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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 58 55 42
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -13
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 21 18 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 3.061% 2.579% 3.578%
As % of the Application Development category 6.604% 5.028% 7.631%
Number of salaries quoted 17 15 19
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
318 358 249
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 46.36% 51.29% 46.89%
Number of salaries quoted 279 325 232
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% +1.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
East Midlands

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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
Leicester -3 20 £40,000 +6.66%
Loughborough -5 5 £37,500 -21.05%
Hinckley - 5 £37,500 -
Silverlight
East Midlands

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 44 (100.00%) .NET
2 36 (81.82%) C#
3 28 (63.64%) WPF
4 27 (61.36%) .NET Framework
5 25 (56.82%) ASP.NET
6 22 (50.00%) SQL
6 22 (50.00%) Degree
7 21 (47.73%) HTML
8 17 (38.64%) T-SQL
9 16 (36.36%) XML
10 14 (31.82%) MVC
11 13 (29.55%) SQL Server
12 12 (27.27%) Windows
12 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
12 12 (27.27%) BizTalk Server
12 12 (27.27%) Workflow
12 12 (27.27%) WinForms
12 12 (27.27%) WF
12 12 (27.27%) Test Scripting
13 10 (22.73%) UML
13 10 (22.73%) Visual Studio
14 9 (20.45%) Oracle
14 9 (20.45%) CSS
14 9 (20.45%) LINQ
14 9 (20.45%) WCF
15 8 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
15 8 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 7 (15.91%) Agile Software Development
16 7 (15.91%) Logistics
17 6 (13.64%) SOA

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 44 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (63.64%) WPF
3 27 (61.36%) .NET Framework
4 25 (56.82%) ASP.NET
5 21 (47.73%) HTML
6 16 (36.36%) XML
7 12 (27.27%) WinForms
7 12 (27.27%) WF
8 9 (20.45%) CSS
8 9 (20.45%) LINQ
8 9 (20.45%) WCF
9 8 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC
9 8 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 6 (13.64%) jQuery
11 5 (11.36%) Web Services
12 1 (2.273%) ASP
12 1 (2.273%) XHTML
12 1 (2.273%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 12 (27.27%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.273%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (29.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.273%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.273%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 10 (22.73%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.273%) NUnit
2 1 (2.273%) NCover
General
1 2 (4.545%) Retail
2 1 (2.273%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 35 (79.55%) Developer
2 21 (47.73%) C# Developer
3 20 (45.45%) C# .NET Developer
4 17 (38.64%) .NET Developer
5 9 (20.45%) Architect
5 9 (20.45%) Technical Architect
6 8 (18.18%) Software Developer
7 6 (13.64%) .NET Architect
7 6 (13.64%) Senior Developer
7 6 (13.64%) .NET Technical Architect
8 5 (11.36%) Agile C# Developer
8 5 (11.36%) Web Developer
8 5 (11.36%) Senior C# Developer
9 4 (9.091%) Programmer
10 3 (6.818%) Software Programmer
10 3 (6.818%) ASP.NET Developer
10 3 (6.818%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 2 (4.545%) Junior C# .NET Developer
11 2 (4.545%) Junior
11 2 (4.545%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) N-Tier
2 4 (9.091%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.273%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 12 (27.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) MVC
2 12 (27.27%) Workflow
2 12 (27.27%) Test Scripting
3 10 (22.73%) UML
4 7 (15.91%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (15.91%) Logistics
5 6 (13.64%) SOA
6 5 (11.36%) MVVM
6 5 (11.36%) OO
7 4 (9.091%) Scrum
7 4 (9.091%) Web Development
8 3 (6.818%) ERP
9 2 (4.545%) E-Commerce
9 2 (4.545%) CRM
10 1 (2.273%) SEO
10 1 (2.273%) Waterfall
10 1 (2.273%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 36 (81.82%) C#
2 22 (50.00%) SQL
3 17 (38.64%) T-SQL
4 3 (6.818%) VB.NET
5 2 (4.545%) VB
6 1 (2.273%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (50.00%) Degree
2 5 (11.36%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 9 (20.45%) Oracle
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