The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 74 87 88
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +1
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 6 10 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.516% 0.616% 0.823%
As % of the Application Development category 1.813% 2.128% 2.814%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 10
Average daily rate £325 £350 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -15.15%
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
331 470 533
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 28.49% 28.96% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 267 290
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 15
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £19.00 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
South East

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Surrey Silverlight Daily Rate Histogram

Silverlight
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey Silverlight Hourly Rate Trend

Silverlight
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Silverlight within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Woking - 5 £325 -
Silverlight
South East

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 30 (88.24%) .NET
2 26 (76.47%) C#
3 21 (61.76%) XML
4 16 (47.06%) SOA
4 16 (47.06%) Telecoms
5 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
5 14 (41.18%) WPF
6 13 (38.24%) Oracle
7 9 (26.47%) CRM
7 9 (26.47%) SharePoint
7 9 (26.47%) Dynamics CRM
8 8 (23.53%) SalesLogix
8 8 (23.53%) SQL
8 8 (23.53%) Web Services
8 8 (23.53%) XSD
8 8 (23.53%) WCF
9 7 (20.59%) Moq
9 7 (20.59%) XSL
9 7 (20.59%) Windows
9 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
9 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
9 7 (20.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (20.59%) NUnit
9 7 (20.59%) Agile Software Development
9 7 (20.59%) Scrum
10 6 (17.65%) Migration
10 6 (17.65%) AWK
10 6 (17.65%) Teradata
10 6 (17.65%) Perl
10 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 30 (88.24%) .NET
2 21 (61.76%) XML
3 14 (41.18%) WPF
4 8 (23.53%) Web Services
4 8 (23.53%) XSD
4 8 (23.53%) WCF
5 7 (20.59%) XSL
6 5 (14.71%) SOAP
7 3 (8.824%) CORBA
7 3 (8.824%) .NET Framework
8 2 (5.882%) XSLT
8 2 (5.882%) WSDL
8 2 (5.882%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 9 (26.47%) SharePoint
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Fireworks
1 5 (14.71%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (26.47%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (23.53%) SalesLogix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (11.76%) BSS
2 3 (8.824%) 3GPP
2 3 (8.824%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server
1 7 (20.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle 10g
3 3 (8.824%) GIS
4 2 (5.882%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.941%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Moq
1 7 (20.59%) NUnit
2 3 (8.824%) Rational Rose
2 3 (8.824%) Telelogic TAU
2 3 (8.824%) Selenium
3 2 (5.882%) JIRA
3 2 (5.882%) Subversion
General
1 16 (47.06%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.941%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 15 (44.12%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) Silverlight Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Design Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) Architect
6 3 (8.824%) .NET Developer
6 3 (8.824%) CRM Architect
7 2 (5.882%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
7 2 (5.882%) WPF Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
7 2 (5.882%) CRM Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Microsoft Consultant
7 2 (5.882%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (5.882%) CRM Consultant
7 2 (5.882%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Consultant
8 1 (2.941%) Development Specialist
8 1 (2.941%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Mathematics
1 4 (11.76%) Physics
1 4 (11.76%) Computer Science
2 3 (8.824%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
2 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) SOA
2 9 (26.47%) CRM
3 7 (20.59%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (20.59%) Scrum
4 6 (17.65%) Migration
4 6 (17.65%) Data Modelling
5 5 (14.71%) UML
5 5 (14.71%) Data Analysis
5 5 (14.71%) Use Case
5 5 (14.71%) User Stories
6 4 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (11.76%) Product Management
7 3 (8.824%) Test Automation
7 3 (8.824%) MVVM
7 3 (8.824%) Network Management
7 3 (8.824%) Performance Management
8 2 (5.882%) Release Management
8 2 (5.882%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (5.882%) TDD
8 2 (5.882%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (76.47%) C#
2 8 (23.53%) SQL
3 7 (20.59%) JavaScript
4 6 (17.65%) AWK
4 6 (17.65%) Perl
5 4 (11.76%) sed
5 4 (11.76%) Python
6 2 (5.882%) XPath
7 1 (2.941%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (2.941%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) QA
Vendors
1 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
2 13 (38.24%) Oracle
3 6 (17.65%) Teradata
3 6 (17.65%) Sage
4 3 (8.824%) Telelogic
4 3 (8.824%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 1 (2.941%) WSO2
Surrey
Technical skills, must have: .Net 4, C#, Silverlight, some SOA, MQ, webservices, Scrum and multi-tier architecture... Ideally you will come from a .Net development background with experience...
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Rate: £550 - £600 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013