South West WPF Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 8 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Location Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Colchester Crawley Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Leeds London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Norwich Nuneaton Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Scotland Somerset South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Surrey UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	141	144
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	4	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	0.506 %	2.539 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£250
Average daily rate	£325	£263
% change on same period last year	+23.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£263
% change on same period last year	+24.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.25	£34.29
% change on same period last year	-8.85 %
Application Development South West
Matching contract IT job ads	790	1221
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.071 %	1.209 %
Daily rates quoted	171	278
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£313
Average daily rate	£333	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	124	163
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.64	£30.16
Average hourly rate	£32.74	£33.80
% change on same period last year	-3.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.84	£37.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.50	£32.82
% change on same period last year	-0.97 %
WPF England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WPF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WPF across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WPF
Daily Rate Trend

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

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 West region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Wiltshire	-	1	-	-
Somerset	-	1	£325	-

WPF England

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 7 (87.50 %) C# 2 5 (62.50 %) .NET 3 4 (50.00 %) Silverlight 4 3 (37.50 %) Visual Studio 4 3 (37.50 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (37.50 %) HTML 4 3 (37.50 %) JavaScript 4 3 (37.50 %) Windows 4 3 (37.50 %) XAML 5 2 (25.00 %) SQL 5 2 (25.00 %) Transact-SQL 5 2 (25.00 %) CSS 5 2 (25.00 %) XML 5 2 (25.00 %) WinForms 5 2 (25.00 %) WCF

6 1 (12.50 %) Retail 6 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 6 1 (12.50 %) AJAX 6 1 (12.50 %) Web 2.0 6 1 (12.50 %) Music 6 1 (12.50 %) Web Development 6 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0 6 1 (12.50 %) DHTML 6 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 6 1 (12.50 %) Finance 6 1 (12.50 %) Series 60 6 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (12.50 %) Adobe 6 1 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server 6 1 (12.50 %) Internet

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 5 (62.50 %) .NET 2 4 (50.00 %) Silverlight 3 3 (37.50 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (37.50 %) HTML 4 2 (25.00 %) WCF 4 2 (25.00 %) WinForms 4 2 (25.00 %) CSS 4 2 (25.00 %) XML 5 1 (12.50 %) Series 60 5 1 (12.50 %) AJAX 5 1 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 2.0	Application Platforms 1 1 (12.50 %) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) Internet	Development Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) Visual Studio
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Telecoms 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance 1 1 (12.50 %) Retail 1 1 (12.50 %) Insurance 1 1 (12.50 %) Music	Job Titles 1 7 (87.50 %) Developer 2 3 (37.50 %) C# Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) WinForms Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) BizTalk Developer 3 1 (12.50 %) Interface Designer 3 1 (12.50 %) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) E-Commerce 1 1 (12.50 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 7 (87.50 %) C# 2 3 (37.50 %) JavaScript 2 3 (37.50 %) XAML 3 2 (25.00 %) SQL 3 2 (25.00 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) DHTML
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Adobe