Silverlight Contracts

Microsoft Silverlight
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Silverlight skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Silverlight over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 693 820
Rank change year-on-year +110 +127 -97
Contract jobs citing Silverlight 1 4 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.007% 0.032%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.011% 0.031% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 28
10th Percentile - £489 £615
25th Percentile - £528 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £675 £750
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £838 -
90th Percentile - £860 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £475 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

Silverlight falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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 4 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 13 June 2024. 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
Work from Home +116 1 - -
England +84 1 - -
UK excluding London +29 1 - -
East of England - 1 - -

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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# WPF Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Physics
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Statistical Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) PhD