The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 17 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 North East region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank - 66 -
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 0 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East - 0.457% -
As % of the Application Development category - 1.329% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 0
Average salary - £36,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
267 301 305
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 38.86% 34.36% 42.30%
Number of salaries quoted 249 244 269
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £24,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
England

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) WinForms
4 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (25.00%) ASP
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) WPF
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) CSS
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) ASP
4 1 (25.00%) WinForms
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) WCF
4 1 (25.00%) WPF
4 1 (25.00%) LINQ
4 1 (25.00%) jQuery
4 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 3 (75.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (25.00%) C# Application Developer
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Applications Developer
4 1 (25.00%) WPF Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (25.00%) TDD
1 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) VB.NET