Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Birmingham region.

 Microsoft Silverlight
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank7088139
Rank change year-on-year
Up+18Up+51
Matching permanent IT job ads993
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham0.848 %0.620 %0.093 %
As % of the Application Development category2.550 %1.636 %0.317 %
Salaries quoted773
Average salary£35,000£37,500£35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.660 %+7.140 %
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£32,500£37,250
% change year-on-year
+15.38 %-12.75 %
Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
353550945
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham33.27 %37.88 %29.23 %
Salaries quoted320506863
Average salary£35,000£32,500£32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.690 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£24,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£52,500£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Silverlight West MidlandsSilverlight
West Midlands

Silverlight
Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Silverlight Demand Trend

Silverlight
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Birmingham Silverlight Salary Histogram

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

125 (100.00 %)C#
224 (96.00 %).NET
321 (84.00 %)Microsoft
420 (80.00 %)SQL Server
420 (80.00 %)ASP.NET
516 (64.00 %)SharePoint
516 (64.00 %)WCF
516 (64.00 %)WPF
615 (60.00 %)Team Foundation Server
711 (44.00 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
711 (44.00 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
810 (40.00 %)CSS
810 (40.00 %)Visual Studio
810 (40.00 %)JavaScript
99 (36.00 %)VB.NET
99 (36.00 %)SQL Server 2005
108 (32.00 %)SQL Server Integration Services
108 (32.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
108 (32.00 %).NET Framework
108 (32.00 %)AJAX
108 (32.00 %)MS Excel
108 (32.00 %)HTML
108 (32.00 %)SQL
108 (32.00 %)LINQ
116 (24.00 %)Unit Testing
125 (20.00 %)Business Intelligence
125 (20.00 %)Web Services
125 (20.00 %)Subversion
134 (16.00 %)Windows SharePoint Services
134 (16.00 %)RDBMS

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
124 (96.00 %).NET
220 (80.00 %)ASP.NET
316 (64.00 %)WCF
316 (64.00 %)WPF
410 (40.00 %)CSS
58 (32.00 %)LINQ
58 (32.00 %)AJAX
58 (32.00 %)HTML
58 (32.00 %).NET Framework
65 (20.00 %)Web Services
74 (16.00 %)Windows SharePoint Services
82 (8.000 %)WF
82 (8.000 %)XML
82 (8.000 %)XSLT
82 (8.000 %)XHTML
82 (8.000 %)WinForms
91 (4.000 %)ASP
91 (4.000 %)Flash
91 (4.000 %)jQuery
Birmingham IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
116 (64.00 %)SharePoint
28 (32.00 %)SharePoint Server 2007
Birmingham IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
18 (32.00 %)MS Excel
22 (8.000 %)MS Visio
31 (4.000 %)Photoshop
Birmingham IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
120 (80.00 %)SQL Server
211 (44.00 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
211 (44.00 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
39 (36.00 %)SQL Server 2005
48 (32.00 %)SQL Server Integration Services
54 (16.00 %)RDBMS
62 (8.000 %)SQL Server 2008
71 (4.000 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
Birmingham IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
115 (60.00 %)Team Foundation Server
210 (40.00 %)Visual Studio
35 (20.00 %)Subversion
41 (4.000 %)Expression Studio
Birmingham IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
12 (8.000 %)Health
12 (8.000 %)Pensions
21 (4.000 %)Education
21 (4.000 %)Law
21 (4.000 %)Home Office
21 (4.000 %)Insurance
Birmingham IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
125 (100.00 %)Developer
216 (64.00 %).NET Developer
216 (64.00 %)C# Developer
315 (60.00 %)ASP.NET Developer
412 (48.00 %)Senior Developer
511 (44.00 %)Senior C# Developer
511 (44.00 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
68 (32.00 %)Senior .NET Developer
68 (32.00 %)Senior ASP.NET Developer
76 (24.00 %)Web Developer
85 (20.00 %).NET Web Developer
94 (16.00 %)Web Applications Developer
94 (16.00 %)Applications Developer
94 (16.00 %).NET Applications Developer
102 (8.000 %)VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
102 (8.000 %)VB.NET Developer
111 (4.000 %)SQL Developer
111 (4.000 %)Junior Developer
111 (4.000 %)Junior
111 (4.000 %)Junior C# Developer
Birmingham IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
11 (4.000 %)Computer Science
Birmingham IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
13 (12.00 %)Windows
21 (4.000 %)UNIX
Birmingham IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
16 (24.00 %)Unit Testing
25 (20.00 %)Business Intelligence
34 (16.00 %)OOP
43 (12.00 %)TDD
52 (8.000 %)OO
52 (8.000 %)Workflow
61 (4.000 %)Agile Software Development
61 (4.000 %)Web Development
Birmingham IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
125 (100.00 %)C#
210 (40.00 %)JavaScript
39 (36.00 %)VB.NET
48 (32.00 %)SQL
51 (4.000 %)T-SQL
51 (4.000 %)VB
51 (4.000 %)XAML
51 (4.000 %)PowerShell
51 (4.000 %)C++
Birmingham IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (8.000 %)Degree
Birmingham IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
121 (84.00 %)Microsoft
21 (4.000 %)Adobe