Manchester Silverlight Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Silverlight skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Microsoft Silverlight
Location Abingdon Altrincham Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Carmarthenshire Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Dorset Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edenbridge Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent Kettering Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Llanelli London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Norfolk North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rochdale Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	124	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	46	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.779 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	46	0
Average minimum salary	£26,380	-
Average salary	£29,570	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£32,760	-
UK excluding London average salary	£36,714	£38,546
% change on same period last year	-4.75 %
Application Development Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	1655	2400
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.966 %	1.029 %
Salaries quoted	1433	2060
Average minimum salary	£28,360	£33,054
Average salary	£31,438	£37,319
% change on same period last year	-15.75 %
Average maximum salary	£34,516	£41,584
UK excluding London average salary	£35,966	£36,644
% change on same period last year	-1.85 %
Silverlight 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.

Silverlight
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Manchester region.

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	-	7	£32,286	-
Altrincham	-	6	£33,083	-
Bolton	-	3	£28,000	-
Rochdale	-	1	£28,500	-

Silverlight North West

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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.

1 68 (100.00 %) .NET 2 59 (86.76 %) ASP.NET 3 55 (80.88 %) C# 4 44 (64.71 %) Microsoft 5 35 (51.47 %) SQL Server 6 33 (48.53 %) AJAX 7 26 (38.24 %) WPF 8 24 (35.29 %) VB.NET 9 23 (33.82 %) JavaScript 9 23 (33.82 %) CSS 10 22 (32.35 %) WebServices 10 22 (32.35 %) Microsoft Certification 11 21 (30.88 %) SQL Server 2005 11 21 (30.88 %) XML 12 16 (23.53 %) HTML

13 14 (20.59 %) Windows 13 14 (20.59 %) MS Excel 14 13 (19.12 %) Oracle 14 13 (19.12 %) .NET Framework 14 13 (19.12 %) SQL Server 2008 15 12 (17.65 %) OO 16 11 (16.18 %) VB 16 11 (16.18 %) WCF 17 10 (14.71 %) Photoshop 17 10 (14.71 %) OOP 17 10 (14.71 %) ASP 18 9 (13.24 %) Flash 18 9 (13.24 %) Degree 18 9 (13.24 %) Web Development 19 7 (10.29 %) XHTML

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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.

Application Development 1 68 (100.00 %) .NET 2 59 (86.76 %) ASP.NET 3 33 (48.53 %) AJAX 4 26 (38.24 %) WPF 5 23 (33.82 %) CSS 6 22 (32.35 %) WebServices 7 21 (30.88 %) XML 8 16 (23.53 %) HTML 9 13 (19.12 %) .NET Framework 10 11 (16.18 %) WCF 11 10 (14.71 %) ASP 12 7 (10.29 %) XHTML 13 6 (8.824 %) XSLT 14 5 (7.353 %) Adobe Flex 14 5 (7.353 %) WF 15 3 (4.412 %) LAMP 16 2 (2.941 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 1 (1.471 %) LINQ 17 1 (1.471 %) WinForms 17 1 (1.471 %) CORBA	Application Platforms 1 6 (8.824 %) ColdFusion 2 3 (4.412 %) Apache
Applications 1 14 (20.59 %) MS Excel 2 10 (14.71 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 4 (5.882 %) Internet 2 1 (1.471 %) FTP 2 1 (1.471 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 35 (51.47 %) SQL Server 2 21 (30.88 %) SQL Server 2005 3 13 (19.12 %) SQL Server 2008 4 6 (8.824 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (4.412 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 9 (13.24 %) Flash 2 4 (5.882 %) Visual Studio
General 1 5 (7.353 %) Finance 1 5 (7.353 %) Marketing 2 3 (4.412 %) Interactive Media 2 3 (4.412 %) Health 2 3 (4.412 %) Pensions 3 1 (1.471 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 59 (86.76 %) Developer 2 40 (58.82 %) .NET Developer 3 36 (52.94 %) Web Developer 4 25 (36.76 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 22 (32.35 %) .NET Web Developer 6 21 (30.88 %) C# Developer 7 17 (25.00 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 9 (13.24 %) C# Web Developer 9 7 (10.29 %) Senior Developer 10 5 (7.353 %) Senior Web Developer 10 5 (7.353 %) Senior C# Developer 11 4 (5.882 %) .NET Applications Developer 11 4 (5.882 %) Web Designer 11 4 (5.882 %) Junior Developer 11 4 (5.882 %) ColdFusion Developer 11 4 (5.882 %) Applications Developer 11 4 (5.882 %) Junior 12 3 (4.412 %) Software Developer 12 3 (4.412 %) Programmer 12 3 (4.412 %) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 5 (7.353 %) iDTV 1 5 (7.353 %) BBC 2 2 (2.941 %) N-Tier 3 1 (1.471 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 14 (20.59 %) Windows 2 3 (4.412 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (17.65 %) OO 2 10 (14.71 %) OOP 3 9 (13.24 %) Web Development 4 4 (5.882 %) Scrum 5 3 (4.412 %) Digital Marketing 5 3 (4.412 %) Unit Testing 6 2 (2.941 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (2.941 %) OOD 7 1 (1.471 %) Workflow 7 1 (1.471 %) Extreme Programming 7 1 (1.471 %) UML 7 1 (1.471 %) CRM 7 1 (1.471 %) E-Commerce 7 1 (1.471 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (1.471 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 55 (80.88 %) C# 2 24 (35.29 %) VB.NET 3 23 (33.82 %) JavaScript 4 11 (16.18 %) VB 5 4 (5.882 %) SQL 6 3 (4.412 %) PHP 7 1 (1.471 %) Java 7 1 (1.471 %) ActionScript 7 1 (1.471 %) XAML 7 1 (1.471 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 22 (32.35 %) Microsoft Certification 2 9 (13.24 %) Degree	Vendors 1 44 (64.71 %) Microsoft 2 13 (19.12 %) Oracle 3 6 (8.824 %) Adobe 4 5 (7.353 %) IBM 4 5 (7.353 %) Sony 5 1 (1.471 %) Macromedia