The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight 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 of the Application Development category for the Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 44 46 32
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 4 2 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 1.153% 0.482% 2.703%
As % of the Application Development category 3.883% 1.905% 8.861%
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 4
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
103 105 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 29.68% 25.30% 30.50%
Number of salaries quoted 75 91 57
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% -2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £48,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
Scotland

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen Silverlight Jobs Demand Trend

Silverlight
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Silverlight.

1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (66.67%) Workflow
2 4 (66.67%) CRM
2 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (33.33%) CSS
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) HTML
3 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
3 2 (33.33%) WPF
3 2 (33.33%) LINQ
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Silverlight. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
2 2 (33.33%) WCF
2 2 (33.33%) WPF
2 2 (33.33%) LINQ
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (33.33%) LINQ to SQL
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Dynamics CRM Developer
2 4 (66.67%) CRM Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) CRM
1 4 (66.67%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft