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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 36 94 45
Rank change year-on-year
+58 -49
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 53 10 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 5.268% 0.727% 4.792%
As % of the Application Development category 15.19% 1.439% 10.20%
Number of salaries quoted 52 10 57
Average salary £46,250 £40,750 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.49% +4.48%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £36,950 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,750 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
349 695 588
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 34.69% 50.55% 46.96%
Number of salaries quoted 313 567 512
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
East of England

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

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

Essex 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 Essex 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
Basildon +16 32 £47,500 -
Colchester +15 7 £45,000 +15.38%
Chelmsford - 6 £40,000 -
Silverlight
East of England

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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.

1 126 (97.67%) C#
2 125 (96.90%) .NET
3 111 (86.05%) WPF
4 108 (83.72%) SQL Server
5 75 (58.14%) WCF
6 63 (48.84%) Finance
7 54 (41.86%) OO
8 46 (35.66%) Microsoft Certification
8 46 (35.66%) TDD
9 44 (34.11%) Microsoft
9 44 (34.11%) Enterprise Software
10 43 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
11 36 (27.91%) SQL
12 34 (26.36%) NUnit
13 33 (25.58%) MCTS
13 33 (25.58%) Scrum
13 33 (25.58%) MCP
13 33 (25.58%) MCAD
13 33 (25.58%) MCSD
13 33 (25.58%) Castle Windsor
14 29 (22.48%) SQL Server 2008
15 28 (21.71%) OOP
16 25 (19.38%) Tandem
17 24 (18.60%) MonoRail
17 24 (18.60%) NHibernate
18 22 (17.05%) .NET Framework
19 19 (14.73%) MSTest
19 19 (14.73%) VB.NET
20 18 (13.95%) Dependency Injection
20 18 (13.95%) Unity DI Container

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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
1 125 (96.90%) .NET
2 111 (86.05%) WPF
3 75 (58.14%) WCF
4 33 (25.58%) Castle Windsor
5 24 (18.60%) MonoRail
5 24 (18.60%) NHibernate
6 22 (17.05%) .NET Framework
7 18 (13.95%) Unity DI Container
8 14 (10.85%) Web Services
8 14 (10.85%) ASP.NET
8 14 (10.85%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 9 (6.977%) ASP.NET MVC
9 9 (6.977%) Ninject
9 9 (6.977%) Spring.NET
10 7 (5.426%) J2ME
11 4 (3.101%) HTML
12 3 (2.326%) CSS
12 3 (2.326%) Ajax
12 3 (2.326%) WinForms
13 2 (1.550%) jQuery
Applications
1 15 (11.63%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.550%) Internet
2 1 (0.775%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (83.72%) SQL Server
2 29 (22.48%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (6.977%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (1.550%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (1.550%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (1.550%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (0.775%) SQLPlus
5 1 (0.775%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.775%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
2 34 (26.36%) NUnit
3 19 (14.73%) MSTest
4 9 (6.977%) Moq
5 2 (1.550%) Oracle Forms
General
1 63 (48.84%) Finance
2 1 (0.775%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 95 (73.64%) Developer
2 57 (44.19%) .NET Developer
3 45 (34.88%) Analyst
4 36 (27.91%) Technical Analyst
5 28 (21.71%) C# Developer
6 15 (11.63%) Software Developer
7 14 (10.85%) WPF Developer
7 14 (10.85%) Silverlight Developer
8 13 (10.08%) C# .NET Developer
9 7 (5.426%) Analyst Developer
9 7 (5.426%) Systems Developer
9 7 (5.426%) Senior Developer
10 5 (3.876%) Developer Analyst
11 4 (3.101%) Technical Developer
12 3 (2.326%) C# Software Developer
12 3 (2.326%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 3 (2.326%) ASP.NET Developer
12 3 (2.326%) Senior Software Developer
12 3 (2.326%) Support Analyst
13 2 (1.550%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (34.11%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (19.38%) Tandem
3 10 (7.752%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (6.977%) Inversion of Control
5 7 (5.426%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.775%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 7 (5.426%) Android
2 2 (1.550%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (41.86%) OO
2 46 (35.66%) TDD
3 33 (25.58%) Scrum
4 28 (21.71%) OOP
5 18 (13.95%) Dependency Injection
6 12 (9.302%) Unit Testing
7 11 (8.527%) MVVM
8 10 (7.752%) Data Protection
8 10 (7.752%) MVC
9 9 (6.977%) Agile Software Development
9 9 (6.977%) Kanban
9 9 (6.977%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (5.426%) Mobile Application Development
10 7 (5.426%) System Testing
11 3 (2.326%) Web Development
11 3 (2.326%) E-Commerce
12 2 (1.550%) OOD
13 1 (0.775%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 126 (97.67%) C#
2 36 (27.91%) SQL
3 19 (14.73%) VB.NET
4 14 (10.85%) XAML
5 13 (10.08%) T-SQL
6 7 (5.426%) Objective-C
7 6 (4.651%) JavaScript
8 2 (1.550%) COBOL
8 2 (1.550%) VB
Qualifications
1 46 (35.66%) Microsoft Certification
2 33 (25.58%) MCTS
2 33 (25.58%) MCP
2 33 (25.58%) MCAD
2 33 (25.58%) MCSD
Vendors
1 44 (34.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.550%) Oracle
Essex
The main technologies used are ASP.NET and MVC 3/4... - Participate in team meetingsYou You will need to have strong experience working on web applications in ASP...
Jam Recruitment
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year
Posted: 10 May 2013
Essex, South East
The main technologies used are ASP.NET and MVC 3/4... *Participate in team meetingsYou You will need to have strong experience working on web applications in ASP...
JAM
Salary: £45000.00 - £50000.00 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Essex
The main technologies used are ASP.NET and MVC 3/4... *Participate in team meetings You… You will need to have strong experience working on web applications in...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000.00 - £50000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role Essential: - DBA experience with Oracle 10g / 11g Standard Edition Databases on the Microsoft Windows platform. - Oracle Database Performance Tuning (manual) -...
Xuber
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013