The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 89 106 65
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -41
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 30 9 54
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 1.778% 0.530% 2.892%
As % of the Application Development category 3.509% 1.233% 6.577%
Number of salaries quoted 30 9 51
Average salary £38,500 £30,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.33% -29.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £37,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Application Development
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
855 730 821
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 50.68% 42.99% 43.97%
Number of salaries quoted 787 685 736
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Silverlight
South West

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bristol Silverlight Salary Histogram

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 40 (100.00%) C#
2 22 (55.00%) SQL
3 18 (45.00%) .NET
4 16 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 15 (37.50%) ASP.NET
5 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
5 15 (37.50%) Windows
6 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
6 13 (32.50%) T-SQL
6 13 (32.50%) WPF
7 12 (30.00%) Visual Studio
8 11 (27.50%) OOP
8 11 (27.50%) OO
9 10 (25.00%) HTML
9 10 (25.00%) XAML
9 10 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
10 9 (22.50%) ASP.NET MVC
10 9 (22.50%) Windows Phone 7
10 9 (22.50%) Mobile App
10 9 (22.50%) Windows Phone
10 9 (22.50%) Publishing
10 9 (22.50%) Agile Software Development
10 9 (22.50%) MVC
11 7 (17.50%) Scrum
11 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
11 7 (17.50%) jQuery
11 7 (17.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (17.50%) QA
12 6 (15.00%) MVVM
12 6 (15.00%) C++

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol 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 18 (45.00%) .NET
2 15 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 13 (32.50%) WPF
4 10 (25.00%) HTML
5 9 (22.50%) ASP.NET MVC
6 7 (17.50%) jQuery
7 6 (15.00%) Web Services
8 5 (12.50%) XML
8 5 (12.50%) HTML5
9 4 (10.00%) .NET Framework
10 3 (7.500%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 2 (5.000%) WCF
11 2 (5.000%) CSS
11 2 (5.000%) SOAP
12 1 (2.500%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.50%) SharePoint
2 5 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 2 (5.000%) MS Office
2 1 (2.500%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.000%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 4 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (5.000%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 12 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 10 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (7.500%) Subversion
3 3 (7.500%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (7.500%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
4 2 (5.000%) Selenium
4 2 (5.000%) NUnit
General
1 9 (22.50%) Publishing
2 3 (7.500%) Law
2 3 (7.500%) Retail
3 2 (5.000%) Banking
3 2 (5.000%) Legal
3 2 (5.000%) Finance
4 1 (2.500%) Front Office
4 1 (2.500%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 27 (67.50%) Developer
2 12 (30.00%) .NET Developer
3 11 (27.50%) Applications Developer
4 9 (22.50%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 9 (22.50%) Mobile Developer
4 9 (22.50%) Windows Mobile Developer
5 7 (17.50%) Software Engineer
5 7 (17.50%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (15.00%) C# Software Engineer
6 6 (15.00%) C# Developer
6 6 (15.00%) Senior C# Software Engineer
7 4 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (10.00%) Software Developer
7 4 (10.00%) ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (7.500%) Senior Tester
8 3 (7.500%) Tester
8 3 (7.500%) Automation Tester
8 3 (7.500%) Senior Automation Tester
9 2 (5.000%) QA Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (22.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.500%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.500%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 15 (37.50%) Windows
2 9 (22.50%) Windows Phone 7
2 9 (22.50%) Windows Phone
3 1 (2.500%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (2.500%) Windows CE
3 1 (2.500%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) OOP
1 11 (27.50%) OO
2 9 (22.50%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (22.50%) MVC
3 7 (17.50%) Scrum
4 6 (15.00%) MVVM
5 4 (10.00%) Test Strategy
5 4 (10.00%) TDD
6 3 (7.500%) Automated Testing
7 2 (5.000%) Web Development
7 2 (5.000%) Test Scripting
7 2 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (2.500%) Logistics
8 1 (2.500%) OOD
8 1 (2.500%) SOA
8 1 (2.500%) Test Automation
8 1 (2.500%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (100.00%) C#
2 22 (55.00%) SQL
3 15 (37.50%) JavaScript
4 13 (32.50%) T-SQL
5 10 (25.00%) XAML
6 6 (15.00%) C++
7 2 (5.000%) VB.NET
7 2 (5.000%) C
8 1 (2.500%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (5.000%) Degree
1 2 (5.000%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) QA
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
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