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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 75 84 75
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -9
Permanent jobs citing WPF 18 10 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.544% 0.756% 1.495%
As % of the Application Development category 3.593% 2.375% 4.420%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 6
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £33,625
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +4.08%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £34,800 £31,250
10% offered a salary of more than £44,750 £38,100 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +4.16%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
501 421 543
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 42.97% 31.82% 33.83%
Number of salaries quoted 324 314 402
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WPF
Scotland

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

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

Edinburgh WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 27 (96.43%) .NET
2 26 (92.86%) C#
3 18 (64.29%) SQL Server
4 14 (50.00%) Subversion
4 14 (50.00%) Unit Testing
5 13 (46.43%) Windows
6 12 (42.86%) ASP.NET
6 12 (42.86%) Degree
7 11 (39.29%) Computer Science
7 11 (39.29%) WinForms
8 10 (35.71%) WCF
8 10 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
8 10 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
9 8 (28.57%) MVVM
10 7 (25.00%) Silverlight
10 7 (25.00%) MVC
10 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 6 (21.43%) Scrum
11 6 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
11 6 (21.43%) MCPD
11 6 (21.43%) .NET Framework
11 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
11 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (21.43%) SQL Server 2012
11 6 (21.43%) Analytics
12 5 (17.86%) Dynamics CRM
12 5 (17.86%) Mathematics
12 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
12 5 (17.86%) CRM
12 5 (17.86%) SharePoint

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 27 (96.43%) .NET
2 12 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 11 (39.29%) WinForms
4 10 (35.71%) WCF
5 7 (25.00%) Silverlight
6 6 (21.43%) .NET Framework
6 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC
7 4 (14.29%) MFC
7 4 (14.29%) OpenGL
7 4 (14.29%) LINQ
7 4 (14.29%) NHibernate
7 4 (14.29%) WF
7 4 (14.29%) Qt
7 4 (14.29%) jQuery
7 4 (14.29%) Unity DI Container
7 4 (14.29%) Direct3D
7 4 (14.29%) StructureMap
7 4 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 4 (14.29%) Ninject
8 3 (10.71%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.571%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (3.571%) CMS
2 1 (3.571%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (17.86%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (17.86%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 10 (35.71%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (21.43%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.571%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (50.00%) Subversion
2 10 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (17.86%) Visual Studio
4 4 (14.29%) NUnit
4 4 (14.29%) Mercurial
4 4 (14.29%) MSTest
4 4 (14.29%) Git (software)
4 4 (14.29%) Rhino Mocks
4 4 (14.29%) Moq
General
1 4 (14.29%) Electronics
1 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 4 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Advertising
2 1 (3.571%) Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (82.14%) Developer
2 18 (64.29%) .NET Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft Developer
4 4 (14.29%) Architect
4 4 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) .NET Architect
5 3 (10.71%) Agile .NET Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Software Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (10.71%) C# Developer
6 2 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (7.143%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (3.571%) WPF Developer
7 1 (3.571%) CRM Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Silverlight Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Silverlight Developer
7 1 (3.571%) GUI Developer
7 1 (3.571%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.571%) C++/C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (39.29%) Computer Science
2 5 (17.86%) Mathematics
3 4 (14.29%) Visualisation
3 4 (14.29%) SaaS
3 4 (14.29%) CUDA
4 2 (7.143%) N-Tier
5 1 (3.571%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 13 (46.43%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 8 (28.57%) MVVM
3 7 (25.00%) MVC
4 6 (21.43%) Scrum
4 6 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (21.43%) Analytics
5 5 (17.86%) CRM
6 4 (14.29%) Data Modelling
6 4 (14.29%) B2B
6 4 (14.29%) Workflow
6 4 (14.29%) Business Analysis
7 1 (3.571%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (3.571%) AOP
7 1 (3.571%) Risk Management
7 1 (3.571%) TDD
7 1 (3.571%) Content Management
7 1 (3.571%) OO
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) C#
2 5 (17.86%) C++
3 4 (14.29%) C
3 4 (14.29%) VC++
3 4 (14.29%) Python
4 3 (10.71%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
5 2 (7.143%) Java
5 2 (7.143%) XAML
6 1 (3.571%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (42.86%) Degree
2 6 (21.43%) MCPD
3 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.143%) Sybase
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle
Edinburgh, Scotland
They are looking for an Agile Senior .NET Developer (C#/WPF/UI Design) to come in and add something to an already talented and highly technical team.The...
Annapurna HR
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Our client is an award winning software company, specialising in several financial applications that are used extensively across the investment and securities market.Having been established for more...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + pension , holidays , etc
Posted: 29 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior .NET Developer - Edinburgh - c£45kSenior .NET DeveloperEdinburghc£45kThe primary function of the Senior Software Engineer (.NET/WPF/XAML) is to lead the GUI development within an innovative...
Annapurna HR
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
The Junior Developer must have good knowledge of at least one Microsoft visual programming language (C#, .Net, VB etc) as well as experience with relational databases and MySQL...
Boston Capel
Salary: £18k to £25k depending on experience
Posted: 27 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Cathcart Associates have an attractive new opportunity for a Senior .Net Developer to join our established Edinburgh based client... You will be working closely with the other developers...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 27 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
MBN Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013