The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Berkshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 117 131 106
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -25
Contract jobs citing WPF 4 7 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.171% 0.221% 0.796%
As % of the Application Development category 0.795% 1.306% 3.183%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 6
Average daily rate - £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.12% -3.12%
All Application Development
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
503 536 754
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.49% 16.91% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 252 328
Average daily rate £400 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 54
Average hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 £42.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.21% -55.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WPF
South East

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire WPF Daily Rate Trend

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire WPF Hourly Rate Trend

WPF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading +7 2 - -
Newbury - - - - 2
WPF
South East

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 5 (83.33%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) MVVM
3 3 (50.00%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) XAML
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) C++
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) Degree
4 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
4 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (16.67%) jQuery
5 1 (16.67%) QA
5 1 (16.67%) WCF
5 1 (16.67%) Lync
5 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 1 (16.67%) XHTML
5 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
5 1 (16.67%) GSM

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 4 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) WCF
3 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (16.67%) REST
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 1 (16.67%) XHTML
3 1 (16.67%) XML
3 1 (16.67%) XSL
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Lync
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) GSM
1 1 (16.67%) UMTS
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Programmer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) MVVM
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (16.67%) Network Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) XAML
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft