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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 38 36 37
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +1
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 4 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 1.633% 1.015% 0.488%
As % of the Application Development category 3.810% 2.247% 1.471%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 0
Average salary £34,500 £34,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.47% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
County Antrim
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
105 89 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in County Antrim 42.86% 45.18% 33.17%
Number of salaries quoted 77 42 47
Average salary £35,000 £36,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.10% -8.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,500 £28,750
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
Northern Ireland

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim 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 County Antrim region.

County Antrim Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Silverlight within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Belfast -3 4 £34,500 +1.47%
Silverlight
Northern Ireland

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (50.00%) Open Source
3 2 (50.00%) BC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) CTC Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (50.00%) GIS
3 2 (50.00%) ESRI
4 1 (25.00%) XAML
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the County Antrim 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) XML
2 3 (75.00%) CSS
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) WPF
4 1 (25.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (50.00%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Senior Microsoft Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) OO
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) SOA
3 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) XAML
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) BC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) CTC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) ESRI