Oxfordshire Silverlight Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Silverlight skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Silverlight
Location Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Crawley Devon East Midlands East of England England Gloucester Gloucestershire Herefordshire Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands North West Nuneaton Oxfordshire Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Thames Valley UK Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£263	£325
% change on same period last year	-19.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.63	£33.00
% change on same period last year	+7.95 %
Application Development Oxfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	209	199
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.297 %	0.201 %
Daily rates quoted	59	35
Average minimum daily rate	£294	£283
Average daily rate	£315	£314
% change on same period last year	+0.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£336	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.80	£25.94
Average hourly rate	£27.96	£27.22
% change on same period last year	+2.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.12	£28.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.18	£32.06
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Silverlight South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.