The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 17 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 54 55 43
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -12
Permanent jobs citing WPF 2 27 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.448% 4.006% 6.223%
As % of the Application Development category 0.885% 7.965% 13.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 25 28
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.63%
All Application Development
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
226 339 214
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 50.67% 50.30% 45.92%
Number of salaries quoted 195 303 172
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £50,000 £47,500
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside WPF Salary Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 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
Liverpool -4 1 - -
WPF
North West

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 18 (100.00%) C#
2 17 (94.44%) .NET
2 17 (94.44%) ASP.NET
3 15 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 15 (83.33%) MVC
3 15 (83.33%) WCF
4 14 (77.78%) ASP.NET MVC
5 11 (61.11%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (61.11%) Finance
5 11 (61.11%) OO
6 9 (50.00%) SQL
7 8 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
8 7 (38.89%) Degree
8 7 (38.89%) TDD
8 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2008
8 7 (38.89%) Web Application Development
8 7 (38.89%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 6 (33.33%) Ninject
9 6 (33.33%) MVVM
9 6 (33.33%) TeamCity
9 6 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
9 6 (33.33%) Moq
9 6 (33.33%) NUnit
9 6 (33.33%) Subversion
9 6 (33.33%) Scrum
9 6 (33.33%) Windows
9 6 (33.33%) MCTS
9 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
9 6 (33.33%) Visual Studio

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside 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 17 (94.44%) .NET
1 17 (94.44%) ASP.NET
2 15 (83.33%) WCF
3 14 (77.78%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (38.89%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 6 (33.33%) Ninject
6 5 (27.78%) Razor View Engine
6 5 (27.78%) Unity DI Container
6 5 (27.78%) Spring.NET
6 5 (27.78%) Castle Windsor
6 5 (27.78%) WinForms
7 2 (11.11%) Ajax
7 2 (11.11%) HTML
7 2 (11.11%) .NET Framework
7 2 (11.11%) jQuery
8 1 (5.556%) HTML5
8 1 (5.556%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (5.556%) Node.js
8 1 (5.556%) NHibernate
8 1 (5.556%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) CMS
1 1 (5.556%) Orchard CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (5.556%) Bond Adapt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (38.89%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.556%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 6 (33.33%) NUnit
1 6 (33.33%) Subversion
1 6 (33.33%) TeamCity
1 6 (33.33%) Moq
2 5 (27.78%) MSTest
2 5 (27.78%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 15 (83.33%) .NET Developer
3 6 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (27.78%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (27.78%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 2 (11.11%) Programmer
6 2 (11.11%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Junior .NET Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Graduate Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Chief Technology Officer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior Programmer
7 1 (5.556%) .NET Programmer
7 1 (5.556%) Junior Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Web Applications Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Graduate
7 1 (5.556%) Junior
7 1 (5.556%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Computer Science
2 5 (27.78%) Inversion of Control
2 5 (27.78%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.556%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 6 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) MVC
2 11 (61.11%) OO
2 11 (61.11%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (38.89%) TDD
4 7 (38.89%) Web Application Development
5 6 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
5 6 (33.33%) MVVM
5 6 (33.33%) Scrum
6 5 (27.78%) Kanban
7 2 (11.11%) Web Development
8 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
8 1 (5.556%) Domain-Driven Design
8 1 (5.556%) Time Management
8 1 (5.556%) UML
8 1 (5.556%) OOP
8 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
8 1 (5.556%) ERP
8 1 (5.556%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (16.67%) VB.NET
4 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
4 2 (11.11%) VB
5 1 (5.556%) C++
5 1 (5.556%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (38.89%) Degree
2 6 (33.33%) MCP
2 6 (33.33%) MCAD
2 6 (33.33%) MCSD
2 6 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (33.33%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.556%) Epicor
2 1 (5.556%) Sage
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle
2 1 (5.556%) SAP
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