The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hounslow 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 Hounslow 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 14 12 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing WPF 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 6.667% 3.896% -
As % of the Application Development category 14.81% 10.34% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £450 - -
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
Hounslow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
27 29 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hounslow 45.00% 37.66% 22.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 14 12
Average daily rate £450 £330 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £225 £118
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
London

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow WPF Daily Rate Trend

WPF
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
1 4 (100.00%) XAML
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 4 (100.00%) XNA
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) MVVM
1 4 (100.00%) Kinect
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 8
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Phone

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hounslow 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 4 (100.00%) XML
1 4 (100.00%) XNA
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) REST
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Internet
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Open Source
1 4 (100.00%) Kinect
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 8
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 4 (100.00%) Release Management
1 4 (100.00%) MVVM
1 4 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) XAML