The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 21 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 Gloucestershire 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank - 62 35
Contract jobs citing WPF 0 7 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire - 1.046% 2.331%
As % of the Application Development category - 4.118% 9.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 8
Average daily rate - £325 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +44.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -6.25%
All Application Development
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
73 170 109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 26.64% 25.41% 25.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 97 56
Average daily rate £394 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.35% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £325 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £713 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 6
Average hourly rate £24.50 £21.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% +20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £21.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £37.00 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
South West

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire WPF Hourly Rate Trend

WPF
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 5 (100.00%) UML
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) LINQ
2 4 (80.00%) DO-178B
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (80.00%) NUnit
2 4 (80.00%) XAML
3 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
4 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) WinForms

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 5 (100.00%) LINQ
2 4 (80.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) WinForms
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) NUnit
General
1 3 (60.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Software Engineer
2 4 (80.00%) C# Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) UML
2 4 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) DO-178B