Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the 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 22 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Leicestershire region.

 Microsoft Silverlight
Location
3 months to
22 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank5158-
Rank change year-on-year
Up+7New entry-
Matching permanent IT job ads160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire0.220 %1.193 %-
As % of the Application Development category0.465 %2.113 %-
Salaries quoted050
Average salary-£19,500-
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£32,500£37,000
% change year-on-year
+15.38 %-12.16 %
Leicestershire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
215284498
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire47.25 %56.46 %39.31 %
Salaries quoted196258383
Average salary£35,000£31,000£31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.90 %-1.580 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£24,000£22,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£50,000£38,000£37,500
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Silverlight East MidlandsSilverlight
East Midlands

Silverlight
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Leicestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Leicestershire Silverlight Demand Trend

Silverlight
Salary Trend

The 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
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 22 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LeicesterUp+81--
Silverlight East MidlandsSilverlight
East Midlands

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

13 (100.00 %)JavaScript
13 (100.00 %).NET
13 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
13 (100.00 %)CSS
13 (100.00 %)XHTML
13 (100.00 %)AJAX
13 (100.00 %)JSON
13 (100.00 %)jQuery
22 (66.67 %)C#
22 (66.67 %)VB.NET
22 (66.67 %)IIS
22 (66.67 %)XML
22 (66.67 %)XSD
22 (66.67 %)XSLT
22 (66.67 %)Web 2.0
22 (66.67 %)XPath
22 (66.67 %)ASP.NET 2.0
31 (33.33 %)SQL
31 (33.33 %)T-SQL
31 (33.33 %)VB
31 (33.33 %)SQL Server
31 (33.33 %)ASP
31 (33.33 %)Web Services
31 (33.33 %)UML
31 (33.33 %)E-Commerce
31 (33.33 %)Microsoft
31 (33.33 %)Internet
31 (33.33 %)Workflow
31 (33.33 %)Content Management
31 (33.33 %)Web Development

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 March 2010, 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.

Leicestershire IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
13 (100.00 %).NET
13 (100.00 %)ASP.NET
13 (100.00 %)CSS
13 (100.00 %)XHTML
13 (100.00 %)AJAX
13 (100.00 %)JSON
13 (100.00 %)jQuery
22 (66.67 %)ASP.NET 2.0
22 (66.67 %)XML
22 (66.67 %)XSD
22 (66.67 %)XSLT
31 (33.33 %).NET Framework
31 (33.33 %)Web Services
31 (33.33 %)ASP
Leicestershire IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12 (66.67 %)IIS
Leicestershire IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11 (33.33 %)Internet
Leicestershire IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (33.33 %)SQL Server
Leicestershire IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
13 (100.00 %)Developer
22 (66.67 %)Web Developer
31 (33.33 %)Senior Developer
Leicestershire IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (66.67 %)Web 2.0
21 (33.33 %)Ergonomics
Leicestershire IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11 (33.33 %)UML
11 (33.33 %)E-Commerce
11 (33.33 %)Workflow
11 (33.33 %)Content Management
11 (33.33 %)Web Development
Leicestershire IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
13 (100.00 %)JavaScript
22 (66.67 %)VB.NET
22 (66.67 %)XPath
22 (66.67 %)C#
31 (33.33 %)SQL
31 (33.33 %)T-SQL
31 (33.33 %)VB
Leicestershire IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11 (33.33 %)Microsoft