The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 105 97 72
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -25
Contract jobs citing WPF 12 25 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.616% 1.031% 1.781%
As % of the Application Development category 2.182% 3.962% 6.159%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 19
Average daily rate £298 £320 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.03% +34.73%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £300 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £334 £340 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £38.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year
-16.12% -3.12%
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
550 631 552
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 28.23% 26.03% 28.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 360 302
Average daily rate £298 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £215 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 6 19
Average hourly rate £38.00 £18.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+111.11% -57.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.60 £17.00 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.01 £30.00 £45.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WPF
England

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
West Yorkshire -5 8 £311 +3.75% 8
East Yorkshire - - - -
South Yorkshire - - - - 6
WPF
England

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 38 (92.68%) .NET
2 35 (85.37%) C#
3 31 (75.61%) ASP.NET
4 24 (58.54%) MVC
5 23 (56.10%) ASP.NET MVC
6 21 (51.22%) Silverlight
7 19 (46.34%) Web Services
8 18 (43.90%) XAML
8 18 (43.90%) .NET Framework
9 17 (41.46%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 17 (41.46%) CSS
9 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
10 16 (39.02%) HTML
10 16 (39.02%) SQL Server
10 16 (39.02%) WCF
11 12 (29.27%) Scrum
12 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (19.51%) E-Commerce
13 8 (19.51%) SQL
14 7 (17.07%) WinForms
15 6 (14.63%) VB.NET
15 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
16 5 (12.20%) Windows
16 5 (12.20%) OO
16 5 (12.20%) Visual Studio
16 5 (12.20%) Agile Software Development
17 4 (9.756%) JIRA
17 4 (9.756%) Dynamics CRM
17 4 (9.756%) CMMI
17 4 (9.756%) Perforce

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire 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 38 (92.68%) .NET
2 31 (75.61%) ASP.NET
3 23 (56.10%) ASP.NET MVC
4 21 (51.22%) Silverlight
5 19 (46.34%) Web Services
6 18 (43.90%) .NET Framework
7 17 (41.46%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 17 (41.46%) CSS
8 16 (39.02%) HTML
8 16 (39.02%) WCF
9 7 (17.07%) WinForms
10 3 (7.317%) XML
10 3 (7.317%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 2 (4.878%) Razor View Engine
11 2 (4.878%) jQuery
11 2 (4.878%) LINQ
11 2 (4.878%) Ajax
11 2 (4.878%) ADO.NET
11 2 (4.878%) ASP
11 2 (4.878%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 3 (7.317%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.439%) CMS
2 1 (2.439%) DotNetNuke
2 1 (2.439%) Umbraco
2 1 (2.439%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.317%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.439%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.439%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 4 (9.756%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.878%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (39.02%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.317%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Visual Studio
2 4 (9.756%) JIRA
3 2 (4.878%) NUnit
4 1 (2.439%) Axure RP
4 1 (2.439%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (4.878%) Finance
2 1 (2.439%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 39 (95.12%) Developer
2 19 (46.34%) .NET Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 8 (19.51%) C# Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Applications Developer
4 6 (14.63%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (12.20%) WPF Developer
6 4 (9.756%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.878%) .NET Software Developer
7 2 (4.878%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Software Engineer
7 2 (4.878%) Business Developer
7 2 (4.878%) WinForms Developer
8 1 (2.439%) VB.NET Developer
8 1 (2.439%) C# Software Engineer
8 1 (2.439%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.439%) Interface Designer
8 1 (2.439%) Programmer
8 1 (2.439%) .NET Applications Developer
8 1 (2.439%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.878%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.439%) N-Tier
2 1 (2.439%) Web 2.0
2 1 (2.439%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (58.54%) MVC
2 12 (29.27%) Scrum
3 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (19.51%) E-Commerce
5 5 (12.20%) OO
5 5 (12.20%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (9.756%) CMMI
6 4 (9.756%) RUP
6 4 (9.756%) CRM
7 3 (7.317%) OOD
7 3 (7.317%) Unit Testing
8 2 (4.878%) MVVM
8 2 (4.878%) SOA
8 2 (4.878%) Configuration Management
8 2 (4.878%) Service Delivery
8 2 (4.878%) TDD
8 2 (4.878%) UML
9 1 (2.439%) AOP
9 1 (2.439%) Enterprise Architecture
9 1 (2.439%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 35 (85.37%) C#
2 18 (43.90%) XAML
3 17 (41.46%) JavaScript
4 8 (19.51%) SQL
5 6 (14.63%) VB.NET
6 3 (7.317%) VB
7 2 (4.878%) VB6
7 2 (4.878%) VBA
8 1 (2.439%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.439%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.878%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (9.756%) Perforce
3 1 (2.439%) Remedy
3 1 (2.439%) Oracle
3 1 (2.439%) EPiServer
3 1 (2.439%) Sitecore
York, North Yorkshire
C# /.NET / Agile / SQL Server / WCF / WPF / Silverlight / York / Leeds / Yorkshire / North Yorkshire / West Yorkshire... developing complex OO applications in C#. This is NOT an ASP.net development...
AMsource Technology
Rate: From £225 to £250 per day depending on experience
Posted: 17 June 2013
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