Birmingham WPF Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) skills within the Birmingham 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 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Location Aberdeen Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire City of London Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Farnham Glasgow Guildford Hampshire Kent Leicester Leicestershire London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	60
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 %	0.588 %
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	£289	£306
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.50	£33.96
% change on same period last year	-4.29 %
Application Development Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	97	170
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.194 %	0.213 %
Daily rates quoted	30	37
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£267
Average daily rate	£394	£301
% change on same period last year	+30.69 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£334
% change on same period last year	-5.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.23	£27.78
Average hourly rate	£28.30	£32.64
% change on same period last year	-13.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.37	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.27	£31.42
% change on same period last year	-10.04 %
WPF West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.