Silverlight Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills 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 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 213 198 137
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -61
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 184 242 437
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.852% 0.904% 1.399%
As % of the Application Development category 2.936% 3.241% 4.573%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 185 352
Average daily rate £525 £475 £570
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.52% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £300 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £575 £700
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £54.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £30.75 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+25.20% -83.81%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 6267 7466 9557
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.02% 27.88% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4907 6404
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 103 140
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.20 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
England

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Silverlight across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Silverlight Daily Rate Histogram

Silverlight
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Silverlight Hourly 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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 -5 44 £481 -8.33%
Hounslow -2 4 £450 -
Canary Wharf -7 3 £608 +31.06%
Silverlight
England

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 239 (73.77%) C#
2 219 (67.59%) .NET
3 148 (45.68%) WPF
4 121 (37.35%) ASP.NET
5 118 (36.42%) SQL Server
6 109 (33.64%) JavaScript
7 105 (32.41%) SQL
8 97 (29.94%) Microsoft
9 92 (28.40%) TDD
10 84 (25.93%) Windows
11 83 (25.62%) WCF
12 81 (25.00%) Banking
13 78 (24.07%) Finance
14 76 (23.46%) MVC
15 74 (22.84%) MVVM
16 61 (18.83%) Java
17 60 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
17 60 (18.52%) Ajax
17 60 (18.52%) .NET Framework
18 58 (17.90%) XML
18 58 (17.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 53 (16.36%) OO
20 50 (15.43%) E-Commerce
21 49 (15.12%) jQuery
22 47 (14.51%) SQL Server 2008
23 45 (13.89%) Investment Banking
24 43 (13.27%) Web Services
25 41 (12.65%) Oracle
26 39 (12.04%) CRM
27 38 (11.73%) REST

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 219 (67.59%) .NET
2 148 (45.68%) WPF
3 121 (37.35%) ASP.NET
4 83 (25.62%) WCF
5 60 (18.52%) Ajax
5 60 (18.52%) .NET Framework
6 58 (17.90%) XML
7 49 (15.12%) jQuery
8 43 (13.27%) Web Services
9 38 (11.73%) REST
10 33 (10.19%) CSS
11 32 (9.877%) ASP.NET MVC
12 31 (9.568%) JSON
13 27 (8.333%) LINQ
14 23 (7.099%) WinForms
15 22 (6.790%) Flash
15 22 (6.790%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 21 (6.481%) XHTML
16 21 (6.481%) HTML
17 18 (5.556%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 25 (7.716%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.012%) SharePoint Server
3 11 (3.395%) Windows Azure
3 11 (3.395%) IIS
4 10 (3.086%) Oracle Workflow
5 7 (2.160%) CMS
5 7 (2.160%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (2.160%) TIBCO EMS
6 6 (1.852%) Documentum
7 5 (1.543%) ArcGIS
8 4 (1.235%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.617%) MSMQ
9 2 (0.617%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.617%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.309%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.309%) NServiceBus
10 1 (0.309%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.309%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.309%) Umbraco
10 1 (0.309%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 28 (8.642%) MS Excel
2 11 (3.395%) Photoshop
2 11 (3.395%) Spreadsheet
3 7 (2.160%) Adobe Illustrator
4 3 (0.926%) MS Office
5 2 (0.617%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.617%) Quicktime
5 2 (0.617%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.309%) MS PowerPoint
6 1 (0.309%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (0.309%) PowerPivot
Business Applications
1 35 (10.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.543%) RMDS
3 1 (0.309%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.309%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.309%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 22 (6.790%) HTTP
2 15 (4.630%) Internet
3 7 (2.160%) Intranet
4 5 (1.543%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 118 (36.42%) SQL Server
2 47 (14.51%) SQL Server 2008
3 37 (11.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 28 (8.642%) SQL Server 2005
5 21 (6.481%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 9 (2.778%) SQL Server 2012
6 9 (2.778%) SSDT
7 8 (2.469%) SQL Server 2000
8 7 (2.160%) Sybase ASE
8 7 (2.160%) BusinessObjects
9 5 (1.543%) GIS
9 5 (1.543%) Oracle 8/8i
9 5 (1.543%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.235%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (1.235%) InterSystems Cache
11 3 (0.926%) TOAD
12 2 (0.617%) DTS
12 2 (0.617%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.617%) Oracle 11g
12 2 (0.617%) RavenDB
Development Applications
1 23 (7.099%) Visual Studio
1 23 (7.099%) NUnit
2 19 (5.864%) Subversion
3 17 (5.247%) Expression Blend
3 17 (5.247%) Team Foundation Server
4 11 (3.395%) TeamCity
5 10 (3.086%) TortoiseSVN
5 10 (3.086%) JIRA
5 10 (3.086%) Oracle Forms
6 9 (2.778%) NMock
7 7 (2.160%) MSBuild
7 7 (2.160%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
8 6 (1.852%) StyleCop
8 6 (1.852%) Rhino Mocks
9 4 (1.235%) FishEye
10 3 (0.926%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.926%) MSTest
11 2 (0.617%) Selenium
11 2 (0.617%) Visual Studio Team System
12 1 (0.309%) Cucumber
General
1 81 (25.00%) Banking
2 78 (24.07%) Finance
3 45 (13.89%) Investment Banking
4 24 (7.407%) Front Office
5 7 (2.160%) Retail
6 6 (1.852%) Back Office
7 4 (1.235%) Marketing
8 3 (0.926%) Games
9 2 (0.617%) Retail Banking
9 2 (0.617%) French Language
10 1 (0.309%) Swedish Language
10 1 (0.309%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.309%) Advertising
10 1 (0.309%) Publishing
10 1 (0.309%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.309%) Music
10 1 (0.309%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 259 (79.94%) Developer
2 119 (36.73%) C# Developer
3 67 (20.68%) Silverlight Developer
4 51 (15.74%) .NET Developer
5 45 (13.89%) WPF Developer
6 37 (11.42%) C# .NET Developer
7 29 (8.951%) Senior Developer
8 26 (8.025%) Architect
9 23 (7.099%) Agile C# Developer
10 22 (6.790%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 21 (6.481%) ASP.NET Developer
12 16 (4.938%) Consultant
13 14 (4.321%) Senior C# Developer
14 13 (4.012%) UI Developer
14 13 (4.012%) UI Programmer
15 12 (3.704%) CRM Consultant
16 11 (3.395%) Web Developer
17 10 (3.086%) Dynamics CRM Developer
17 10 (3.086%) CRM Developer
18 9 (2.778%) Applications Architect
Miscellaneous
1 58 (17.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 36 (11.11%) RIA
3 33 (10.19%) Fixed Income
4 13 (4.012%) Inversion of Control
5 9 (2.778%) Computer Science
5 9 (2.778%) Credit Risk
5 9 (2.778%) Digital Media
6 8 (2.469%) Mathematics
6 8 (2.469%) W3C
7 7 (2.160%) Mobile App
8 6 (1.852%) Social Media
8 6 (1.852%) N-Tier
9 5 (1.543%) Physics
10 4 (1.235%) Open Source
10 4 (1.235%) Kinect
11 3 (0.926%) iPad
11 3 (0.926%) Enterprise Software
11 3 (0.926%) Market Risk
11 3 (0.926%) Derivative
11 3 (0.926%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 84 (25.93%) Windows
2 17 (5.247%) Windows 8
3 11 (3.395%) Windows Mobile
3 11 (3.395%) Android
3 11 (3.395%) Apple iOS
3 11 (3.395%) Windows Phone
4 6 (1.852%) Windows Phone 8
4 6 (1.852%) Windows Phone 7
5 5 (1.543%) HPUX
6 2 (0.617%) Windows XP
6 2 (0.617%) Windows 7
7 1 (0.309%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (28.40%) TDD
2 76 (23.46%) MVC
3 74 (22.84%) MVVM
4 60 (18.52%) Agile Software Development
5 53 (16.36%) OO
6 50 (15.43%) E-Commerce
7 39 (12.04%) CRM
8 33 (10.19%) Multithreading
9 32 (9.877%) Kanban
10 30 (9.259%) BDD
11 28 (8.642%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (8.642%) Unit Testing
12 21 (6.481%) Scrum
13 16 (4.938%) Workflow
14 14 (4.321%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (3.704%) Data Analysis
15 12 (3.704%) Technical Architecture
15 12 (3.704%) Web Development
16 11 (3.395%) UML
17 10 (3.086%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 239 (73.77%) C#
2 109 (33.64%) JavaScript
3 105 (32.41%) SQL
4 61 (18.83%) Java
5 30 (9.259%) XAML
6 25 (7.716%) T-SQL
7 14 (4.321%) VB.NET
8 11 (3.395%) VBA
9 8 (2.469%) C++
10 7 (2.160%) Python
11 4 (1.235%) PL/SQL
12 3 (0.926%) ActionScript
12 3 (0.926%) C
13 2 (0.617%) VB
13 2 (0.617%) VB6
13 2 (0.617%) XPath
13 2 (0.617%) PowerShell
14 1 (0.309%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.309%) VBScript
14 1 (0.309%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (6.173%) Degree
2 2 (0.617%) PhD
2 2 (0.617%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.309%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.309%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.235%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.617%) QA
3 1 (0.309%) Basel III
3 1 (0.309%) SLA
3 1 (0.309%) WAI
System Software
1 10 (3.086%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (0.926%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 97 (29.94%) Microsoft
2 41 (12.65%) Oracle
3 18 (5.556%) Sybase
4 10 (3.086%) Business Objects
4 10 (3.086%) Cadis
5 8 (2.469%) Adobe
6 7 (2.160%) SAP
6 7 (2.160%) TIBCO
7 6 (1.852%) 29West
8 5 (1.543%) Reuters
8 5 (1.543%) Bloomberg
8 5 (1.543%) Charles River
8 5 (1.543%) ESRI
9 4 (1.235%) Telerik
10 2 (0.617%) Apple
10 2 (0.617%) Siebel
11 1 (0.309%) GoldenSource
11 1 (0.309%) GUPTA
11 1 (0.309%) Google
11 1 (0.309%) Dundas
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