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Silverlight Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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 73 76 58
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -18
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 2 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.209% 0.405% 1.246%
As % of the Application Development category 0.699% 1.374% 4.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 9
Average daily rate - £285 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
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
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 286 364 286
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 29.82% 29.50% 27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 197 159
Average daily rate £300 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £235 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 17
Average hourly rate £25.00 £19.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.20% -40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £16.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £112.50 £33.64 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Silverlight
North West

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Altrincham - - - -
Stockport - - - - 2
Silverlight
North West

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) TickIT
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Phone 7
2 1 (33.33%) Twitter
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 8
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Phone 8

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Silverlight Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Phone 7
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 8
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Phone 8
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) UML
1 1 (33.33%) OOD
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (33.33%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (33.33%) TickIT
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Twitter
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