The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 68 62 64
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +2
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 13 17 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 1.695% 2.249% 0.207%
As % of the Application Development category 2.714% 3.864% 0.366%
Number of salaries quoted 13 17 1
Average salary £32,500 £40,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.75% +40.35%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
479 440 273
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 62.45% 58.20% 56.64%
Number of salaries quoted 438 396 264
Average salary £37,000 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.22% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
East Sussex

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Brighton Silverlight Salary Histogram

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 37 (100.00%) .NET
1 37 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 37 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 37 (100.00%) C#
2 30 (81.08%) Web Services
3 23 (62.16%) SQL
4 21 (56.76%) T-SQL
4 21 (56.76%) WinForms
4 21 (56.76%) WPF
5 18 (48.65%) Windows
6 16 (43.24%) Manufacturing
6 16 (43.24%) Degree
6 16 (43.24%) jQuery
7 15 (40.54%) Agile Software Development
8 14 (37.84%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (37.84%) MCAD
8 14 (37.84%) MCSD
9 13 (35.14%) iPhone
9 13 (35.14%) Web Development
10 4 (10.81%) Project Management
10 4 (10.81%) OOP
10 4 (10.81%) OO
11 3 (8.108%) Enterprise Software
12 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
12 2 (5.405%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2005
12 2 (5.405%) Requirements Analysis
12 2 (5.405%) LINQ
12 2 (5.405%) XHTML
12 2 (5.405%) MS Excel

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 37 (100.00%) .NET
1 37 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 30 (81.08%) Web Services
3 21 (56.76%) WinForms
3 21 (56.76%) WPF
4 16 (43.24%) jQuery
5 2 (5.405%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (5.405%) HTML
5 2 (5.405%) LINQ
5 2 (5.405%) XHTML
5 2 (5.405%) CSS
5 2 (5.405%) SOAP
Applications
1 2 (5.405%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 16 (43.24%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (94.59%) Developer
2 31 (83.78%) C# Developer
3 30 (81.08%) C# .NET Developer
4 28 (75.68%) .NET Developer
5 13 (35.14%) .NET Web Developer
5 13 (35.14%) C# Web Developer
5 13 (35.14%) Web Developer
6 7 (18.92%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
9 2 (5.405%) Software Engineer
9 2 (5.405%) Lead Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) iPhone
2 3 (8.108%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 18 (48.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (35.14%) Web Development
3 4 (10.81%) OOP
3 4 (10.81%) OO
3 4 (10.81%) Project Management
4 2 (5.405%) MVC
4 2 (5.405%) Scrum
4 2 (5.405%) Software Engineering
4 2 (5.405%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 37 (100.00%) C#
2 23 (62.16%) SQL
3 21 (56.76%) T-SQL
4 2 (5.405%) VBScript
4 2 (5.405%) VB.NET
4 2 (5.405%) VBA
4 2 (5.405%) XAML
4 2 (5.405%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (43.24%) Degree
2 14 (37.84%) MCAD
2 14 (37.84%) MCSD
2 14 (37.84%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (5.405%) Microsoft
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