The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 22 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 124 124 71
Rank change year-on-year
0 -53
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 11 11 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.509% 0.473% 2.833%
As % of the Application Development category 1.713% 1.138% 7.382%
Number of salaries quoted 11 11 51
Average salary £47,500 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £45,000 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £54,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
642 967 718
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 29.69% 41.61% 38.38%
Number of salaries quoted 566 878 625
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +8.97%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
Berkshire

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Silverlight across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading Silverlight Salary Histogram

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 28 (100.00%) C#
2 27 (96.43%) .NET
3 26 (92.86%) SQL Server
4 24 (85.71%) ASP.NET
5 20 (71.43%) Finance
6 19 (67.86%) RAD
7 12 (42.86%) Web Services
8 11 (39.29%) SQL
9 10 (35.71%) T-SQL
9 10 (35.71%) VB.NET
10 9 (32.14%) Flash
10 9 (32.14%) RIA
11 6 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (21.43%) SQL Server 2008
11 6 (21.43%) Selenium
11 6 (21.43%) TDD
12 5 (17.86%) WCF
13 4 (14.29%) Lucene
13 4 (14.29%) NHibernate
13 4 (14.29%) MVC
13 4 (14.29%) NUnit
13 4 (14.29%) Scrum
13 4 (14.29%) OO
13 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
13 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (14.29%) Social Media
13 4 (14.29%) Rhino Mocks
13 4 (14.29%) LINQ
13 4 (14.29%) Kanban
13 4 (14.29%) Web Application Development

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 27 (96.43%) .NET
2 24 (85.71%) ASP.NET
3 12 (42.86%) Web Services
4 9 (32.14%) Flash
5 5 (17.86%) WCF
6 4 (14.29%) Lucene
6 4 (14.29%) NHibernate
6 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (14.29%) LINQ
6 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 4 (14.29%) Castle Windsor
6 4 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (7.143%) COM
8 1 (3.571%) CSS
8 1 (3.571%) ASP
8 1 (3.571%) jQuery
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (7.143%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (92.86%) SQL Server
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Selenium
2 4 (14.29%) NUnit
2 4 (14.29%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (7.143%) Rational Robot
3 2 (7.143%) TestComplete
General
1 20 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (7.143%) Advertising
3 1 (3.571%) Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (85.71%) Developer
2 22 (78.57%) .NET Developer
3 13 (46.43%) C# Developer
3 13 (46.43%) C# .NET Developer
4 12 (42.86%) ASP.NET Developer
4 12 (42.86%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 10 (35.71%) Software Developer
6 8 (28.57%) .NET Software Developer
7 3 (10.71%) C# Programmer
7 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET Programmer
7 3 (10.71%) Programmer
7 3 (10.71%) Software Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) C# Software Engineer
7 3 (10.71%) .NET Programmer
7 3 (10.71%) .NET Software Engineer
8 2 (7.143%) Senior QA Analyst
8 2 (7.143%) QA Analyst
8 2 (7.143%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (7.143%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (7.143%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (32.14%) RIA
2 6 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (14.29%) Social Media
3 4 (14.29%) Digital Media
4 2 (7.143%) EPoS
4 2 (7.143%) Mobile App
4 2 (7.143%) Open Source
5 1 (3.571%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.143%) Windows Vista
1 2 (7.143%) Windows
1 2 (7.143%) Windows 7
1 2 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (67.86%) RAD
2 6 (21.43%) TDD
3 4 (14.29%) MVC
3 4 (14.29%) Scrum
3 4 (14.29%) OO
3 4 (14.29%) Kanban
3 4 (14.29%) Web Application Development
3 4 (14.29%) BDD
3 4 (14.29%) Scrum-ban
4 2 (7.143%) Software Testing
4 2 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (7.143%) CRM
4 2 (7.143%) E-Commerce
4 2 (7.143%) Integration Testing
4 2 (7.143%) Scalability Testing
4 2 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (3.571%) Unit Testing
5 1 (3.571%) Asset Management
5 1 (3.571%) Web Design
5 1 (3.571%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (39.29%) SQL
3 10 (35.71%) T-SQL
3 10 (35.71%) VB.NET
4 2 (7.143%) VB
5 1 (3.571%) Delphi
5 1 (3.571%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (7.143%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.143%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
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