WPF Contracts in the East Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 66 58 63
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +5
Contract jobs citing WPF 18 28 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 1.427% 2.051% 0.877%
As % of the Application Development category 5.389% 7.756% 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 1
Average daily rate £350 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -3.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £352 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+8.15% +3.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £33.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -6.25%
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 334 361 324
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.49% 26.45% 23.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 192 111
Average daily rate £310 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -15.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £210 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 37
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
England

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands WPF Hourly Rate Trend

WPF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Nottinghamshire -4 11 £350 +12.00%
Leicestershire -4 3 £350 -
WPF
England

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 45 (88.24%) C#
2 44 (86.27%) .NET
3 27 (52.94%) SQL Server
3 27 (52.94%) MVVM
4 19 (37.25%) Multithreading
5 16 (31.37%) Visual Studio
5 16 (31.37%) Web Services
5 16 (31.37%) WCF
6 15 (29.41%) .NET Framework
6 15 (29.41%) ASP.NET
7 14 (27.45%) Windows
7 14 (27.45%) Silverlight
8 12 (23.53%) Expression Blend
9 11 (21.57%) Unit Testing
9 11 (21.57%) SOA
9 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
10 10 (19.61%) Oracle
10 10 (19.61%) WinForms
10 10 (19.61%) REST
11 9 (17.65%) LINQ
11 9 (17.65%) Linux
12 8 (15.69%) OO
12 8 (15.69%) IIS
12 8 (15.69%) SQL
12 8 (15.69%) TDD
12 8 (15.69%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 8 (15.69%) Managed Extensibility Framework
13 7 (13.73%) Dependency Injection
13 7 (13.73%) Telerik
13 7 (13.73%) Infragistics

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 44 (86.27%) .NET
2 16 (31.37%) Web Services
2 16 (31.37%) WCF
3 15 (29.41%) .NET Framework
3 15 (29.41%) ASP.NET
4 14 (27.45%) Silverlight
5 10 (19.61%) REST
5 10 (19.61%) WinForms
6 9 (17.65%) LINQ
7 8 (15.69%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 8 (15.69%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 7 (13.73%) HTML
9 5 (9.804%) WF
9 5 (9.804%) jQuery
9 5 (9.804%) Reactive Extensions
9 5 (9.804%) Ajax
9 5 (9.804%) .NET Remoting
10 2 (3.922%) XML
10 2 (3.922%) SOAP
10 2 (3.922%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 8 (15.69%) IIS
2 2 (3.922%) MSMQ
2 2 (3.922%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 7 (13.73%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) SNMP
1 6 (11.76%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.76%) Oracle 8/8i
2 6 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (11.76%) SQL Server 2012
3 5 (9.804%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (9.804%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (9.804%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.961%) VLDB
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 16 (31.37%) Visual Studio
2 12 (23.53%) Expression Blend
3 5 (9.804%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 3 (5.882%) NUnit
5 2 (3.922%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (3.922%) MSTest
6 1 (1.961%) JIRA
General
1 5 (9.804%) Finance
2 1 (1.961%) Advertising
2 1 (1.961%) Retail
Job Titles
1 49 (96.08%) Developer
2 18 (35.29%) .NET Developer
2 18 (35.29%) C# Developer
3 14 (27.45%) WPF Developer
4 11 (21.57%) C# .NET Developer
5 9 (17.65%) Silverlight Developer
6 7 (13.73%) SQL Developer
6 7 (13.73%) SQL Server Developer
7 5 (9.804%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (9.804%) Architect
7 5 (9.804%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (7.843%) Database Developer
8 4 (7.843%) SQL Database Developer
9 3 (5.882%) .NET Architect
10 2 (3.922%) C# Architect
10 2 (3.922%) Senior Developer
10 2 (3.922%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.922%) Technical Architect
11 1 (1.961%) Software Architect
11 1 (1.961%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.961%) Client/Server
1 1 (1.961%) N-Tier
1 1 (1.961%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 14 (27.45%) Windows
2 9 (17.65%) Linux
3 6 (11.76%) Windows 7
4 5 (9.804%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) MVVM
2 19 (37.25%) Multithreading
3 11 (21.57%) Unit Testing
3 11 (21.57%) SOA
4 8 (15.69%) OO
4 8 (15.69%) TDD
5 7 (13.73%) Dependency Injection
6 5 (9.804%) Workflow
7 4 (7.843%) UML
8 3 (5.882%) Software Engineering
9 2 (3.922%) Web Development
9 2 (3.922%) Test Scripting
9 2 (3.922%) Logistics
9 2 (3.922%) OOD
10 1 (1.961%) Project Management
10 1 (1.961%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 45 (88.24%) C#
2 8 (15.69%) SQL
3 5 (9.804%) Perl
4 4 (7.843%) C++
5 2 (3.922%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.961%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (3.922%) Degree
2 1 (1.961%) Chartered Engineer
System Software
1 5 (9.804%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (9.804%) WMI
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 10 (19.61%) Oracle
3 7 (13.73%) Infragistics
3 7 (13.73%) Telerik
4 2 (3.922%) Twitter
5 1 (1.961%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.961%) Perforce
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