Silverlight Contracts

Microsoft Silverlight
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Silverlight skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Silverlight over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 603 805 831
Rank change year-on-year +202 +26 -253
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 1 3 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.004% 0.039%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.010% 0.015% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 32
10th Percentile - - £450
25th Percentile - £763 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £775 £700
Median % change year-on-year - +10.71% +123.64%
75th Percentile - £838 £750
90th Percentile - £868 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £425
% change year-on-year - - +35.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Silverlight is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,969 20,027 26,278
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.21% 26.09% 29.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,082 14,296 19,034
10th Percentile £363 £403 £375
25th Percentile £445 £475 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +8.90% +8.31%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £638
90th Percentile £750 £775 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 213 270
10th Percentile £31.93 £21.87 £20.00
25th Percentile £46.18 £43.68 £35.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.69% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £70.00 £68.75 £63.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £76.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £51.89 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -20.17% +32.65% +7.69%

Silverlight
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Silverlight as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Silverlight in the UK

Silverlight
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Silverlight.

Daily rate trend for Silverlight in the UK

Silverlight
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Silverlight.

Hourly rate trend for Silverlight in the UK

Silverlight
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Silverlight within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +191 1 - - 3
London +144 1 - - 2

Silverlight
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Multimedia Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) MPEG
1 1 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Bill of Materials
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Control
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (100.00%) Low Latency
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Wealth Management
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Ariba
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) NEC
1 1 (100.00%) Panasonic
1 1 (100.00%) Polycom
1 1 (100.00%) Samsung