The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf 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 35 27 34
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +7
Contract jobs citing WPF 19 19 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 4.935% 5.135% 4.800%
As % of the Application Development category 15.70% 15.32% 14.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 18 24
Average daily rate £600 £500 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -9.09%
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
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
121 124 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 31.43% 33.51% 32.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 80 135
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
London

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf WPF Daily Rate Trend

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WPF across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Canary Wharf WPF Daily Rate Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 21 (91.30%) C#
2 15 (65.22%) .NET
3 9 (39.13%) Front Office
3 9 (39.13%) Finance
3 9 (39.13%) WCF
4 8 (34.78%) Multithreading
4 8 (34.78%) .NET Framework
4 8 (34.78%) Risk Management
4 8 (34.78%) Java
5 7 (30.43%) Oracle
5 7 (30.43%) SQL
5 7 (30.43%) Banking
5 7 (30.43%) Silverlight
6 6 (26.09%) Degree
6 6 (26.09%) Derivative
6 6 (26.09%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (26.09%) C++
7 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
7 5 (21.74%) Investment Banking
7 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
8 4 (17.39%) Mathematics
8 4 (17.39%) Physics
8 4 (17.39%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
8 4 (17.39%) MVVM
8 4 (17.39%) OO
8 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
8 4 (17.39%) Scrum
8 4 (17.39%) TIBCO
9 3 (13.04%) SQLPlus

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 15 (65.22%) .NET
2 9 (39.13%) WCF
3 8 (34.78%) .NET Framework
4 7 (30.43%) Silverlight
5 3 (13.04%) WebGL
5 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
5 3 (13.04%) Web Services
5 3 (13.04%) OpenGL
5 3 (13.04%) DirectX
5 3 (13.04%) WinForms
6 2 (8.696%) LINQ
7 1 (4.348%) RESTful
7 1 (4.348%) REST
7 1 (4.348%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 1 (4.348%) JSON
7 1 (4.348%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (4.348%) NHibernate
7 1 (4.348%) Flash
7 1 (4.348%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.696%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (4.348%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (4.348%) Photoshop
2 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.348%) RMDS
1 1 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.04%) OLAP
2 3 (13.04%) TOAD
2 3 (13.04%) SQLPlus
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle OLAP
2 3 (13.04%) QlikView
3 1 (4.348%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (13.04%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 1 (4.348%) Expression Blend
General
1 9 (39.13%) Front Office
1 9 (39.13%) Finance
2 7 (30.43%) Banking
3 5 (21.74%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.348%) Marketing
4 1 (4.348%) Legal
4 1 (4.348%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 8 (34.78%) C# Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Front Office Developer
3 3 (13.04%) .NET Developer
3 3 (13.04%) WPF Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Market Risk Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Architect
4 2 (8.696%) Data Visualisation Specialist
4 2 (8.696%) Market Data Specialist
4 2 (8.696%) Lead Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Java Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Data Architect
4 2 (8.696%) Applications Developer
4 2 (8.696%) Java Applications Developer
5 1 (4.348%) ScrumMaster
5 1 (4.348%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) UI Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (4.348%) CRM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Derivative
2 5 (21.74%) Computer Science
3 4 (17.39%) Mathematics
3 4 (17.39%) Physics
3 4 (17.39%) Visualisation
4 3 (13.04%) Market Risk
4 3 (13.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (13.04%) 3D Graphics
4 3 (13.04%) Credit Derivative
5 2 (8.696%) Equity Derivative
6 1 (4.348%) Credit Risk
6 1 (4.348%) GPGPU
6 1 (4.348%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Risk Management
1 8 (34.78%) Multithreading
2 4 (17.39%) Scrum
2 4 (17.39%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (17.39%) OO
2 4 (17.39%) MVVM
3 3 (13.04%) Waterfall
3 3 (13.04%) RAD
3 3 (13.04%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (13.04%) Use Case
4 2 (8.696%) Data Analysis
4 2 (8.696%) Software Engineering
4 2 (8.696%) OOP
4 2 (8.696%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (8.696%) User Experience Design
5 1 (4.348%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (4.348%) Memory Management
5 1 (4.348%) Analytics
5 1 (4.348%) TDD
5 1 (4.348%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 21 (91.30%) C#
2 8 (34.78%) Java
3 7 (30.43%) SQL
4 6 (26.09%) C++
5 3 (13.04%) JavaScript
5 3 (13.04%) C
6 1 (4.348%) VBA
6 1 (4.348%) Python
6 1 (4.348%) Assembly Language
6 1 (4.348%) XAML
6 1 (4.348%) Ruby
6 1 (4.348%) F#
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
3 4 (17.39%) TIBCO
4 3 (13.04%) Business Objects
5 1 (4.348%) Sybase
5 1 (4.348%) Reuters
5 1 (4.348%) Bloomberg
5 1 (4.348%) Infragistics
5 1 (4.348%) 29West