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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 55 47 64
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +17
Permanent jobs citing WPF 14 21 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 2.118% 2.789% 1.875%
As % of the Application Development category 5.405% 6.583% 4.213%
Number of salaries quoted 14 21 15
Average salary £38,750 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.16% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,550 £26,000 £32,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £40,000 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
259 319 356
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 39.18% 42.36% 44.50%
Number of salaries quoted 243 304 331
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £20,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £56,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
East Midlands

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Towcester - 6 £37,500 -
Northampton -13 5 £40,000 +33.33%
WPF
East Midlands

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 47 (100.00%) C#
2 33 (70.21%) .NET
3 29 (61.70%) WinForms
4 27 (57.45%) Windows
4 27 (57.45%) WCF
5 26 (55.32%) Scrum
6 23 (48.94%) ASP.NET
7 22 (46.81%) SQL Server
7 22 (46.81%) Continuous Integration
7 22 (46.81%) TDD
7 22 (46.81%) MVVM
8 21 (44.68%) MCP
8 21 (44.68%) MCAD
8 21 (44.68%) MCSD
8 21 (44.68%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (44.68%) MVC
9 20 (42.55%) Castle Windsor
9 20 (42.55%) NUnit
9 20 (42.55%) ASP.NET MVC
9 20 (42.55%) Dependency Injection
9 20 (42.55%) Inversion of Control
10 19 (40.43%) Spring.NET
10 19 (40.43%) Kanban
10 19 (40.43%) MCTS
10 19 (40.43%) Ninject
10 19 (40.43%) Razor View Engine
10 19 (40.43%) Rhino Mocks
10 19 (40.43%) Moq
10 19 (40.43%) MSTest
10 19 (40.43%) Web Application Development

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 33 (70.21%) .NET
2 29 (61.70%) WinForms
3 27 (57.45%) WCF
4 23 (48.94%) ASP.NET
5 20 (42.55%) Castle Windsor
5 20 (42.55%) ASP.NET MVC
6 19 (40.43%) Spring.NET
6 19 (40.43%) Ninject
6 19 (40.43%) Razor View Engine
6 19 (40.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 19 (40.43%) Unity DI Container
7 10 (21.28%) Silverlight
8 7 (14.89%) .NET Framework
8 7 (14.89%) HTML5
9 6 (12.77%) jQuery
10 5 (10.64%) OpenGL
10 5 (10.64%) Qt
11 4 (8.511%) LINQ
11 4 (8.511%) Web Services
12 2 (4.255%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.255%) Windows Azure
2 1 (2.128%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.128%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (46.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (42.55%) NUnit
2 19 (40.43%) Rhino Mocks
2 19 (40.43%) Moq
2 19 (40.43%) MSTest
3 6 (12.77%) Visual Studio
4 3 (6.383%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (4.255%) Trac
5 2 (4.255%) Hudson
5 2 (4.255%) Subversion
5 2 (4.255%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (10.64%) Electronics
2 4 (8.511%) Finance
3 1 (2.128%) Games
3 1 (2.128%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (68.09%) Developer
2 20 (42.55%) .NET Developer
3 12 (25.53%) Software Engineer
4 8 (17.02%) C# Developer
5 6 (12.77%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.511%) Graduate
6 4 (8.511%) Senior Developer
7 3 (6.383%) Graduate Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Graduate .NET Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Junior .NET Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Junior Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Senior C# Developer
8 2 (4.255%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (4.255%) Software Developer
8 2 (4.255%) Junior
8 2 (4.255%) Analyst
9 1 (2.128%) Software Architect
9 1 (2.128%) Architect
9 1 (2.128%) Support Analyst
9 1 (2.128%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 20 (42.55%) Inversion of Control
2 10 (21.28%) Mathematics
3 7 (14.89%) Computer Science
4 5 (10.64%) Physics
5 4 (8.511%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (6.383%) Smartphone
7 2 (4.255%) PaaS
7 2 (4.255%) Tandem
8 1 (2.128%) Biometrics
8 1 (2.128%) Artificial Intelligence
8 1 (2.128%) Blog
8 1 (2.128%) CAN bus
Operating Systems
1 27 (57.45%) Windows
2 3 (6.383%) UNIX
2 3 (6.383%) Linux
3 1 (2.128%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (55.32%) Scrum
2 22 (46.81%) Continuous Integration
2 22 (46.81%) TDD
2 22 (46.81%) MVVM
3 21 (44.68%) MVC
4 20 (42.55%) Dependency Injection
5 19 (40.43%) Kanban
5 19 (40.43%) Web Application Development
6 11 (23.40%) Agile Software Development
7 10 (21.28%) OO
8 7 (14.89%) Electronic Design Automation
9 3 (6.383%) Product Management
10 2 (4.255%) OOP
10 2 (4.255%) ITIL
10 2 (4.255%) OOD
10 2 (4.255%) RUP
10 2 (4.255%) PRINCE2
10 2 (4.255%) Configuration Management
11 1 (2.128%) Change Management
11 1 (2.128%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 47 (100.00%) C#
2 11 (23.40%) C++
3 10 (21.28%) SQL
4 7 (14.89%) XAML
4 7 (14.89%) Java
5 2 (4.255%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.128%) VB
6 1 (2.128%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.128%) VB6
Qualifications
1 21 (44.68%) MCP
1 21 (44.68%) MCAD
1 21 (44.68%) MCSD
1 21 (44.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (40.43%) MCTS
3 9 (19.15%) Degree
4 5 (10.64%) PhD
5 1 (2.128%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.128%) QA
Vendors
1 17 (36.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Oracle
3 2 (4.255%) Xamarin
4 1 (2.128%) Twitter