The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 17 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 Brighton 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 25 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing WPF 2 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 1.399% 2.326% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.985% 7.792% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £352 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+8.15% +3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -6.25%
All Application Development
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
67 77 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 46.85% 29.84% 36.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 25 23
Average daily rate £315 £315 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £220 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
East Sussex

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton WPF Daily Rate Trend

WPF
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Lua
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Lua
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft