The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 36 62 55
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -7
Permanent jobs citing WPF 63 22 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 7.807% 2.985% 2.703%
As % of the Application Development category 12.45% 4.783% 4.895%
Number of salaries quoted 63 22 14
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +4.16%
All Application Development
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
506 460 286
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 62.70% 62.42% 55.21%
Number of salaries quoted 458 411 273
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WPF
East Sussex

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Brighton WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 96 (100.00%) C#
1 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 88 (91.67%) WinForms
3 78 (81.25%) SQL Server
4 77 (80.21%) ASP.NET
5 58 (60.42%) Windows
6 52 (54.17%) SQL
7 49 (51.04%) Agile Software Development
8 42 (43.75%) WCF
9 40 (41.67%) VB
10 36 (37.50%) Web Services
10 36 (37.50%) MVC
11 35 (36.46%) TDD
12 34 (35.42%) NUnit
13 31 (32.29%) ASP.NET MVC
13 31 (32.29%) Web Application Development
14 30 (31.25%) MVVM
14 30 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
14 30 (31.25%) Scrum
14 30 (31.25%) T-SQL
15 28 (29.17%) C++
16 26 (27.08%) VB.NET
16 26 (27.08%) MCP
16 26 (27.08%) MCAD
16 26 (27.08%) MCSD
16 26 (27.08%) Microsoft Certification
16 26 (27.08%) MCTS
16 26 (27.08%) Kanban
16 26 (27.08%) Spring.NET
16 26 (27.08%) Rhino Mocks

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 88 (91.67%) WinForms
3 77 (80.21%) ASP.NET
4 42 (43.75%) WCF
5 36 (37.50%) Web Services
6 31 (32.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 26 (27.08%) Spring.NET
7 26 (27.08%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 26 (27.08%) Castle Windsor
7 26 (27.08%) Ninject
7 26 (27.08%) Unity DI Container
7 26 (27.08%) Razor View Engine
8 23 (23.96%) Silverlight
9 21 (21.88%) HTML
9 21 (21.88%) CSS
10 9 (9.375%) .NET Framework
11 8 (8.333%) NHibernate
11 8 (8.333%) XML
11 8 (8.333%) ATL
11 8 (8.333%) MFC
Applications
1 1 (1.042%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (81.25%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.042%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 34 (35.42%) NUnit
2 26 (27.08%) Rhino Mocks
2 26 (27.08%) Moq
2 26 (27.08%) MSTest
3 4 (4.167%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.042%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 25 (26.04%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 94 (97.92%) Developer
2 60 (62.50%) C# Developer
3 49 (51.04%) .NET Developer
4 24 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 18 (18.75%) Software Developer
6 12 (12.50%) Senior Developer
7 11 (11.46%) C# Application Developer
7 11 (11.46%) Applications Developer
7 11 (11.46%) UI Programmer
7 11 (11.46%) UI Developer
8 10 (10.42%) C# Software Developer
9 9 (9.375%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 9 (9.375%) ASP.NET Developer
10 8 (8.333%) Senior C# Developer
10 8 (8.333%) Senior Applications Developer
10 8 (8.333%) Senior C# Application Developer
10 8 (8.333%) Senior UI Developer
11 7 (7.292%) SQL Developer
12 5 (5.208%) .NET Software Developer
13 4 (4.167%) Senior Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 26 (27.08%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (4.167%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.042%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.042%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 58 (60.42%) Windows
2 1 (1.042%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (51.04%) Agile Software Development
2 36 (37.50%) MVC
3 35 (36.46%) TDD
4 31 (32.29%) Web Application Development
5 30 (31.25%) MVVM
5 30 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
5 30 (31.25%) Scrum
6 26 (27.08%) Kanban
6 26 (27.08%) Dependency Injection
7 19 (19.79%) Web Development
8 12 (12.50%) Migration
9 5 (5.208%) OOP
9 5 (5.208%) OO
10 4 (4.167%) Build Automation
10 4 (4.167%) User Stories
10 4 (4.167%) Unit Testing
10 4 (4.167%) Waterfall
10 4 (4.167%) Project Management
10 4 (4.167%) Service Management
10 4 (4.167%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 96 (100.00%) C#
2 52 (54.17%) SQL
3 40 (41.67%) VB
4 30 (31.25%) T-SQL
5 28 (29.17%) C++
6 26 (27.08%) VB.NET
7 8 (8.333%) C
7 8 (8.333%) Java
7 8 (8.333%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.042%) VB6
Qualifications
1 26 (27.08%) MCP
1 26 (27.08%) MCAD
1 26 (27.08%) MCSD
1 26 (27.08%) Microsoft Certification
1 26 (27.08%) MCTS
2 19 (19.79%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.042%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (8.333%) Microsoft
Brighton, East Sussex
Understanding of MVC/MVVM... Desirable/Useful Skills - Skills that would be of additional benefit would include;C++, C, MFC, ATL, ASP.NET, WCF, Java, Javascript, XML, HTML, CSS...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £44000 Per Annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Brighton, South East
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013