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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 46 68 65
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -3
Permanent jobs citing WPF 23 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 3.338% 1.042% 0.272%
As % of the Application Development category 8.303% 3.030% 0.676%
Number of salaries quoted 20 9 2
Average salary £35,000 £36,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.10% -3.94%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
277 297 296
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 40.20% 34.38% 40.27%
Number of salaries quoted 256 241 256
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £24,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,500 £42,450 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
England

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

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

North East 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 North East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Tyne and Wear 0 12 £22,500 -38.35%
Cleveland - 8 £35,000 -
Durham +7 1 £40,000 +45.45%
WPF
England

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 30 (88.24%) .NET
2 25 (73.53%) WCF
3 24 (70.59%) C#
4 18 (52.94%) ASP.NET
5 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
6 15 (44.12%) WinForms
7 13 (38.24%) MVC
7 13 (38.24%) Computer Science
8 12 (35.29%) Degree
8 12 (35.29%) ASP.NET MVC
8 12 (35.29%) TDD
9 9 (26.47%) MCTS
9 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (26.47%) Windows
9 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
9 9 (26.47%) MCP
9 9 (26.47%) MCAD
9 9 (26.47%) MCSD
9 9 (26.47%) Dependency Injection
9 9 (26.47%) Ninject
9 9 (26.47%) Web Application Development
9 9 (26.47%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 8 (23.53%) MVVM
10 8 (23.53%) .NET Framework
10 8 (23.53%) HTML
10 8 (23.53%) TCP/IP
10 8 (23.53%) Scrum
11 7 (20.59%) CSS
11 7 (20.59%) KnockoutJS
12 6 (17.65%) Modbus

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 30 (88.24%) .NET
2 25 (73.53%) WCF
3 18 (52.94%) ASP.NET
4 15 (44.12%) WinForms
5 12 (35.29%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (26.47%) Ninject
6 9 (26.47%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 8 (23.53%) .NET Framework
7 8 (23.53%) HTML
8 7 (20.59%) CSS
8 7 (20.59%) KnockoutJS
9 5 (14.71%) Spring.NET
9 5 (14.71%) Razor View Engine
9 5 (14.71%) Castle Windsor
9 5 (14.71%) Unity DI Container
10 4 (11.76%) Node.js
11 3 (8.824%) Web Services
11 3 (8.824%) jQuery
11 3 (8.824%) Ajax
11 3 (8.824%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) WordPress
1 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) Photoshop
1 4 (11.76%) Adobe Illustrator
Communications & Networking
1 8 (23.53%) TCP/IP
2 6 (17.65%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (26.47%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.824%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) NUnit
1 5 (14.71%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (14.71%) Moq
1 5 (14.71%) MSTest
2 2 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.941%) Xcode
General
1 4 (11.76%) Music
2 2 (5.882%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (50.00%) Developer
2 15 (44.12%) .NET Developer
3 11 (32.35%) Software Engineer
4 7 (20.59%) Graduate
5 6 (17.65%) C# Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Junior .NET Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Graduate Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Junior Developer
6 5 (14.71%) Junior
6 5 (14.71%) Graduate .NET Developer
6 5 (14.71%) C# .NET Developer
7 4 (11.76%) Designer
7 4 (11.76%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (11.76%) Web Designer
8 3 (8.824%) Senior Developer
8 3 (8.824%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (8.824%) Senior C# Developer
8 3 (8.824%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (5.882%) Graduate Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (38.24%) Computer Science
2 5 (14.71%) Tandem
2 5 (14.71%) Inversion of Control
2 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (11.76%) Visualisation
3 4 (11.76%) Streaming Music
4 2 (5.882%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 2 (5.882%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) MVC
2 12 (35.29%) TDD
3 9 (26.47%) Dependency Injection
3 9 (26.47%) Web Application Development
4 8 (23.53%) MVVM
4 8 (23.53%) Scrum
5 6 (17.65%) Unit Testing
5 6 (17.65%) Multithreading
5 6 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Kanban
6 5 (14.71%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (11.76%) User Experience Design
7 4 (11.76%) Web Usability
7 4 (11.76%) Domain-Driven Design
7 4 (11.76%) Web Design
8 3 (8.824%) OOP
8 3 (8.824%) SOA
8 3 (8.824%) Waterfall
9 2 (5.882%) UML
9 2 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 24 (70.59%) C#
2 5 (14.71%) VB.NET
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
3 4 (11.76%) C
3 4 (11.76%) VB
4 3 (8.824%) T-SQL
4 3 (8.824%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Degree
2 9 (26.47%) MCTS
2 9 (26.47%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (26.47%) MCP
2 9 (26.47%) MCAD
2 9 (26.47%) MCSD
Vendors
1 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.76%) Adobe
3 3 (8.824%) Oracle
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