The first table below looks at the demand for the Silverlight Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight Developer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the South West 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Silverlight Developer
Rank - 135 114
Contract jobs requiring a Silverlight Developer 0 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West - 0.121% 0.107%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.130% 0.113%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £225 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -37.93%
UK excluding London average daily rate £320 £310 £363
% change year-on-year
+3.22% -14.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1930 3082 2645
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 94.24% 93.00% 94.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1158 1838 1307
Average daily rate £350 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £228 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 193 247
Average hourly rate £15.40 £23.88 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.49% +13.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £12.50 £12.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Silverlight Developer
England

Silverlight Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Silverlight Developer across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South West Silverlight Developer Jobs Demand Trend

Silverlight Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Silverlight Developer across the South West region.

South West Silverlight Developer Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Silverlight Developer in their job title 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 with Silverlight Developer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) Foundry
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) UML
3 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) IIS
3 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (40.00%) ESRI
3 2 (40.00%) ArcGIS
3 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Moq
3 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) MSTest
3 2 (40.00%) RIA

Silverlight Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region that cited Silverlight Developer in their job title 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 with Silverlight Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (100.00%) WCF
1 5 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (60.00%) jQuery
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (40.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) IIS
1 2 (40.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (40.00%) MSTest
1 2 (40.00%) Moq
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (40.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (40.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Foundry
2 2 (40.00%) ESRI