The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 17 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 60 43 51
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +8
Permanent jobs citing WPF 27 43 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 3.030% 5.964% 1.121%
As % of the Application Development category 6.122% 10.31% 2.252%
Number of salaries quoted 24 42 5
Average salary £27,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.63%
All Application Development
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
441 417 222
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 49.49% 57.84% 49.78%
Number of salaries quoted 389 405 206
Average salary £36,500 £42,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.11% +16.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,750 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
Surrey

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Guildford WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 36 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (97.22%) C#
2 35 (97.22%) ASP.NET
3 33 (91.67%) MVC
3 33 (91.67%) WCF
4 25 (69.44%) WinForms
5 24 (66.67%) Finance
6 23 (63.89%) .NET Framework
6 23 (63.89%) ASP.NET MVC
7 22 (61.11%) TDD
7 22 (61.11%) Windows
8 21 (58.33%) Scrum
8 21 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (58.33%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (55.56%) Unity DI Container
9 20 (55.56%) Razor View Engine
9 20 (55.56%) Web Application Development
9 20 (55.56%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 20 (55.56%) MVVM
9 20 (55.56%) Rhino Mocks
9 20 (55.56%) Moq
9 20 (55.56%) Spring.NET
9 20 (55.56%) Castle Windsor
9 20 (55.56%) Ninject
9 20 (55.56%) Kanban
9 20 (55.56%) Dependency Injection
9 20 (55.56%) Inversion of Control
9 20 (55.56%) MSTest
9 20 (55.56%) NUnit
9 20 (55.56%) MCTS

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 36 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (97.22%) ASP.NET
3 33 (91.67%) WCF
4 25 (69.44%) WinForms
5 23 (63.89%) .NET Framework
5 23 (63.89%) ASP.NET MVC
6 20 (55.56%) Castle Windsor
6 20 (55.56%) Ninject
6 20 (55.56%) Razor View Engine
6 20 (55.56%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 20 (55.56%) Unity DI Container
6 20 (55.56%) Spring.NET
7 12 (33.33%) CSS
8 3 (8.333%) XML
9 2 (5.556%) XHTML
9 2 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 2 (5.556%) Web Services
9 2 (5.556%) Ajax
10 1 (2.778%) Silverlight
10 1 (2.778%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 10 (27.78%) SharePoint
1 10 (27.78%) SharePoint 2013
2 2 (5.556%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.778%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) Intranet
2 1 (2.778%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 13 (36.11%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 20 (55.56%) NUnit
1 20 (55.56%) MSTest
1 20 (55.56%) Rhino Mocks
1 20 (55.56%) Moq
2 11 (30.56%) Team Foundation Server
3 10 (27.78%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.778%) Rational Rose
General
1 24 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 36 (100.00%) Developer
2 25 (69.44%) .NET Developer
3 20 (55.56%) Graduate
3 20 (55.56%) Junior
3 20 (55.56%) Junior Developer
3 20 (55.56%) Junior .NET Developer
3 20 (55.56%) Graduate Developer
3 20 (55.56%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 10 (27.78%) SharePoint Developer
5 4 (11.11%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (5.556%) WPF Developer
7 2 (5.556%) WinForms Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Applications Support
8 1 (2.778%) C++ Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.778%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.778%) C Developer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (58.33%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (55.56%) Computer Science
2 20 (55.56%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 22 (61.11%) Windows
2 1 (2.778%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (91.67%) MVC
2 22 (61.11%) TDD
3 21 (58.33%) Scrum
3 21 (58.33%) Continuous Integration
4 20 (55.56%) Kanban
4 20 (55.56%) Dependency Injection
4 20 (55.56%) MVVM
4 20 (55.56%) Web Application Development
5 11 (30.56%) Unit Testing
6 10 (27.78%) Information Architecture
6 10 (27.78%) Knowledge Management
6 10 (27.78%) Enterprise Architecture
6 10 (27.78%) Business Intelligence
7 5 (13.89%) Load Testing
7 5 (13.89%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (8.333%) OOD
9 2 (5.556%) UML
9 2 (5.556%) OO
10 1 (2.778%) Configuration Management
10 1 (2.778%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 35 (97.22%) C#
2 12 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 10 (27.78%) PowerShell
4 3 (8.333%) VB.NET
5 1 (2.778%) VC++
5 1 (2.778%) C
5 1 (2.778%) SQL
5 1 (2.778%) VBScript
5 1 (2.778%) C++
Qualifications
1 20 (55.56%) MCP
1 20 (55.56%) MCAD
1 20 (55.56%) MCSD
1 20 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
1 20 (55.56%) MCTS
2 2 (5.556%) Degree
3 1 (2.778%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.778%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.778%) ISO 9000
1 1 (2.778%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.778%) QA
System Software
1 10 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) VMware
2 9 (25.00%) NetApp
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