The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 24 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 Basildon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 10 26 38
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +12
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 32 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 22.22% 1.961% 2.597%
As % of the Application Development category 34.04% 5.405% 6.349%
Number of salaries quoted 31 2 4
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +46.15%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £41,300
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
94 37 63
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 65.28% 36.27% 40.91%
Number of salaries quoted 84 36 37
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £46,750 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
Essex

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon 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 Basildon region.

Basildon Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 82 (97.62%) C#
1 82 (97.62%) WPF
2 81 (96.43%) .NET
3 66 (78.57%) SQL Server
4 55 (65.48%) WCF
5 45 (53.57%) Finance
6 41 (48.81%) OO
7 35 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (39.29%) TDD
9 31 (36.90%) Rhino Mocks
10 29 (34.52%) SQL Server 2008
11 25 (29.76%) Tandem
11 25 (29.76%) NUnit
11 25 (29.76%) OOP
12 24 (28.57%) Microsoft
12 24 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (28.57%) MCP
12 24 (28.57%) MCAD
12 24 (28.57%) MCSD
12 24 (28.57%) MonoRail
12 24 (28.57%) MCTS
12 24 (28.57%) NHibernate
12 24 (28.57%) Scrum
12 24 (28.57%) Castle Windsor
13 11 (13.10%) .NET Framework
13 11 (13.10%) SQL
13 11 (13.10%) XAML
14 10 (11.90%) Web Services
14 10 (11.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 9 (10.71%) SQL Server 2012

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 82 (97.62%) WPF
2 81 (96.43%) .NET
3 55 (65.48%) WCF
4 24 (28.57%) MonoRail
4 24 (28.57%) NHibernate
4 24 (28.57%) Castle Windsor
5 11 (13.10%) .NET Framework
6 10 (11.90%) Web Services
6 10 (11.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 8 (9.524%) Unity DI Container
8 3 (3.571%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.381%) HTML5
9 2 (2.381%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (2.381%) jQuery
9 2 (2.381%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 1 (1.190%) KnockoutJS
10 1 (1.190%) HTML
Applications
1 6 (7.143%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.381%) Internet
2 1 (1.190%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 29 (34.52%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (10.71%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (2.381%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (2.381%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (2.381%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.190%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 31 (36.90%) Rhino Mocks
2 25 (29.76%) NUnit
3 7 (8.333%) MSTest
4 2 (2.381%) Oracle Forms
General
1 45 (53.57%) Finance
2 1 (1.190%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 56 (66.67%) Developer
2 36 (42.86%) Analyst
3 33 (39.29%) Technical Analyst
4 27 (32.14%) .NET Developer
5 21 (25.00%) C# Developer
6 14 (16.67%) Silverlight Developer
6 14 (16.67%) WPF Developer
7 6 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
8 5 (5.952%) Senior Developer
8 5 (5.952%) Developer Analyst
9 4 (4.762%) Software Developer
10 3 (3.571%) Analyst Developer
10 3 (3.571%) Senior Software Developer
11 2 (2.381%) Senior Web Developer
11 2 (2.381%) Oracle Developer
11 2 (2.381%) Oracle Forms Developer
11 2 (2.381%) Software Analyst
11 2 (2.381%) Technical Developer
11 2 (2.381%) Web Developer
12 1 (1.190%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (29.76%) Tandem
3 7 (8.333%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.190%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.381%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (48.81%) OO
2 33 (39.29%) TDD
3 25 (29.76%) OOP
4 24 (28.57%) Scrum
5 9 (10.71%) Unit Testing
6 7 (8.333%) System Testing
6 7 (8.333%) Data Protection
6 7 (8.333%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (2.381%) MVC
8 1 (1.190%) OOD
8 1 (1.190%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 82 (97.62%) C#
2 11 (13.10%) SQL
2 11 (13.10%) XAML
3 9 (10.71%) T-SQL
4 3 (3.571%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.381%) VB
5 2 (2.381%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 24 (28.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 24 (28.57%) MCP
1 24 (28.57%) MCAD
1 24 (28.57%) MCSD
1 24 (28.57%) MCTS
Vendors
1 24 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.381%) Oracle
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