Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the East of England region.

 Microsoft Silverlight
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank87156263
Rank change year-on-year
Up+69Up+107
Matching permanent IT job ads1184121
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England2.002 %0.634 %0.162 %
As % of the Application Development category5.443 %1.697 %0.446 %
Salaries quoted1084121
Average salary£38,750£35,000£35,852
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.71 %-2.370 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,050£27,500£31,344
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£45,000£45,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£32,500£37,250
% change year-on-year
+15.38 %-12.75 %
East of England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
216824164704
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England36.79 %37.38 %36.22 %
Salaries quoted195521293993
Average salary£35,000£35,000£35,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£47,500£52,500£50,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Silverlight EnglandSilverlight
England

Silverlight
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Silverlight across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East of England Silverlight Demand Trend

Silverlight
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Silverlight across the East of England region.

East of England Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

East of England Silverlight Salary Histogram

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 East of England region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
HertfordshireUp+5551£40,000+29.03 %
CambridgeshireUp+739£35,000-
EssexNew entry-14£24,000-
BedfordshireNew entry-11£45,750-
NorfolkNew entry-3£26,000-
SuffolkDown-181£30,000-20.00 %
Silverlight EnglandSilverlight
England

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

1173 (93.01 %).NET
2145 (77.96 %)C#
3108 (58.06 %)SQL Server
493 (50.00 %)ASP.NET
590 (48.39 %)WCF
669 (37.10 %)Windows
766 (35.48 %)WPF
858 (31.18 %)SQL
947 (25.27 %)WinForms
1045 (24.19 %)Microsoft
1135 (18.82 %)CSS
1234 (18.28 %)Web Services
1234 (18.28 %).NET Framework
1333 (17.74 %)JavaScript
1432 (17.20 %)AJAX
1432 (17.20 %)SQL Server 2005
1525 (13.44 %)VB
1624 (12.90 %)Degree
1722 (11.83 %)Education
1820 (10.75 %)Construction
1820 (10.75 %)HTML
1820 (10.75 %)Microsoft Certification
1919 (10.22 %)SharePoint
1919 (10.22 %)C++
1919 (10.22 %)Finance
2018 (9.677 %)NHibernate
2117 (9.140 %)ASP
2216 (8.602 %)MCAD
2216 (8.602 %)MCSD
2216 (8.602 %)Photoshop

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the East of England 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.

East of England IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1173 (93.01 %).NET
293 (50.00 %)ASP.NET
390 (48.39 %)WCF
466 (35.48 %)WPF
547 (25.27 %)WinForms
635 (18.82 %)CSS
734 (18.28 %)Web Services
734 (18.28 %).NET Framework
832 (17.20 %)AJAX
920 (10.75 %)HTML
1018 (9.677 %)NHibernate
1117 (9.140 %)ASP
1215 (8.065 %)XML
1313 (6.989 %)XHTML
1411 (5.914 %)jQuery
158 (4.301 %)ASP.NET 2.0
158 (4.301 %)LINQ
158 (4.301 %)MonoRail
158 (4.301 %)ADO.NET
165 (2.688 %)WF
East of England IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
119 (10.22 %)SharePoint
26 (3.226 %)SharePoint Server 2007
35 (2.688 %)IIS
42 (1.075 %)Umbraco
51 (0.538 %)CMS
East of England IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
116 (8.602 %)Photoshop
213 (6.989 %)MS Excel
East of England IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
15 (2.688 %)DNS
15 (2.688 %)LDAP
21 (0.538 %)TCP/IP
21 (0.538 %)Internet
21 (0.538 %)3G
21 (0.538 %)RTP
21 (0.538 %)RTSP
East of England IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1108 (58.06 %)SQL Server
232 (17.20 %)SQL Server 2005
313 (6.989 %)SQL Server 2008
49 (4.839 %)SQL Server 2000
54 (2.151 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
54 (2.151 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
54 (2.151 %)MySQL
54 (2.151 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
62 (1.075 %)SQL Server Integration Services
71 (0.538 %)OLAP
71 (0.538 %)RDBMS
71 (0.538 %)PerformancePoint
East of England IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
115 (8.065 %)Visual Studio
212 (6.452 %)NUnit
31 (0.538 %)Subversion
31 (0.538 %)VSS/SourceSafe
31 (0.538 %)Xcode
East of England IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
122 (11.83 %)Education
220 (10.75 %)Construction
319 (10.22 %)Finance
412 (6.452 %)Health
54 (2.151 %)Pensions
62 (1.075 %)Interactive Media
71 (0.538 %)Banking
71 (0.538 %)Multimedia
71 (0.538 %)Investment Banking
71 (0.538 %)Insurance
East of England IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1171 (91.94 %)Developer
294 (50.54 %)C# Developer
362 (33.33 %).NET Developer
458 (31.18 %)Senior Developer
534 (18.28 %)Web Developer
631 (16.67 %)ASP.NET Developer
729 (15.59 %)Software Developer
828 (15.05 %)Senior C# Developer
921 (11.29 %)Senior Web Developer
1018 (9.677 %).NET Web Developer
1018 (9.677 %)Senior ASP.NET Developer
1115 (8.065 %)C# Software Developer
1115 (8.065 %)Senior .NET Developer
1212 (6.452 %)Silverlight Developer
1310 (5.376 %)Architect
148 (4.301 %)Test Engineer
156 (3.226 %)Analyst
156 (3.226 %)Junior
156 (3.226 %).NET Architect
156 (3.226 %)Junior C# Developer
East of England IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
114 (7.527 %)Computer Science
28 (4.301 %)Mathematics
33 (1.613 %)Visualisation
42 (1.075 %)Open Source
42 (1.075 %)N-Tier
51 (0.538 %)RIA
East of England IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
169 (37.10 %)Windows
28 (4.301 %)Windows Server 2003
31 (0.538 %)Windows Vista
31 (0.538 %)Windows XP
31 (0.538 %)Mac OS X
East of England IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
115 (8.065 %)OO
115 (8.065 %)MVC
115 (8.065 %)Migration
213 (6.989 %)Agile Software Development
312 (6.452 %)Unit Testing
410 (5.376 %)SOA
59 (4.839 %)Scrum
68 (4.301 %)Regression Testing
68 (4.301 %)TDD
68 (4.301 %)Integration Testing
68 (4.301 %)Web Testing
68 (4.301 %)Manual Testing
68 (4.301 %)System Testing
68 (4.301 %)User Acceptance Testing
68 (4.301 %)Performance Testing
68 (4.301 %)Stress Testing
76 (3.226 %)OOP
76 (3.226 %)Business Intelligence
85 (2.688 %)CRM
85 (2.688 %)Network Load Balancing
East of England IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1145 (77.96 %)C#
258 (31.18 %)SQL
333 (17.74 %)JavaScript
425 (13.44 %)VB
519 (10.22 %)C++
68 (4.301 %)VB.NET
77 (3.763 %)T-SQL
86 (3.226 %)Java
95 (2.688 %)PL/SQL
104 (2.151 %)PHP
104 (2.151 %)Python
113 (1.613 %)ActionScript 3.0
113 (1.613 %)ActionScript
122 (1.075 %)ActionScript 2.0
122 (1.075 %)C
131 (0.538 %)Delphi
131 (0.538 %)Objective-C
131 (0.538 %)VC++
East of England IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
124 (12.90 %)Degree
220 (10.75 %)Microsoft Certification
316 (8.602 %)MCAD
316 (8.602 %)MCSD
47 (3.763 %)MCTS
47 (3.763 %)MCP
East of England IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
111 (5.914 %)QA
East of England IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.538 %)SCOM
East of England IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
145 (24.19 %)Microsoft
216 (8.602 %)Adobe
310 (5.376 %)Oracle
41 (0.538 %)SAP
41 (0.538 %)ProClarity
41 (0.538 %)Dundas