The first table below looks at the demand for Silverlight skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Silverlight over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank 72 56 61
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +5
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 1 14 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 0.149% 2.473% 1.351%
As % of the Application Development category 0.262% 5.534% 2.284%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 9
Average salary £22,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-43.75% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Application Development
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
382 253 394
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 56.85% 44.70% 59.16%
Number of salaries quoted 362 223 360
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,300
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
Silverlight
East of England

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bury St Edmunds -8 1 £22,500 -50.00%
Silverlight
East of England

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (62.50%) Degree
3 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (25.00%) WPF
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (25.00%) Windows
5 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (25.00%) CRM
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (12.50%) NHibernate
6 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 1 (12.50%) MVC
6 1 (12.50%) Finance
6 1 (12.50%) WCF
6 1 (12.50%) Internet
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (12.50%) Windows XP

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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
2 2 (25.00%) WPF
2 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) NHibernate
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) WCF
3 1 (12.50%) MSMQ
3 1 (12.50%) LINQ
3 1 (12.50%) jQuery
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Graduate
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (12.50%) N-Tier
2 1 (12.50%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
1 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
2 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft