The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 20 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 Hertfordshire 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 54 78 63
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -15
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 2 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.309% 0.203% 0.429%
As % of the Application Development category 0.909% 0.662% 1.674%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £431 £425 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.47% +70.00%
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
220 302 239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 34.00% 30.66% 25.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 146 108
Average daily rate £350 £350 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 23
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £19.60 £32.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.00 £36.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Silverlight
East of England

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bishop's Stortford - - - -
Letchworth - - - -
Stevenage - - - -
Watford - - - -
Silverlight
East of England

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) WPF
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) DHTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) MS Office
2 1 (25.00%) ASP
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Workflow
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (25.00%) Retail

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 (50.00%) XML
1 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) DHTML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) jQuery
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) LAMP
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Silverlight Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP MySQL Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Information Architect
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) PHP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Information Architecture
1 1 (25.00%) Workflow
1 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft