The first table below looks at the demand for the Silverlight Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 18 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 Job Titles advertised for the Swindon 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Silverlight Developer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Silverlight Developer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £330 £313
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +5.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
332 309 323
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 93.52% 91.69% 92.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 246 203 187
Average daily rate £420 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £253 £212 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 10 19
Average hourly rate £14.00 £16.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -44.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £25.00 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Silverlight Developer
Wiltshire

Silverlight Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Silverlight Developer Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight Developer
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) ESRI
1 2 (100.00%) ArcGIS
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 2 (100.00%) RIA
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (100.00%) MSTest
1 2 (100.00%) Moq
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework

Silverlight Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) ArcGIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) MSTest
1 2 (100.00%) Moq
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 2 (100.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) UML
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ESRI