The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 17 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 Exeter 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 15 18 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 8 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 7.207% 1.667% -
As % of the Application Development category 17.02% 3.846% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £310 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £30.75 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+25.20% -83.81%
All Application Development
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
47 26 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 42.34% 43.33% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 15 16
Average daily rate £325 £419 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.43% -0.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £376
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
Devon

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter 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 Exeter region.

Exeter Silverlight Hourly Rate Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (86.67%) C#
3 11 (73.33%) Java
4 9 (60.00%) jQuery
5 8 (53.33%) Windows
5 8 (53.33%) Linux
6 6 (40.00%) CSS
6 6 (40.00%) Servlets
6 6 (40.00%) Web Services
6 6 (40.00%) XML
6 6 (40.00%) XSD
6 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
6 6 (40.00%) HTML
6 6 (40.00%) J2EE
6 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
6 6 (40.00%) GIS
6 6 (40.00%) ESRI
6 6 (40.00%) ArcGIS
6 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio
6 6 (40.00%) Python
6 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
6 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (40.00%) ArcObjects
6 6 (40.00%) Dojo
6 6 (40.00%) Apache Flex
6 6 (40.00%) Windows 7
6 6 (40.00%) REST
6 6 (40.00%) Publishing
6 6 (40.00%) ArcSDE

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (60.00%) jQuery
3 6 (40.00%) J2EE
3 6 (40.00%) REST
3 6 (40.00%) CSS
3 6 (40.00%) Servlets
3 6 (40.00%) Web Services
3 6 (40.00%) XML
3 6 (40.00%) XSD
3 6 (40.00%) Ajax
3 6 (40.00%) ArcObjects
3 6 (40.00%) Dojo
3 6 (40.00%) Apache Flex
3 6 (40.00%) HTML
4 5 (33.33%) WCF
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
6 2 (13.33%) RESTful
6 2 (13.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (40.00%) ArcGIS
1 6 (40.00%) ArcSDE
2 2 (13.33%) IIS
2 2 (13.33%) Apache
2 2 (13.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) LDAP
1 1 (6.667%) SSL
1 1 (6.667%) SAN
1 1 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) GIS
2 5 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (13.33%) NUnit
2 2 (13.33%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (40.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (86.67%) Developer
2 6 (40.00%) GIS Developer
3 5 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 5 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Silverlight Developer
4 3 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Web Administrator
5 2 (13.33%) Administrator
6 1 (6.667%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Windows
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (40.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Data Management
1 6 (40.00%) Information Management
1 6 (40.00%) Data Modelling
2 3 (20.00%) MVC
3 2 (13.33%) TDD
3 2 (13.33%) Logistics
3 2 (13.33%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) C#
2 11 (73.33%) Java
3 6 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (40.00%) Python
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.667%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 6 (40.00%) Red Hat
1 6 (40.00%) ESRI
2 3 (20.00%) Foundry
3 2 (13.33%) VMware
4 1 (6.667%) Oracle
4 1 (6.667%) NetApp