The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 21 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 35 68 77
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +9
Permanent jobs citing WPF 130 57 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 6.363% 2.966% 2.885%
As % of the Application Development category 15.44% 7.383% 6.250%
Number of salaries quoted 123 57 58
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% -22.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £22,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,500 £40,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
842 772 960
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 41.21% 40.17% 46.15%
Number of salaries quoted 773 715 907
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,540 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
South East

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +13 100 £42,500 +41.66%
Aylesbury +15 8 £30,000 -16.66%
High Wycombe - 2 £55,000 -
Amersham - 1 £24,500 -
WPF
South East

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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.

1 297 (98.02%) C#
2 277 (91.42%) .NET
3 264 (87.13%) SQL Server
4 198 (65.35%) WCF
5 170 (56.11%) WinForms
6 119 (39.27%) Microsoft
7 92 (30.36%) ASP.NET
8 82 (27.06%) Degree
8 82 (27.06%) MVVM
9 77 (25.41%) SQL
9 77 (25.41%) NUnit
10 76 (25.08%) Agile Software Development
11 74 (24.42%) TDD
12 71 (23.43%) MCP
12 71 (23.43%) MCAD
12 71 (23.43%) MCSD
12 71 (23.43%) Microsoft Certification
13 70 (23.10%) .NET Framework
14 69 (22.77%) Visual Studio
15 64 (21.12%) Scrum
16 56 (18.48%) Windows
17 43 (14.19%) UML
18 41 (13.53%) OO
19 40 (13.20%) Moq
20 39 (12.87%) Castle Windsor
20 39 (12.87%) Continuous Integration
20 39 (12.87%) Dependency Injection
21 37 (12.21%) MCTS
21 37 (12.21%) Inversion of Control
21 37 (12.21%) Spring.NET

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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
1 277 (91.42%) .NET
2 198 (65.35%) WCF
3 170 (56.11%) WinForms
4 92 (30.36%) ASP.NET
5 70 (23.10%) .NET Framework
6 39 (12.87%) Castle Windsor
7 37 (12.21%) Spring.NET
7 37 (12.21%) Ninject
7 37 (12.21%) Unity DI Container
8 32 (10.56%) LINQ
9 30 (9.901%) Web Services
10 26 (8.581%) ASP.NET MVC
11 11 (3.630%) Razor View Engine
11 11 (3.630%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 9 (2.970%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 7 (2.310%) HTML
13 7 (2.310%) Ajax
14 6 (1.980%) jQuery
14 6 (1.980%) Silverlight
15 5 (1.650%) CSS
Applications
1 18 (5.941%) MS Excel
2 6 (1.980%) MS Office
3 2 (0.660%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.660%) Fireworks
3 2 (0.660%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.330%) Maple
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.310%) Internet
2 1 (0.330%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 264 (87.13%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.960%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (1.650%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 77 (25.41%) NUnit
2 69 (22.77%) Visual Studio
3 40 (13.20%) Moq
4 37 (12.21%) Rhino Mocks
4 37 (12.21%) MSTest
5 18 (5.941%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.660%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.660%) Axure RP
6 2 (0.660%) NMock
7 1 (0.330%) JIRA
7 1 (0.330%) Subversion
General
1 9 (2.970%) Finance
2 8 (2.640%) Banking
3 5 (1.650%) Retail
4 4 (1.320%) Manufacturing
5 2 (0.660%) Publishing
5 2 (0.660%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 227 (74.92%) Developer
2 139 (45.87%) C# Developer
3 113 (37.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 93 (30.69%) .NET Developer
5 78 (25.74%) Software Engineer
6 57 (18.81%) Senior Developer
7 54 (17.82%) Software Developer
8 50 (16.50%) C# Software Engineer
9 43 (14.19%) Senior Software Engineer
10 42 (13.86%) .NET Software Engineer
11 38 (12.54%) Senior C# Developer
12 36 (11.88%) Senior C# Software Engineer
13 34 (11.22%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
14 25 (8.251%) C# Software Developer
14 25 (8.251%) Senior .NET Developer
15 24 (7.921%) C# ASP.NET Developer
16 23 (7.591%) WPF Developer
17 20 (6.601%) Graduate
18 19 (6.271%) Graduate Developer
19 18 (5.941%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 37 (12.21%) Inversion of Control
2 28 (9.241%) Computer Science
3 18 (5.941%) iPad
4 14 (4.620%) Visualisation
5 12 (3.960%) Replication
6 8 (2.640%) Physics
7 6 (1.980%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (0.660%) Mathematics
8 2 (0.660%) Web 2.0
8 2 (0.660%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.330%) Mobile Payment
9 1 (0.330%) SaaS
9 1 (0.330%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.330%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 56 (18.48%) Windows
2 6 (1.980%) Apple iOS
2 6 (1.980%) Android
3 3 (0.990%) Linux
4 2 (0.660%) Windows Phone
5 1 (0.330%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (27.06%) MVVM
2 76 (25.08%) Agile Software Development
3 74 (24.42%) TDD
4 64 (21.12%) Scrum
5 43 (14.19%) UML
6 41 (13.53%) OO
7 39 (12.87%) Continuous Integration
7 39 (12.87%) Dependency Injection
8 37 (12.21%) Kanban
9 33 (10.89%) MVC
10 26 (8.581%) Business Intelligence
11 23 (7.591%) Web Development
12 14 (4.620%) Unit Testing
13 12 (3.960%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (3.960%) Requirements Analysis
13 12 (3.960%) Project Management
14 11 (3.630%) Technical Architecture
14 11 (3.630%) Web Application Development
14 11 (3.630%) Multithreading
15 10 (3.300%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 297 (98.02%) C#
2 77 (25.41%) SQL
3 14 (4.620%) C++
4 12 (3.960%) VB.NET
5 11 (3.630%) C
5 11 (3.630%) Java
6 9 (2.970%) VB
7 7 (2.310%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.320%) T-SQL
9 2 (0.660%) Python
10 1 (0.330%) Groovy
10 1 (0.330%) Smalltalk
10 1 (0.330%) Embedded C
10 1 (0.330%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.330%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 82 (27.06%) Degree
2 71 (23.43%) MCP
2 71 (23.43%) MCAD
2 71 (23.43%) MCSD
2 71 (23.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 37 (12.21%) MCTS
4 1 (0.330%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.660%) HL7
2 1 (0.330%) QA
Vendors
1 119 (39.27%) Microsoft
2 6 (1.980%) Telerik
3 4 (1.320%) Infragistics
4 2 (0.660%) Oracle
4 2 (0.660%) Apple
4 2 (0.660%) Adobe
4 2 (0.660%) Twitter
5 1 (0.330%) Google
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My Milton Keynes client is currently looking for a .Net developer to join their great team. The developers primary responsibility will be the development a new range of...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £22000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire
Key words: C#, SQL Server, .Net Key Skills Required: C# / VB.Net (ideally with ASP.Net experience but not essential) SQL Server... Desired Skills ASP.Net. Object Orientated...
IT Talent Solutions
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
C# Developer - Milton Keynes - £35K+10% Pension - C# , ASP.NET , SQL , WPF , WinForms , Web. A leading solutions provider that are rapidly expanding at present are looking to add...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus, Pension (10%), Healthcare
Posted: 18 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
A leading solutions provider that are expanding rapidly at present are looking for a Senior C# Developer to the software team that has a deep knowledge of ASP...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 18 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
The software may fall into one or more of the following categories: User interfaces using C# and WPF (other technologies may be added in the future) Business Services...
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Salary: £39000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
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Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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