The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 24 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 50 53 47
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -6
Permanent jobs citing WPF 27 15 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.919% 2.443% 2.444%
As % of the Application Development category 8.710% 5.703% 5.830%
Number of salaries quoted 27 14 11
Average salary £30,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £34,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
310 263 223
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 44.99% 42.83% 41.92%
Number of salaries quoted 273 236 183
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
Hampshire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke WPF Jobs Demand Trend

WPF
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WPF across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Basingstoke WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WPF.

1 82 (97.62%) C#
2 78 (92.86%) .NET
3 65 (77.38%) SQL Server
3 65 (77.38%) ASP.NET
4 48 (57.14%) WCF
5 45 (53.57%) Windows
6 42 (50.00%) MVC
7 41 (48.81%) Microsoft
7 41 (48.81%) WinForms
8 31 (36.90%) NUnit
9 26 (30.95%) TDD
10 24 (28.57%) Degree
10 24 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
11 23 (27.38%) Java
12 22 (26.19%) Unit Testing
13 20 (23.81%) .NET Framework
13 20 (23.81%) Oracle
14 18 (21.43%) CSS
14 18 (21.43%) Inversion of Control
15 17 (20.24%) QA
15 17 (20.24%) JavaScript
15 17 (20.24%) C++
15 17 (20.24%) Infragistics
16 16 (19.05%) ADO.NET
16 16 (19.05%) Subversion
17 15 (17.86%) Computer Science
17 15 (17.86%) Rhino Mocks
18 14 (16.67%) Windows 7
18 14 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
19 12 (14.29%) jQuery

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WPF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 78 (92.86%) .NET
2 65 (77.38%) ASP.NET
3 48 (57.14%) WCF
4 41 (48.81%) WinForms
5 24 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
6 20 (23.81%) .NET Framework
7 18 (21.43%) CSS
8 16 (19.05%) ADO.NET
9 14 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 12 (14.29%) jQuery
10 12 (14.29%) HTML
11 11 (13.10%) Razor View Engine
11 11 (13.10%) Castle Windsor
12 10 (11.90%) Ajax
13 9 (10.71%) Web Services
14 8 (9.524%) Spring.NET
14 8 (9.524%) XSLT
14 8 (9.524%) XML
14 8 (9.524%) MFC
14 8 (9.524%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 9 (10.71%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 2 (2.381%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (10.71%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (77.38%) SQL Server
2 10 (11.90%) Oracle 8/8i
3 9 (10.71%) Oracle 11g
4 8 (9.524%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (9.524%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (4.762%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (2.381%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 31 (36.90%) NUnit
2 16 (19.05%) Subversion
3 15 (17.86%) Rhino Mocks
4 11 (13.10%) Visual Studio
5 8 (9.524%) Moq
5 8 (9.524%) MSTest
5 8 (9.524%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 6 (7.143%) InstallShield
7 3 (3.571%) Cucumber
7 3 (3.571%) Selenium
8 2 (2.381%) WiX
General
1 12 (14.29%) Finance
2 9 (10.71%) Banking
3 1 (1.190%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.190%) Manufacturing
3 1 (1.190%) Marketing
3 1 (1.190%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (85.71%) Developer
2 42 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 36 (42.86%) C# Developer
4 22 (26.19%) C# .NET Developer
5 15 (17.86%) Software Engineer
6 11 (13.10%) Software Developer
7 10 (11.90%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 8 (9.524%) Lead Developer
8 8 (9.524%) Junior Developer
8 8 (9.524%) Junior
9 7 (8.333%) Lead C# Developer
10 5 (5.952%) C++ Software Engineer
10 5 (5.952%) Junior .NET Developer
10 5 (5.952%) WPF Developer
11 4 (4.762%) ASP.NET Developer
12 3 (3.571%) Programmer
12 3 (3.571%) Junior C# Developer
12 3 (3.571%) .NET Programmer
12 3 (3.571%) Technical Leader
13 2 (2.381%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (21.43%) Inversion of Control
2 15 (17.86%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.571%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.381%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.190%) SaaS
5 1 (1.190%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 45 (53.57%) Windows
2 14 (16.67%) Windows 7
3 8 (9.524%) UNIX
3 8 (9.524%) Solaris
3 8 (9.524%) Linux
4 6 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (2.381%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (2.381%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (50.00%) MVC
2 26 (30.95%) TDD
3 22 (26.19%) Unit Testing
4 11 (13.10%) Scrum
4 11 (13.10%) Kanban
4 11 (13.10%) Web Application Development
5 9 (10.71%) OO
5 9 (10.71%) Release Management
6 8 (9.524%) Strategic Management
6 8 (9.524%) MVVM
6 8 (9.524%) Dependency Injection
6 8 (9.524%) Time Management
6 8 (9.524%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (9.524%) Project Management
7 7 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (4.762%) Multithreading
8 4 (4.762%) Risk Management
9 3 (3.571%) BDD
9 3 (3.571%) Scrum-ban
10 2 (2.381%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 82 (97.62%) C#
2 23 (27.38%) Java
3 17 (20.24%) JavaScript
3 17 (20.24%) C++
4 10 (11.90%) SQL
5 8 (9.524%) XPath
5 8 (9.524%) XQuery
6 6 (7.143%) VC++
7 5 (5.952%) T-SQL
8 4 (4.762%) VBA
8 4 (4.762%) PL/SQL
9 2 (2.381%) XAML
Qualifications
1 24 (28.57%) Degree
2 11 (13.10%) MCP
2 11 (13.10%) MCAD
2 11 (13.10%) MCSD
2 11 (13.10%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (13.10%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.24%) QA
Vendors
1 41 (48.81%) Microsoft
2 20 (23.81%) Oracle
3 17 (20.24%) Infragistics
4 9 (10.71%) Perforce
5 1 (1.190%) DevExpress
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