The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warwickshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 23 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 Warwickshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 27 23 -
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 0.488% 1.210% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.273% 6.000% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% -
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
Warwickshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44 50 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warwickshire 21.46% 20.16% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 31 28
Average daily rate £300 £325 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -31.57%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 5
Average hourly rate £21.00 £16.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
West Midlands

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region.

Warwickshire Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
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 Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leamington Spa - 1 £300 -
Silverlight
West Midlands

Silverlight
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Business Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Business Objects Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Dimensional Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Business Objects