The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Silverlight Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Silverlight Developer
Rank 336 349 298
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Silverlight Developer 41 61 139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.189% 0.227% 0.440%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.206% 0.245% 0.475%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 52 126
Average daily rate £538 £529 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.60% -15.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £402 £500
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £575 £738
UK excluding London average daily rate £290 £310 £330
% change year-on-year
-6.45% -6.06%
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
19937 24898 29250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.14% 92.45% 92.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 13430 16056 18793
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
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 446 620 684
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
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 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Silverlight Developer
England

Silverlight Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Silverlight Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Silverlight Developer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Silverlight Developer Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Silverlight Developer across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Silverlight Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Silverlight Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Silverlight Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Silverlight Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Silverlight Developer within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
City of London +3 5 £475 -9.52%
Hounslow -1 4 £450 -
Docklands, London - 1 £475 -
Silverlight Developer
England

Silverlight Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited 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 Silverlight Developer in their job title.

1 70 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 65 (92.86%) C#
3 44 (62.86%) WPF
4 40 (57.14%) .NET
5 31 (44.29%) MVVM
6 30 (42.86%) SQL Server
7 25 (35.71%) SQL
7 25 (35.71%) TDD
8 24 (34.29%) Banking
9 22 (31.43%) JavaScript
10 21 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (30.00%) Finance
11 19 (27.14%) Investment Banking
12 18 (25.71%) ASP.NET
13 17 (24.29%) E-Commerce
13 17 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
14 16 (22.86%) Ajax
15 15 (21.43%) MVC
15 15 (21.43%) RIA
16 14 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
16 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
16 14 (20.00%) Sybase
17 13 (18.57%) Fixed Income
17 13 (18.57%) Agile Software Development
17 13 (18.57%) WCF
17 13 (18.57%) BDD
18 12 (17.14%) Kanban
18 12 (17.14%) XML
19 11 (15.71%) Windows
19 11 (15.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Silverlight Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited 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 Silverlight Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 70 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 44 (62.86%) WPF
3 40 (57.14%) .NET
4 18 (25.71%) ASP.NET
5 16 (22.86%) Ajax
6 13 (18.57%) WCF
7 12 (17.14%) XML
8 6 (8.571%) jQuery
8 6 (8.571%) LINQ
8 6 (8.571%) .NET Framework
8 6 (8.571%) OOXML
9 4 (5.714%) REST
9 4 (5.714%) XNA
10 3 (4.286%) Web Services
11 2 (2.857%) ASP.NET MVC
12 1 (1.429%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 1 (1.429%) Flash
12 1 (1.429%) ASP
12 1 (1.429%) HTML
12 1 (1.429%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.857%) IIS
2 1 (1.429%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.429%) NServiceBus
2 1 (1.429%) MQSeries
2 1 (1.429%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.429%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (14.29%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (2.857%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.429%) MS Office
3 1 (1.429%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.429%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.714%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.714%) Internet
2 2 (2.857%) HTTP
3 1 (1.429%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 14 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (15.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (15.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 6 (8.571%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (5.714%) SQL Server 2000
5 4 (5.714%) Sybase ASE
5 4 (5.714%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (1.429%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 9 (12.86%) Expression Blend
2 8 (11.43%) Subversion
3 6 (8.571%) TortoiseSVN
3 6 (8.571%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.857%) FishEye
4 2 (2.857%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (2.857%) JIRA
5 1 (1.429%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.429%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.429%) NUnit
General
1 24 (34.29%) Banking
2 21 (30.00%) Finance
3 19 (27.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.429%) French Language
4 1 (1.429%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 21 (30.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 15 (21.43%) RIA
3 13 (18.57%) Fixed Income
4 8 (11.43%) Credit Risk
5 4 (5.714%) Kinect
5 4 (5.714%) Open Source
6 2 (2.857%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.429%) Video on Demand
7 1 (1.429%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.429%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.429%) Economics
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.71%) Windows
2 6 (8.571%) Windows 8
3 4 (5.714%) Windows Phone
4 1 (1.429%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (44.29%) MVVM
2 25 (35.71%) TDD
3 17 (24.29%) E-Commerce
3 17 (24.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (21.43%) MVC
5 13 (18.57%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (18.57%) BDD
6 12 (17.14%) Kanban
7 10 (14.29%) Unit Testing
8 7 (10.00%) OO
8 7 (10.00%) Multithreading
9 6 (8.571%) CRM
10 4 (5.714%) Pair Programming
10 4 (5.714%) Release Management
11 2 (2.857%) Migration
11 2 (2.857%) Data Analysis
11 2 (2.857%) Waterfall
11 2 (2.857%) Change Control
11 2 (2.857%) Web Development
12 1 (1.429%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 65 (92.86%) C#
2 25 (35.71%) SQL
3 22 (31.43%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.00%) Java
5 5 (7.143%) XAML
6 4 (5.714%) VBA
7 3 (4.286%) T-SQL
8 2 (2.857%) Python
Systems Management
1 2 (2.857%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 14 (20.00%) Sybase
2 6 (8.571%) SAP
2 6 (8.571%) Business Objects
3 2 (2.857%) Telerik
4 1 (1.429%) Siebel