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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 40 35 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Permanent jobs citing WPF 5 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 1.946% 1.717% -
As % of the Application Development category 4.630% 3.738% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 4 0
Average salary £40,500 £45,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.98% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Northern Ireland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
108 107 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 42.02% 45.92% 30.74%
Number of salaries quoted 78 55 50
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
UK

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland WPF Salary Trend

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 Northern Ireland 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
County Antrim -3 5 £40,500 -10.98%
WPF
UK

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 13 (100.00%) C#
2 12 (92.31%) .NET
3 11 (84.62%) WCF
4 9 (69.23%) Finance
5 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
6 7 (53.85%) SQL
6 7 (53.85%) .NET Framework
7 6 (46.15%) Multithreading
7 6 (46.15%) Windows
8 5 (38.46%) Scrum
8 5 (38.46%) WinForms
8 5 (38.46%) Oracle
8 5 (38.46%) Sybase
8 5 (38.46%) Technical Architecture
8 5 (38.46%) Workflow
8 5 (38.46%) WF
9 4 (30.77%) Strategic Planning
9 4 (30.77%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (23.08%) Front Office
10 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
10 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
11 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
11 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (15.38%) Banking
11 2 (15.38%) OO
11 2 (15.38%) MVC
11 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
11 2 (15.38%) Web Services
12 1 (7.692%) XML

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northern Ireland 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 12 (92.31%) .NET
2 11 (84.62%) WCF
3 7 (53.85%) .NET Framework
4 5 (38.46%) WinForms
4 5 (38.46%) WF
5 2 (15.38%) ASP.NET
5 2 (15.38%) Web Services
6 1 (7.692%) XML
6 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET
6 1 (7.692%) HTML
6 1 (7.692%) Ajax
6 1 (7.692%) Silverlight
6 1 (7.692%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) OLAP
2 1 (7.692%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (69.23%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Front Office
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Developer
2 11 (84.62%) C# Developer
3 7 (53.85%) .NET Developer
4 6 (46.15%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (30.77%) Applications Specialist
6 2 (15.38%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
7 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
7 1 (7.692%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (7.692%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.692%) N-Tier
2 1 (7.692%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Multithreading
2 5 (38.46%) Scrum
2 5 (38.46%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (38.46%) Workflow
3 4 (30.77%) Strategic Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Unit Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (15.38%) OO
5 2 (15.38%) MVC
6 1 (7.692%) Configuration Management
6 1 (7.692%) Project Management
6 1 (7.692%) Business Analysis
6 1 (7.692%) Requirements Analysis
6 1 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (7.692%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (53.85%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.692%) Perl
3 1 (7.692%) XAML
3 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
1 5 (38.46%) Sybase
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft