The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 45 54 45
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -9
Contract jobs citing WPF 6 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.316% 0.485% 0.648%
As % of the Application Development category 6.250% 1.563% 1.508%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
Average daily rate £400 £219 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+82.85% -27.08%
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
96 192 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 21.05% 31.02% 42.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 98 119
Average daily rate £320 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £218 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 5
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
South East

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxfordshire WPF Daily Rate Histogram

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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Oxford +5 2 £363 +65.71%
Abingdon - 2 £425 -
WPF
South East

WPF
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 8 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) MVVM
2 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 4 (50.00%) Windows
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (25.00%) Hedge funds
4 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (25.00%) .NET
5 1 (12.50%) ETL
5 1 (12.50%) MSI
5 1 (12.50%) TDD
5 1 (12.50%) Data Mart
5 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
5 1 (12.50%) JSON
5 1 (12.50%) WCF
5 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (12.50%) Caliburn.Micro
5 1 (12.50%) Kendo UI
5 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
5 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
5 1 (12.50%) HTML5
5 1 (12.50%) WinForms
5 1 (12.50%) jQuery

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) WCF
2 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (12.50%) Caliburn.Micro
2 1 (12.50%) Kendo UI
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) WinForms
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MSI
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
1 1 (12.50%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) C# Developer
3 5 (62.50%) WPF Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Software Developer
4 3 (37.50%) C# Software Developer
5 2 (25.00%) GUI Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Engineer
6 1 (12.50%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 1 (12.50%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Hedge funds
1 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) MVVM
1 4 (50.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) ETL
3 1 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#