WPF Contracts in Bristol
 
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 Bristol 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 Bristol 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 47 53 49
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -4
Contract jobs citing WPF 3 11 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.581% 1.316% 0.155%
As % of the Application Development category 2.727% 5.419% 0.962%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 1
Average daily rate £264 £320 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.57% -8.57%
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
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 110 203 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 21.32% 24.28% 16.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 139 40
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £405 £372
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 8
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
South West

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol WPF Hourly Rate Trend

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
2 2 (66.67%) WinForms
2 2 (66.67%) MVC
2 2 (66.67%) UML
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) RUP
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Law
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
2 2 (66.67%) WinForms
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XSL
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) NHibernate
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) OOP
2 1 (33.33%) RUP
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
.Net Developer - ASP.Net, Winforms, C# or VB.Net, Oracle
Bristol, South West
They appreciate this is hard to find and therefore willing to flex if someone is more experienced in one as the team are mixed, however the opportunity to...
NFP Group Ltd
Rate: £250 - £280 per day + extension
Posted: 16 May 2013
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