The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 70 90 99
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +9
Permanent jobs citing WPF 140 98 66
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 3.329% 2.608% 1.650%
As % of the Application Development category 6.515% 5.246% 3.962%
Number of salaries quoted 134 94 63
Average salary £35,000 £34,750 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.71% +6.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £26,500 £22,100
10% offered a salary of more than £43,250 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +4.16%
All Application Development
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2149 1868 1666
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 51.11% 49.71% 41.66%
Number of salaries quoted 1945 1716 1546
Average salary £35,000 £33,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WPF
North West

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Bolton +11 12 £40,000 +26.98%
Stockport +1 11 £32,500 +12.06% 2
WPF
North West

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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.

1 278 (100.00%) C#
2 256 (92.09%) .NET
3 181 (65.11%) ASP.NET
4 178 (64.03%) SQL Server
5 172 (61.87%) WCF
6 119 (42.81%) MVC
7 112 (40.29%) Windows
8 98 (35.25%) TDD
9 95 (34.17%) SQL
10 93 (33.45%) WinForms
11 91 (32.73%) Microsoft
12 83 (29.86%) VB.NET
13 79 (28.42%) Degree
14 75 (26.98%) OO
15 72 (25.90%) ASP.NET MVC
16 67 (24.10%) Web Application Development
17 66 (23.74%) Microsoft Certification
17 66 (23.74%) MCP
17 66 (23.74%) MCAD
17 66 (23.74%) MCSD
17 66 (23.74%) MCTS
18 62 (22.30%) .NET Framework
19 61 (21.94%) NUnit
20 59 (21.22%) T-SQL
21 56 (20.14%) Computer Science
22 55 (19.78%) Dependency Injection
23 54 (19.42%) Ninject
23 54 (19.42%) ASP.NET MVC 4
24 53 (19.06%) LINQ
25 49 (17.63%) XML

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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
1 256 (92.09%) .NET
2 181 (65.11%) ASP.NET
3 172 (61.87%) WCF
4 93 (33.45%) WinForms
5 72 (25.90%) ASP.NET MVC
6 62 (22.30%) .NET Framework
7 54 (19.42%) Ninject
7 54 (19.42%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 53 (19.06%) LINQ
9 49 (17.63%) XML
9 49 (17.63%) Silverlight
10 37 (13.31%) Castle Windsor
11 32 (11.51%) Razor View Engine
12 31 (11.15%) HTML
13 29 (10.43%) Node.js
13 29 (10.43%) KnockoutJS
14 27 (9.712%) CSS
15 25 (8.993%) Spring.NET
15 25 (8.993%) Unity DI Container
15 25 (8.993%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 23 (8.273%) SharePoint
2 15 (5.396%) Windows Azure
3 11 (3.957%) BizTalk Server
4 10 (3.597%) SharePoint 2010
4 10 (3.597%) IIS
5 7 (2.518%) SharePoint Foundation
6 4 (1.439%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.360%) Lync
Applications
1 41 (14.75%) MS Excel
2 8 (2.878%) MS Office
3 7 (2.518%) InfoPath
4 1 (0.360%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 11 (3.957%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.360%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.360%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.360%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.360%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.597%) TCP/IP
2 3 (1.079%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 178 (64.03%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.554%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (5.396%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 10 (3.597%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 10 (3.597%) GIS
5 2 (0.719%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.360%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.360%) MySQL
6 1 (0.360%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 61 (21.94%) NUnit
2 37 (13.31%) Rhino Mocks
3 29 (10.43%) Visual Studio
4 27 (9.712%) Moq
5 26 (9.353%) MSTest
6 20 (7.194%) Team Foundation Server
7 15 (5.396%) Subversion
8 12 (4.317%) MSBuild
9 7 (2.518%) CruiseControl
9 7 (2.518%) Visual Studio Team System
10 3 (1.079%) Oracle Forms
11 1 (0.360%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 27 (9.712%) Finance
2 17 (6.115%) Retail
3 12 (4.317%) Games
4 10 (3.597%) Electronics
5 3 (1.079%) Legal
6 2 (0.719%) Telecoms
6 2 (0.719%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.360%) Advertising
7 1 (0.360%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 248 (89.21%) Developer
2 143 (51.44%) .NET Developer
3 97 (34.89%) C# Developer
4 58 (20.86%) C# .NET Developer
5 53 (19.06%) Software Engineer
6 39 (14.03%) Software Developer
7 35 (12.59%) .NET Software Engineer
8 34 (12.23%) C# Software Engineer
9 15 (5.396%) C# Software Developer
9 15 (5.396%) .NET Software Developer
10 13 (4.676%) Analyst
10 13 (4.676%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 12 (4.317%) Graduate
11 12 (4.317%) Graduate Developer
11 12 (4.317%) Lead Software Engineer
11 12 (4.317%) Analyst Developer
12 11 (3.957%) Junior Developer
12 11 (3.957%) ASP.NET Developer
12 11 (3.957%) Lead Developer
12 11 (3.957%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 56 (20.14%) Computer Science
2 41 (14.75%) Client/Server
3 28 (10.07%) N-Tier
4 27 (9.712%) Enterprise Software
5 25 (8.993%) Inversion of Control
6 5 (1.799%) Tandem
6 5 (1.799%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.439%) RIA
8 1 (0.360%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 112 (40.29%) Windows
2 2 (0.719%) Android
2 2 (0.719%) Windows Phone
2 2 (0.719%) Windows 8
2 2 (0.719%) Windows Phone 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (42.81%) MVC
2 98 (35.25%) TDD
3 75 (26.98%) OO
4 67 (24.10%) Web Application Development
5 55 (19.78%) Dependency Injection
6 47 (16.91%) Scrum
7 44 (15.83%) Agile Software Development
7 44 (15.83%) MVVM
8 34 (12.23%) Continuous Integration
9 30 (10.79%) Software Engineering
10 29 (10.43%) Domain-Driven Design
11 25 (8.993%) Kanban
11 25 (8.993%) UML
12 24 (8.633%) Business Intelligence
12 24 (8.633%) Multithreading
13 13 (4.676%) Web Development
14 11 (3.957%) CRM
15 10 (3.597%) Unit Testing
15 10 (3.597%) Project Management
15 10 (3.597%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 278 (100.00%) C#
2 95 (34.17%) SQL
3 83 (29.86%) VB.NET
4 59 (21.22%) T-SQL
5 48 (17.27%) VB
6 40 (14.39%) C++
7 38 (13.67%) JavaScript
8 14 (5.036%) XAML
9 13 (4.676%) Java
10 10 (3.597%) C
Qualifications
1 79 (28.42%) Degree
2 66 (23.74%) Microsoft Certification
2 66 (23.74%) MCP
2 66 (23.74%) MCAD
2 66 (23.74%) MCSD
2 66 (23.74%) MCTS
3 21 (7.554%) Security Cleared
4 7 (2.518%) SC Cleared
4 7 (2.518%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.360%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.360%) ISEB
Vendors
1 91 (32.73%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.237%) MicroStrategy
3 8 (2.878%) Oracle
4 3 (1.079%) Telerik
5 2 (0.719%) SAP
5 2 (0.719%) Fujitsu
6 1 (0.360%) Epicor
6 1 (0.360%) Twitter
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