Silverlight Developer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Silverlight Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 currently tracked.

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 474 500 434
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Silverlight Developer 56 78 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.121% 0.134% 0.254%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.131% 0.144% 0.274%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 64 131
Average daily rate £530 £529 £625
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.18% -15.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £316 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £575 £725
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
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Silverlight Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Silverlight Developer Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Silverlight Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Silverlight Developer Daily Rate Histogram

Silverlight Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Silverlight Developer within the UK.

Silverlight Developer Hourly Rate Trend

Silverlight Developer
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Silverlight Developer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +25 55 £530 +0.18%
London +4 45 £545 +3.02%
South East +25 6 - -
Kent - 6 - -
City of London -7 5 £515 -2.64%
Hounslow +1 4 £450 -
West Midlands - 2 £290 -
East of England +14 1 £350 -12.50%
North West +13 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £350 -
Manchester - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 £350 -

Silverlight Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 102 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 95 (93.14%) C#
3 54 (52.94%) WPF
4 53 (51.96%) .NET
5 48 (47.06%) SQL Server
6 46 (45.10%) MVVM
7 33 (32.35%) SQL
8 28 (27.45%) JavaScript
9 27 (26.47%) Unit Testing
10 26 (25.49%) TDD
11 21 (20.59%) WCF
11 21 (20.59%) Finance
12 20 (19.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 20 (19.61%) Windows
12 20 (19.61%) Banking
13 19 (18.63%) Investment Banking
13 19 (18.63%) XML
13 19 (18.63%) Visual Studio
14 18 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
15 17 (16.67%) Expression Blend
15 17 (16.67%) RIA
15 17 (16.67%) ASP.NET
16 16 (15.69%) CRM
16 16 (15.69%) E-Commerce
16 16 (15.69%) Microsoft
16 16 (15.69%) MVC
16 16 (15.69%) Ajax
16 16 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
17 15 (14.71%) Agile Software Development
17 15 (14.71%) Sybase

Silverlight Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 102 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 54 (52.94%) WPF
3 53 (51.96%) .NET
4 21 (20.59%) WCF
5 19 (18.63%) XML
6 17 (16.67%) ASP.NET
7 16 (15.69%) Ajax
8 10 (9.804%) jQuery
9 7 (6.863%) .NET Framework
10 6 (5.882%) OOXML
10 6 (5.882%) Web Services
11 5 (4.902%) LINQ
12 4 (3.922%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 4 (3.922%) ASP.NET MVC
12 4 (3.922%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 4 (3.922%) REST
12 4 (3.922%) XNA
13 3 (2.941%) CORBA
13 3 (2.941%) SOAP
14 2 (1.961%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (4.902%) IIS
2 2 (1.961%) ArcGIS
3 1 (0.980%) CMS
3 1 (0.980%) Windows Azure
3 1 (0.980%) NServiceBus
3 1 (0.980%) MQSeries
3 1 (0.980%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (9.804%) Spreadsheet
2 3 (2.941%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.980%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 13 (12.75%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.922%) Internet
2 3 (2.941%) 3GPP
2 3 (2.941%) SNMP
3 2 (1.961%) HTTP
3 2 (1.961%) BSS
4 1 (0.980%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 18 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (10.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (5.882%) BusinessObjects
5 6 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (4.902%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (3.922%) SQL Server 2000
7 4 (3.922%) Sybase ASE
8 3 (2.941%) GIS
9 1 (0.980%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.980%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (0.980%) RavenDB
9 1 (0.980%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 19 (18.63%) Visual Studio
2 17 (16.67%) Expression Blend
3 9 (8.824%) Subversion
4 6 (5.882%) TortoiseSVN
5 3 (2.941%) Moq
5 3 (2.941%) FishEye
5 3 (2.941%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (2.941%) JIRA
5 3 (2.941%) Selenium
5 3 (2.941%) Rational Rose
5 3 (2.941%) Telelogic TAU
6 2 (1.961%) NUnit
6 2 (1.961%) MSTest
7 1 (0.980%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.980%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (20.59%) Finance
2 20 (19.61%) Banking
3 19 (18.63%) Investment Banking
4 6 (5.882%) Telecoms
5 2 (1.961%) French Language
6 1 (0.980%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 20 (19.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 17 (16.67%) RIA
3 12 (11.76%) Fixed Income
4 9 (8.824%) Credit Risk
5 4 (3.922%) Kinect
5 4 (3.922%) Open Source
6 3 (2.941%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.941%) Mathematics
6 3 (2.941%) Physics
6 3 (2.941%) Computer Science
6 3 (2.941%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.941%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.980%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.980%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.980%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (0.980%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.61%) Windows
2 6 (5.882%) Windows 8
3 4 (3.922%) Windows Phone
4 2 (1.961%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.980%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (45.10%) MVVM
2 27 (26.47%) Unit Testing
3 26 (25.49%) TDD
4 16 (15.69%) CRM
4 16 (15.69%) E-Commerce
4 16 (15.69%) MVC
4 16 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (14.71%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (12.75%) BDD
7 12 (11.76%) Kanban
8 8 (7.843%) OO
9 7 (6.863%) UML
9 7 (6.863%) Multithreading
10 5 (4.902%) SOA
11 4 (3.922%) Pair Programming
11 4 (3.922%) Release Management
12 3 (2.941%) Use Case
12 3 (2.941%) Scrum
12 3 (2.941%) Data Modelling
12 3 (2.941%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (93.14%) C#
2 33 (32.35%) SQL
3 28 (27.45%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.863%) XAML
5 6 (5.882%) Java
6 4 (3.922%) VBA
7 3 (2.941%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.980%) AWK
8 1 (0.980%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (2.941%) Degree
2 2 (1.961%) DV Cleared
2 2 (1.961%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.980%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 3 (2.941%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (15.69%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.71%) Sybase
3 12 (11.76%) Oracle
4 9 (8.824%) Telerik
5 6 (5.882%) Business Objects
5 6 (5.882%) SAP
5 6 (5.882%) Infragistics
6 3 (2.941%) Telelogic
6 3 (2.941%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 3 (2.941%) Foundry
7 2 (1.961%) ESRI
7 2 (1.961%) Siebel
ASP.Net Silverlight Developer, Banking, ASP.Net, Silverlight
East London
A ASP.Net and Silvernet Developer is needed for a top Investment Bank to work on an Identity and Access Management system. Candidates must have strong ASP.Net...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Silverlight Developer
Hounslow, Middlesex
Silverlight/Rich User Interfaces/XML/XAML/Xbox/WPF/Windows Phone/Windows 8/C#/XNA/Kinect/Agile/TDD/Pair Programming. Our client is a major broadcasting company based in...
Experis IT
Rate: £400 - £540 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
ASP.NET/Silverlight Developer
City of London
ASP.NET/SILVERLIGHT DEVELOPER sought by Tier 1 Investment Bank based in the city of London.Responsibilities: * Leverage deep technical knowledge to create technology solutions that address complex...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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