WPF Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF 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 of the Application Development category for the North West 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)
Rank 110 112 115
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Contract jobs citing WPF 7 20 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.305% 0.632% 0.552%
As % of the Application Development category 1.116% 2.128% 2.273%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 14
Average daily rate £275 £350 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +34.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £315 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £398 £370 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £352 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+8.15% +3.58%
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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 627 940 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.30% 29.68% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 521 431
Average daily rate £302 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 28 24
Average hourly rate £30.00 £19.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.84% -29.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £145.42 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
England

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West WPF Daily Rate Trend

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram

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

North West WPF Daily Rate Histogram

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West WPF Hourly 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 North West 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
Cheshire - 2 - -
Lancashire - 2 £275 -
Manchester -3 1 £225 -35.71%
WPF
England

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 18 (94.74%) .NET
1 18 (94.74%) WCF
2 17 (89.47%) C#
3 14 (73.68%) SQL Server
4 9 (47.37%) TDD
4 9 (47.37%) .NET Framework
4 9 (47.37%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
5 8 (42.11%) SQL
6 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET
6 7 (36.84%) Windows
6 7 (36.84%) MVC
6 7 (36.84%) SQL Server 2005
7 6 (31.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 6 (31.58%) XML
7 6 (31.58%) IIS
7 6 (31.58%) Visual Studio
8 5 (26.32%) VB.NET
8 5 (26.32%) XSD
8 5 (26.32%) Document Management
8 5 (26.32%) WSDL
8 5 (26.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (26.32%) Mobile App
8 5 (26.32%) Mobile Application Development
9 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2012
9 4 (21.05%) LINQ
9 4 (21.05%) jQuery
9 4 (21.05%) Ninject
9 4 (21.05%) Dependency Injection
9 4 (21.05%) MVVM

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 18 (94.74%) .NET
1 18 (94.74%) WCF
2 9 (47.37%) .NET Framework
3 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET
4 6 (31.58%) XML
4 6 (31.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 5 (26.32%) XSD
5 5 (26.32%) WSDL
6 4 (21.05%) SOAP
6 4 (21.05%) LINQ
6 4 (21.05%) jQuery
6 4 (21.05%) Ninject
7 3 (15.79%) HTML
7 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (15.79%) Web Services
8 2 (10.53%) Java EE
8 2 (10.53%) Ajax
8 2 (10.53%) Windows SharePoint Services
8 2 (10.53%) WebSphere
8 2 (10.53%) REST
Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) IIS
2 3 (15.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Maximo
2 1 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (73.68%) SQL Server
2 9 (47.37%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (36.84%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (26.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (10.53%) Oracle 8/8i
6 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 7
7 1 (5.263%) GIS
7 1 (5.263%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 2 (10.53%) Games
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Developer
2 7 (36.84%) .NET Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) WPF Developer
4 3 (15.79%) C# Developer
5 2 (10.53%) VB.NET Developer
6 1 (5.263%) CRM Developer
6 1 (5.263%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Mobile App
2 4 (21.05%) N-Tier
3 3 (15.79%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (10.53%) Management Information System
5 1 (5.263%) CCTV
5 1 (5.263%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 7 (36.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) TDD
2 7 (36.84%) MVC
3 5 (26.32%) Document Management
3 5 (26.32%) Mobile Application Development
4 4 (21.05%) Dependency Injection
4 4 (21.05%) MVVM
4 4 (21.05%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (21.05%) Workflow
4 4 (21.05%) UML
5 3 (15.79%) OO
5 3 (15.79%) Requirements Analysis
6 2 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
6 2 (10.53%) Data Management
6 2 (10.53%) OOP
6 2 (10.53%) Scrum
6 2 (10.53%) Feature Driven Development
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.263%) Web Application Development
7 1 (5.263%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (89.47%) C#
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) VB.NET
4 4 (21.05%) C++
4 4 (21.05%) JavaScript
4 4 (21.05%) VB
4 4 (21.05%) VB6
5 2 (10.53%) Java
6 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.263%) ActionScript
6 1 (5.263%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (42.11%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.79%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
3 2 (10.53%) IBM
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