The first table below looks at the demand for the WPF Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the Preston 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Preston 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) Developer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a WPF Developer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston - - -
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 - £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
- +18.75%
All Job Titles
Preston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
46 152 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Preston 92.00% 89.94% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 120 4
Average daily rate £300 £388 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.58% +46.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £277 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £484 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 0
Average hourly rate £19.00 £29.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.59% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
WPF Developer
Lancashire

WPF Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 7
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Document Management
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration

WPF Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Preston 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) WSDL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 7
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Document Management
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft