WPF Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 22 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 Scotland 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 33 98 69
Rank change year-on-year
+65 -29
Contract jobs citing WPF 112 7 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 4.520% 0.262% 1.497%
As % of the Application Development category 13.68% 1.647% 7.414%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 4 26
Average daily rate £400 £388 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% +10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £323 £298
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £381
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +4.00%
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
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 819 425 553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.05% 15.88% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 181 289
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £214 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
UK

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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
Glasgow +40 102 £413 +3.12%
Edinburgh +7 6 - -
West Lothian -1 1 £400 +6.66%
Dundee - 1 - -
WPF
UK

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 128 (98.46%) C#
2 73 (56.15%) Multithreading
3 58 (44.62%) .NET
4 56 (43.08%) SQL
5 46 (35.38%) Finance
6 44 (33.85%) Fixed Income
7 41 (31.54%) Sybase
8 34 (26.15%) WCF
9 30 (23.08%) Perl
10 29 (22.31%) Banking
11 23 (17.69%) TIBCO
11 23 (17.69%) TIBCO EMS
12 21 (16.15%) XML
13 19 (14.62%) Microsoft
13 19 (14.62%) Front Office
14 18 (13.85%) Unit Testing
15 17 (13.08%) .NET Framework
15 17 (13.08%) WinForms
16 16 (12.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (12.31%) Java
17 15 (11.54%) WebSphere MQ
17 15 (11.54%) WebSphere
18 14 (10.77%) ION Trading
18 14 (10.77%) ASP.NET
19 13 (10.00%) SQL Server
19 13 (10.00%) C++
20 12 (9.231%) TDD
20 12 (9.231%) Scala
21 11 (8.462%) OO
22 10 (7.692%) Web Services

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 58 (44.62%) .NET
2 34 (26.15%) WCF
3 21 (16.15%) XML
4 17 (13.08%) .NET Framework
4 17 (13.08%) WinForms
5 15 (11.54%) WebSphere
6 14 (10.77%) ASP.NET
7 10 (7.692%) Web Services
8 7 (5.385%) HTML
9 6 (4.615%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (4.615%) Spring
9 6 (4.615%) SOAP
9 6 (4.615%) Hibernate
10 5 (3.846%) COM+
11 3 (2.308%) Reactive Extensions
11 3 (2.308%) HTML5
11 3 (2.308%) jQuery
11 3 (2.308%) LINQ
11 3 (2.308%) ASP.NET 2.0
11 3 (2.308%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 23 (17.69%) TIBCO EMS
2 15 (11.54%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 9 (6.923%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.769%) Photoshop
2 1 (0.769%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.846%) HTTP
2 1 (0.769%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.385%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (5.385%) MongoDB
3 4 (3.077%) DB2
4 3 (2.308%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (0.769%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (0.769%) KDB
Development Applications
1 10 (7.692%) Subversion
2 1 (0.769%) Expression Blend
2 1 (0.769%) NetAdvantage
General
1 46 (35.38%) Finance
2 29 (22.31%) Banking
3 19 (14.62%) Front Office
4 6 (4.615%) Investment Banking
5 3 (2.308%) Games
Job Titles
1 119 (91.54%) Developer
2 91 (70.00%) C# Developer
3 41 (31.54%) WPF Developer
4 35 (26.92%) .NET Developer
5 22 (16.92%) C# .NET Developer
6 12 (9.231%) Senior Developer
7 11 (8.462%) Software Engineer
7 11 (8.462%) Senior C# Developer
7 11 (8.462%) C# Software Engineer
8 10 (7.692%) .NET Software Engineer
9 6 (4.615%) Senior .NET Developer
10 4 (3.077%) Java Developer
10 4 (3.077%) C++ Developer
10 4 (3.077%) Software Developer
10 4 (3.077%) Front Office Developer
10 4 (3.077%) C++/Java Developer
11 3 (2.308%) UI Programmer
11 3 (2.308%) Agile C# Developer
11 3 (2.308%) UI Developer
11 3 (2.308%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (33.85%) Fixed Income
2 16 (12.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (3.077%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.538%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (0.769%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.769%) Data Integration
5 1 (0.769%) Derivative
5 1 (0.769%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.769%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.692%) UNIX
1 10 (7.692%) Windows
2 5 (3.846%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (56.15%) Multithreading
2 18 (13.85%) Unit Testing
3 12 (9.231%) TDD
4 11 (8.462%) OO
5 10 (7.692%) MVC
6 7 (5.385%) MVVM
7 3 (2.308%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (2.308%) Wealth Management
7 3 (2.308%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (1.538%) OOP
9 1 (0.769%) BDD
9 1 (0.769%) Portfolio Management
9 1 (0.769%) Investment Management
9 1 (0.769%) ERD
9 1 (0.769%) Continuous Integration
9 1 (0.769%) AOP
9 1 (0.769%) Software Engineering
9 1 (0.769%) Web Development
9 1 (0.769%) CRM
9 1 (0.769%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 128 (98.46%) C#
2 56 (43.08%) SQL
3 30 (23.08%) Perl
4 16 (12.31%) Java
5 13 (10.00%) C++
6 12 (9.231%) Scala
7 7 (5.385%) Python
7 7 (5.385%) VB
8 6 (4.615%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.077%) VB6
10 2 (1.538%) VB.NET
10 2 (1.538%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.769%) C
11 1 (0.769%) Delphi
11 1 (0.769%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.769%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (2.308%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.538%) QA
Vendors
1 41 (31.54%) Sybase
2 23 (17.69%) TIBCO
3 19 (14.62%) Microsoft
4 14 (10.77%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.769%) Sencha
5 1 (0.769%) Oracle
5 1 (0.769%) Adobe
5 1 (0.769%) Genesys
5 1 (0.769%) Infragistics
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