The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 23 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 Surrey 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 49 57 86
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +29
Contract jobs citing WPF 31 42 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.696% 2.609% 0.748%
As % of the Application Development category 9.309% 9.071% 2.545%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 23 6
Average daily rate £325 £320 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £32.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
All Application Development
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
333 463 550
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 28.96% 28.76% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 265 304
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 16 16
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £19.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WPF
South East

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 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
Woking +9 16 £325 +1.56%
Guildford -10 4 £425 +88.88%
WPF
South East

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 48 (85.71%) C#
2 45 (80.36%) .NET
3 21 (37.50%) Scrum
3 21 (37.50%) TDD
3 21 (37.50%) MVVM
4 19 (33.93%) SQL Server
5 18 (32.14%) XML
5 18 (32.14%) Microsoft
6 17 (30.36%) BDD
7 16 (28.57%) Windows
8 14 (25.00%) Silverlight
9 12 (21.43%) Multithreading
9 12 (21.43%) SQL
9 12 (21.43%) Moq
10 11 (19.64%) Data Analysis
11 10 (17.86%) Agile Software Development
11 10 (17.86%) WCF
11 10 (17.86%) LINQ
11 10 (17.86%) OO
12 9 (16.07%) SOA
12 9 (16.07%) Oracle
12 9 (16.07%) SQL Server 2008
12 9 (16.07%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (14.29%) .NET Framework
13 8 (14.29%) NHibernate
13 8 (14.29%) HTML
13 8 (14.29%) Telecoms
13 8 (14.29%) Inversion of Control
14 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
14 7 (12.50%) Visual Studio

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 45 (80.36%) .NET
2 18 (32.14%) XML
3 14 (25.00%) Silverlight
4 10 (17.86%) WCF
4 10 (17.86%) LINQ
5 8 (14.29%) .NET Framework
5 8 (14.29%) NHibernate
5 8 (14.29%) HTML
6 5 (8.929%) ASP.NET
6 5 (8.929%) CSS
6 5 (8.929%) jQuery
6 5 (8.929%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (8.929%) HTML5
6 5 (8.929%) CSS3
6 5 (8.929%) Backbone.js
6 5 (8.929%) KnockoutJS
6 5 (8.929%) Caliburn.Micro
7 3 (5.357%) ASP
7 3 (5.357%) WinForms
8 2 (3.571%) MonoRail
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.143%) Oracle Coherence
2 3 (5.357%) ESB
3 2 (3.571%) Drupal
4 1 (1.786%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) Photoshop
2 5 (8.929%) Fireworks
3 1 (1.786%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.786%) FrameMaker
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.357%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (33.93%) SQL Server
2 9 (16.07%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (7.143%) Oracle 11g
3 4 (7.143%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (3.571%) MySQL
4 2 (3.571%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.571%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.786%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.786%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 12 (21.43%) Moq
2 9 (16.07%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 7 (12.50%) NUnit
4 6 (10.71%) ReSharper
4 6 (10.71%) Expression Blend
5 5 (8.929%) MSI
5 5 (8.929%) TeamCity
6 4 (7.143%) Subversion
7 2 (3.571%) NetAdvantage
8 1 (1.786%) JIRA
General
1 8 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.786%) Games
2 1 (1.786%) Finance
2 1 (1.786%) Law
2 1 (1.786%) Legal
2 1 (1.786%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 29 (51.79%) Developer
2 20 (35.71%) WPF Developer
3 12 (21.43%) Software Engineer
4 11 (19.64%) C# Developer
5 7 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 5 (8.929%) Design Engineer
6 5 (8.929%) Analyst
6 5 (8.929%) Test Analyst
6 5 (8.929%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (8.929%) .NET Software Engineer
7 4 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (7.143%) Test Engineer
7 4 (7.143%) Software Developer
8 3 (5.357%) Tester
8 3 (5.357%) Senior Developer
8 3 (5.357%) Agile Test Analyst
9 2 (3.571%) QA Analyst
9 2 (3.571%) Web Programmer
9 2 (3.571%) ASP.NET Developer
9 2 (3.571%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Inversion of Control
2 5 (8.929%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.571%) Open Source
4 1 (1.786%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.786%) Physics
4 1 (1.786%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (1.786%) Linux
2 1 (1.786%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) Scrum
1 21 (37.50%) TDD
1 21 (37.50%) MVVM
2 17 (30.36%) BDD
3 12 (21.43%) Multithreading
4 11 (19.64%) Data Analysis
5 10 (17.86%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (17.86%) OO
6 9 (16.07%) SOA
7 6 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
8 5 (8.929%) MVC
8 5 (8.929%) Software Testing
9 3 (5.357%) Web Development
9 3 (5.357%) Software Engineering
10 2 (3.571%) Unit Testing
10 2 (3.571%) Use Case
10 2 (3.571%) Release Management
10 2 (3.571%) Data Modelling
10 2 (3.571%) Configuration Management
10 2 (3.571%) UML
Programming Languages
1 48 (85.71%) C#
2 12 (21.43%) SQL
3 7 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.71%) AWK
4 6 (10.71%) Perl
5 5 (8.929%) MATLAB
6 4 (7.143%) sed
6 4 (7.143%) C++
6 4 (7.143%) Python
7 2 (3.571%) XPath
7 2 (3.571%) PHP
8 1 (1.786%) Java
8 1 (1.786%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (8.929%) ISEB
2 1 (1.786%) HND
2 1 (1.786%) Degree
2 1 (1.786%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.929%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 9 (16.07%) Oracle
3 5 (8.929%) Teradata
4 2 (3.571%) Infragistics
4 2 (3.571%) Adobe
5 1 (1.786%) WSO2
5 1 (1.786%) Telerik