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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 46 30 47
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +17
Permanent jobs citing WPF 5 8 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.479% 5.128% 3.175%
As % of the Application Development category 3.106% 9.524% 5.161%
Number of salaries quoted 5 8 8
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% +5.26%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
161 84 155
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 47.63% 53.85% 61.51%
Number of salaries quoted 92 76 151
Average salary £35,000 £33,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.47% -9.45%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £22,807 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £47,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
Cheshire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 24 (100.00%) C#
2 23 (95.83%) .NET
3 22 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 22 (91.67%) MVC
4 21 (87.50%) SQL Server
5 20 (83.33%) .NET Framework
6 19 (79.17%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 17 (70.83%) jQuery
7 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
8 16 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
9 15 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
10 10 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 8 (33.33%) MVVM
11 8 (33.33%) Unit Testing
12 7 (29.17%) Retail
12 7 (29.17%) SQL
13 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
14 5 (20.83%) OO
14 5 (20.83%) Web Services
14 5 (20.83%) WinForms
14 5 (20.83%) WCF
14 5 (20.83%) Web Application Development
15 4 (16.67%) ASP
16 3 (12.50%) Scrum
16 3 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
16 3 (12.50%) CSS
16 3 (12.50%) XML
16 3 (12.50%) Windows
16 3 (12.50%) OOP
16 3 (12.50%) Middleware

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 23 (95.83%) .NET
2 22 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 20 (83.33%) .NET Framework
4 19 (79.17%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 17 (70.83%) jQuery
6 16 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
7 10 (41.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 5 (20.83%) Web Services
8 5 (20.83%) WinForms
8 5 (20.83%) WCF
9 4 (16.67%) ASP
10 3 (12.50%) CSS
10 3 (12.50%) XML
10 3 (12.50%) Middleware
11 2 (8.333%) LINQ
Applications
1 2 (8.333%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 15 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (8.333%) MSTest
General
1 7 (29.17%) Retail
2 2 (8.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 21 (87.50%) Developer
2 16 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 13 (54.17%) C# .NET Developer
3 13 (54.17%) C# Developer
4 7 (29.17%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (20.83%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (16.67%) Lead Developer
7 3 (12.50%) Graduate Developer
7 3 (12.50%) Graduate
7 3 (12.50%) Lead C# Developer
7 3 (12.50%) Lead .NET Developer
8 2 (8.333%) Software Engineer
9 1 (4.167%) Web Developer
9 1 (4.167%) Junior Developer
9 1 (4.167%) C# Software Engineer
9 1 (4.167%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) MVC
2 8 (33.33%) MVVM
2 8 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 5 (20.83%) OO
3 5 (20.83%) Web Application Development
4 3 (12.50%) Scrum
4 3 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (12.50%) OOP
5 2 (8.333%) Business Analysis
6 1 (4.167%) Software Engineering
6 1 (4.167%) Web Development
6 1 (4.167%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (29.17%) SQL
3 1 (4.167%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (8.333%) Degree
Vendors
1 17 (70.83%) Microsoft
Chester, North West
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Posted: 15 May 2013