The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 23 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 27 42 45
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +3
Permanent jobs citing WPF 95 47 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 7.370% 4.568% 4.611%
As % of the Application Development category 18.34% 12.40% 9.356%
Number of salaries quoted 90 47 44
Average salary £42,500 £30,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+41.66% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £22,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £38,300 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
518 379 481
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 40.19% 36.83% 49.28%
Number of salaries quoted 465 349 453
Average salary £41,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.57% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
Buckinghamshire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Milton Keynes WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

1 215 (98.17%) C#
2 212 (96.80%) SQL Server
3 196 (89.50%) .NET
4 153 (69.86%) WCF
5 120 (54.79%) WinForms
6 87 (39.73%) Microsoft
7 72 (32.88%) ASP.NET
8 67 (30.59%) SQL
8 67 (30.59%) Degree
9 65 (29.68%) NUnit
10 64 (29.22%) Agile Software Development
11 63 (28.77%) .NET Framework
12 60 (27.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 60 (27.40%) MCP
12 60 (27.40%) MCAD
12 60 (27.40%) MCSD
13 58 (26.48%) TDD
14 50 (22.83%) Scrum
15 44 (20.09%) MVVM
16 43 (19.63%) UML
17 41 (18.72%) Visual Studio
18 34 (15.53%) Windows
19 32 (14.61%) LINQ
20 31 (14.16%) OO
21 29 (13.24%) Moq
22 28 (12.79%) Castle Windsor
22 28 (12.79%) Continuous Integration
22 28 (12.79%) Dependency Injection
23 26 (11.87%) Inversion of Control
23 26 (11.87%) MSTest

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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
1 196 (89.50%) .NET
2 153 (69.86%) WCF
3 120 (54.79%) WinForms
4 72 (32.88%) ASP.NET
5 63 (28.77%) .NET Framework
6 32 (14.61%) LINQ
7 28 (12.79%) Castle Windsor
8 26 (11.87%) Spring.NET
8 26 (11.87%) Ninject
8 26 (11.87%) Unity DI Container
9 22 (10.05%) Web Services
10 8 (3.653%) ASP.NET MVC
11 7 (3.196%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 6 (2.740%) Silverlight
13 4 (1.826%) HTML
13 4 (1.826%) jQuery
13 4 (1.826%) Ajax
13 4 (1.826%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 3 (1.370%) NHibernate
15 2 (0.913%) MFC
Applications
1 5 (2.283%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.457%) Maple
Database & Business Intelligence
1 212 (96.80%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.653%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (1.370%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 65 (29.68%) NUnit
2 41 (18.72%) Visual Studio
3 29 (13.24%) Moq
4 26 (11.87%) MSTest
4 26 (11.87%) Rhino Mocks
5 6 (2.740%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (0.913%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.913%) NMock
Job Titles
1 164 (74.89%) Developer
2 118 (53.88%) C# Developer
3 97 (44.29%) C# .NET Developer
4 65 (29.68%) .NET Developer
5 52 (23.74%) Software Engineer
6 45 (20.55%) C# Software Engineer
7 43 (19.63%) Senior Developer
8 38 (17.35%) .NET Software Engineer
9 33 (15.07%) Software Developer
9 33 (15.07%) Senior Software Engineer
10 32 (14.61%) Senior C# Software Engineer
11 30 (13.70%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
12 28 (12.79%) Senior C# Developer
13 26 (11.87%) C# ASP.NET Developer
14 18 (8.219%) Senior .NET Developer
14 18 (8.219%) C# Software Developer
15 13 (5.936%) Junior .NET Developer
15 13 (5.936%) Junior Developer
15 13 (5.936%) Junior C# Developer
15 13 (5.936%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.87%) Inversion of Control
2 20 (9.132%) iPad
3 14 (6.393%) Computer Science
4 4 (1.826%) Visualisation
5 3 (1.370%) Replication
6 2 (0.913%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.457%) Mobile Payment
7 1 (0.457%) Smartphone
7 1 (0.457%) Contract for Difference
Operating Systems
1 34 (15.53%) Windows
2 6 (2.740%) Android
2 6 (2.740%) Apple iOS
3 2 (0.913%) Linux
3 2 (0.913%) Windows Phone
4 1 (0.457%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (29.22%) Agile Software Development
2 58 (26.48%) TDD
3 50 (22.83%) Scrum
4 44 (20.09%) MVVM
5 43 (19.63%) UML
6 31 (14.16%) OO
7 28 (12.79%) Continuous Integration
7 28 (12.79%) Dependency Injection
8 26 (11.87%) Kanban
8 26 (11.87%) Business Intelligence
9 23 (10.50%) Web Development
10 15 (6.849%) MVC
11 11 (5.023%) Technical Architecture
12 8 (3.653%) Unit Testing
13 6 (2.740%) Product Management
14 4 (1.826%) Configuration Management
14 4 (1.826%) ITIL
14 4 (1.826%) RUP
14 4 (1.826%) PRINCE2
14 4 (1.826%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 215 (98.17%) C#
2 67 (30.59%) SQL
3 9 (4.110%) VB.NET
4 8 (3.653%) VB
5 6 (2.740%) C
6 5 (2.283%) C++
7 4 (1.826%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.370%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.457%) Python
9 1 (0.457%) Java
9 1 (0.457%) MATLAB
9 1 (0.457%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 67 (30.59%) Degree
2 60 (27.40%) Microsoft Certification
2 60 (27.40%) MCP
2 60 (27.40%) MCAD
2 60 (27.40%) MCSD
3 26 (11.87%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.457%) HL7
Vendors
1 87 (39.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.740%) Telerik
3 2 (0.913%) Oracle
3 2 (0.913%) Twitter
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
My Milton Keynes client is currently looking for a .Net developer to join their great team. The developers primary responsibility will be the development a new range of...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £22000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
C# Developer - Milton Keynes - £35K+10% Pension - C# , ASP.NET , SQL , WPF , WinForms , Web. A leading solutions provider that are rapidly expanding at present are looking to add...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus, Pension (10%), Healthcare
Posted: 18 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
A leading solutions provider that are expanding rapidly at present are looking for a Senior C# Developer to the software team that has a deep knowledge of ASP...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 18 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
The software may fall into one or more of the following categories: User interfaces using C# and WPF (other technologies may be added in the future) Business Services...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £39000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
C# Developer, .NET, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Spring.net, IoC, Unity, Castle...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
C# Developer, .NET, WPF, C#.NET, dot NET, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous Integration, Dependency Injection, Ninject, Spring.net, IoC, Unity, Castle...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013