WPF Contracts in Somerset
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 Somerset 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 29 31 31
Rank change year-on-year
+2 0
Contract jobs citing WPF 4 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 2.139% 3.012% 1.258%
As % of the Application Development category 8.696% 7.937% 2.817%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £458 £240 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+90.83% -
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
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 46 63 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 24.60% 37.95% 44.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 37
Average daily rate £320 £335 £263
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +27.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £240 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £18.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
South West

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset WPF Daily 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 21 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
Taunton - 3 £458 -
Bath - 1 - -
WPF
South West

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) C
3 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (60.00%) WF
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) COBIT
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Management
3 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (60.00%) ASP
3 3 (60.00%) CSS
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) XSL
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) MCSD
3 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (60.00%) HTML
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) VBScript

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 3 (60.00%) WF
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) ASP
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) XSL
2 3 (60.00%) HTML
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (60.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) WPF Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) SOA
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (60.00%) UML
2 3 (60.00%) RAD
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Change Management
2 3 (60.00%) ITSM
2 3 (60.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) MVVM
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) C
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) VBScript
3 3 (60.00%) VB
3 3 (60.00%) VB6
4 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) MCSD
1 3 (60.00%) ISEB
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (60.00%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) COBIT
1 3 (60.00%) ISO 9000
1 3 (60.00%) TickIT
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
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