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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 19 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 Manchester region.

 Microsoft Silverlight
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank116117180
Rank change year-on-year
Up+1Up+63
Matching permanent IT job ads20182
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester0.742 %0.664 %0.035 %
As % of the Application Development category1.540 %1.565 %0.105 %
Salaries quoted20182
Average salary£32,500£27,000£28,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.37 %-6.080 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,000£24,800£19,750
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£37,500£34,200£37,750
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£32,500£37,250
% change year-on-year
+15.38 %-12.75 %
Manchester IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
129911501901
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester48.18 %42.42 %33.39 %
Salaries quoted11899911584
Average salary£32,000£29,500£32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.470 %-7.810 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,000£22,500£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£42,500£57,500£42,000
UK excluding London average salary£35,000£34,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.940 %-2.850 %
Silverlight North WestSilverlight
North West

Silverlight
Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

Manchester Silverlight Salary Histogram

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

131 (86.11 %).NET
225 (69.44 %)C#
323 (63.89 %)ASP.NET
418 (50.00 %)SQL Server
513 (36.11 %)CSS
612 (33.33 %)VB.NET
612 (33.33 %)Flash
612 (33.33 %)XHTML
710 (27.78 %)Web Services
710 (27.78 %)JavaScript
89 (25.00 %).NET Framework
89 (25.00 %)WCF
98 (22.22 %)LINQ
98 (22.22 %)NHibernate
98 (22.22 %)XML
107 (19.44 %)E-Commerce
107 (19.44 %)SQL
107 (19.44 %)WinForms
107 (19.44 %)AJAX
107 (19.44 %)WPF
116 (16.67 %)jQuery
116 (16.67 %)SQL Server 2005
116 (16.67 %)Adobe Illustrator
116 (16.67 %)Photoshop
116 (16.67 %)Windows
125 (13.89 %)HTML
125 (13.89 %)Agile Software Development
125 (13.89 %)Subversion
125 (13.89 %)Web Development
134 (11.11 %)Internet

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

Manchester IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
131 (86.11 %).NET
223 (63.89 %)ASP.NET
313 (36.11 %)CSS
412 (33.33 %)Flash
412 (33.33 %)XHTML
510 (27.78 %)Web Services
69 (25.00 %).NET Framework
69 (25.00 %)WCF
78 (22.22 %)LINQ
78 (22.22 %)NHibernate
78 (22.22 %)XML
87 (19.44 %)WinForms
87 (19.44 %)AJAX
87 (19.44 %)WPF
96 (16.67 %)jQuery
105 (13.89 %)HTML
113 (8.333 %)SOAP
113 (8.333 %)NVelocity
122 (5.556 %)JSON
122 (5.556 %)Adobe Flex
Manchester IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13 (8.333 %)IIS
21 (2.778 %)SharePoint
21 (2.778 %)CMS
Manchester IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
16 (16.67 %)Photoshop
16 (16.67 %)Adobe Illustrator
22 (5.556 %)Fireworks
Manchester IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
14 (11.11 %)Internet
Manchester IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
118 (50.00 %)SQL Server
26 (16.67 %)SQL Server 2005
34 (11.11 %)SQL Server 2000
42 (5.556 %)GIS
Manchester IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
15 (13.89 %)Subversion
24 (11.11 %)NUnit
32 (5.556 %)Visual Studio
Manchester IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
13 (8.333 %)Retail
13 (8.333 %)Pensions
22 (5.556 %)Finance
22 (5.556 %)Education
31 (2.778 %)Health
31 (2.778 %)Auditing
Manchester IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
127 (75.00 %)Developer
225 (69.44 %).NET Developer
37 (19.44 %).NET Web Developer
37 (19.44 %)Web Developer
46 (16.67 %)Designer
55 (13.89 %)UI Designer
55 (13.89 %)Software Developer
55 (13.89 %)Architect
55 (13.89 %)VB.NET Developer
64 (11.11 %)C# Developer
64 (11.11 %)Technical Architect
64 (11.11 %)Applications Developer
64 (11.11 %).NET Architect
64 (11.11 %)ASP.NET Developer
64 (11.11 %).NET Applications Developer
64 (11.11 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
73 (8.333 %).NET Technical Architect
82 (5.556 %)Senior .NET Technical Architect
82 (5.556 %)Photoshop Designer
82 (5.556 %)Senior Technical Architect
Manchester IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
14 (11.11 %)W3C
22 (5.556 %)Blog
22 (5.556 %)RIA
31 (2.778 %)Computer Science
Manchester IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
16 (16.67 %)Windows
Manchester IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
17 (19.44 %)E-Commerce
25 (13.89 %)Agile Software Development
25 (13.89 %)Web Development
33 (8.333 %)UML
42 (5.556 %)OOD
42 (5.556 %)SOA
42 (5.556 %)B2B
42 (5.556 %)MVC
42 (5.556 %)Scrum
42 (5.556 %)Web Design
42 (5.556 %)OOA/OOD
51 (2.778 %)OOP
51 (2.778 %)Requirements Analysis
Manchester IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
125 (69.44 %)C#
212 (33.33 %)VB.NET
310 (27.78 %)JavaScript
47 (19.44 %)SQL
54 (11.11 %)ActionScript
62 (5.556 %)VB
62 (5.556 %)C
71 (2.778 %)PHP
71 (2.778 %)VB6
71 (2.778 %)Ruby
Manchester IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12 (5.556 %)MCSE
12 (5.556 %)Microsoft Certification
Manchester IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12 (5.556 %)Oracle
12 (5.556 %)Adobe