The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills 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 over the 3 months to 18 June 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 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 149 134 155
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +21
Contract jobs citing WPF 78 111 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.965% 1.105% 0.938%
As % of the Application Development category 3.937% 5.068% 3.612%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 45 40
Average daily rate £343 £313 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.60% -3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £225 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £405
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 11
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.12% -3.12%
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1981 2190 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.51% 21.80% 25.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1048 1096 1297
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 107 184
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £19.00 £26.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
WPF
England

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East WPF Daily Rate Histogram

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East WPF Hourly 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 South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Surrey +11 41 £340 +6.25% 8
Buckinghamshire +1 10 £375 - 6
Oxfordshire +6 5 £400 +82.85% 1
Hampshire -37 5 £298 -0.83% 9
Berkshire +23 4 - - 4
East Sussex -1 2 - - 3
West Sussex +5 1 £225 -12.62% 2
Kent -2 1 - - 4
Middlesex - - - -
Sussex - - - -
WPF
England

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 92 (82.14%) C#
2 89 (79.46%) .NET
3 50 (44.64%) MVVM
4 40 (35.71%) SQL Server
5 34 (30.36%) Scrum
6 32 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 27 (24.11%) TDD
8 25 (22.32%) SQL
8 25 (22.32%) Windows
9 22 (19.64%) WCF
10 20 (17.86%) OO
10 20 (17.86%) XML
11 19 (16.96%) Multithreading
11 19 (16.96%) BDD
12 18 (16.07%) Team Foundation Server
12 18 (16.07%) ASP.NET
13 17 (15.18%) SQL Server 2008
13 17 (15.18%) Silverlight
14 16 (14.29%) LINQ
14 16 (14.29%) Visual Studio
14 16 (14.29%) Photoshop
14 16 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
15 15 (13.39%) Data Analysis
16 14 (12.50%) .NET Framework
16 14 (12.50%) Microsoft Blend
17 11 (9.821%) HTML
18 10 (8.929%) MVC
18 10 (8.929%) NHibernate
19 9 (8.036%) XAML
19 9 (8.036%) Fireworks

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 89 (79.46%) .NET
2 22 (19.64%) WCF
3 20 (17.86%) XML
4 18 (16.07%) ASP.NET
5 17 (15.18%) Silverlight
6 16 (14.29%) LINQ
7 14 (12.50%) .NET Framework
8 11 (9.821%) HTML
9 10 (8.929%) NHibernate
10 9 (8.036%) jQuery
11 8 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (7.143%) HTML5
11 8 (7.143%) CSS
12 7 (6.250%) WinForms
13 6 (5.357%) CSS3
13 6 (5.357%) KnockoutJS
13 6 (5.357%) Caliburn.Micro
14 5 (4.464%) Backbone.js
15 4 (3.571%) Web Services
16 3 (2.679%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.679%) ESB
2 2 (1.786%) Confluence
3 1 (0.893%) Lync
3 1 (0.893%) Drupal
3 1 (0.893%) IIS
3 1 (0.893%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (14.29%) Photoshop
2 9 (8.036%) Fireworks
3 3 (2.679%) MS Excel
4 2 (1.786%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.893%) FrameMaker
Business Applications
1 1 (0.893%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.893%) GSM
1 1 (0.893%) UMTS
1 1 (0.893%) TCP/IP
1 1 (0.893%) SSL
1 1 (0.893%) Intranet
1 1 (0.893%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 17 (15.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (4.464%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (1.786%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (1.786%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.893%) MySQL
5 1 (0.893%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (0.893%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.893%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.893%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 18 (16.07%) Team Foundation Server
2 16 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 14 (12.50%) Microsoft Blend
4 7 (6.250%) TeamCity
4 7 (6.250%) Moq
5 6 (5.357%) MSI
5 6 (5.357%) ReSharper
6 5 (4.464%) NUnit
7 3 (2.679%) Subversion
7 3 (2.679%) NetAdvantage
8 2 (1.786%) JIRA
8 2 (1.786%) PowerBuilder
9 1 (0.893%) VSS/SourceSafe
9 1 (0.893%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.893%) Git (software)
9 1 (0.893%) Rhino Mocks
9 1 (0.893%) NMock
General
1 8 (7.143%) Finance
2 4 (3.571%) Telecoms
3 3 (2.679%) Automotive
3 3 (2.679%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.786%) Publishing
5 1 (0.893%) Military
5 1 (0.893%) Law
5 1 (0.893%) Legal
5 1 (0.893%) Back Office
5 1 (0.893%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 72 (64.29%) Developer
2 37 (33.04%) WPF Developer
3 30 (26.79%) .NET Developer
4 25 (22.32%) C# Developer
5 23 (20.54%) Software Engineer
6 12 (10.71%) C# Software Engineer
7 10 (8.929%) .NET Software Engineer
8 8 (7.143%) Software Developer
8 8 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
9 6 (5.357%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.464%) Analyst
10 5 (4.464%) Test Analyst
10 5 (4.464%) Designer
11 4 (3.571%) Tester
11 4 (3.571%) Test Engineer
11 4 (3.571%) Senior .NET Developer
12 3 (2.679%) C# Software Developer
12 3 (2.679%) Programmer
12 3 (2.679%) WinForms Developer
12 3 (2.679%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.143%) Inversion of Control
2 7 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (2.679%) Open Source
4 2 (1.786%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.786%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.893%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.893%) Computer Science
5 1 (0.893%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 25 (22.32%) Windows
2 4 (3.571%) Windows Phone
3 2 (1.786%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (44.64%) MVVM
2 34 (30.36%) Scrum
3 27 (24.11%) TDD
4 20 (17.86%) OO
5 19 (16.96%) Multithreading
5 19 (16.96%) BDD
6 16 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
7 15 (13.39%) Data Analysis
8 10 (8.929%) MVC
9 8 (7.143%) Software Testing
10 7 (6.250%) Software Engineering
10 7 (6.250%) Unit Testing
11 6 (5.357%) SOA
12 5 (4.464%) Continuous Integration
13 3 (2.679%) Automation Testing
13 3 (2.679%) Project Management
13 3 (2.679%) Automated Testing
13 3 (2.679%) Integration Testing
13 3 (2.679%) User Acceptance Testing
13 3 (2.679%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 92 (82.14%) C#
2 25 (22.32%) SQL
3 9 (8.036%) XAML
4 8 (7.143%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.464%) MATLAB
6 4 (3.571%) C++
7 3 (2.679%) Java
7 3 (2.679%) VB.NET
8 2 (1.786%) Lua
9 1 (0.893%) AWK
9 1 (0.893%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.893%) VB
9 1 (0.893%) Perl
9 1 (0.893%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (4.464%) ISEB
2 4 (3.571%) Degree
3 2 (1.786%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.786%) MCSD
4 1 (0.893%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.893%) MCPD
4 1 (0.893%) BC Cleared
4 1 (0.893%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.893%) MCP
4 1 (0.893%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.464%) QA
Vendors
1 32 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.357%) Oracle
3 5 (4.464%) Adobe
4 3 (2.679%) Infragistics
5 2 (1.786%) MKS
5 2 (1.786%) Sybase
6 1 (0.893%) Teradata
6 1 (0.893%) Telerik
Portsmouth, South East
My market leading software client is looking for a C# WPF developer for an initial 6 month contract based in Portsmouth. As a C# WPF developer you will...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
Surrey, South East
Experience: * C#/.NET (3.5 or 4.0/4.5) experience with a strong expertise of developing desktop applications using WPF and MVVM. * Experience of Agile/SCRUM development...
Computer Futures
Posted: 3 June 2013
West Malling, Kent
Embarking upon a substantial development programme using the latest .Net 4.5 technology, applicants with the following additional skills are also invited to submit up to date cvs; -...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Woking, Surrey
Key Skills: -.net -WPF -Expression Blend/Design and theming controls from designs -Developing custom controls -XAML -Control Templates and Styles -Photoshop, Illustrator and/or Fireworks would be desirable.
Austin Fraser
Rate: £0.00 per annum + Market Rates
Posted: 17 June 2013
Woking, Surrey
Joining at a pivotal time in a lengthy project you will be involved in Designing and coding the User Interface on a Key Data Analysis tool design for...
Spectrum IT Recruitment (South) Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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