The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 21 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 53 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 13 14 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 2.124% 3.922% -
As % of the Application Development category 5.778% 9.459% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 0
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
225 148 105
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 36.76% 41.46% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 198 134 102
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £24,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
West Midlands

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 36 (97.30%) .NET
1 36 (97.30%) ASP.NET
2 32 (86.49%) C#
3 31 (83.78%) JavaScript
3 31 (83.78%) SQL Server
4 27 (72.97%) XML
4 27 (72.97%) Microsoft
5 25 (67.57%) .NET Framework
6 22 (59.46%) HTML
7 18 (48.65%) Oracle
7 18 (48.65%) SharePoint
8 17 (45.95%) MVC
9 14 (37.84%) SAP
9 14 (37.84%) UNIX
9 14 (37.84%) SQL
10 13 (35.14%) PL/SQL
10 13 (35.14%) VB.NET
10 13 (35.14%) Oracle 8/8i
10 13 (35.14%) CSS
10 13 (35.14%) Oracle 10g
10 13 (35.14%) InfoPath
10 13 (35.14%) Oracle 11g
10 13 (35.14%) SQL Server 2008
10 13 (35.14%) SharePoint 2010
11 12 (32.43%) WCF
11 12 (32.43%) Web Services
12 11 (29.73%) COM
12 11 (29.73%) DHTML
12 11 (29.73%) XSL
12 11 (29.73%) BizTalk Server

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 36 (97.30%) .NET
1 36 (97.30%) ASP.NET
2 27 (72.97%) XML
3 25 (67.57%) .NET Framework
4 22 (59.46%) HTML
5 13 (35.14%) CSS
6 12 (32.43%) WCF
6 12 (32.43%) Web Services
7 11 (29.73%) COM
7 11 (29.73%) DHTML
7 11 (29.73%) XSL
7 11 (29.73%) WPF
7 11 (29.73%) LINQ
7 11 (29.73%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 7 (18.92%) jQuery
8 7 (18.92%) HTML5
9 6 (16.22%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (13.51%) Web Dynpro
10 5 (13.51%) EJB
10 5 (13.51%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 18 (48.65%) SharePoint
2 13 (35.14%) SharePoint 2010
3 11 (29.73%) BizTalk Server
3 11 (29.73%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (13.51%) NetWeaver
4 5 (13.51%) SAP Portal
5 2 (5.405%) IIS
6 1 (2.703%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (35.14%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 9 (24.32%) SAP Business One
2 4 (10.81%) Summit
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (83.78%) SQL Server
2 13 (35.14%) Oracle 8/8i
2 13 (35.14%) Oracle 10g
2 13 (35.14%) Oracle 11g
2 13 (35.14%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (13.51%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (13.51%) Xcode
1 5 (13.51%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.405%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (24.32%) Finance
1 9 (24.32%) Banking
2 4 (10.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (100.00%) Developer
2 16 (43.24%) Senior Developer
3 13 (35.14%) Oracle Developer
3 13 (35.14%) SharePoint Developer
4 12 (32.43%) .NET Developer
5 11 (29.73%) Senior .NET Developer
5 11 (29.73%) Senior SharePoint Developer
6 6 (16.22%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (16.22%) C# Developer
7 5 (13.51%) Senior C# Developer
7 5 (13.51%) Designer
7 5 (13.51%) Agile C# Developer
8 4 (10.81%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.703%) Java/J2EE Developer
9 1 (2.703%) Web Developer
9 1 (2.703%) .NET Web Developer
9 1 (2.703%) .NET Team Leader
9 1 (2.703%) C# Web Developer
9 1 (2.703%) Java Developer
9 1 (2.703%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 14 (37.84%) UNIX
2 9 (24.32%) OpenVMS
2 9 (24.32%) Solaris
3 7 (18.92%) Windows
4 5 (13.51%) Android
4 5 (13.51%) Windows Phone 7
4 5 (13.51%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) MVC
2 9 (24.32%) Waterfall
2 9 (24.32%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (13.51%) Scrum
3 5 (13.51%) OOD
3 5 (13.51%) OO
4 4 (10.81%) Integration Testing
4 4 (10.81%) ETL
5 2 (5.405%) Web Development
5 2 (5.405%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (2.703%) Product Management
6 1 (2.703%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.703%) SEO
6 1 (2.703%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 32 (86.49%) C#
2 31 (83.78%) JavaScript
3 14 (37.84%) SQL
4 13 (35.14%) PL/SQL
4 13 (35.14%) VB.NET
5 5 (13.51%) Java
6 4 (10.81%) C++
6 4 (10.81%) COBOL
6 4 (10.81%) VB
7 2 (5.405%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.703%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
2 4 (10.81%) Degree
3 2 (5.405%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (5.405%) MCPD
3 2 (5.405%) MCTS
Vendors
1 27 (72.97%) Microsoft
2 18 (48.65%) Oracle
3 14 (37.84%) SAP
4 5 (13.51%) Sybase