The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 24 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 Essex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 45 44 48
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +4
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 2 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.498% 0.241% 0.510%
As % of the Application Development category 1.695% 1.266% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £500 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
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
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
118 79 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 29.35% 19.04% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 37 50
Average daily rate £265 £270 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% -32.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £175 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 10
Average hourly rate £27.50 £32.25 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.72% +21.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £26.28 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £35.22 £30.00
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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) MSTest
1 2 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (50.00%) QUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Jasmine
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) XAML
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
1 2 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MSTest
1 2 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) QUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Jasmine
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) WPF Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) XAML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Essex
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a proven track record of delivering first class rich web applications and will be skilled and knowledgeable in HTML 4/...
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Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013