Wakefield Silverlight Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Silverlight skills within the Wakefield region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Silverlight
Location Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire City of London Crawley East of England East Sussex England Gloucester Gloucestershire Hastings Herefordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds London Manchester North West Nuneaton Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Tunbridge Wells UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£313	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.25	£33.00
% change on same period last year	-5.30 %
Application Development Wakefield
Matching contract IT job ads	2	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
Silverlight West Yorkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Silverlight
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Silverlight across the Wakefield region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Silverlight
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield 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 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) Flash 1 1 (100.00 %) Flex 2 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe Flex

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Wakefield 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 1 (100.00 %) .NET 1 1 (100.00 %) Flex 2 1 1 (100.00 %) Adobe Flex	Development Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) Flash
Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Developer 1 1 (100.00 %) Flash Developer