The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 20 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 57 41 29
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -12
Permanent jobs citing WPF 33 37 83
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 2.828% 5.211% 8.027%
As % of the Application Development category 7.333% 12.25% 15.66%
Number of salaries quoted 32 34 81
Average salary £35,000 £27,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+27.27% -21.42%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
450 302 530
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 38.56% 42.54% 51.26%
Number of salaries quoted 382 273 496
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
South East

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 20 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
Maidstone -4 9 £40,000 +60.00%
Tunbridge Wells +12 3 £45,000 +20.00%
Dartford - 1 - -
WPF
South East

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 (67.92%) .NET
2 28 (52.83%) Degree
3 25 (47.17%) Computer Science
3 25 (47.17%) C#
4 23 (43.40%) Web Services
5 22 (41.51%) WinForms
6 19 (35.85%) SQL Server
7 17 (32.08%) Java
7 17 (32.08%) Pair Programming
7 17 (32.08%) Mathematics
7 17 (32.08%) RESTful
7 17 (32.08%) HTML5
8 16 (30.19%) VB.NET
9 13 (24.53%) SQL
9 13 (24.53%) WCF
10 11 (20.75%) TDD
10 11 (20.75%) Rhino Mocks
10 11 (20.75%) C++
10 11 (20.75%) Windows
10 11 (20.75%) UML
10 11 (20.75%) Legal
10 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
10 11 (20.75%) NUnit
11 10 (18.87%) XML
11 10 (18.87%) MFC
11 10 (18.87%) ASP.NET
11 10 (18.87%) ATL
12 9 (16.98%) VB
12 9 (16.98%) OO
12 9 (16.98%) MVVM

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 (67.92%) .NET
2 23 (43.40%) Web Services
3 22 (41.51%) WinForms
4 17 (32.08%) HTML5
4 17 (32.08%) RESTful
5 13 (24.53%) WCF
6 10 (18.87%) XML
6 10 (18.87%) MFC
6 10 (18.87%) ASP.NET
6 10 (18.87%) ATL
7 8 (15.09%) Spring.NET
7 8 (15.09%) Unity DI Container
7 8 (15.09%) Castle Windsor
7 8 (15.09%) Ninject
8 6 (11.32%) .NET Framework
9 3 (5.660%) Silverlight
9 3 (5.660%) LINQ
9 3 (5.660%) DHTML
9 3 (5.660%) NHibernate
9 3 (5.660%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.434%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.887%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (9.434%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.660%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (35.85%) SQL Server
2 8 (15.09%) SQL Server 2008
2 8 (15.09%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (5.660%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.660%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.887%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.887%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 11 (20.75%) NUnit
1 11 (20.75%) Rhino Mocks
2 8 (15.09%) Moq
2 8 (15.09%) MSTest
3 3 (5.660%) Visual Studio
3 3 (5.660%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (1.887%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (20.75%) Legal
2 4 (7.547%) Finance
3 3 (5.660%) Banking
3 3 (5.660%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.887%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 42 (79.25%) Developer
2 19 (35.85%) .NET Developer
3 17 (32.08%) Java Developer
3 17 (32.08%) Tools Developer
4 14 (26.42%) Software Engineer
5 6 (11.32%) VB.NET Developer
5 6 (11.32%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (9.434%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (7.547%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.660%) VB.NET Programmer
8 3 (5.660%) Front-End Developer
8 3 (5.660%) ASP.NET Programmer
8 3 (5.660%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (5.660%) .NET Programmer
8 3 (5.660%) Web Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Programmer
9 1 (1.887%) C# .NET Developer
9 1 (1.887%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 25 (47.17%) Computer Science
2 17 (32.08%) Mathematics
3 8 (15.09%) Inversion of Control
4 3 (5.660%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (20.75%) Windows
2 3 (5.660%) UNIX
3 1 (1.887%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Pair Programming
2 11 (20.75%) UML
2 11 (20.75%) TDD
3 9 (16.98%) MVVM
3 9 (16.98%) OO
4 8 (15.09%) OOD
4 8 (15.09%) Business Intelligence
4 8 (15.09%) Scrum
4 8 (15.09%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (15.09%) Dependency Injection
4 8 (15.09%) Kanban
5 7 (13.21%) Video Processing
6 5 (9.434%) CRM
7 4 (7.547%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (5.660%) Data Management
8 3 (5.660%) System Testing
8 3 (5.660%) Unit Testing
8 3 (5.660%) OOP
8 3 (5.660%) MVC
8 3 (5.660%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (47.17%) C#
2 17 (32.08%) Java
3 16 (30.19%) VB.NET
4 13 (24.53%) SQL
5 11 (20.75%) C++
6 9 (16.98%) VB
7 8 (15.09%) XAML
8 3 (5.660%) JavaScript
8 3 (5.660%) PL/SQL
8 3 (5.660%) C
9 1 (1.887%) VB6
Qualifications
1 28 (52.83%) Degree
2 8 (15.09%) MCP
2 8 (15.09%) MCAD
2 8 (15.09%) MCSD
2 8 (15.09%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (15.09%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.774%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 11 (20.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.660%) Razor Risk
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