	-
Newcastle upon Tyne	+20	1	£37,500	-
Tyne and Wear	+20	1	£37,500	-
North East	+15	1	£37,500	-
South East	-	1	£37,500	-
South West	-	1	-	-
Kent	-	1	£37,500	-
Bristol	-	1	-	-
Tunbridge Wells	-	1	£37,500	-
Stoke-on-Trent	-	1	£28,500	-
Wolverhampton	-	1	-	-
Staffordshire	-	1	£28,500	-
Dundee	-	1	-	-	1

Mobile Games
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT jobs citing Mobile Games also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Mobile Games.

1	107 (100.00%)	Games
2	33 (30.84%)	Game Development
3	31 (28.97%)	Android
4	30 (28.04%)	Apple iOS
5	29 (27.10%)	Unity (Game Engine)
6	27 (25.23%)	C#
6	27 (25.23%)	Degree
7	26 (24.30%)	Agile Software Development
8	22 (20.56%)	JavaScript
9	21 (19.63%)	OO
10	20 (18.69%)	Java
11	19 (17.76%)	HTML
12	18 (16.82%)	CSS
12	18 (16.82%)	MySQL
12	18 (16.82%)	NoSQL

12	18 (16.82%)	Online Games
13	17 (15.89%)	Facebook
13	17 (15.89%)	AngularJS
13	17 (15.89%)	Business Intelligence
14	16 (14.95%)	Marketing
15	15 (14.02%)	Web Development
15	15 (14.02%)	Back Office
15	15 (14.02%)	SQL Server
15	15 (14.02%)	React
16	14 (13.08%)	HTML5
16	14 (13.08%)	Node.js
16	14 (13.08%)	QA
17	13 (12.15%)	PHP
18	12 (11.21%)	CSS3
18	12 (11.21%)	jQuery

Mobile Games
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	5 (4.67%)	Apache
2	4 (3.74%)	Confluence
3	2 (1.87%)	Apache Spark
3	2 (1.87%)	Elasticsearch
4	1 (0.93%)	nginx

Applications
1	4 (3.74%)	Adobe Illustrator
1	4 (3.74%)	Photoshop

Business Applications
1	1 (0.93%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	6 (5.61%)	Amazon AWS
2	2 (1.87%)	Amazon EC2
3	1 (0.93%)	Amazon S3
3	1 (0.93%)	AWS CloudFormation
3	1 (0.93%)	Cloud Computing
3	1 (0.93%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	6 (5.61%)	Internet
2	4 (3.74%)	HTTP
3	3 (2.80%)	TCP/IP
4	1 (0.93%)	Bluetooth
4	1 (0.93%)	FTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	18 (16.82%)	MySQL
1	18 (16.82%)	NoSQL
2	15 (14.02%)	SQL Server
3	6 (5.61%)	Relational Database
4	5 (4.67%)	RDBMS
4	5 (4.67%)	Redis
5	4 (3.74%)	MongoDB
6	3 (2.80%)	Apache Cassandra
6	3 (2.80%)	Big Data
6	3 (2.80%)	Hazelcast
6	3 (2.80%)	Neo4j
7	2 (1.87%)	PostgreSQL
8	1 (0.93%)	Amazon DynamoDB
8	1 (0.93%)	Amazon QuickSight
8	1 (0.93%)	Amazon Redshift
8	1 (0.93%)	Apache Hive
8	1 (0.93%)	Data Warehouse
8	1 (0.93%)	Hadoop
8	1 (0.93%)	MariaDB
8	1 (0.93%)	QlikView

Development Applications
1	10 (9.35%)	JIRA
2	4 (3.74%)	Atlassian Bamboo
3	3 (2.80%)	Ant
3	3 (2.80%)	Gradle
3	3 (2.80%)	Maven
4	1 (0.93%)	Git (software)
4	1 (0.93%)	Mercurial
4	1 (0.93%)	Subversion
4	1 (0.93%)	Visual Studio
4	1 (0.93%)	Xcode

General
1	107 (100.00%)	Games
2	16 (14.95%)	Marketing
3	15 (14.02%)	Back Office
4	1 (0.93%)	Arabic Language
4	1 (0.93%)	Electronics

Job Titles
1	61 (57.01%)	Developer
2	29 (27.10%)	Games Developer
3	24 (22.43%)	Junior
4	16 (14.95%)	Analyst
4	16 (14.95%)	Junior Developer
5	14 (13.08%)	Graduate
5	14 (13.08%)	Graduate Developer
5	14 (13.08%)	Graduate Games Developer
5	14 (13.08%)	Junior Games Developer
6	12 (11.21%)	Web Developer
7	11 (10.28%)	Mid-Level PHP Developer
7	11 (10.28%)	PHP Developer
7	11 (10.28%)	PHP Web Developer
8	10 (9.35%)	Business Analyst
9	9 (8.41%)	Java Developer
10	8 (7.48%)	Senior Developer
11	6 (5.61%)	Senior Games Developer
11	6 (5.61%)	Senior Java Developer
12	5 (4.67%)	C# Developer
12	5 (4.67%)	Java Games Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	29 (27.10%)	Unity (Game Engine)
2	19 (17.76%)	HTML
3	18 (16.82%)	CSS
4	17 (15.89%)	AngularJS
5	15 (14.02%)	React
6	14 (13.08%)	HTML5
6	14 (13.08%)	Node.js
7	12 (11.21%)	CSS3
7	12 (11.21%)	jQuery
8	11 (10.28%)	LAMP
9	9 (8.41%)	Spring
10	8 (7.48%)	Hibernate
11	7 (6.54%)	REST
12	4 (3.74%)	RESTful
13	3 (2.80%)	Akka
13	3 (2.80%)	iOS SDK
14	2 (1.87%)	.NET
14	2 (1.87%)	Django
14	2 (1.87%)	Spring Boot
14	2 (1.87%)	Web Services

Miscellaneous
1	18 (16.82%)	Online Games
2	9 (8.41%)	Animation
2	9 (8.41%)	Computer Science
3	8 (7.48%)	Analytical Skills
4	7 (6.54%)	BBC
5	5 (4.67%)	Algorithms
5	5 (4.67%)	Handset
5	5 (4.67%)	User Experience
6	3 (2.80%)	Client/Server
6	3 (2.80%)	Mobile App
7	2 (1.87%)	Social Gaming
7	2 (1.87%)	Social Media
8	1 (0.93%)	3D Graphics
8	1 (0.93%)	Greenfield Project
8	1 (0.93%)	Online Gambling
8	1 (0.93%)	Smartphone
8	1 (0.93%)	Social Network

Operating Systems
1	31 (28.97%)	Android
2	30 (28.04%)	Apple iOS
3	8 (7.48%)	Linux
4	1 (0.93%)	Ubuntu

Processes & Methodologies
1	33 (30.84%)	Game Development
2	26 (24.30%)	Agile Software Development
3	21 (19.63%)	OO
4	17 (15.89%)	Business Intelligence
5	15 (14.02%)	Web Development
6	11 (10.28%)	API Integration
6	11 (10.28%)	OO PHP
6	11 (10.28%)	OOP
7	9 (8.41%)	Analytics
7	9 (8.41%)	DevOps
8	8 (7.48%)	Physics
9	6 (5.61%)	E-Commerce
9	6 (5.61%)	Microservices
9	6 (5.61%)	Monetization
9	6 (5.61%)	Scrum
9	6 (5.61%)	Workflow
10	5 (4.67%)	CRM
10	5 (4.67%)	Front End Development
10	5 (4.67%)	Project Management
10	5 (4.67%)	Statistics

Programming Languages
1	27 (25.23%)	C#
2	22 (20.56%)	JavaScript
3	20 (18.69%)	Java
4	13 (12.15%)	PHP
5	11 (10.28%)	Python
5	11 (10.28%)	SQL
6	8 (7.48%)	Scala
7	6 (5.61%)	R
8	5 (4.67%)	C++
9	3 (2.80%)	Go
10	2 (1.87%)	Objective-C
11	1 (0.93%)	Apple Swift
11	1 (0.93%)	C
11	1 (0.93%)	GLSL
11	1 (0.93%)	RPG
11	1 (0.93%)	Ruby

Qualifications
1	27 (25.23%)	Degree
2	9 (8.41%)	Computer Science Degree

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	14 (13.08%)	QA

System Software
1	5 (4.67%)	Docker

Systems Management
1	4 (3.74%)	HAProxy
2	2 (1.87%)	Opscode Chef
3	1 (0.93%)	Consul
3	1 (0.93%)	Kubernetes
3	1 (0.93%)	StatsD

Vendors
1	17 (15.89%)	Facebook
2	4 (3.74%)	Atlassian
3	3 (2.80%)	Apigee
4	2 (1.87%)	Adobe
4	2 (1.87%)	Intel
4	2 (1.87%)	Microsoft
4	2 (1.87%)	Tableau
5	1 (0.93%)	Apple
5	1 (0.93%)	Foundry
5	1 (0.93%)	Xamarin