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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 43 38 47
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +9
Permanent jobs citing WPF 20 26 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 4.115% 4.736% 1.558%
As % of the Application Development category 7.299% 9.091% 2.679%
Number of salaries quoted 19 26 6
Average salary £37,000 £28,000 £26,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+32.14% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £27,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,800 £35,000 £35,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
274 286 224
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 56.38% 52.09% 58.18%
Number of salaries quoted 255 271 203
Average salary £32,500 £31,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.17% +1.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
North West

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Preston +14 14 £35,000 +7.69%
Chorley -4 1 £42,500 +54.54%
Lytham St Annes - 1 £35,000 -
Ormskirk - 1 £37,500 -
WPF
North West

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 29 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (89.66%) C#
3 23 (79.31%) SQL Server
4 19 (65.52%) ASP.NET
4 19 (65.52%) MVVM
5 17 (58.62%) WCF
6 15 (51.72%) MVC
7 12 (41.38%) XAML
8 11 (37.93%) WinForms
9 9 (31.03%) VB
9 9 (31.03%) Silverlight
10 8 (27.59%) VB.NET
10 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
11 7 (24.14%) .NET Framework
11 7 (24.14%) Web Services
11 7 (24.14%) XML
11 7 (24.14%) SQL
11 7 (24.14%) HTML
11 7 (24.14%) ASP.NET MVC
12 6 (20.69%) Dependency Injection
12 6 (20.69%) Inversion of Control
12 6 (20.69%) MSTest
12 6 (20.69%) Rhino Mocks
12 6 (20.69%) Moq
12 6 (20.69%) jQuery
12 6 (20.69%) Spring.NET
12 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (20.69%) Kanban
12 6 (20.69%) Web Application Development
12 6 (20.69%) Castle Windsor

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 29 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (65.52%) ASP.NET
3 17 (58.62%) WCF
4 11 (37.93%) WinForms
5 9 (31.03%) Silverlight
6 7 (24.14%) .NET Framework
6 7 (24.14%) Web Services
6 7 (24.14%) XML
6 7 (24.14%) HTML
6 7 (24.14%) ASP.NET MVC
7 6 (20.69%) jQuery
7 6 (20.69%) Spring.NET
7 6 (20.69%) Castle Windsor
7 6 (20.69%) Ninject
7 6 (20.69%) Razor View Engine
7 6 (20.69%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 6 (20.69%) Unity DI Container
7 6 (20.69%) CSS
7 6 (20.69%) JSON
8 5 (17.24%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.24%) CMS
2 1 (3.448%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (3.448%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (79.31%) SQL Server
2 5 (17.24%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (3.448%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.448%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) MSTest
1 6 (20.69%) Rhino Mocks
1 6 (20.69%) Moq
1 6 (20.69%) Visual Studio
1 6 (20.69%) NUnit
2 1 (3.448%) Oracle Forms
General
1 6 (20.69%) Back Office
2 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 1 (3.448%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 27 (93.10%) Developer
2 14 (48.28%) .NET Developer
3 13 (44.83%) Software Developer
4 8 (27.59%) C# .NET Developer
4 8 (27.59%) C# Developer
5 7 (24.14%) .NET Software Developer
5 7 (24.14%) C# Software Developer
6 5 (17.24%) Web Developer
7 3 (10.34%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Project Manager
8 1 (3.448%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.448%) Analyst Programmer
8 1 (3.448%) Programmer
8 1 (3.448%) Technical Project Manager
8 1 (3.448%) Development Manager
8 1 (3.448%) Analyst
8 1 (3.448%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (3.448%) Technical Development Manager
8 1 (3.448%) .NET Software Engineer
8 1 (3.448%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (3.448%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (65.52%) MVVM
2 15 (51.72%) MVC
3 6 (20.69%) Dependency Injection
3 6 (20.69%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (20.69%) Kanban
3 6 (20.69%) Web Application Development
3 6 (20.69%) TDD
3 6 (20.69%) Scrum
4 5 (17.24%) E-Commerce
5 2 (6.897%) Project Management
6 1 (3.448%) OO
6 1 (3.448%) ERP
6 1 (3.448%) OOD
6 1 (3.448%) SOA
6 1 (3.448%) Web Development
6 1 (3.448%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (3.448%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (89.66%) C#
2 12 (41.38%) XAML
3 9 (31.03%) VB
4 8 (27.59%) VB.NET
5 7 (24.14%) SQL
6 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
7 1 (3.448%) PHP
7 1 (3.448%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.448%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) MCP
1 6 (20.69%) MCAD
1 6 (20.69%) MCSD
1 6 (20.69%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (20.69%) Degree
1 6 (20.69%) MCTS
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Twitter
3 1 (3.448%) Oracle