WPF Contracts in Birmingham
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 23 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 Birmingham 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 43 51 48
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs citing WPF 1 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.229% 0.799% 0.193%
As % of the Application Development category 1.010% 2.907% 0.741%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
All Application Development
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 99 172 135
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 22.65% 27.48% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 106 76
Average daily rate £300 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
Average hourly rate £37.00 £36.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.36% -8.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
West Midlands

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham WPF Hourly Rate Trend

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (100.00%) WCF
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Change Management
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (50.00%) Logistics
4 3 (37.50%) .NET
4 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
4 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle
6 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (12.50%) NUnit
6 1 (12.50%) CruiseControl
6 1 (12.50%) Ajax
6 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
6 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (12.50%) Windows SharePoint Services
6 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (12.50%) Unified Process
6 1 (12.50%) IIS
6 1 (12.50%) MS Office
6 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
6 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
6 1 (12.50%) HTML
6 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
6 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET
6 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 8 (100.00%) WCF
2 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Ajax
3 1 (12.50%) Windows SharePoint Services
3 1 (12.50%) HTML
3 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) CSS
3 1 (12.50%) WF
3 1 (12.50%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (12.50%) IIS
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Foundation
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) InfoPath
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) NUnit
2 1 (12.50%) CruiseControl
2 1 (12.50%) MSBuild
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Team System
2 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Project Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Management
1 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (12.50%) Unified Process
2 1 (12.50%) UML
2 1 (12.50%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (12.50%) OO
2 1 (12.50%) RUP
2 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (12.50%) MSF
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
C# Developer Wit SQL Server Skills
Birmingham, West Midlands
I am currently looking for a C# developer at least 4 years experience for a 3-6 month contract in Birmingham.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013
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