The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Sheffield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF 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 of the Application Development category for the Sheffield 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)
Rank - 20 -
Contract jobs citing WPF 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield - 1.439% -
As % of the Application Development category - 4.082% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £358 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +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
Sheffield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44 49 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Sheffield 29.33% 35.25% 48.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 28 34
Average daily rate £288 £288 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £500 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 7
Average hourly rate £28.75 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
South Yorkshire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield WPF Jobs Demand Trend

WPF
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle