Silverlight Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 20 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 West Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 82 83 70
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -13
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 12 9 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.946% 0.556% 0.275%
As % of the Application Development category 3.226% 2.439% 1.327%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 1
Average daily rate £290 £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% +27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.50 £30.75 £190.00
% change year-on-year
+25.20% -83.81%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 372 369 226
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 29.34% 22.78% 20.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 217 119
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £212 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 3
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
Silverlight
Yorkshire

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Silverlight Daily Rate Trend

Silverlight
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Silverlight across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Silverlight Hourly 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Leeds +5 10 £290 -17.14%
Silverlight
Yorkshire

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 24 (100.00%) C#
1 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (91.67%) HTML
2 22 (91.67%) CSS
3 21 (87.50%) MVC
4 19 (79.17%) JavaScript
5 18 (75.00%) ASP.NET
6 15 (62.50%) Web Services
6 15 (62.50%) WPF
7 14 (58.33%) ASP.NET MVC
7 14 (58.33%) XAML
8 12 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 12 (50.00%) .NET Framework
9 9 (37.50%) SOAP
10 8 (33.33%) E-Commerce
11 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
11 7 (29.17%) Scrum
11 7 (29.17%) Razor View Engine
12 6 (25.00%) WCF
12 6 (25.00%) REST
12 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
12 6 (25.00%) Workflow
13 5 (20.83%) XML
13 5 (20.83%) Visual Studio
14 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
14 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
15 3 (12.50%) UML
15 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
15 3 (12.50%) ClearCase
15 3 (12.50%) Telecoms

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 24 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (91.67%) HTML
2 22 (91.67%) CSS
3 18 (75.00%) ASP.NET
4 15 (62.50%) Web Services
4 15 (62.50%) WPF
5 14 (58.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 12 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 12 (50.00%) .NET Framework
7 9 (37.50%) SOAP
8 7 (29.17%) Razor View Engine
9 6 (25.00%) WCF
9 6 (25.00%) REST
10 5 (20.83%) XML
11 1 (4.167%) Ajax
11 1 (4.167%) ADO.NET
11 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC 2
11 1 (4.167%) jQuery
11 1 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.167%) CMS
1 1 (4.167%) DotNetNuke
1 1 (4.167%) Umbraco
1 1 (4.167%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (12.50%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 5 (20.83%) Visual Studio
3 3 (12.50%) ClearCase
General
1 3 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (100.00%) Developer
2 17 (70.83%) .NET Developer
3 6 (25.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (20.83%) Applications Developer
5 2 (8.333%) Business Developer
6 1 (4.167%) C# Developer
6 1 (4.167%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (4.167%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) MVC
2 8 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 7 (29.17%) Business Intelligence
3 7 (29.17%) Scrum
4 6 (25.00%) Workflow
5 3 (12.50%) Use Case
5 3 (12.50%) Web Application Development
5 3 (12.50%) UML
6 2 (8.333%) Document Management
7 1 (4.167%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 19 (79.17%) JavaScript
3 14 (58.33%) XAML
4 2 (8.333%) SQL
5 1 (4.167%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.167%) EPiServer
2 1 (4.167%) Sitecore
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