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Silverlight Contracts in Canary Wharf
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Canary Wharf 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
18 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 43 48 35
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -13
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 3 5 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.877% 1.289% 5.163%
As % of the Application Development category 2.885% 3.937% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 27
Average daily rate £608 £500 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.50% +5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £602 £463 £338
10% offered a daily rate of more than £614 £613 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £36.50 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+5.47% -80.78%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 104 127 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 30.41% 32.73% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 78 134
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
Silverlight
London

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) WPF
2 5 (83.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (83.33%) Java
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
3 4 (66.67%) Front Office
4 3 (50.00%) Degree
4 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
4 3 (50.00%) Use Case
4 3 (50.00%) Multithreading
4 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
4 3 (50.00%) Physics
4 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
5 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
5 2 (33.33%) WCF
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (33.33%) WinForms
5 2 (33.33%) C++
5 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 2 (33.33%) Web Services
5 2 (33.33%) RAD
6 1 (16.67%) Flash
6 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 1 (16.67%) Oracle
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
6 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
6 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) WPF
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) WinForms
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
4 1 (16.67%) Flash
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 1 (16.67%) Struts
4 1 (16.67%) JSON
4 1 (16.67%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) RMDS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (50.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Blend
General
1 4 (66.67%) Front Office
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (50.00%) WPF Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (16.67%) UI Programmer
4 1 (16.67%) UI Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Silverlight Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Front Office Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 3 (50.00%) Physics
1 3 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (50.00%) Use Case
1 3 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) RAD
3 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) TDD
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (83.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) TIBCO
2 1 (16.67%) Reuters
2 1 (16.67%) Bloomberg
2 1 (16.67%) 29West
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
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