The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 Nottingham 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 - 30 -
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham - 0.448% -
As % of the Application Development category - 1.351% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £240 -
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
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
64 74 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 21.05% 33.18% 23.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 48 28
Average daily rate £290 £288 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.86% -10.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £238 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 1
Average hourly rate £30.00 £8.50 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+252.94% -10.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Silverlight
Nottinghamshire

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 3 (100.00%) CRM
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (33.33%) MVVM

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Silverlight Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#