Video Game Design Northwest Research (1.1; 1.2)

So I have already investigated into a job I am interested in, but remembering that I should be investigating jobs in the north west, I need to look at whether I can actually do anything with this.

I have looked into jobs in game design in the north west and there is not much to offer. I searched through the website www.gamesindustry.biz for jobs and I found 6 jobs, here http://www.gamesindustry.biz/jobs/search?skills=11&locations=7.

There are 4 different companies looking for senior game designers one a designer. Senior game designers need general experience in previous designing and the designer job says experience is needed with the program Maya. The salaries for these range from about 25-45K DOE.

I have found another website and searched for game design Manchester. There are about 10 jobs available on this website. There are simple IT tester jobs, testing for bugs and helping out, at about 25K. There are Software Developing jobs at about 28K which require experience with C# and C++.

I also searched for game design courses in the Northwest and found one at Manchester College: Media - Games Development Level 3 National Diploma.

Requires 4 GCSE's at Grade B or 5 at C, including maths and English, 16-19. It contains working with 3D programming and modelling.