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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 52 51 32
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -19
Permanent jobs citing WPF 1 20 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 0.273% 3.953% 7.911%
As % of the Application Development category 0.568% 7.663% 15.63%
Number of salaries quoted 0 17 24
Average salary - £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
176 261 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 48.09% 51.58% 50.63%
Number of salaries quoted 155 227 127
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £28,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
Merseyside

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 10 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (90.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (90.00%) WCF
3 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (80.00%) MVC
4 7 (70.00%) OO
4 7 (70.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (60.00%) Finance
5 6 (60.00%) SQL
6 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (40.00%) TDD
7 4 (40.00%) Degree
7 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
7 4 (40.00%) Subversion
7 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (40.00%) TeamCity
7 4 (40.00%) Visual Studio
7 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
7 4 (40.00%) Web Application Development
7 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 3 (30.00%) MVVM
8 3 (30.00%) Moq
8 3 (30.00%) Ninject
8 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (30.00%) MCP
8 3 (30.00%) MCAD
8 3 (30.00%) MCSD
8 3 (30.00%) Windows

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 9 (90.00%) .NET
1 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
1 9 (90.00%) WCF
2 7 (70.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 3 (30.00%) Ninject
5 2 (20.00%) jQuery
5 2 (20.00%) Spring.NET
5 2 (20.00%) WinForms
5 2 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
5 2 (20.00%) Unity DI Container
6 1 (10.00%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (10.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (10.00%) Node.js
6 1 (10.00%) HTML
6 1 (10.00%) CSS
6 1 (10.00%) Web Services
6 1 (10.00%) XML
6 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Orchard CMS
1 1 (10.00%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (30.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Subversion
1 4 (40.00%) TeamCity
1 4 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (30.00%) Moq
2 3 (30.00%) NUnit
3 2 (20.00%) MSTest
3 2 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (10.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (20.00%) Programmer
6 1 (10.00%) Web Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (10.00%) C# Programmer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Programmer
6 1 (10.00%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (10.00%) Web Applications Developer
6 1 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (20.00%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) MVC
2 7 (70.00%) OO
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (40.00%) TDD
5 4 (40.00%) Web Application Development
6 3 (30.00%) MVVM
6 3 (30.00%) Scrum
6 3 (30.00%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (20.00%) Kanban
8 1 (10.00%) UML
8 1 (10.00%) OOP
8 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 1 (10.00%) Domain-Driven Design
8 1 (10.00%) Time Management
8 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (60.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (20.00%) VB
3 2 (20.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (10.00%) C++
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (30.00%) MCP
2 3 (30.00%) MCAD
2 3 (30.00%) MCSD
2 3 (30.00%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
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