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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 42 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 0.493% 0.510% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.667% 0.935% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £31,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
150 107 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 73.89% 54.59% 63.54%
Number of salaries quoted 150 96 107
Average salary £32,500 £32,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £19,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
Manchester

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) WinForms
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (87.50%) .NET Framework
2 7 (87.50%) Information Management
2 7 (87.50%) IIS
2 7 (87.50%) ADO.NET
2 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) LIMS
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) WinForms
2 7 (87.50%) .NET Framework
2 7 (87.50%) ADO.NET
2 7 (87.50%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst
1 7 (87.50%) Analyst Programmer
1 7 (87.50%) Programmer
1 7 (87.50%) C# Analyst Programmer
1 7 (87.50%) C# Programmer
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) WinForms Developer
2 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle