The first table below looks at the demand for the WPF Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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) Developer
Rank 73 - 66
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a WPF Developer 2 0 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.219% - 1.467%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.237% - 1.552%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
Average daily rate £363 - £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £388 £325
% change year-on-year
+3.22% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.50 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-21.17% +6.25%
All Job Titles
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
844 897 1031
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 92.44% 93.83% 94.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 395 393
Average daily rate £325 £325 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £175 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 67 129
Average hourly rate £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.09 £11.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.75 £32.50 £23.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
WPF Developer
South East

WPF Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WPF Developer across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Buckinghamshire WPF Developer Jobs Demand Trend

WPF Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WPF Developer across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire WPF Developer Daily Rate Trend

WPF Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WPF Developer across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Buckinghamshire WPF Developer Daily Rate Histogram

WPF Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF Developer within the Buckinghamshire 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
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Job
Vacancies
Milton Keynes - 2 £363 -
WPF Developer
South East

WPF Developer
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited WPF Developer in their job title 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 with WPF Developer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (50.00%) NUnit
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) MCAD
3 1 (25.00%) MCSD
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) Automotive
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) NMock

WPF Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region that cited WPF Developer in their job title 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 with WPF Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) WCF
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Silverlight
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (25.00%) NMock
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) MCAD
1 1 (25.00%) MCSD
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft