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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 92 74 74
Rank change year-on-year
-18 0
Permanent jobs citing WPF 26 54 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.442% 2.757% 2.628%
As % of the Application Development category 3.230% 5.158% 5.006%
Number of salaries quoted 23 52 41
Average salary £35,000 £31,750 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.23% +11.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
805 1047 859
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 44.65% 53.45% 52.51%
Number of salaries quoted 667 939 780
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £46,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
North West

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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
Warrington +6 17 £35,000 +7.69%
Chester -19 5 £32,500 +8.33%
Runcorn - 3 £35,000 -
Crewe - 1 £40,000 -
WPF
North West

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 135 (97.83%) C#
1 135 (97.83%) .NET
2 108 (78.26%) ASP.NET
3 97 (70.29%) MVC
4 92 (66.67%) WCF
5 87 (63.04%) ASP.NET MVC
6 84 (60.87%) SQL Server
7 72 (52.17%) WinForms
8 68 (49.28%) Windows
9 65 (47.10%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 63 (45.65%) MCP
10 63 (45.65%) Microsoft Certification
10 63 (45.65%) MCTS
11 60 (43.48%) Web Application Development
12 59 (42.75%) MVVM
13 56 (40.58%) .NET Framework
14 53 (38.41%) Dependency Injection
14 53 (38.41%) TDD
14 53 (38.41%) MCAD
14 53 (38.41%) MCSD
14 53 (38.41%) Ninject
15 52 (37.68%) OO
16 47 (34.06%) Scrum
17 46 (33.33%) Microsoft
18 44 (31.88%) SQL
18 44 (31.88%) MSTest
19 43 (31.16%) NUnit
19 43 (31.16%) Kanban
20 42 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
20 42 (30.43%) Inversion of Control

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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
1 135 (97.83%) .NET
2 108 (78.26%) ASP.NET
3 92 (66.67%) WCF
4 87 (63.04%) ASP.NET MVC
5 72 (52.17%) WinForms
6 65 (47.10%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 56 (40.58%) .NET Framework
8 53 (38.41%) Ninject
9 42 (30.43%) Spring.NET
9 42 (30.43%) Castle Windsor
9 42 (30.43%) Razor View Engine
9 42 (30.43%) Unity DI Container
10 31 (22.46%) jQuery
11 26 (18.84%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 20 (14.49%) XML
13 12 (8.696%) ASP
13 12 (8.696%) HTML
13 12 (8.696%) Silverlight
13 12 (8.696%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 11 (7.971%) KnockoutJS
Application Platforms
1 9 (6.522%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.174%) ArcGIS
2 3 (2.174%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 5 (3.623%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (4.348%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.348%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.725%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (60.87%) SQL Server
2 36 (26.09%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (12.32%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (3.623%) Oracle 8/8i
4 5 (3.623%) MySQL
4 5 (3.623%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (2.899%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (2.174%) GIS
6 3 (2.174%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.725%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.725%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 44 (31.88%) MSTest
2 43 (31.16%) NUnit
3 42 (30.43%) Rhino Mocks
3 42 (30.43%) Moq
4 13 (9.420%) Visual Studio
5 6 (4.348%) Subversion
5 6 (4.348%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (0.725%) Dreamweaver
General
1 34 (24.64%) Finance
2 11 (7.971%) Music
3 9 (6.522%) Back Office
3 9 (6.522%) Advertising
4 7 (5.072%) Retail
5 4 (2.899%) Electronics
5 4 (2.899%) Aerospace
5 4 (2.899%) Automotive
6 3 (2.174%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 111 (80.43%) Developer
2 95 (68.84%) .NET Developer
3 24 (17.39%) C# .NET Developer
3 24 (17.39%) C# Developer
4 23 (16.67%) Graduate Developer
4 23 (16.67%) Graduate
5 21 (15.22%) Junior Developer
5 21 (15.22%) Junior
6 20 (14.49%) Junior .NET Developer
7 19 (13.77%) Graduate .NET Developer
8 14 (10.14%) Software Engineer
9 10 (7.246%) ASP.NET Developer
10 8 (5.797%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 8 (5.797%) WPF Developer
11 4 (2.899%) Project Engineer
11 4 (2.899%) Web Developer
11 4 (2.899%) Lead Developer
12 3 (2.174%) Consultant
12 3 (2.174%) Development Manager
12 3 (2.174%) Lead .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 42 (30.43%) Inversion of Control
2 39 (28.26%) Enterprise Software
3 22 (15.94%) Computer Science
4 12 (8.696%) N-Tier
5 11 (7.971%) Streaming Music
6 10 (7.246%) Client/Server
7 7 (5.072%) Mobile App
8 4 (2.899%) Firmware
9 3 (2.174%) Open Source
10 2 (1.449%) e-Health
10 2 (1.449%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 68 (49.28%) Windows
2 6 (4.348%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (3.623%) Windows 8
4 2 (1.449%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (70.29%) MVC
2 60 (43.48%) Web Application Development
3 59 (42.75%) MVVM
4 53 (38.41%) Dependency Injection
4 53 (38.41%) TDD
5 52 (37.68%) OO
6 47 (34.06%) Scrum
7 43 (31.16%) Kanban
8 42 (30.43%) Continuous Integration
9 30 (21.74%) Agile Software Development
10 18 (13.04%) Web Development
11 11 (7.971%) Domain-Driven Design
12 9 (6.522%) Unit Testing
13 8 (5.797%) Migration
14 7 (5.072%) Business Analysis
15 6 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
15 6 (4.348%) OOP
16 3 (2.174%) Multithreading
17 2 (1.449%) OOD
17 2 (1.449%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 135 (97.83%) C#
2 44 (31.88%) SQL
3 29 (21.01%) VB.NET
4 22 (15.94%) JavaScript
5 17 (12.32%) VB
6 11 (7.971%) Java
7 10 (7.246%) XPath
8 9 (6.522%) T-SQL
9 5 (3.623%) C
9 5 (3.623%) PHP
10 4 (2.899%) Assembly Language
10 4 (2.899%) C++
11 2 (1.449%) FoxPro (VFP)
12 1 (0.725%) VB6
12 1 (0.725%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 63 (45.65%) MCP
1 63 (45.65%) Microsoft Certification
1 63 (45.65%) MCTS
2 53 (38.41%) MCAD
2 53 (38.41%) MCSD
3 10 (7.246%) MCPD
4 7 (5.072%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.899%) HL7
2 1 (0.725%) QA
Vendors
1 46 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (5.797%) Oracle
3 5 (3.623%) Avaya
4 3 (2.174%) ESRI
Chester, North West
They build large and robust systems that are used on ships and boast across the world, as such having experience working embedded C or software systems that integrate...
Computer Futures
Salary: £38000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Warrington, North West
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 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warrington, North West
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: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
In addition, you will have good technical knowledge of (i) Agile Methodologies, (ii) .Net, (iii) Large scale, high availability, mission critical N-Tier systems, (iv) Multi-threaded applications, (...
Experis IT
Salary: £Very Competitive
Posted: 17 May 2013
Crewe, North West
Tester- main duties will include Join an existing Agile team developing WPF .Net (Vb.net) applications and websites written with ASP.net/jQuery. Regression, performance and blackbox testing,...
OCC Computing
Salary: £0 - 35k per year
Posted: 16 May 2013
Crewe, Cheshire
Ideal skills: Testing/Agile/ Manual/Automated Test Tools/Performance Testing/Regression Testing... Join an existing Agile team developing WPF .Net (Vb.net) applications and websites written with ASP...
OCC
Salary: £0 - 35k per year
Posted: 15 May 2013