WPF Developer Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the WPF Developer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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 17 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 currently tracked.

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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) Developer
Rank 375 417 310
Rank change year-on-year
+42 -107
Contract jobs requiring a WPF Developer 158 161 315
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.341% 0.276% 0.514%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.369% 0.298% 0.554%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 119 243
Average daily rate £530 £575 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.82% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £346 £400 £402
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £330
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-15.78% +18.75%
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

WPF Developer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

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 within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

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 within the UK.

WPF Developer Hourly Rate Trend

WPF Developer
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 17 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
England +14 122 £550 -4.34%
London -10 88 £600 +4.34%
Scotland +18 35 £338 -
Glasgow - 31 £300 -
South East +42 23 £363 +11.53%
City of London -28 19 £550 -4.34%
Surrey - 13 £375 -
Woking - 6 - -
East Midlands -6 4 £350 -
Oxfordshire - 4 £400 -
Edinburgh +10 3 - -
East of England +7 3 £438 +9.37%
South West +20 2 £258 +14.44%
Cambridgeshire +4 2 £425 +6.25%
Nottinghamshire -1 2 £280 -
Nottingham -7 2 £280 -
Canary Wharf -11 2 £600 +3.44%
Guildford - 2 £425 -
Abingdon - 2 £425 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £325 -
Yorkshire - 2 £325 -
Somerset +4 1 - -
Docklands, London +4 1 - -
Cambridge +4 1 £425 +13.33%
Leicestershire -5 1 £350 -
Leicester -6 1 £350 -
South Wales - 1 £350 -
Wiltshire - 1 £258 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £475 -
Essex - 1 £450 -

WPF Developer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 289 (100.00%) WPF
2 270 (93.43%) C#
3 190 (65.74%) .NET
4 119 (41.18%) Multithreading
5 99 (34.26%) SQL Server
6 91 (31.49%) SQL
7 84 (29.07%) MVVM
8 77 (26.64%) WCF
9 74 (25.61%) TDD
10 72 (24.91%) Banking
11 66 (22.84%) Finance
12 57 (19.72%) Front Office
12 57 (19.72%) SQL Server 2008
13 55 (19.03%) Windows
14 53 (18.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 53 (18.34%) Agile Software Development
15 52 (17.99%) Fixed Income
16 49 (16.96%) Silverlight
17 40 (13.84%) Microsoft
18 38 (13.15%) WinForms
19 33 (11.42%) OO
20 30 (10.38%) Java
20 30 (10.38%) .NET Framework
21 29 (10.03%) Derivative
22 28 (9.689%) Expression Blend
23 26 (8.997%) Investment Banking
23 26 (8.997%) Sybase
24 25 (8.651%) ASP.NET
24 25 (8.651%) E-Commerce
25 24 (8.304%) BDD

WPF Developer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 289 (100.00%) WPF
2 190 (65.74%) .NET
3 77 (26.64%) WCF
4 49 (16.96%) Silverlight
5 38 (13.15%) WinForms
6 30 (10.38%) .NET Framework
7 25 (8.651%) ASP.NET
8 20 (6.920%) LINQ
9 18 (6.228%) Ajax
10 17 (5.882%) Reactive Extensions
11 16 (5.536%) Managed Extensibility Framework
12 15 (5.190%) XML
13 13 (4.498%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 11 (3.806%) Web Services
15 10 (3.460%) DCOM
15 10 (3.460%) NHibernate
15 10 (3.460%) Hibernate
16 9 (3.114%) HTML
17 8 (2.768%) Unity DI Container
18 7 (2.422%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 10 (3.460%) Oracle Workflow
1 10 (3.460%) SharePoint Server
2 9 (3.114%) IIS
3 5 (1.730%) Rendezvous
4 2 (0.692%) MSMQ
4 2 (0.692%) MQSeries
5 1 (0.346%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.346%) Apache
5 1 (0.346%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 19 (6.574%) MS Excel
2 6 (2.076%) Spreadsheet
3 3 (1.038%) Photoshop
4 2 (0.692%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.346%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.346%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.114%) HTTP
2 6 (2.076%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.730%) SNMP
4 2 (0.692%) Internet
5 1 (0.346%) BSS
5 1 (0.346%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 99 (34.26%) SQL Server
2 57 (19.72%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (4.844%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 13 (4.498%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (2.768%) SQL Server 2005
5 8 (2.768%) SQL Server 2012
6 6 (2.076%) BusinessObjects
7 3 (1.038%) KDB
8 2 (0.692%) Sybase IQ
8 2 (0.692%) OLAP
8 2 (0.692%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.346%) Data Mart
9 1 (0.346%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (0.346%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.346%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.346%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.346%) TOAD
9 1 (0.346%) Oracle 10g
9 1 (0.346%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.346%) SQL Server 7
Development Applications
1 28 (9.689%) Expression Blend
2 20 (6.920%) NUnit
3 14 (4.844%) Visual Studio
4 12 (4.152%) Team Foundation Server
5 10 (3.460%) Oracle Forms
6 8 (2.768%) Moq
7 6 (2.076%) TeamCity
7 6 (2.076%) Subversion
8 5 (1.730%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 5 (1.730%) MSTest
9 4 (1.384%) Rhino Mocks
10 3 (1.038%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
10 3 (1.038%) ReSharper
11 2 (0.692%) MSBuild
11 2 (0.692%) JIRA
11 2 (0.692%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.692%) MSI
11 2 (0.692%) NetAdvantage
12 1 (0.346%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.346%) NMock
General
1 72 (24.91%) Banking
2 66 (22.84%) Finance
3 57 (19.72%) Front Office
4 26 (8.997%) Investment Banking
5 4 (1.384%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.038%) Manufacturing
6 3 (1.038%) Games
6 3 (1.038%) Retail
7 2 (0.692%) French Language
8 1 (0.346%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.346%) Publishing
8 1 (0.346%) Automotive
Miscellaneous
1 53 (18.34%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 52 (17.99%) Fixed Income
3 29 (10.03%) Derivative
4 15 (5.190%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (4.844%) Computer Science
6 9 (3.114%) Credit Risk
6 9 (3.114%) Inversion of Control
7 8 (2.768%) Mathematics
7 8 (2.768%) Grid Computing
8 6 (2.076%) Equity Derivative
8 6 (2.076%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.730%) Equities
10 4 (1.384%) N-Tier
10 4 (1.384%) Physics
11 3 (1.038%) Market Risk
11 3 (1.038%) Credit Derivative
12 2 (0.692%) RIA
12 2 (0.692%) Open Source
13 1 (0.346%) Mobile App
13 1 (0.346%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 55 (19.03%) Windows
2 7 (2.422%) Windows 7
2 7 (2.422%) Windows 8
3 2 (0.692%) Linux
3 2 (0.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (41.18%) Multithreading
2 84 (29.07%) MVVM
3 74 (25.61%) TDD
4 53 (18.34%) Agile Software Development
5 33 (11.42%) OO
6 25 (8.651%) E-Commerce
7 24 (8.304%) BDD
8 18 (6.228%) MVC
9 17 (5.882%) Scrum
9 17 (5.882%) Unit Testing
10 16 (5.536%) Risk Management
10 16 (5.536%) Workflow
11 14 (4.844%) SOA
12 13 (4.498%) Data Analysis
12 13 (4.498%) Continuous Integration
13 12 (4.152%) Kanban
13 12 (4.152%) Continuous Improvement
14 10 (3.460%) Automation Testing
15 9 (3.114%) Software Engineering
16 7 (2.422%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 270 (93.43%) C#
2 91 (31.49%) SQL
3 30 (10.38%) Java
4 17 (5.882%) C++
5 15 (5.190%) JavaScript
6 14 (4.844%) Perl
7 13 (4.498%) XAML
8 5 (1.730%) MATLAB
9 3 (1.038%) VB
9 3 (1.038%) Python
10 2 (0.692%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.692%) Ruby
10 2 (0.692%) PHP
11 1 (0.346%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.346%) C++/CLI
11 1 (0.346%) AWK
11 1 (0.346%) VB6
11 1 (0.346%) VBA
11 1 (0.346%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 16 (5.536%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (1.730%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.730%) WMI
Vendors
1 40 (13.84%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.997%) Sybase
3 23 (7.958%) Oracle
4 9 (3.114%) ION Trading
4 9 (3.114%) TIBCO
5 7 (2.422%) Infragistics
6 6 (2.076%) Business Objects
6 6 (2.076%) SAP
7 4 (1.384%) Syncfusion
7 4 (1.384%) DevExpress
8 3 (1.038%) Reuters
8 3 (1.038%) Bloomberg
9 2 (0.692%) Charles River
9 2 (0.692%) Adobe
9 2 (0.692%) 29West
10 1 (0.346%) Sencha
10 1 (0.346%) DataSynapse
10 1 (0.346%) Fidessa
WPF Developer (C#, VB.Net) - North East - 6 Months
North East England
Key Skills: *To design, develop, test and support software using the latest Microsoft .Net technology (C#, VB.Net, WPF) *To write and test code to communicate with external...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £240 - £260 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
C#, WPF Developer - Glasgow - Financial Services
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
My leading Financial Services client requires an experienced C# WPF Developer to join their expanding team based in Glasgow City Centre. The successful candidate will have knowledge of...
FPSG Connect
Posted: 14 May 2013
Front Office C# WPF Developer
London
WPF C# Silverlight Developer. C#, Silverlight, .Net, WPF, UI, UX, Rx, FX, RFQ, E-Trading C# WPF developer part of agile team working directly in Front Office on...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £700 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Senior C#/WPF Developer Contract
City, London
Strong C# .NET experience particularly on the UI including WPF and WCF - Prism4 and MVVM exposure - SQL Server 2005, 2008 - Excellent understanding of Object Orientated Analysis - Good understanding...
Coal IT Services
Rate: From £400 to £550 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
Senior WPF / UI Contract Developer
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Senior WPF Developer required for a minimum of 6months by Milton Keynes based client to build leading-edge enterprise software applications on a C# .Net / SQL Server / WPF /...
Interact Consulting
Rate: 400-550
Posted: 13 May 2013
C# WPF RX DEVELOPER- FX
City, London
A senior C# WPF developer is required by a leading investment bank to develop and deliver a new suite of front office FX trading UIs, using the cutting...
iKas International
Rate: £500 - £650 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
C# ASP.Net/WPF Developer-Financial Background-Glasgow- £450pd
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Key Technical Skills -C# up to 4.5 -WPF -SQL Server 2005-2012 -Agile SDLC -TDD / BDD -Strong OO, GoF Design Patterns and Enterprise Application Architecture Patterns -Third...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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