The first table below looks at the demand for the WPF Developer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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) Developer
Rank 197 240 230
Rank change year-on-year
+43 -10
Contract jobs requiring a WPF Developer 23 5 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.290% 0.049% 0.224%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.314% 0.053% 0.242%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 1 8
Average daily rate £363 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.53% -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £325 £366
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £388 £325
% change year-on-year
-9.67% +19.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £47.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +18.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +18.75%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7336 9394 9506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.60% 92.47% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3629 4201 4116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 724 798
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
WPF Developer
England

WPF Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing WPF Developer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East WPF Developer Jobs Demand Trend

WPF Developer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WPF Developer across the South East region.

South East WPF Developer Daily Rate Trend

WPF Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WPF Developer across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East WPF Developer Daily Rate Histogram

WPF Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WPF Developer across the South East region.

South East WPF Developer Hourly Rate Trend

WPF Developer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF Developer within the South East 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
Surrey - 13 £375 -
Oxfordshire - 4 £400 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £475 -
WPF Developer
England

WPF Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 36 (100.00%) WPF
2 35 (97.22%) C#
3 28 (77.78%) .NET
4 21 (58.33%) MVVM
5 19 (52.78%) SQL Server
6 13 (36.11%) Windows
7 12 (33.33%) TDD
8 11 (30.56%) SQL Server 2008
9 9 (25.00%) Multithreading
10 8 (22.22%) OO
10 8 (22.22%) Scrum
11 7 (19.44%) WCF
12 6 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
12 6 (16.67%) BDD
13 5 (13.89%) Inversion of Control
13 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (13.89%) MATLAB
13 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
13 5 (13.89%) Expression Blend
13 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
13 5 (13.89%) NHibernate
14 4 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
15 3 (8.333%) Silverlight
15 3 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
15 3 (8.333%) Web Development
15 3 (8.333%) .NET Framework
15 3 (8.333%) Software Engineering
15 3 (8.333%) WinForms
15 3 (8.333%) Visual Studio
15 3 (8.333%) Manufacturing

WPF Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 36 (100.00%) WPF
2 28 (77.78%) .NET
3 7 (19.44%) WCF
4 5 (13.89%) NHibernate
5 3 (8.333%) Silverlight
5 3 (8.333%) .NET Framework
5 3 (8.333%) WinForms
6 2 (5.556%) StructureMap
6 2 (5.556%) CSS3
6 2 (5.556%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 2 (5.556%) HTML5
6 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (5.556%) Backbone.js
6 2 (5.556%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (5.556%) Caliburn.Micro
6 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 2 (5.556%) AutoMapper
6 2 (5.556%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.556%) CSS
6 2 (5.556%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.778%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (52.78%) SQL Server
2 11 (30.56%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (5.556%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (2.778%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.778%) Data Mart
5 1 (2.778%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) Expression Blend
2 3 (8.333%) Visual Studio
2 3 (8.333%) Moq
3 2 (5.556%) NetAdvantage
3 2 (5.556%) MSI
3 2 (5.556%) NUnit
3 2 (5.556%) ReSharper
3 2 (5.556%) TeamCity
4 1 (2.778%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.778%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (2.778%) NMock
General
1 3 (8.333%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.556%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.778%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.89%) Inversion of Control
1 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.556%) Hedge funds
2 2 (5.556%) Open Source
2 2 (5.556%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (58.33%) MVVM
2 12 (33.33%) TDD
3 9 (25.00%) Multithreading
4 8 (22.22%) OO
4 8 (22.22%) Scrum
5 6 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (16.67%) BDD
6 5 (13.89%) Data Analysis
7 3 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (8.333%) Web Development
7 3 (8.333%) Software Engineering
8 2 (5.556%) Waterfall
8 2 (5.556%) MVC
8 2 (5.556%) SOA
8 2 (5.556%) Unit Testing
9 1 (2.778%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 35 (97.22%) C#
2 5 (13.89%) MATLAB
3 2 (5.556%) SQL
3 2 (5.556%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.778%) Perl
4 1 (2.778%) XAML
4 1 (2.778%) AWK
Vendors
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.556%) Infragistics
2 2 (5.556%) Oracle