The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 19 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 Suffolk 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank - 35 -
Contract jobs citing WPF 0 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk - 1.976% -
As % of the Application Development category - 8.929% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £325 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.12% -3.12%
All Application Development
Suffolk
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
43 56 86
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Suffolk 30.71% 22.13% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 37 44
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £278 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £365 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
Average hourly rate £35.00 £19.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+79.48% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WPF
East of England

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk 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 Suffolk region.

Suffolk WPF Daily Rate Trend

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Suffolk WPF Hourly Rate Trend

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
3 3 (60.00%) MVC
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) SOAP
3 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) LINQ
3 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Reactive Extensions
4 2 (40.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (40.00%) MVVM
4 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk 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 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) Silverlight
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) SOAP
3 3 (60.00%) Web Services
3 3 (60.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) LINQ
3 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (40.00%) Reactive Extensions
4 2 (40.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (40.00%) MSMQ
4 2 (40.00%) NHibernate
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) XSLT
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
5 1 (20.00%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 4 (80.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (40.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (40.00%) BizTalk Server
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) MVVM
2 2 (40.00%) CRM
2 2 (40.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Workflow
2 2 (40.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Microsoft