The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 20 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 34 20 35
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +15
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 3 13 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 1.630% 9.774% 0.571%
As % of the Application Development category 4.839% 19.40% 2.083%
Number of salaries quoted 3 13 0
Average salary £65,000 £65,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Application Development
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
62 67 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 33.70% 50.38% 27.43%
Number of salaries quoted 47 56 44
Average salary £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +31.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £45,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
Hertfordshire

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 18 (100.00%) C#
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
1 18 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 18 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 18 (100.00%) MVC
2 16 (88.89%) Finance
2 16 (88.89%) Scrum
2 16 (88.89%) TDD
2 16 (88.89%) NUnit
2 16 (88.89%) Lucene
2 16 (88.89%) MCTS
2 16 (88.89%) NHibernate
2 16 (88.89%) Selenium
2 16 (88.89%) WCF
2 16 (88.89%) MCP
2 16 (88.89%) MCAD
2 16 (88.89%) MCSD
2 16 (88.89%) OO
2 16 (88.89%) Kanban
2 16 (88.89%) SQL Server 2008
2 16 (88.89%) ASP.NET MVC
2 16 (88.89%) Rhino Mocks
2 16 (88.89%) Cucumber
2 16 (88.89%) BDD
2 16 (88.89%) Castle Windsor
2 16 (88.89%) Scrum-ban
2 16 (88.89%) Web Application Development
2 16 (88.89%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (88.89%) LINQ
2 16 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 18 (100.00%) .NET
1 18 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 16 (88.89%) Lucene
2 16 (88.89%) NHibernate
2 16 (88.89%) WCF
2 16 (88.89%) LINQ
2 16 (88.89%) ASP.NET MVC
2 16 (88.89%) Castle Windsor
3 2 (11.11%) jQuery
3 2 (11.11%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) WPF
3 2 (11.11%) Ajax
3 2 (11.11%) CSS
3 2 (11.11%) XML
4 1 (5.556%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) IIS
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 16 (88.89%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 16 (88.89%) NUnit
1 16 (88.89%) Selenium
1 16 (88.89%) Rhino Mocks
1 16 (88.89%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.11%) Expression Blend
General
1 16 (88.89%) Finance
Job Titles
1 18 (100.00%) Developer
1 18 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (11.11%) C# Developer
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (88.89%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) MVC
2 16 (88.89%) Scrum
2 16 (88.89%) TDD
2 16 (88.89%) Kanban
2 16 (88.89%) OO
2 16 (88.89%) BDD
2 16 (88.89%) Scrum-ban
2 16 (88.89%) Web Application Development
3 2 (11.11%) OOD
3 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) MCP
1 16 (88.89%) MCAD
1 16 (88.89%) MCSD
1 16 (88.89%) Microsoft Certification
1 16 (88.89%) MCTS
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft