The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 18 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 85 87 69
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -18
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 7 7 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.598% 0.530% 1.912%
As % of the Application Development category 1.408% 1.667% 5.678%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 10
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +28.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £27,650
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £42,500 £37,950
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
497 420 546
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 42.48% 31.79% 33.68%
Number of salaries quoted 320 315 405
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Silverlight
Scotland

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Edinburgh Silverlight Salary Histogram

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (75.00%) Windows
3 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
3 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 7 (58.33%) WPF
4 6 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 6 (50.00%) WCF
4 6 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 6 (50.00%) CRM
4 6 (50.00%) SharePoint
5 4 (33.33%) Client/Server
5 4 (33.33%) Web Services
5 4 (33.33%) Workflow
5 4 (33.33%) Scrum
5 4 (33.33%) WinForms
5 4 (33.33%) Business Development
5 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
5 4 (33.33%) TDD
5 4 (33.33%) WF
6 3 (25.00%) HTML
6 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (16.67%) CSS
7 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (8.333%) SharePoint 2013
8 1 (8.333%) JSON

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (58.33%) ASP.NET
2 7 (58.33%) WPF
3 6 (50.00%) WCF
4 4 (33.33%) WF
4 4 (33.33%) Web Services
4 4 (33.33%) WinForms
5 3 (25.00%) HTML
6 2 (16.67%) CSS
6 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 1 (8.333%) JSON
7 1 (8.333%) COM
7 1 (8.333%) ADO.NET
7 1 (8.333%) jQuery
7 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (8.333%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (8.333%) SharePoint 2013
3 1 (8.333%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (8.333%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (8.333%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (8.333%) Dynamics NAV
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Advertising
2 1 (8.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 6 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) .NET Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (8.333%) Silverlight Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior Silverlight Developer
5 1 (8.333%) CRM Developer
5 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Lead Developer
5 1 (8.333%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) CRM
2 4 (33.33%) Workflow
2 4 (33.33%) Scrum
2 4 (33.33%) TDD
2 4 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Business Development
3 1 (8.333%) Content Management
3 1 (8.333%) ERP
3 1 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.333%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.333%) SQL
3 1 (8.333%) T-SQL
3 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) Microsoft
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