The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hoddesdon 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 Hoddesdon 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 1 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hoddesdon 100.00% - -
As % of the Application Development category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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 £30.75 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+25.20% -83.81%
All Application Development
Hoddesdon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hoddesdon 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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 £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
Hertfordshire

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hoddesdon Silverlight Jobs Demand Trend

Silverlight
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hoddesdon 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hoddesdon 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 1 (100.00%) DHTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VBScript
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft