The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 22 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 Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 39 22 35
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +13
Permanent jobs citing WPF 25 33 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 6.361% 9.091% 2.182%
As % of the Application Development category 11.85% 16.84% 4.545%
Number of salaries quoted 21 33 6
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +36.36%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
211 196 132
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 53.69% 53.99% 48.00%
Number of salaries quoted 188 188 120
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% +11.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,000 £19,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
Leicestershire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Leicester WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 44 (97.78%) .NET
2 36 (80.00%) C#
3 34 (75.56%) SQL Server
4 28 (62.22%) ASP.NET
5 23 (51.11%) TDD
6 19 (42.22%) MVVM
7 18 (40.00%) Scrum
8 17 (37.78%) NUnit
8 17 (37.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (37.78%) MCSD
8 17 (37.78%) Rhino Mocks
8 17 (37.78%) Moq
8 17 (37.78%) MSTest
8 17 (37.78%) .NET Framework
8 17 (37.78%) Kanban
9 16 (35.56%) MCTS
9 16 (35.56%) MCP
9 16 (35.56%) MCAD
10 15 (33.33%) MVC
10 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
11 14 (31.11%) WCF
12 13 (28.89%) Continuous Integration
12 13 (28.89%) Spring.NET
12 13 (28.89%) Dependency Injection
12 13 (28.89%) Inversion of Control
12 13 (28.89%) Music
12 13 (28.89%) Castle Windsor
12 13 (28.89%) Ninject
12 13 (28.89%) Unity DI Container
12 13 (28.89%) Telecoms

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 44 (97.78%) .NET
2 28 (62.22%) ASP.NET
3 17 (37.78%) .NET Framework
4 14 (31.11%) WCF
5 13 (28.89%) Spring.NET
5 13 (28.89%) Castle Windsor
5 13 (28.89%) Ninject
5 13 (28.89%) Unity DI Container
6 9 (20.00%) WinForms
6 9 (20.00%) Silverlight
7 8 (17.78%) LINQ
7 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (17.78%) Razor View Engine
7 8 (17.78%) HTML
8 7 (15.56%) jQuery
9 6 (13.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 5 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 5 (11.11%) Ajax
11 4 (8.889%) NHibernate
11 4 (8.889%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.444%) Windows Azure
2 1 (2.222%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (4.444%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (28.89%) Broadband
2 1 (2.222%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (75.56%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (8.889%) Informix
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (37.78%) NUnit
1 17 (37.78%) Rhino Mocks
1 17 (37.78%) Moq
1 17 (37.78%) MSTest
2 2 (4.444%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.222%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (28.89%) Music
1 13 (28.89%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.667%) Retail
2 3 (6.667%) Finance
3 1 (2.222%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 34 (75.56%) Developer
2 29 (64.44%) .NET Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Architect
3 9 (20.00%) Technical Architect
4 6 (13.33%) .NET Technical Architect
4 6 (13.33%) .NET Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.889%) C# Developer
7 2 (4.444%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.444%) WPF Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Senior .NET Developer
7 2 (4.444%) VB.NET Developer
7 2 (4.444%) ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (4.444%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Junior Developer
8 1 (2.222%) .NET Web Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Junior .NET Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Web Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Software Architect
Miscellaneous
1 13 (28.89%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (8.889%) Tandem
3 2 (4.444%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.222%) PMI
4 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.222%) iPad
4 1 (2.222%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) TDD
2 19 (42.22%) MVVM
3 18 (40.00%) Scrum
4 17 (37.78%) Kanban
5 15 (33.33%) MVC
6 13 (28.89%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (28.89%) Dependency Injection
7 10 (22.22%) UML
8 7 (15.56%) Logistics
9 4 (8.889%) Web Application Development
9 4 (8.889%) BDD
10 3 (6.667%) OOP
10 3 (6.667%) OO
10 3 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (6.667%) Project Management
10 3 (6.667%) Web Development
11 2 (4.444%) Multithreading
11 2 (4.444%) E-Commerce
11 2 (4.444%) SOA
12 1 (2.222%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 36 (80.00%) C#
2 13 (28.89%) C++
3 10 (22.22%) SQL
4 9 (20.00%) VB.NET
5 3 (6.667%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.222%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) Microsoft Certification
1 17 (37.78%) MCSD
2 16 (35.56%) MCTS
2 16 (35.56%) MCP
2 16 (35.56%) MCAD
3 7 (15.56%) Degree
4 1 (2.222%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.444%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 13 (28.89%) Oracle
Leicester, East Midlands
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Posted: 22 May 2013