The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 24 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 Sussex 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 29 34 23
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -11
Contract jobs citing WPF 2 7 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 0.855% 2.188% 3.046%
As % of the Application Development category 2.469% 7.447% 8.955%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 6
Average daily rate - £244 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
All Application Development
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
81 94 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 34.62% 29.38% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 33 40
Average daily rate £315 £301 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.56% -3.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £438 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
South East

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Sussex 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 Sussex region.

East Sussex WPF Daily 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 Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Brighton +3 2 - -
WPF
South East

WPF
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Lua
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) LINQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Lua
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft