Silverlight Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 20 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 Application Development category for the Birmingham region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 45 52 -
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 2 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.448% 0.483% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.923% 1.734% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £525 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £30.75 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+25.20% -83.81%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 104 173 124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 23.32% 27.86% 25.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 107 72
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £440 £375 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
Average hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% +180.76%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
West Midlands

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Silverlight across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Birmingham Silverlight Jobs Demand Trend

Silverlight
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Silverlight across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Silverlight across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Silverlight Hourly Rate Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Silverlight 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Silverlight.

1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
2 6 (75.00%) .NET
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (75.00%) WCF
3 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
3 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
3 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) IIS
3 5 (62.50%) Visual Studio
3 5 (62.50%) UML
4 4 (50.00%) ESRI
4 4 (50.00%) ArcGIS
4 4 (50.00%) Client/Server
4 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (50.00%) MSTest
4 4 (50.00%) RIA
4 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
4 4 (50.00%) Moq
4 4 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 4 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
6 2 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (25.00%) OO

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing Silverlight also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Silverlight. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (75.00%) .NET
1 6 (75.00%) Web Services
1 6 (75.00%) WCF
2 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (50.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) WPF
5 1 (12.50%) WF
5 1 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET
5 1 (12.50%) XML
5 1 (12.50%) Ajax
5 1 (12.50%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) IIS
2 4 (50.00%) ArcGIS
3 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Foundation
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
2 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Visual Studio
2 4 (50.00%) MSTest
2 4 (50.00%) Moq
3 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (12.50%) MSBuild
4 1 (12.50%) NUnit
4 1 (12.50%) CruiseControl
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Team System
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Programmer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 4 (50.00%) Software Programmer
2 4 (50.00%) C# Programmer
3 2 (25.00%) CRM Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Silverlight Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Programmer
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 4 (50.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 6 (75.00%) Windows
2 4 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) UML
1 5 (62.50%) Unit Testing
2 2 (25.00%) OO
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Unified Process
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (12.50%) RUP
3 1 (12.50%) OOP
3 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (12.50%) MSF
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) ESRI
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