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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 43 56 68
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +12
Permanent jobs citing WPF 51 27 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 4.130% 3.079% 1.461%
As % of the Application Development category 8.416% 6.870% 3.623%
Number of salaries quoted 34 24 11
Average salary £45,000 £38,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.88% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £31,800 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +4.16%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
606 393 414
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 49.07% 44.81% 40.31%
Number of salaries quoted 386 299 323
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

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

Glasgow WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 81 (100.00%) C#
2 37 (45.68%) .NET
3 36 (44.44%) Java
4 35 (43.21%) WCF
5 33 (40.74%) Finance
6 31 (38.27%) TDD
7 29 (35.80%) Front Office
8 28 (34.57%) C++
9 22 (27.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (25.93%) LINQ
11 20 (24.69%) Electronic Trading
11 20 (24.69%) Software Engineering
11 20 (24.69%) Banking
12 19 (23.46%) Derivative
13 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
14 14 (17.28%) XML
14 14 (17.28%) SQL Server
15 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
15 12 (14.81%) WinForms
15 12 (14.81%) .NET Framework
16 11 (13.58%) Sybase
16 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET
17 10 (12.35%) VB
18 9 (11.11%) COM+
18 9 (11.11%) Unit Testing
18 9 (11.11%) Investment Banking
18 9 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
19 8 (9.877%) ASP.NET MVC
19 8 (9.877%) Multithreading
19 8 (9.877%) ASP.NET 2.0

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 37 (45.68%) .NET
2 35 (43.21%) WCF
3 21 (25.93%) LINQ
4 14 (17.28%) XML
5 12 (14.81%) WinForms
5 12 (14.81%) .NET Framework
6 11 (13.58%) ASP.NET
7 9 (11.11%) COM+
8 8 (9.877%) ASP.NET MVC
8 8 (9.877%) ASP.NET 2.0
9 7 (8.642%) SOAP
9 7 (8.642%) WebSphere MQ
9 7 (8.642%) WebSphere
10 4 (4.938%) FpML
11 3 (3.704%) HTML
12 2 (2.469%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 2 (2.469%) Reactive Extensions
12 2 (2.469%) Silverlight
12 2 (2.469%) DCOM
12 2 (2.469%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 7 (8.642%) TIBCO EMS
2 2 (2.469%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (2.469%) Windows Azure
2 2 (2.469%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.469%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (3.704%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.704%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.28%) SQL Server
2 9 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (4.938%) DB2
4 2 (2.469%) KDB
4 2 (2.469%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.469%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.235%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (6.173%) Subversion
2 1 (1.235%) Oracle Forms
General
1 33 (40.74%) Finance
2 29 (35.80%) Front Office
3 20 (24.69%) Banking
4 9 (11.11%) Investment Banking
5 6 (7.407%) Private Banking
6 2 (2.469%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.469%) Games
Job Titles
1 72 (88.89%) Developer
2 51 (62.96%) C# Developer
3 26 (32.10%) WPF Developer
4 18 (22.22%) Front Office Developer
5 15 (18.52%) .NET Developer
6 6 (7.407%) Microsoft Developer
7 5 (6.173%) Technical Leader
8 4 (4.938%) Senior Developer
9 3 (3.704%) C# .NET Developer
10 2 (2.469%) Technical Developer
10 2 (2.469%) Senior .NET Developer
10 2 (2.469%) Programmer
10 2 (2.469%) Lead Developer
11 1 (1.235%) Software Developer
11 1 (1.235%) Programme Manager
11 1 (1.235%) Analyst Programmer
11 1 (1.235%) Analyst
11 1 (1.235%) Senior C# Developer
11 1 (1.235%) Senior Programmer
11 1 (1.235%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (27.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (23.46%) Derivative
3 8 (9.877%) Equities
4 7 (8.642%) Fixed Income
4 7 (8.642%) Computer Science
5 4 (4.938%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 4 (4.938%) Mathematics
5 4 (4.938%) Physics
5 4 (4.938%) Credit Derivative
6 2 (2.469%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.407%) UNIX
2 4 (4.938%) Windows
2 4 (4.938%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) TDD
2 20 (24.69%) Electronic Trading
2 20 (24.69%) Software Engineering
3 9 (11.11%) Unit Testing
4 8 (9.877%) Multithreading
4 8 (9.877%) MVC
5 7 (8.642%) OO
6 6 (7.407%) Investment Management
7 5 (6.173%) MVVM
8 4 (4.938%) Risk Management
9 2 (2.469%) Straight-Through Processing
9 2 (2.469%) Financial Modelling
9 2 (2.469%) Use Case
9 2 (2.469%) Asset Management
9 2 (2.469%) Agile Software Development
10 1 (1.235%) Project Management
10 1 (1.235%) AOP
10 1 (1.235%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 81 (100.00%) C#
2 36 (44.44%) Java
3 28 (34.57%) C++
4 12 (14.81%) JavaScript
5 10 (12.35%) VB
6 8 (9.877%) Perl
7 7 (8.642%) VB6
8 5 (6.173%) SQL
9 4 (4.938%) Bash shell
9 4 (4.938%) Korn
10 2 (2.469%) F#
10 2 (2.469%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (8.642%) Degree
Vendors
1 16 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.58%) Sybase
3 7 (8.642%) TIBCO
4 4 (4.938%) Infragistics
5 3 (3.704%) ION Trading
6 2 (2.469%) Tradeweb
6 2 (2.469%) MarketAxess
6 2 (2.469%) Bloomberg
7 1 (1.235%) Oracle
7 1 (1.235%) Wall Street Systems
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