WPF Contracts in Belfast
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 24 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 Belfast region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 8 26 43
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +17
Contract jobs citing WPF 27 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 13.92% 1.852% 0.306%
As % of the Application Development category 28.72% 6.000% 0.943%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £36.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
All Application Development
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 94 50 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 48.45% 30.86% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 16 23
Average daily rate £350 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
County Antrim

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast WPF Jobs Demand Trend

WPF
Daily Rate Trend

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

Belfast WPF Daily Rate Trend

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WPF across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Belfast WPF Daily Rate Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing WPF 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited WPF.

1 33 (97.06%) .NET
2 31 (91.18%) C#
3 25 (73.53%) WCF
4 23 (67.65%) SQL
5 21 (61.76%) SQL Server
6 20 (58.82%) WF
7 19 (55.88%) WinForms
8 16 (47.06%) Sybase
8 16 (47.06%) UML
8 16 (47.06%) Oracle
9 15 (44.12%) VB
10 5 (14.71%) Finance
10 5 (14.71%) Multithreading
10 5 (14.71%) SQL Server 2008
11 4 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 4 (11.76%) ADO.NET
12 3 (8.824%) Visual Studio
12 3 (8.824%) VBA
12 3 (8.824%) Banking
12 3 (8.824%) ETL
13 2 (5.882%) Microsoft
13 2 (5.882%) Windows
13 2 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
14 1 (2.941%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
14 1 (2.941%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (2.941%) .NET Framework
14 1 (2.941%) MDX
14 1 (2.941%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (2.941%) Continuous Integration
14 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing WPF also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WPF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (97.06%) .NET
2 25 (73.53%) WCF
3 20 (58.82%) WF
4 19 (55.88%) WinForms
5 4 (11.76%) ADO.NET
6 1 (2.941%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.941%) MDX
6 1 (2.941%) ASP.NET
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (61.76%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (5.882%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.941%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
5 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (8.824%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.941%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (14.71%) Finance
2 3 (8.824%) Banking
3 1 (2.941%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 28 (82.35%) Developer
2 22 (64.71%) C# Developer
3 5 (14.71%) Database Developer
4 2 (5.882%) .NET Developer
4 2 (5.882%) SQL Developer
4 2 (5.882%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (2.941%) SQL Database Developer
5 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (47.06%) UML
2 5 (14.71%) Multithreading
3 3 (8.824%) ETL
4 1 (2.941%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (2.941%) TDD
4 1 (2.941%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 31 (91.18%) C#
2 23 (67.65%) SQL
3 15 (44.12%) VB
4 3 (8.824%) VBA
5 1 (2.941%) Python
5 1 (2.941%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.941%) C++
Vendors
1 16 (47.06%) Sybase
1 16 (47.06%) Oracle
2 2 (5.882%) Microsoft
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