The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Application Development category for the Dorset 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank - 28 -
Contract jobs citing WPF 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset - 1.149% -
As % of the Application Development category - 4.545% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.12% -3.12%
All Application Development
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41 66 62
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 17.75% 25.29% 16.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 42 34
Average daily rate £300 £380 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £206 £346 £277
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 4
Average hourly rate £165.00 £40.00 £41.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+312.50% -3.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
WPF
South West

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset WPF Hourly Rate Trend

WPF
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Back Office
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL