Bath WPF Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) skills within the Bath region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnham Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nuneaton Oldham Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Surrey UK Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	17
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	2.941 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£281	£250
% change on same period last year	+12.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£45.00
Average hourly rate	-	£50.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.83	£34.88
% change on same period last year	+2.74 %
Application Development Bath
Matching contract IT job ads	59	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.084 %	0.035 %
Daily rates quoted	19	6
Average minimum daily rate	£193	£287
Average daily rate	£222	£292
% change on same period last year	-23.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£252	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.31	£33.33
Average hourly rate	£23.56	£37.29
% change on same period last year	-36.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.81	£41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
WPF Somerset

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WPF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WPF across the Bath region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WPF
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WPF across the Bath region.

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WPF across the Bath region.