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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 233 218 124
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -94
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 88 106 267
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.754% 0.811% 1.731%
As % of the Application Development category 1.961% 2.168% 4.748%
Number of salaries quoted 58 105 256
Average salary £57,500 £50,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.00% -23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,350 £35,000 £38,750
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £76,700 £90,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4488 4889 5623
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.47% 37.42% 36.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3945 4578 5183
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
London

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Silverlight Salary Histogram

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 158 (90.29%) C#
2 144 (82.29%) .NET
3 121 (69.14%) WPF
4 107 (61.14%) ASP.NET
5 99 (56.57%) WCF
6 92 (52.57%) JavaScript
7 75 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
8 68 (38.86%) TDD
8 68 (38.86%) SQL
9 61 (34.86%) SQL Server
9 61 (34.86%) MVC
9 61 (34.86%) jQuery
10 56 (32.00%) Microsoft
11 54 (30.86%) CSS
11 54 (30.86%) Computer Science
11 54 (30.86%) ASP.NET MVC
12 49 (28.00%) Scrum
13 48 (27.43%) Finance
13 48 (27.43%) Unit Testing
14 46 (26.29%) Ajax
14 46 (26.29%) TeamCity
15 45 (25.71%) Continuous Integration
15 45 (25.71%) Back Office
16 44 (25.14%) HTML
16 44 (25.14%) Inversion of Control
17 43 (24.57%) MSBuild
17 43 (24.57%) Degree
18 40 (22.86%) DHTML
19 38 (21.71%) OOP
19 38 (21.71%) OO

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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
1 144 (82.29%) .NET
2 121 (69.14%) WPF
3 107 (61.14%) ASP.NET
4 99 (56.57%) WCF
5 61 (34.86%) jQuery
6 54 (30.86%) CSS
6 54 (30.86%) ASP.NET MVC
7 46 (26.29%) Ajax
8 44 (25.14%) HTML
9 40 (22.86%) DHTML
10 37 (21.14%) Unity DI Container
10 37 (21.14%) ASP.NET MVC 2
10 37 (21.14%) Castle Windsor
11 34 (19.43%) HTML5
12 29 (16.57%) .NET Framework
13 28 (16.00%) Web Services
14 20 (11.43%) LINQ
15 18 (10.29%) XML
16 16 (9.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 15 (8.571%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 38 (21.71%) CMS
2 28 (16.00%) Umbraco
3 15 (8.571%) SharePoint
4 12 (6.857%) BizTalk Server
5 11 (6.286%) IIS
6 8 (4.571%) SharePoint 2010
6 8 (4.571%) TIBCO EMS
7 4 (2.286%) Windows Azure
7 4 (2.286%) Apache
8 3 (1.714%) SharePoint Foundation
9 2 (1.143%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.571%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.571%) ArcGIS
10 1 (0.571%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 10 (5.714%) MS Excel
2 6 (3.429%) Photoshop
3 5 (2.857%) MS Office
4 4 (2.286%) MS PowerPoint
5 2 (1.143%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 13 (7.429%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (5.143%) RMDS
3 3 (1.714%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.286%) Internet
2 3 (1.714%) IPv6
2 3 (1.714%) HTTP
2 3 (1.714%) VPN
2 3 (1.714%) DNS
2 3 (1.714%) MPLS
3 1 (0.571%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (34.86%) SQL Server
2 29 (16.57%) MySQL
3 22 (12.57%) SQL Server 2008
4 13 (7.429%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (4.571%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (3.429%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (2.286%) Hadoop
7 4 (2.286%) Big Data
7 4 (2.286%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (1.143%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 1 (0.571%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (0.571%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.571%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.571%) OLAP
9 1 (0.571%) Oracle OLAP
9 1 (0.571%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 46 (26.29%) TeamCity
2 43 (24.57%) MSBuild
3 28 (16.00%) Visual Studio
4 14 (8.000%) NUnit
5 10 (5.714%) Team Foundation Server
6 8 (4.571%) CodeRush
6 8 (4.571%) ReSharper
7 7 (4.000%) Rhino Mocks
8 5 (2.857%) Expression Blend
9 4 (2.286%) MSTest
10 3 (1.714%) CruiseControl
10 3 (1.714%) Visual Studio Team System
11 1 (0.571%) Maven
11 1 (0.571%) Subversion
11 1 (0.571%) Hudson
General
1 48 (27.43%) Finance
2 45 (25.71%) Back Office
3 36 (20.57%) Banking
4 27 (15.43%) Investment Banking
5 21 (12.00%) Front Office
6 12 (6.857%) Games
7 4 (2.286%) Advertising
7 4 (2.286%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.286%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.571%) Law
8 1 (0.571%) Retail
8 1 (0.571%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 140 (80.00%) Developer
2 59 (33.71%) .NET Developer
3 50 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 41 (23.43%) ASP.NET Developer
5 19 (10.86%) C# .NET Developer
6 18 (10.29%) WPF Developer
7 11 (6.286%) Senior Developer
7 11 (6.286%) Silverlight Developer
8 10 (5.714%) Web Developer
9 9 (5.143%) Front-End Developer
10 7 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 6 (3.429%) Lead Developer
12 5 (2.857%) Project Manager
12 5 (2.857%) Junior
12 5 (2.857%) Senior C# Developer
12 5 (2.857%) Junior Developer
12 5 (2.857%) Agile C# Developer
12 5 (2.857%) CRM Developer
12 5 (2.857%) Lead .NET Developer
13 4 (2.286%) Dynamics CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 54 (30.86%) Computer Science
2 44 (25.14%) Inversion of Control
3 23 (13.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (7.429%) Digital Media
4 13 (7.429%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (6.286%) New Media
6 7 (4.000%) Derivative
7 6 (3.429%) Visualisation
7 6 (3.429%) RIA
8 4 (2.286%) Credit Risk
9 3 (1.714%) Equities
9 3 (1.714%) Kinect
9 3 (1.714%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.143%) iPad
10 2 (1.143%) Equity Derivative
11 1 (0.571%) Thin Client
11 1 (0.571%) Fixed Income
11 1 (0.571%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 24 (13.71%) Windows
2 4 (2.286%) UNIX
3 2 (1.143%) Windows 8
4 1 (0.571%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.571%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
2 68 (38.86%) TDD
3 61 (34.86%) MVC
4 49 (28.00%) Scrum
5 48 (27.43%) Unit Testing
6 45 (25.71%) Continuous Integration
7 38 (21.71%) OOP
7 38 (21.71%) OO
7 38 (21.71%) Web Application Development
8 37 (21.14%) BDD
9 28 (16.00%) MVVM
10 16 (9.143%) SOA
11 15 (8.571%) Use Case
11 15 (8.571%) CRM
12 10 (5.714%) Multithreading
12 10 (5.714%) Web Development
13 8 (4.571%) Memory Management
14 7 (4.000%) CQRS
15 6 (3.429%) Project Management
15 6 (3.429%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 158 (90.29%) C#
2 92 (52.57%) JavaScript
3 68 (38.86%) SQL
4 23 (13.14%) XAML
5 21 (12.00%) Java
6 7 (4.000%) Python
6 7 (4.000%) Ruby
7 5 (2.857%) T-SQL
8 4 (2.286%) R
8 4 (2.286%) MATLAB
8 4 (2.286%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.714%) VC++
9 3 (1.714%) ActionScript
9 3 (1.714%) Perl
9 3 (1.714%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.143%) F#
11 1 (0.571%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 43 (24.57%) Degree
2 4 (2.286%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (1.714%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (1.143%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.143%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.143%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.571%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.571%) QA
System Software
1 4 (2.286%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (4.571%) MOM
Vendors
1 56 (32.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.00%) Oracle
3 9 (5.143%) TIBCO
4 5 (2.857%) Telerik
5 4 (2.286%) Sage
6 3 (1.714%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 3 (1.714%) Cisco
6 3 (1.714%) Google
7 2 (1.143%) Akamai
7 2 (1.143%) Calypso
8 1 (0.571%) ESRI
8 1 (0.571%) Charles River
8 1 (0.571%) Reuters
8 1 (0.571%) Cadis
City, London
You'll be architecting and building the latest technologies using .NET 4.0, ASP.Net, HTML5 and or Silverlight, Visual Studio 10 and Agile/Scrum/FDD/BDD/TDD.
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
For the role you will need experience of C# .NET 3.5/4/0, T-SQL, EXCEL, SSIS, SSRS AND SSAS. Experience of SharePoint, Silverlight and WPF will...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Extensive Package + Bonus
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
The successful candidate will have a good understanding of the Microsoft .net framework including: *.net framework and C# *Visual Studio *ASP.Net *Silverlight (XAML with data bindings etc) *...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
Silverlight .NET Developer, Silverlight Developer - London. Silverlight .NET Developer, Silverlight Developer needed in Central London for a world leading digital/new media organisation... Full job details are available.
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
To be considered for this role you'll be required to have experience with some of the following technologies - .NET / C# / C++ / Silverlight / F# Due to the complexity...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
To be considered for this role you'll be required to have experience with some of the following technologies - .NET / C# / C++ / Silverlight / F# Due to the complexity...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + BENEFITS
Posted: 22 May 2013