The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales 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 South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 82 87 82
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 6 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.572% 0.315% 0.334%
As % of the Application Development category 1.373% 0.838% 0.796%
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 3
Average salary £30,000 £32,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% -45.83%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
437 358 377
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 41.66% 37.57% 42.03%
Number of salaries quoted 405 317 350
Average salary £32,500 £32,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £55,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
Wales

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales Silverlight Salary Trend

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 South Wales region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bridgend - 5 £30,000 -
Silverlight
Wales

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 10 (90.91%) OO
3 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 7 (63.64%) C#
3 7 (63.64%) WPF
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (45.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
5 4 (36.36%) Windows
5 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
5 4 (36.36%) VB.NET
5 4 (36.36%) VBA
5 4 (36.36%) MVC
5 4 (36.36%) Systems Analysis
6 3 (27.27%) jQuery
6 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
7 2 (18.18%) IIS
7 2 (18.18%) Apache
7 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
8 1 (9.091%) Umbraco
8 1 (9.091%) MooTools
8 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (9.091%) WordPress
8 1 (9.091%) Open Source
8 1 (9.091%) Web Application Development
8 1 (9.091%) Ajax
8 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
8 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (63.64%) WPF
3 5 (45.45%) ASP.NET
4 3 (27.27%) jQuery
5 1 (9.091%) MooTools
5 1 (9.091%) CSS
5 1 (9.091%) Web Services
5 1 (9.091%) XML
5 1 (9.091%) XSLT
5 1 (9.091%) XHTML
5 1 (9.091%) Ajax
5 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
5 1 (9.091%) JSON
5 1 (9.091%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) IIS
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
2 1 (9.091%) CMS
2 1 (9.091%) Joomla!
2 1 (9.091%) Umbraco
2 1 (9.091%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 5 (45.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (9.091%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Developer
2 5 (45.45%) Software Developer
3 4 (36.36%) Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (18.18%) .NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Systems Developer
5 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM Developer
5 1 (9.091%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) N-Tier
1 1 (9.091%) W3C
1 1 (9.091%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) OO
2 4 (36.36%) MVC
2 4 (36.36%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Web Application Development
3 1 (9.091%) UML
3 1 (9.091%) Scrum
3 1 (9.091%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 10 (90.91%) SQL
2 7 (63.64%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) T-SQL
3 4 (36.36%) VB.NET
3 4 (36.36%) VBA
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
5 1 (9.091%) PHP
5 1 (9.091%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft