City of London WPF Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Farnham Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nuneaton Oldham Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Suffolk Surrey UK Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	178	191
Rank change on same period last year	+13
Matching contract IT job ads	28	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.392 %	0.112 %
Daily rates quoted	24	1
Average minimum daily rate	£525	£400
Average daily rate	£564	£475
% change on same period last year	+18.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£602	£550
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£263
% change on same period last year	+9.79 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.83	£35.72
% change on same period last year	+0.31 %
Application Development City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	2012	1781
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.833 %	1.800 %
Daily rates quoted	1134	812
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£447
Average daily rate	£422	£474
% change on same period last year	-11.08 %
Average maximum daily rate	£455	£501
UK excluding London average daily rate	£329	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.78	£31.38
Average hourly rate	£29.48	£33.36
% change on same period last year	-11.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.18	£35.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.10	£32.14
% change on same period last year	-3.23 %
WPF London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WPF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WPF across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WPF
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WPF across the City of London region.

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WPF across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 35 (77.78 %) C# 2 33 (73.33 %) .NET 3 27 (60.00 %) WinForms 4 22 (48.89 %) ASP.NET 4 22 (48.89 %) Windows 5 17 (37.78 %) Investment Banking 5 17 (37.78 %) Banking 6 15 (33.33 %) Java 7 14 (31.11 %) WCF 7 14 (31.11 %) WF 8 13 (28.89 %) Credit Risk 8 13 (28.89 %) SQL Server 9 11 (24.44 %) Workflow 10 10 (22.22 %) Middleware 11 9 (20.00 %) Front Office

12 8 (17.78 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 12 8 (17.78 %) Thin Client 12 8 (17.78 %) Finance 12 8 (17.78 %) SQL 12 8 (17.78 %) Fat Client 12 8 (17.78 %) Multithreading 13 7 (15.56 %) Derivative 13 7 (15.56 %) OO 13 7 (15.56 %) Construction 14 6 (13.33 %) UML 14 6 (13.33 %) WebServices 14 6 (13.33 %) XML 14 6 (13.33 %) AJAX 14 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2005 14 6 (13.33 %) Continuous Integration

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 33 (73.33 %) .NET 2 27 (60.00 %) WinForms 3 22 (48.89 %) ASP.NET 4 14 (31.11 %) WCF 4 14 (31.11 %) WF 5 10 (22.22 %) Middleware 6 6 (13.33 %) WebServices 6 6 (13.33 %) XML 6 6 (13.33 %) AJAX 7 5 (11.11 %) Spring 8 4 (8.889 %) EJB 8 4 (8.889 %) JAX-WS 8 4 (8.889 %) EJB 3.0 9 3 (6.667 %) Spring.NET 9 3 (6.667 %) NHibernate 9 3 (6.667 %) LINQ 9 3 (6.667 %) CSS 9 3 (6.667 %) XHTML 10 2 (4.444 %) JMS 10 2 (4.444 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.444 %) JBoss 1 2 (4.444 %) Tomcat 1 2 (4.444 %) WPS 1 2 (4.444 %) ESB 2 1 (2.222 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) Spreadsheet	Business Applications 1 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (2.222 %) Navision 1 1 (2.222 %) Dynamics NAV 1 1 (2.222 %) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking 1 2 (4.444 %) Intranet 1 2 (4.444 %) Internet 2 1 (2.222 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (28.89 %) SQL Server 2 6 (13.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (2.222 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 4 (8.889 %) NUnit 2 1 (2.222 %) ReSharper 2 1 (2.222 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (2.222 %) DevPartner	General 1 17 (37.78 %) Banking 1 17 (37.78 %) Investment Banking 2 9 (20.00 %) Front Office 3 8 (17.78 %) Finance 4 7 (15.56 %) Construction 5 1 (2.222 %) Government 5 1 (2.222 %) Games
Job Titles 1 42 (93.33 %) Developer 2 30 (66.67 %) C# Developer 3 10 (22.22 %) .NET Developer 3 10 (22.22 %) WinForms Developer 4 7 (15.56 %) Front Office Developer 4 7 (15.56 %) Senior Developer 5 4 (8.889 %) Architect 5 4 (8.889 %) Senior C# Developer 6 3 (6.667 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (6.667 %) Credit Risk Developer 6 3 (6.667 %) Java Developer 6 3 (6.667 %) Systems Developer 6 3 (6.667 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (6.667 %) Systems Architect 7 2 (4.444 %) Lead Developer 7 2 (4.444 %) Senior Systems Architect 7 2 (4.444 %) Senior Systems Developer 8 1 (2.222 %) HTML Developer 8 1 (2.222 %) IT Architect 8 1 (2.222 %) GUI Developer	Miscellaneous 1 13 (28.89 %) Credit Risk 2 8 (17.78 %) Fat Client 2 8 (17.78 %) Multithreading 2 8 (17.78 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 2 8 (17.78 %) Thin Client 3 7 (15.56 %) Derivative 4 5 (11.11 %) Equity Derivative 5 3 (6.667 %) N-Tier 6 2 (4.444 %) Client/Server 7 1 (2.222 %) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems 1 22 (48.89 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (24.44 %) Workflow 2 7 (15.56 %) OO 3 6 (13.33 %) UML 3 6 (13.33 %) Continuous Integration 4 3 (6.667 %) Data Modelling 4 3 (6.667 %) OOD 5 2 (4.444 %) SOA 5 2 (4.444 %) E-Commerce 5 2 (4.444 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (2.222 %) CRM 6 1 (2.222 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (2.222 %) TDD
Programming Languages 1 35 (77.78 %) C# 2 15 (33.33 %) Java 3 8 (17.78 %) SQL 4 4 (8.889 %) VB 5 2 (4.444 %) C++ 6 1 (2.222 %) JavaScript 6 1 (2.222 %) VB.NET 6 1 (2.222 %) XAML 6 1 (2.222 %) XPath	Qualifications 1 4 (8.889 %) Sun Certification
Vendors 1 4 (8.889 %) Sybase 2 3 (6.667 %) DataSynapse 3 2 (4.444 %) Progress 3 2 (4.444 %) IBM 4 1 (2.222 %) Microsoft 4 1 (2.222 %) Oracle