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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank - 44 49
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 0 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich - 0.758% 0.685%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.852% 1.105%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 2
Average salary - £40,000 £56,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -28.88%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
199 108 181
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 60.86% 40.91% 61.99%
Number of salaries quoted 190 103 172
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
Suffolk

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (87.50%) C#
3 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (50.00%) Finance
5 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
5 4 (50.00%) Visual Studio
5 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 3 (37.50%) Ajax
6 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
6 3 (37.50%) Web Services
6 3 (37.50%) XML
6 3 (37.50%) Windows
6 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
6 3 (37.50%) BizTalk Server
6 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
7 2 (25.00%) N-Tier
7 2 (25.00%) WSH
7 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (25.00%) Internet
7 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
7 2 (25.00%) CRM
7 2 (25.00%) RAD

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) Ajax
2 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET
2 3 (37.50%) Web Services
2 3 (37.50%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) WSH
3 2 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (25.00%) jQuery
3 2 (25.00%) WPF
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) WCF
4 1 (12.50%) WF
4 1 (12.50%) LINQ
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) XSLT
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) SharePoint
1 3 (37.50%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
1 5 (62.50%) C# Developer
2 3 (37.50%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Architect
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) N-Tier
1 2 (25.00%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
2 2 (25.00%) RAD
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
2 6 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) VB
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft