The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 19 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 Kent 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank - 33 -
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 0 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 1.594% -
As % of the Application Development category - 5.882% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £500 -
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
48 68 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 19.05% 27.09% 25.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 37 44
Average daily rate £320 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.58% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
Average hourly rate £16.00 - £19.60
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.80 - £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Silverlight
South East

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Silverlight Daily 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 19 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
Dartford - - - -
Tonbridge - - - - 1
Tunbridge Wells - - - - 2
Silverlight
South East

Silverlight
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) CRM
1 7 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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.

Business Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) Silverlight Developer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) CRM
1 7 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) SQL