The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead 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 - 14 -
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 0 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leatherhead - 7.317% -
As % of the Application Development category - 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Average daily rate - £363 -
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
Leatherhead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11 24 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leatherhead 47.83% 29.27% 28.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 23 2
Average daily rate £320 £371 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.74% +13.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £350 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £425 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
Surrey

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead region.

Leatherhead Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leatherhead 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 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) XML
1 8 (100.00%) SOA
1 8 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle
3 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 5 (62.50%) WCF
4 4 (50.00%) WPF
4 4 (50.00%) Product Management
4 4 (50.00%) Moq
4 4 (50.00%) sed
4 4 (50.00%) User Stories
4 4 (50.00%) Mathematics
4 4 (50.00%) Physics
4 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
4 4 (50.00%) Degree
4 4 (50.00%) Use Case
4 4 (50.00%) AWK
4 4 (50.00%) Teradata
4 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (50.00%) NUnit
4 4 (50.00%) UML
4 4 (50.00%) Python
4 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 4 (50.00%) Perl
4 4 (50.00%) SOAP
5 3 (37.50%) Rational Rose
5 3 (37.50%) 3GPP
5 3 (37.50%) SNMP

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leatherhead 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) XML
2 5 (62.50%) WCF
3 4 (50.00%) WPF
3 4 (50.00%) SOAP
4 3 (37.50%) CORBA
5 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (12.50%) WSDL
6 1 (12.50%) XML Schema
6 1 (12.50%) XSD
6 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) 3GPP
1 3 (37.50%) SNMP
2 1 (12.50%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) GIS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Moq
1 4 (50.00%) NUnit
2 3 (37.50%) Rational Rose
2 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Telelogic TAU
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) Subversion
General
1 8 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Silverlight Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Design Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mathematics
1 4 (50.00%) Physics
1 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) SOA
2 5 (62.50%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) Product Management
3 4 (50.00%) User Stories
3 4 (50.00%) Use Case
3 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (50.00%) UML
3 4 (50.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (37.50%) Network Management
4 3 (37.50%) MVVM
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Management
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 1 (12.50%) Release Management
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Network Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) sed
2 4 (50.00%) AWK
2 4 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (50.00%) Perl
3 1 (12.50%) XPath
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 4 (50.00%) Teradata
3 3 (37.50%) Telelogic
3 3 (37.50%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 1 (12.50%) WSO2