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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 50 34 48
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +14
Permanent jobs citing WPF 6 18 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 1.527% 3.956% 2.929%
As % of the Application Development category 3.947% 10.40% 6.481%
Number of salaries quoted 6 18 14
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £38,250 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.63%
All Application Development
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
152 173 216
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 38.68% 38.02% 45.19%
Number of salaries quoted 138 170 201
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £20,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
Northamptonshire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Northampton region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Northampton WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 33 (100.00%) C#
2 25 (75.76%) .NET
2 25 (75.76%) Windows
3 21 (63.64%) WinForms
3 21 (63.64%) WCF
4 19 (57.58%) MVVM
5 18 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (54.55%) Scrum
5 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
5 18 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (54.55%) SQL Server
5 18 (54.55%) MCP
5 18 (54.55%) MCAD
5 18 (54.55%) MCSD
6 17 (51.52%) ASP.NET
6 17 (51.52%) MVC
6 17 (51.52%) TDD
6 17 (51.52%) NUnit
6 17 (51.52%) Dependency Injection
6 17 (51.52%) Inversion of Control
6 17 (51.52%) Castle Windsor
7 16 (48.48%) Ninject
7 16 (48.48%) Razor View Engine
7 16 (48.48%) Web Application Development
7 16 (48.48%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 16 (48.48%) Unity DI Container
7 16 (48.48%) MSTest
7 16 (48.48%) Rhino Mocks
7 16 (48.48%) Moq
7 16 (48.48%) Spring.NET

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 25 (75.76%) .NET
2 21 (63.64%) WinForms
2 21 (63.64%) WCF
3 17 (51.52%) ASP.NET
3 17 (51.52%) Castle Windsor
4 16 (48.48%) Ninject
4 16 (48.48%) Razor View Engine
4 16 (48.48%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 16 (48.48%) Unity DI Container
4 16 (48.48%) Spring.NET
4 16 (48.48%) ASP.NET MVC
5 9 (27.27%) Silverlight
6 7 (21.21%) .NET Framework
7 6 (18.18%) HTML5
8 5 (15.15%) jQuery
9 4 (12.12%) Web Services
10 3 (9.091%) LINQ
11 2 (6.061%) MFC
12 1 (3.030%) CSS
12 1 (3.030%) WF
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.030%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.030%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (54.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (51.52%) NUnit
2 16 (48.48%) MSTest
2 16 (48.48%) Rhino Mocks
2 16 (48.48%) Moq
3 6 (18.18%) Visual Studio
4 2 (6.061%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (3.030%) Git (software)
5 1 (3.030%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (3.030%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 1 (3.030%) Subversion
5 1 (3.030%) Hudson
5 1 (3.030%) Trac
General
1 1 (3.030%) Electronics
1 1 (3.030%) Games
Job Titles
1 27 (81.82%) Developer
2 16 (48.48%) .NET Developer
3 8 (24.24%) C# Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Software Engineer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
6 3 (9.091%) Graduate
7 2 (6.061%) Junior
7 2 (6.061%) Analyst
7 2 (6.061%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (6.061%) Junior Developer
7 2 (6.061%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (6.061%) Junior .NET Developer
7 2 (6.061%) Graduate Developer
7 2 (6.061%) Graduate .NET Developer
8 1 (3.030%) Technical Developer
8 1 (3.030%) Applications Support Analyst
8 1 (3.030%) C# Software Developer
8 1 (3.030%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 1 (3.030%) Technical Analyst
8 1 (3.030%) C++ Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 17 (51.52%) Inversion of Control
2 9 (27.27%) Computer Science
3 6 (18.18%) Mathematics
4 5 (15.15%) Physics
5 2 (6.061%) Tandem
5 2 (6.061%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (6.061%) Smartphone
6 1 (3.030%) 3D Graphics
6 1 (3.030%) Neural Network
6 1 (3.030%) Blog
6 1 (3.030%) PaaS
6 1 (3.030%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (3.030%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 25 (75.76%) Windows
2 2 (6.061%) Linux
2 2 (6.061%) UNIX
3 1 (3.030%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (57.58%) MVVM
2 18 (54.55%) Scrum
2 18 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (51.52%) TDD
3 17 (51.52%) MVC
3 17 (51.52%) Dependency Injection
4 16 (48.48%) Web Application Development
4 16 (48.48%) Kanban
5 3 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (9.091%) OO
6 2 (6.061%) RUP
6 2 (6.061%) ITIL
6 2 (6.061%) PRINCE2
6 2 (6.061%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.061%) Image Processing
6 2 (6.061%) Pattern Recognition
7 1 (3.030%) Embedded Software Development
7 1 (3.030%) Product Management
7 1 (3.030%) Web Development
7 1 (3.030%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (21.21%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) C++
4 2 (6.061%) VB
4 2 (6.061%) VB.NET
4 2 (6.061%) XAML
4 2 (6.061%) VB6
5 1 (3.030%) MATLAB
5 1 (3.030%) Java
5 1 (3.030%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 18 (54.55%) MCP
1 18 (54.55%) MCAD
1 18 (54.55%) MCSD
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (48.48%) MCTS
3 8 (24.24%) Degree
4 5 (15.15%) PhD
5 1 (3.030%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.061%) QA
Vendors
1 18 (54.55%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.061%) Oracle
3 1 (3.030%) Xamarin