The first table below looks at the demand for the WPF Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Lancashire 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) Developer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a WPF Developer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £325
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +18.75%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
193 397 215
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 95.54% 92.97% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 216 91
Average daily rate £288 £365 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.23% +21.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £239 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 22 34
Average hourly rate £19.04 £18.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.77% -52.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £41.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
WPF Developer
North West

WPF Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire WPF Developer Daily Rate Trend

WPF Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) LINQ
2 3 (75.00%) MVVM
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) C++
4 1 (25.00%) VB
4 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Workflow
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) XSD
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) UML
4 1 (25.00%) OO
4 1 (25.00%) WSDL
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 7
4 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (25.00%) Ninject
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
4 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development

WPF Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
2 3 (75.00%) LINQ
3 1 (25.00%) SOAP
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSD
3 1 (25.00%) WSDL
3 1 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Ninject
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 7
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Subversion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) MVVM
3 1 (25.00%) MVC
3 1 (25.00%) Workflow
3 1 (25.00%) UML
3 1 (25.00%) OO
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (25.00%) Document Management
3 1 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) C++
4 1 (25.00%) VB
4 1 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (25.00%) VB6
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft