The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 22 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 Cambridgeshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 47 55 26
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -29
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 4 10 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.730% 1.429% 4.247%
As % of the Application Development category 3.077% 3.953% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 14
Average daily rate £350 £388 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.67% +14.81%
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 £31.00 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+24.19% -83.68%
All Application Development
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
130 253 176
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 23.72% 36.14% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 126 80
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 14
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +55.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.75 £35.00 £14.23
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.10 £49.65 £48.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
East of England

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Silverlight Hourly Rate Trend

Silverlight
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Silverlight within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +7 4 £350 +16.66%
Silverlight
East of England

Silverlight
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 3 (75.00%) Broadband
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Adobe
1 3 (75.00%) Benchmarking
1 3 (75.00%) C++
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Flash
1 3 (75.00%) Python
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Streaming Media
1 3 (75.00%) xDSL
1 3 (75.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 3 (75.00%) Flash
1 3 (75.00%) HTML5
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Broadband
1 3 (75.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (75.00%) HTTP
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) xDSL
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) CRM Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Silverlight Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Silverlight Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Streaming Media
2 1 (25.00%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Benchmarking
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) MVVM
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C++
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) C#
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Adobe