The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 23 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 82 64 87
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +23
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 9 8 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.785% 1.125% 1.116%
As % of the Application Development category 2.027% 2.589% 2.170%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 12
Average salary £42,500 £32,000 £35,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+32.81% -9.21%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £30,400 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £33,600 £48,600
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
444 309 553
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 38.74% 43.46% 51.44%
Number of salaries quoted 379 278 519
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
South East

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Kent region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 23 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
Dartford - 4 £40,000 -
Tunbridge Wells +10 2 £42,500 +41.66%
Tonbridge - 2 £47,500 -
Silverlight
South East

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 15 (68.18%) .NET
2 14 (63.64%) C#
3 13 (59.09%) XML
4 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
5 11 (50.00%) jQuery
6 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
7 9 (40.91%) SQL
7 9 (40.91%) Web Services
8 8 (36.36%) HTML
8 8 (36.36%) MVC
9 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
10 6 (27.27%) XAML
10 6 (27.27%) Ajax
10 6 (27.27%) Degree
10 6 (27.27%) WCF
10 6 (27.27%) Ext JS
11 5 (22.73%) CSS
11 5 (22.73%) VB.NET
11 5 (22.73%) Software Architecture
12 4 (18.18%) HTML5
12 4 (18.18%) OOD
12 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (13.64%) OO
13 3 (13.64%) Flash
13 3 (13.64%) XSL
13 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
13 3 (13.64%) Java
13 3 (13.64%) DHTML
13 3 (13.64%) SOAP

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 15 (68.18%) .NET
2 13 (59.09%) XML
3 11 (50.00%) jQuery
4 9 (40.91%) Web Services
5 8 (36.36%) HTML
6 7 (31.82%) ASP.NET
7 6 (27.27%) Ajax
7 6 (27.27%) WCF
7 6 (27.27%) Ext JS
8 5 (22.73%) CSS
9 4 (18.18%) HTML5
10 3 (13.64%) Flash
10 3 (13.64%) XSL
10 3 (13.64%) DHTML
10 3 (13.64%) SOAP
11 2 (9.091%) WPF
12 1 (4.545%) REST
12 1 (4.545%) CSS3
12 1 (4.545%) Razor View Engine
12 1 (4.545%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) CMS
2 1 (4.545%) DotNetNuke
2 1 (4.545%) Joomla!
2 1 (4.545%) WordPress
2 1 (4.545%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (4.545%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.545%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.545%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (13.64%) RDBMS
4 2 (9.091%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Visual Studio
1 2 (9.091%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (4.545%) Xcode
General
1 2 (9.091%) Investment Banking
1 2 (9.091%) Banking
2 1 (4.545%) Electronics
2 1 (4.545%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (72.73%) Developer
2 10 (45.45%) .NET Developer
3 5 (22.73%) ASP.NET Developer
3 5 (22.73%) .NET Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Architect
3 5 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Agile .NET Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Web Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Silverlight Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Web Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Front-End Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.545%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.545%) Windows
1 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) MVC
2 5 (22.73%) Software Architecture
3 4 (18.18%) OOD
4 3 (13.64%) OO
5 2 (9.091%) Web Accessibility
5 2 (9.091%) Web Development
5 2 (9.091%) MVVM
6 1 (4.545%) Video Processing
6 1 (4.545%) Multithreading
6 1 (4.545%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 14 (63.64%) C#
2 12 (54.55%) JavaScript
3 9 (40.91%) SQL
4 6 (27.27%) XAML
5 5 (22.73%) VB.NET
6 3 (13.64%) Java
7 2 (9.091%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 2 (9.091%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.545%) Sitecore
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