The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 21 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank - 65 42
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 0 14 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside - 2.090% 5.275%
As % of the Application Development category - 4.130% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 0 14 18
Average salary - £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -15.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
235 339 209
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 51.09% 50.60% 45.93%
Number of salaries quoted 204 305 168
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
North West

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Xcode
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) SQLite
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQLite
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 2 (100.00%) Xcode
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
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