The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 54 35 60
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +25
Permanent jobs citing WPF 67 145 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 3.930% 7.153% 3.384%
As % of the Application Development category 7.791% 13.30% 6.711%
Number of salaries quoted 67 114 66
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £31,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £49,250 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +4.16%
All Application Development
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
860 1090 1058
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 50.44% 53.77% 50.43%
Number of salaries quoted 806 949 956
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WPF
Cambridgeshire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

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

Cambridge WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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.

1 128 (99.22%) C#
2 126 (97.67%) .NET
3 87 (67.44%) SQL Server
4 68 (52.71%) Web Services
5 58 (44.96%) HTML
6 57 (44.19%) ASP.NET
6 57 (44.19%) CSS
7 51 (39.53%) SQL
8 47 (36.43%) Microsoft
9 46 (35.66%) Degree
10 45 (34.88%) Windows
11 44 (34.11%) Microsoft Certification
11 44 (34.11%) TDD
12 41 (31.78%) MVVM
12 41 (31.78%) JavaScript
13 37 (28.68%) Agile Software Development
14 34 (26.36%) Silverlight
15 33 (25.58%) XML
16 32 (24.81%) MS Excel
16 32 (24.81%) WinForms
17 30 (23.26%) VB.NET
18 29 (22.48%) Oracle
18 29 (22.48%) WCF
19 26 (20.16%) Scrum
20 25 (19.38%) Business Intelligence
20 25 (19.38%) MCP
20 25 (19.38%) MCAD
20 25 (19.38%) MCSD
20 25 (19.38%) Continuous Integration
20 25 (19.38%) Kanban

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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
1 126 (97.67%) .NET
2 68 (52.71%) Web Services
3 58 (44.96%) HTML
4 57 (44.19%) ASP.NET
4 57 (44.19%) CSS
5 34 (26.36%) Silverlight
6 33 (25.58%) XML
7 32 (24.81%) WinForms
8 29 (22.48%) WCF
9 25 (19.38%) Spring.NET
9 25 (19.38%) Castle Windsor
9 25 (19.38%) Ninject
9 25 (19.38%) Unity DI Container
10 23 (17.83%) Ajax
11 15 (11.63%) RESTful
12 14 (10.85%) COM
12 14 (10.85%) DCOM
13 12 (9.302%) jQuery
14 10 (7.752%) SOAP
14 10 (7.752%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 10 (7.752%) IIS
2 9 (6.977%) Oracle Workflow
3 5 (3.876%) SharePoint
Applications
1 32 (24.81%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.775%) GIMP
2 1 (0.775%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.752%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (67.44%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.752%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 10 (7.752%) SQL Server 2005
2 10 (7.752%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (3.876%) Oracle 11g
3 5 (3.876%) Oracle 10g
3 5 (3.876%) Oracle 8/8i
3 5 (3.876%) Oracle 9i
4 3 (2.326%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 25 (19.38%) Rhino Mocks
1 25 (19.38%) Moq
1 25 (19.38%) MSTest
1 25 (19.38%) NUnit
2 18 (13.95%) Visual Studio
3 5 (3.876%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (1.550%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (1.550%) Subversion
5 1 (0.775%) PhoneGap
5 1 (0.775%) Appcelerator Titanium
General
1 15 (11.63%) Finance
2 1 (0.775%) Electronics
2 1 (0.775%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 107 (82.95%) Developer
2 83 (64.34%) C# Developer
3 61 (47.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 41 (31.78%) .NET Developer
5 36 (27.91%) Software Developer
6 25 (19.38%) C# Software Developer
7 23 (17.83%) Senior Developer
8 18 (13.95%) Software Engineer
9 16 (12.40%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (11.63%) ASP.NET Developer
10 15 (11.63%) Senior Software Developer
10 15 (11.63%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 13 (10.08%) Programmer
12 12 (9.302%) Web Developer
13 11 (8.527%) Senior Software Engineer
14 10 (7.752%) C++ Developer
14 10 (7.752%) .NET Web Developer
14 10 (7.752%) C# Web Developer
15 7 (5.426%) WPF Developer
16 6 (4.651%) C++/C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (19.38%) Inversion of Control
2 24 (18.60%) Computer Science
3 10 (7.752%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.651%) Firmware
5 5 (3.876%) Replication
6 3 (2.326%) Mathematics
7 2 (1.550%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 45 (34.88%) Windows
2 9 (6.977%) Apple iOS
2 9 (6.977%) Android
3 4 (3.101%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (34.11%) TDD
2 41 (31.78%) MVVM
3 37 (28.68%) Agile Software Development
4 26 (20.16%) Scrum
5 25 (19.38%) Business Intelligence
5 25 (19.38%) Continuous Integration
5 25 (19.38%) Kanban
5 25 (19.38%) Dependency Injection
6 10 (7.752%) Unit Testing
7 9 (6.977%) Workflow
8 7 (5.426%) OO
9 6 (4.651%) OOD
9 6 (4.651%) Project Management
9 6 (4.651%) Signal Processing
10 5 (3.876%) Web Development
11 4 (3.101%) Web Application Development
12 2 (1.550%) MVC
12 2 (1.550%) Bioinformatics
12 2 (1.550%) Software Engineering
13 1 (0.775%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 128 (99.22%) C#
2 51 (39.53%) SQL
3 41 (31.78%) JavaScript
4 30 (23.26%) VB.NET
5 24 (18.60%) T-SQL
6 18 (13.95%) C++
7 10 (7.752%) Ruby
7 10 (7.752%) PHP
8 9 (6.977%) Java
9 6 (4.651%) VBScript
10 5 (3.876%) VB
11 2 (1.550%) Python
11 2 (1.550%) XAML
11 2 (1.550%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 46 (35.66%) Degree
2 44 (34.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 25 (19.38%) MCP
3 25 (19.38%) MCAD
3 25 (19.38%) MCSD
3 25 (19.38%) MCTS
Vendors
1 47 (36.43%) Microsoft
2 29 (22.48%) Oracle
3 10 (7.752%) Macromedia
4 1 (0.775%) Sencha
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The technology is focused on windows and web application development... Experience Sought: * C#, .NET * Winforms, SQL Server * ASP.NET Advantageous Experience: * WPF, WWF, MVC * Web APIs, Design Patterns *...
TRG
Salary: £35000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
As a highly skilled .NET Developer you will be part of a small focused team which is responsible for innovation and development of brand new .NET 4.0...
TRG
Salary: 35000 Per Annum Excellent benefits
Posted: 2 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
An software house who specialise in education based software are looking to hire an experienced .Net Developer with strong skills in C#, ASP.Net and SQL Server to...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
C# .net Developer required in Cambridge to work on desktop applications... To be considered you be degree educated and highly comfortable working with C# .net for desktop applications.....
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Fantastic + prospects
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Practical knowledge of design patterns and avoidance of anti-patterns is a must.Applicants must have at least 4 years of commercial software development or equivalent open source...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Extensive Benefits Package
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Healthcare
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £45,000 + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £29k
Posted: 31 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Edgar Cowen
Salary: £30000 - £42000 per annum + training, progression, benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £48k DoE + excellent benefits
Posted: 24 April 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Questor Resourcing
Salary: £40 - £45,000 + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £Good + Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Illumina Cambridge Ltd
Salary: From £25,000 to £35,000 per annum Industry leading benefits package -
Posted: 31 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
TEKsystems
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + bonus, benefits, pension
Posted: 16 June 2013
Cambridge
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £85k DOE
Posted: 3 June 2013