Silverlight Contracts

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

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.

Microsoft Silverlight
Location Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastbourne Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Huntingdon Kent Leatherhead Leeds Livingston London Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Scotland Sevenoaks Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon UK Wakefield Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 May 2012	Same period 2011	Same period 2010
Rank	255	189	230
Rank change year-on-year	-66 +41
Matching contract IT job ads	395	579	377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	0.676 %	0.962 %	0.683 %
As % of the Application Development category	2.633 %	3.501 %	2.442 %
Number of daily rates quoted	267	434	247
Average daily rate	£400	£500	£475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-20.00 % +5.26 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£288	£245
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£700	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£325	£290
% change year-on-year	- +12.06 %
Number of hourly rates quoted	4	3	6
Average hourly rate	£30.75	£190.00	£42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-83.81 % +347.05 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.75	£190.00	£42.50
% change year-on-year	-83.81 % +347.05 %
All Application Development UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the Application Development category	15000	16536	15438
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK	25.66 %	27.49 %	27.97 %
Number of daily rates quoted	8808	9638	8217
Average daily rate	£350	£393	£365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year	-10.82 % +7.53 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£250	£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£600	£575
UK excluding London average daily rate	£325	£325	£300
% change year-on-year	- +8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted	387	569	438
Average hourly rate	£32.50	£36.00	£30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year	-9.72 % +20.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£15.00	£19.00	£16.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than	£41.00	£47.50	£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.00	£36.50	£28.50
% change year-on-year	-12.32 % +28.07 %

Silverlight
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Silverlight within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Silverlight
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Silverlight within the UK.

Silverlight
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Silverlight within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Silverlight
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Silverlight
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Silverlight within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

Silverlight
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. 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	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	-65	385	£400	-20.00 %
London	-58	241	£475	-16.66 %
City of London	-35	62	£525	-14.80 %
South East	+8	52	£350	-
South West	0	27	£320	+18.51 %
East of England	-24	23	£325	-
Hampshire	+22	16	£300	-9.77 %
West Midlands	-12	16	£350	+40.00 %
Yorkshire	-16	11	£350	+33.33 %
Cambridgeshire	-25	11	£388	+19.23 %
Surrey	+1	10	£350	-15.15 %
Cambridge	-24	10	£300	-14.28 %
West Sussex	+4	9	£375	+7.14 %
West Yorkshire	-17	9	£350	+27.27 %
Bristol	-	9	£325	-
Leeds	-6	7	£350	-
North West	-10	7	£270	-30.32 %
North East	+4	6	£365	+35.18 %
Leatherhead	-	6	£363	-
Coventry	-	6	-	-
Suffolk	-3	5	£325	-
Bury St Edmunds	-	5	£325	-
Cheshire	+10	4	£270	-2.70 %
Devon	0	4	£238	-5.00 %
Oxfordshire	0	4	£235	-27.69 %
Wiltshire	-4	4	£280	+3.70 %
Dorchester	-	4	-	-
Dorset	-	4	-	-
Durham	-	4	£365	-
Middlesex	+8	3	£375	-

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 1 524 (74.75 %) .NET 2 300 (42.80 %) WPF 3 221 (31.53 %) ASP.NET 4 169 (24.11 %) WCF 5 157 (22.40 %) .NET Framework 6 118 (16.83 %) HTML 7 106 (15.12 %) jQuery 8 100 (14.27 %) LINQ 9 94 (13.41 %) CSS 10 85 (12.13 %) Web Services 11 77 (10.98 %) XML 12 73 (10.41 %) Ajax 13 57 (8.131 %) WinForms 14 50 (7.133 %) ASP.NET MVC 15 46 (6.562 %) SOAP 16 39 (5.563 %) ADO.NET Entity Framework 17 38 (5.421 %) Reactive Extensions 18 35 (4.993 %) HTML5 19 30 (4.280 %) XHTML 20 29 (4.137 %) Managed Extensibility Framework	Application Platforms 1 72 (10.27 %) SharePoint 2 26 (3.709 %) SharePoint 2010 3 17 (2.425 %) SharePoint Server 4 16 (2.282 %) BizTalk Server 5 15 (2.140 %) ArcGIS 6 14 (1.997 %) IIS 7 9 (1.284 %) ArcSDE 8 7 (0.999 %) ESB 8 7 (0.999 %) CMS 8 7 (0.999 %) RabbitMQ 9 5 (0.713 %) Office Project Server 10 4 (0.571 %) Smallworld 10 4 (0.571 %) Tomcat 10 4 (0.571 %) Drupal 11 3 (0.428 %) Lightstreamer 11 3 (0.428 %) Oracle Workflow 11 3 (0.428 %) Confluence 12 2 (0.285 %) Rendezvous 12 2 (0.285 %) LiveLink 12 2 (0.285 %) ColdFusion MX
Applications 1 81 (11.55 %) MS Excel 2 14 (1.997 %) InfoPath 3 12 (1.712 %) Spreadsheet 4 10 (1.427 %) Photoshop 5 8 (1.141 %) MS Visio 6 7 (0.999 %) MS Project 7 6 (0.856 %) MS Office 8 4 (0.571 %) MS PowerPoint 9 3 (0.428 %) Adobe Illustrator 10 1 (0.143 %) Fireworks	Business Applications 1 47 (6.705 %) Dynamics CRM 2 3 (0.428 %) Maximo 3 2 (0.285 %) Summit 4 1 (0.143 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 21 (2.996 %) Internet 2 13 (1.854 %) TCP/IP 3 12 (1.712 %) Intranet 4 4 (0.571 %) HTTP 5 2 (0.285 %) DNS 5 2 (0.285 %) FTP 5 2 (0.285 %) VoIP 6 1 (0.143 %) Cisco IOS 6 1 (0.143 %) Cisco ICM 6 1 (0.143 %) LDAP 6 1 (0.143 %) DHCP 6 1 (0.143 %) Ethernet 6 1 (0.143 %) Kerberos 6 1 (0.143 %) PPP 6 1 (0.143 %) LAN 6 1 (0.143 %) SMS 6 1 (0.143 %) TELNET 6 1 (0.143 %) Extranet 6 1 (0.143 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 293 (41.80 %) SQL Server 2 103 (14.69 %) SQL Server 2008 3 60 (8.559 %) SQL Server 2005 4 33 (4.708 %) SQL Server Integration Services 5 30 (4.280 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 6 24 (3.424 %) Oracle 8/8i 7 22 (3.138 %) Crystal Reports 8 21 (2.996 %) Oracle Reports 9 17 (2.425 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 10 15 (2.140 %) GIS 11 12 (1.712 %) Data Warehouse 12 10 (1.427 %) DTS 12 10 (1.427 %) Sybase ASE 13 9 (1.284 %) MS Access 13 9 (1.284 %) SQL Server 2000 14 7 (0.999 %) OLAP 15 6 (0.856 %) MySQL 15 6 (0.856 %) ETL 16 5 (0.713 %) Oracle 11g 17 4 (0.571 %) Star Schema
Development Applications 1 144 (20.54 %) Visual Studio 2 52 (7.418 %) Team Foundation Server 3 46 (6.562 %) Expression Blend 4 41 (5.849 %) NUnit 5 35 (4.993 %) Hudson 6 28 (3.994 %) Subversion 7 26 (3.709 %) TeamCity 8 18 (2.568 %) Rhino Mocks 9 13 (1.854 %) MSTest 10 12 (1.712 %) TortoiseSVN 11 11 (1.569 %) Visual Studio Team System 11 11 (1.569 %) JIRA 12 8 (1.141 %) ClearQuest 12 8 (1.141 %) Maven 13 7 (0.999 %) StructureMap 14 6 (0.856 %) Dreamweaver 15 5 (0.713 %) Atlassian Bamboo 16 4 (0.571 %) JUnit 16 4 (0.571 %) ClearCase 17 3 (0.428 %) Visual Studio Tools for Office	General 1 130 (18.54 %) Finance 2 108 (15.41 %) Banking 3 95 (13.55 %) Front Office 4 68 (9.700 %) Investment Banking 5 14 (1.997 %) Advertising 6 11 (1.569 %) Music 7 10 (1.427 %) Telecoms 8 9 (1.284 %) Retail 9 7 (0.999 %) Marketing 10 6 (0.856 %) Manufacturing 11 5 (0.713 %) Legal 11 5 (0.713 %) Games 12 4 (0.571 %) Back Office 13 2 (0.285 %) Electronics 13 2 (0.285 %) Private Banking 13 2 (0.285 %) German Language 13 2 (0.285 %) Dutch Language 14 1 (0.143 %) French Language 14 1 (0.143 %) Multimedia 14 1 (0.143 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 588 (83.88 %) Developer 2 196 (27.96 %) C# Developer 3 169 (24.11 %) .NET Developer 4 148 (21.11 %) Silverlight Developer 5 82 (11.70 %) C# .NET Developer 6 69 (9.843 %) WPF Developer 7 37 (5.278 %) Senior Developer 8 32 (4.565 %) CRM Developer 9 29 (4.137 %) Web Developer 9 29 (4.137 %) SQL Developer 10 27 (3.852 %) Microsoft Developer 10 27 (3.852 %) Architect 11 23 (3.281 %) Analyst 11 23 (3.281 %) SharePoint Developer 12 22 (3.138 %) UI Developer 13 21 (2.996 %) UI Programmer 14 20 (2.853 %) Software Engineer 15 19 (2.710 %) Applications Developer 16 18 (2.568 %) ASP.NET Developer 16 18 (2.568 %) Designer	Miscellaneous 1 54 (7.703 %) RIA 2 52 (7.418 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 3 32 (4.565 %) Computer Science 4 23 (3.281 %) Derivative 5 21 (2.996 %) Credit Risk 6 19 (2.710 %) N-Tier 6 19 (2.710 %) Hedge funds 7 12 (1.712 %) Mathematics 8 11 (1.569 %) Interest Rate Derivative 9 10 (1.427 %) Inversion of Control 10 9 (1.284 %) Web 2.0 10 9 (1.284 %) Fixed Income 10 9 (1.284 %) Digital Media 11 8 (1.141 %) Video on Demand 11 8 (1.141 %) iPad 12 7 (0.999 %) Spread Betting 12 7 (0.999 %) Market Risk 12 7 (0.999 %) IPTV 13 6 (0.856 %) Smartphone 13 6 (0.856 %) Open Source
Operating Systems 1 113 (16.12 %) Windows 2 27 (3.852 %) Windows 7 3 11 (1.569 %) Windows Server 2008 4 10 (1.427 %) Windows Phone 7 5 7 (0.999 %) Apple iOS 6 6 (0.856 %) Windows CE 6 6 (0.856 %) Android 7 4 (0.571 %) Linux 8 3 (0.428 %) Windows Server 2003 8 3 (0.428 %) UNIX 9 2 (0.285 %) Windows Mobile 9 2 (0.285 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 1 (0.143 %) Windows Vista 10 1 (0.143 %) Windows XP 10 1 (0.143 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 141 (20.11 %) MVVM 2 137 (19.54 %) TDD 3 118 (16.83 %) OO 4 99 (14.12 %) Agile Software Development 5 84 (11.98 %) Scrum 6 81 (11.55 %) MVC 7 76 (10.84 %) Multithreading 8 56 (7.989 %) CRM 8 56 (7.989 %) Web Development 9 52 (7.418 %) Unit Testing 10 47 (6.705 %) Dependency Injection 11 35 (4.993 %) Continuous Integration 12 30 (4.280 %) UML 13 27 (3.852 %) Release Management 14 25 (3.566 %) Workflow 15 24 (3.424 %) E-Commerce 16 23 (3.281 %) OOP 17 19 (2.710 %) SOA 18 17 (2.425 %) OOD 19 15 (2.140 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 536 (76.46 %) C# 2 181 (25.82 %) SQL 3 156 (22.25 %) JavaScript 4 57 (8.131 %) Java 5 53 (7.561 %) VB.NET 6 51 (7.275 %) XAML 7 37 (5.278 %) C++ 8 34 (4.850 %) VBA 9 25 (3.566 %) T-SQL 10 22 (3.138 %) C 11 21 (2.996 %) PL/SQL 12 16 (2.282 %) PHP 13 15 (2.140 %) VB 14 11 (1.569 %) PowerShell 15 10 (1.427 %) ActionScript 15 10 (1.427 %) VB6 16 9 (1.284 %) XPath 17 5 (0.713 %) F# 17 5 (0.713 %) Ruby 17 5 (0.713 %) XQuery	Qualifications 1 60 (8.559 %) Degree 2 16 (2.282 %) Microsoft Certification 3 8 (1.141 %) PhD 4 5 (0.713 %) MCP 5 3 (0.428 %) MCPD 6 2 (0.285 %) HND 6 2 (0.285 %) ISEB 6 2 (0.285 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (0.143 %) SC Cleared 7 1 (0.143 %) MCTS 7 1 (0.143 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (0.143 %) PMP 7 1 (0.143 %) PMI Certification 7 1 (0.143 %) MCAD 7 1 (0.143 %) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 15 (2.140 %) QA 2 3 (0.428 %) Basel III 3 1 (0.143 %) ISO 9001 3 1 (0.143 %) TickIT	System Software 1 10 (1.427 %) Active Directory 2 2 (0.285 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (0.143 %) VMware ESX 3 1 (0.143 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 5 (0.713 %) HP Quality Center 2 2 (0.285 %) MOM 3 1 (0.143 %) SCCM 3 1 (0.143 %) WMI 3 1 (0.143 %) WSUS 3 1 (0.143 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 1 (0.143 %) Cisco CUCM	Vendors 1 197 (28.10 %) Microsoft 2 68 (9.700 %) Oracle 3 25 (3.566 %) Sybase 4 14 (1.997 %) ESRI 5 13 (1.854 %) DevExpress 6 11 (1.569 %) Adobe 7 7 (0.999 %) Facebook 8 6 (0.856 %) Infragistics 8 6 (0.856 %) Google 9 5 (0.713 %) GoldenSource 10 4 (0.571 %) Intergraph 10 4 (0.571 %) SAP 10 4 (0.571 %) Syncfusion 11 3 (0.428 %) Dundas 11 3 (0.428 %) HP 11 3 (0.428 %) Telelogic 11 3 (0.428 %) RedDot 11 3 (0.428 %) TIBCO 12 2 (0.285 %) VMware 12 2 (0.285 %) Perforce