WPF Developer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the WPF Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF Developer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the England 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) Developer
Rank 388 402 298
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -104
Contract jobs requiring a WPF Developer 122 156 311
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.293% 0.292% 0.551%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.317% 0.316% 0.594%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 119 239
Average daily rate £550 £575 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.34% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £400 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £330
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +18.75%
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
WPF Developer
UK

WPF Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WPF Developer across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England WPF Developer Jobs Demand Trend

WPF Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WPF Developer across the England region.

England WPF Developer Daily Rate Trend

WPF Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England WPF Developer Daily Rate Histogram

WPF Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WPF Developer across the England region.

England WPF Developer Hourly Rate Trend

WPF Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF Developer within the England 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
London -10 88 £600 +4.34%
South East +42 23 £363 +11.53%
East Midlands -6 4 £350 -
East of England +7 3 £438 +9.37%
South West +20 2 £258 +14.44%
Yorkshire - 2 £325 -
WPF Developer
UK

WPF Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited WPF Developer in their job title 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 with WPF Developer in their job title.

1 247 (100.00%) WPF
2 229 (92.71%) C#
3 187 (75.71%) .NET
4 95 (38.46%) SQL Server
5 91 (36.84%) Multithreading
6 81 (32.79%) MVVM
7 73 (29.55%) WCF
7 73 (29.55%) TDD
8 66 (26.72%) Banking
9 61 (24.70%) SQL
10 58 (23.48%) Finance
11 57 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
12 51 (20.65%) Windows
13 50 (20.24%) Front Office
13 50 (20.24%) Agile Software Development
14 49 (19.84%) Silverlight
15 48 (19.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 39 (15.79%) Microsoft
17 36 (14.57%) WinForms
18 31 (12.55%) Fixed Income
18 31 (12.55%) OO
19 29 (11.74%) Derivative
19 29 (11.74%) .NET Framework
20 28 (11.34%) Expression Blend
21 26 (10.53%) Java
22 25 (10.12%) ASP.NET
22 25 (10.12%) E-Commerce
22 25 (10.12%) Investment Banking
23 24 (9.717%) BDD
24 23 (9.312%) Oracle

WPF Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited WPF Developer in their job title 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 with WPF Developer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 247 (100.00%) WPF
2 187 (75.71%) .NET
3 73 (29.55%) WCF
4 49 (19.84%) Silverlight
5 36 (14.57%) WinForms
6 29 (11.74%) .NET Framework
7 25 (10.12%) ASP.NET
8 19 (7.692%) LINQ
9 18 (7.287%) Ajax
10 16 (6.478%) Managed Extensibility Framework
11 15 (6.073%) Reactive Extensions
12 12 (4.858%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 12 (4.858%) XML
13 10 (4.049%) Web Services
13 10 (4.049%) DCOM
13 10 (4.049%) NHibernate
13 10 (4.049%) Hibernate
14 9 (3.644%) HTML
15 8 (3.239%) Unity DI Container
16 7 (2.834%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 10 (4.049%) Oracle Workflow
1 10 (4.049%) SharePoint Server
2 9 (3.644%) IIS
3 5 (2.024%) Rendezvous
4 2 (0.810%) MSMQ
4 2 (0.810%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.405%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.405%) Apache
5 1 (0.405%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 19 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 6 (2.429%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.215%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.810%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.405%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.405%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.644%) HTTP
2 6 (2.429%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.024%) SNMP
4 2 (0.810%) Internet
5 1 (0.405%) BSS
5 1 (0.405%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 57 (23.08%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (5.668%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (3.239%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (3.239%) SQL Server 2012
6 6 (2.429%) BusinessObjects
7 2 (0.810%) Sybase IQ
7 2 (0.810%) OLAP
7 2 (0.810%) Sybase ASE
7 2 (0.810%) KDB
8 1 (0.405%) MarkLogic
8 1 (0.405%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.405%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.405%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.405%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.405%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.405%) TOAD
8 1 (0.405%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.405%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 28 (11.34%) Expression Blend
2 20 (8.097%) NUnit
3 14 (5.668%) Visual Studio
4 12 (4.858%) Team Foundation Server
5 10 (4.049%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (3.239%) Moq
7 6 (2.429%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.429%) Subversion
8 5 (2.024%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 5 (2.024%) MSTest
9 4 (1.619%) Rhino Mocks
10 3 (1.215%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
10 3 (1.215%) ReSharper
11 2 (0.810%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.810%) JIRA
11 2 (0.810%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.810%) MSI
11 2 (0.810%) NetAdvantage
12 1 (0.405%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.405%) NMock
General
1 66 (26.72%) Banking
2 58 (23.48%) Finance
3 50 (20.24%) Front Office
4 25 (10.12%) Investment Banking
5 4 (1.619%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.215%) Retail
6 3 (1.215%) Manufacturing
7 2 (0.810%) French Language
8 1 (0.405%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.405%) Publishing
8 1 (0.405%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 31 (12.55%) Fixed Income
3 29 (11.74%) Derivative
4 13 (5.263%) Computer Science
5 12 (4.858%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.644%) Credit Risk
7 8 (3.239%) Mathematics
7 8 (3.239%) Grid Computing
7 8 (3.239%) Inversion of Control
8 6 (2.429%) Hedge funds
8 6 (2.429%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (1.619%) N-Tier
9 4 (1.619%) Physics
9 4 (1.619%) Equities
10 3 (1.215%) Credit Derivative
10 3 (1.215%) Market Risk
11 2 (0.810%) RIA
11 2 (0.810%) Open Source
12 1 (0.405%) Mobile App
12 1 (0.405%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 51 (20.65%) Windows
2 7 (2.834%) Windows 7
2 7 (2.834%) Windows 8
3 1 (0.405%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.84%) Multithreading
2 81 (32.79%) MVVM
3 73 (29.55%) TDD
4 50 (20.24%) Agile Software Development
5 31 (12.55%) OO
6 25 (10.12%) E-Commerce
7 24 (9.717%) BDD
8 18 (7.287%) MVC
9 17 (6.883%) Scrum
9 17 (6.883%) Unit Testing
10 16 (6.478%) Risk Management
11 15 (6.073%) Workflow
12 14 (5.668%) SOA
13 13 (5.263%) Data Analysis
13 13 (5.263%) Continuous Integration
14 12 (4.858%) Kanban
14 12 (4.858%) Continuous Improvement
15 10 (4.049%) Automation Testing
16 8 (3.239%) Software Engineering
17 7 (2.834%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 229 (92.71%) C#
2 61 (24.70%) SQL
3 26 (10.53%) Java
4 15 (6.073%) JavaScript
5 14 (5.668%) C++
6 12 (4.858%) XAML
7 5 (2.024%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.215%) VB
9 2 (0.810%) VB.NET
9 2 (0.810%) Ruby
9 2 (0.810%) Perl
9 2 (0.810%) PHP
10 1 (0.405%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.405%) C++/CLI
10 1 (0.405%) AWK
10 1 (0.405%) VB6
10 1 (0.405%) VBA
10 1 (0.405%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (6.478%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (2.024%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (2.024%) WMI
Vendors
1 39 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.312%) Oracle
3 9 (3.644%) TIBCO
4 7 (2.834%) Infragistics
5 6 (2.429%) Business Objects
5 6 (2.429%) SAP
6 4 (1.619%) Syncfusion
6 4 (1.619%) DevExpress
7 3 (1.215%) Sybase
7 3 (1.215%) Reuters
7 3 (1.215%) Bloomberg
8 2 (0.810%) Charles River
8 2 (0.810%) 29West
8 2 (0.810%) Adobe
9 1 (0.405%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.405%) DataSynapse
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City, London
Senior Software Engineer (C#.NET) in Actuaries... Skills Summary: + C#. Net + WPF + Distributed Systems/Parallel Computing/Task Parallel Library + SQL Server + Agile Methodology(s) Such as TDD Further...
North Point Recruitment
Rate: £500 - £600 per day
Posted: 12 May 2013
WPF Developer (C#, VB.Net) - North East - 6 Months
North East England
Key Skills: *To design, develop, test and support software using the latest Microsoft .Net technology (C#, VB.Net, WPF) *To write and test code to communicate with external...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £240 - £260 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
Front Office C# WPF Developer
London
WPF C# Silverlight Developer. C#, Silverlight, .Net, WPF, UI, UX, Rx, FX, RFQ, E-Trading C# WPF developer part of agile team working directly in Front Office on...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £700 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Senior C#/WPF Developer Contract
City, London
Strong C# .NET experience particularly on the UI including WPF and WCF - Prism4 and MVVM exposure - SQL Server 2005, 2008 - Excellent understanding of Object Orientated Analysis - Good understanding...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £550 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Senior WPF / UI Contract Developer
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Senior WPF Developer required for a minimum of 6months by Milton Keynes based client to build leading-edge enterprise software applications on a C# .Net / SQL Server / WPF /...
Interact Consulting
Rate: 400-550
Posted: 13 May 2013
C# WPF RX DEVELOPER- FX
City, London
A senior C# WPF developer is required by a leading investment bank to develop and deliver a new suite of front office FX trading UIs, using the cutting...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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