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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 47 46 48
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +2
Permanent jobs citing WPF 14 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.893% 1.330% 0.484%
As % of the Application Development category 8.485% 3.109% 1.020%
Number of salaries quoted 13 6 2
Average salary £32,500 £35,750 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% -9.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £32,500 £38,300
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £38,250 £40,700
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
165 193 196
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.09% 42.79% 47.46%
Number of salaries quoted 153 158 174
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,750 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
Tyne and Wear

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Newcastle upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Newcastle upon Tyne WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 20 (83.33%) .NET
2 19 (79.17%) ASP.NET
3 17 (70.83%) WCF
4 15 (62.50%) MVC
4 15 (62.50%) WinForms
5 14 (58.33%) C#
6 13 (54.17%) TDD
6 13 (54.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
8 9 (37.50%) MCP
8 9 (37.50%) MCAD
8 9 (37.50%) MCSD
8 9 (37.50%) HTML
8 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
8 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (37.50%) Windows
8 9 (37.50%) .NET Framework
8 9 (37.50%) MCTS
8 9 (37.50%) Dependency Injection
8 9 (37.50%) MVVM
8 9 (37.50%) Ninject
8 9 (37.50%) Web Application Development
8 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 8 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
9 8 (33.33%) Scrum
9 8 (33.33%) CSS
10 5 (20.83%) NUnit
10 5 (20.83%) Tandem
10 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
10 5 (20.83%) SQL

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 20 (83.33%) .NET
2 19 (79.17%) ASP.NET
3 17 (70.83%) WCF
4 15 (62.50%) WinForms
5 13 (54.17%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (37.50%) HTML
6 9 (37.50%) .NET Framework
6 9 (37.50%) Ninject
6 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 8 (33.33%) KnockoutJS
7 8 (33.33%) CSS
8 5 (20.83%) Spring.NET
8 5 (20.83%) Unity DI Container
8 5 (20.83%) Castle Windsor
8 5 (20.83%) Razor View Engine
9 4 (16.67%) Node.js
9 4 (16.67%) LINQ
9 4 (16.67%) jQuery
9 4 (16.67%) Ajax
9 4 (16.67%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 4 (16.67%) WordPress
1 4 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Photoshop
1 4 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) NUnit
1 5 (20.83%) MSTest
1 5 (20.83%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (20.83%) Moq
2 2 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.167%) Xcode
General
1 4 (16.67%) Music
Job Titles
1 19 (79.17%) Developer
2 17 (70.83%) .NET Developer
3 8 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 7 (29.17%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 6 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (20.83%) Junior Developer
6 5 (20.83%) Junior .NET Developer
6 5 (20.83%) Graduate Developer
6 5 (20.83%) Junior
6 5 (20.83%) Graduate
6 5 (20.83%) Graduate .NET Developer
7 4 (16.67%) Designer
7 4 (16.67%) Senior Developer
7 4 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
7 4 (16.67%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (16.67%) Web Designer
8 1 (4.167%) WPF Developer
8 1 (4.167%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Tandem
1 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
1 5 (20.83%) Inversion of Control
1 5 (20.83%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
2 4 (16.67%) Streaming Music
3 2 (8.333%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (8.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) MVC
2 13 (54.17%) TDD
3 9 (37.50%) Dependency Injection
3 9 (37.50%) MVVM
3 9 (37.50%) Web Application Development
4 8 (33.33%) Scrum
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (20.83%) Kanban
6 4 (16.67%) Waterfall
6 4 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (16.67%) User Experience Design
6 4 (16.67%) Web Usability
6 4 (16.67%) Web Design
7 3 (12.50%) SOA
7 3 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (12.50%) OOP
8 2 (8.333%) UML
9 1 (4.167%) Unit Testing
9 1 (4.167%) Migration
9 1 (4.167%) OO
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) C#
2 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) VB.NET
3 4 (16.67%) C
3 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
3 4 (16.67%) VB
3 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (37.50%) MCP
1 9 (37.50%) MCAD
1 9 (37.50%) MCSD
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (37.50%) MCTS
2 4 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Adobe