The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 20 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 Somerset 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank - - 32
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset - - 0.633%
As % of the Application Development category - - 1.429%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £30.75 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+25.20% -83.81%
All Application Development
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
45 66 70
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 24.46% 38.82% 44.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 40 36
Average daily rate £315 £335 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.97% +27.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £230 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
South West

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++