The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Silverlight Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Silverlight Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the London 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
Senior Silverlight Developer
Rank 380 407 431
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Silverlight Developer 4 3 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.018% 0.011% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.012% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 12
Average daily rate £525 £563 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20976 24602 29086
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.99% 92.53% 92.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14169 15932 18722
Average daily rate £450 £438 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £293
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 607 665
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Senior Silverlight Developer
England

Senior Silverlight Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Senior Silverlight Developer across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Senior Silverlight Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Silverlight Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Senior Silverlight Developer across the London region.

London Senior Silverlight Developer Daily Rate Trend

Senior Silverlight Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Senior Silverlight Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London Senior Silverlight Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Senior Silverlight Developer
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Senior Silverlight Developer in their job title 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 with Senior Silverlight Developer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Blend
3 2 (50.00%) MVVM
3 2 (50.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) Reactive Extensions
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) HTML5
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ
4 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
4 1 (25.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Economics
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
4 1 (25.00%) SOA
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft

Senior Silverlight Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Senior Silverlight Developer in their job title 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 with Senior Silverlight Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (25.00%) Reactive Extensions
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) LINQ
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Blend
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (25.00%) Economics
2 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (50.00%) MVVM
2 2 (50.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft