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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Silverlight
Rank - 24 20
Permanent jobs citing Silverlight 0 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea - 1.124% 2.667%
As % of the Application Development category - 3.030% 5.263%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 2
Average salary - £24,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
All Application Development
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
21 33 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 42.86% 37.08% 50.67%
Number of salaries quoted 19 32 35
Average salary £28,736 £27,750 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.55% +11.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Silverlight
West Wales

Silverlight
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Swansea Silverlight Salary Trend

Silverlight
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) WinForms
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
1 3 (100.00%) LINQ
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS

Silverlight
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 3 (100.00%) HTML
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) XSLT
1 3 (100.00%) WinForms
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
1 3 (100.00%) LINQ
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 10g
1 3 (100.00%) GIS
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (100.00%) Mercurial
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft