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Silverlight Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 Reading 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 70 78 74
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -4
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 3 3 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.341% 0.261% 0.395%
As % of the Application Development category 1.546% 1.724% 1.878%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
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
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 194 174 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 22.05% 15.12% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 66 104
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 6
Average hourly rate £15.00 £19.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +15.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
Silverlight
Berkshire

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Silverlight Hourly Rate Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 5 (55.56%) Web Services
3 5 (55.56%) XML
3 5 (55.56%) HTML
3 5 (55.56%) .NET
3 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
4 4 (44.44%) BizTalk Server
4 4 (44.44%) Middleware
4 4 (44.44%) Project Management
4 4 (44.44%) Workflow
4 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
4 4 (44.44%) IIS
4 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
4 4 (44.44%) CRM
4 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
4 4 (44.44%) EAI
4 4 (44.44%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (44.44%) Dynamics AX
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (44.44%) WCF
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Azure
4 4 (44.44%) Windows Phone
5 3 (33.33%) XAML
5 3 (33.33%) MVVM

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 5 (55.56%) Web Services
1 5 (55.56%) XML
1 5 (55.56%) HTML
1 5 (55.56%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) Middleware
2 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
2 4 (44.44%) WCF
3 2 (22.22%) WPF
4 1 (11.11%) J2EE
4 1 (11.11%) XSD
4 1 (11.11%) CSS
4 1 (11.11%) Servlets
4 1 (11.11%) REST
4 1 (11.11%) jQuery
4 1 (11.11%) Ajax
4 1 (11.11%) ArcObjects
4 1 (11.11%) Dojo
4 1 (11.11%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) BizTalk Server
1 4 (44.44%) IIS
1 4 (44.44%) SharePoint
1 4 (44.44%) Windows Azure
2 1 (11.11%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 4 (44.44%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (44.44%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 3 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Developer
1 4 (44.44%) Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) CRM Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft Consultant
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) GIS Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Windows Phone
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Phone 7
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Phone 8
4 1 (11.11%) Linux
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 8
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Project Management
1 4 (44.44%) Workflow
1 4 (44.44%) CRM
1 4 (44.44%) EAI
2 3 (33.33%) MVVM
3 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) XAML
3 2 (22.22%) C++
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ESRI
2 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
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