The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 21 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 Cambridge 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 38 28 26
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -2
Contract jobs citing WPF 1 22 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.298% 5.301% 2.893%
As % of the Application Development category 1.282% 13.92% 7.692%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 6
Average daily rate £425 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £43.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -6.25%
All Application Development
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
78 158 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 23.21% 38.07% 37.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 78 48
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £198 £269
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £378 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 8
Average hourly rate £35.25 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+0.71% +55.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £35.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £56.55 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
Cambridgeshire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge WPF Hourly Rate Trend

WPF
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CTI

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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%) CSS
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) WPF Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Agile C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) MVVM
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
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