The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills 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 over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 28 40 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 12 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 4.000% 0.551% -
As % of the Application Development category 20.69% 3.175% -
Number of daily rates quoted 10 2 0
Average daily rate £335 £263 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.61% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £31.00 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+24.19% -83.68%
All Application Development
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
58 63 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 19.33% 17.36% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 46 30
Average daily rate £325 £335 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% -10.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £242 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
Wiltshire

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Swindon Silverlight Daily Rate Histogram

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 15 (100.00%) WCF
2 13 (86.67%) .NET
3 12 (80.00%) Windows
4 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
5 10 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 9 (60.00%) Unit Testing
6 9 (60.00%) Web Services
7 8 (53.33%) jQuery
7 8 (53.33%) .NET Framework
8 7 (46.67%) RIA
8 7 (46.67%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (46.67%) Team Foundation Server
8 7 (46.67%) Windows 7
8 7 (46.67%) Managed Extensibility Framework
8 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
8 7 (46.67%) MSTest
8 7 (46.67%) Moq
8 7 (46.67%) XML
8 7 (46.67%) UML
8 7 (46.67%) Client/Server
8 7 (46.67%) IIS
8 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
8 7 (46.67%) ESRI
8 7 (46.67%) ArcGIS
9 6 (40.00%) Microsoft
10 5 (33.33%) Subversion
10 5 (33.33%) SQL
10 5 (33.33%) SharePoint

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 15 (100.00%) WCF
2 13 (86.67%) .NET
3 10 (66.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 9 (60.00%) Web Services
5 8 (53.33%) jQuery
5 8 (53.33%) .NET Framework
6 7 (46.67%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 7 (46.67%) XML
7 5 (33.33%) LINQ
8 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET
9 2 (13.33%) JSON
9 2 (13.33%) CSS
9 2 (13.33%) HTML
9 2 (13.33%) XSLT
9 2 (13.33%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 7 (46.67%) IIS
1 7 (46.67%) ArcGIS
2 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 5 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
2 5 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (46.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 7 (46.67%) MSTest
1 7 (46.67%) Moq
1 7 (46.67%) Visual Studio
2 5 (33.33%) Subversion
General
1 2 (13.33%) Retail
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Software Programmer
2 7 (46.67%) C# Programmer
2 7 (46.67%) Programmer
2 7 (46.67%) Software Developer
2 7 (46.67%) Software Engineer
2 7 (46.67%) .NET Developer
2 7 (46.67%) C# Developer
3 5 (33.33%) .NET Programmer
3 5 (33.33%) SharePoint Developer
3 5 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (13.33%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Silverlight Developer
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Software Developer
4 2 (13.33%) .NET Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) RIA
1 7 (46.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 12 (80.00%) Windows
2 7 (46.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Unit Testing
2 7 (46.67%) UML
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) DV Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) ESRI
2 6 (40.00%) Microsoft