The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 78 57 64
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +7
Permanent jobs citing WPF 8 10 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.798% 1.479% 1.615%
As % of the Application Development category 1.754% 3.571% 2.923%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 14
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +4.16%
All Application Development
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
456 280 479
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 45.46% 41.42% 55.25%
Number of salaries quoted 400 252 449
Average salary £40,000 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.89% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £29,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WPF
Oxfordshire

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxford WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 (100.00%) C#
2 29 (96.67%) .NET
3 27 (90.00%) SQL Server
4 25 (83.33%) WCF
5 23 (76.67%) JavaScript
5 23 (76.67%) SQL
6 22 (73.33%) LINQ
7 20 (66.67%) Ruby
7 20 (66.67%) C
7 20 (66.67%) Linux
7 20 (66.67%) Microsoft
8 19 (63.33%) .NET Framework
9 18 (60.00%) AMQP
9 18 (60.00%) T-SQL
10 12 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 11 (36.67%) Finance
12 9 (30.00%) OO
13 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET
14 7 (23.33%) RabbitMQ
15 6 (20.00%) CRM
15 6 (20.00%) HTML
16 5 (16.67%) OOP
16 5 (16.67%) MVC
17 4 (13.33%) TDD
17 4 (13.33%) XML
17 4 (13.33%) XSLT
17 4 (13.33%) jQuery
18 3 (10.00%) Ajax
18 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
18 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 29 (96.67%) .NET
2 25 (83.33%) WCF
3 22 (73.33%) LINQ
4 19 (63.33%) .NET Framework
5 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET
6 7 (23.33%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (20.00%) HTML
8 4 (13.33%) XML
8 4 (13.33%) XSLT
8 4 (13.33%) jQuery
9 3 (10.00%) Ajax
9 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 3 (10.00%) CSS
10 1 (3.333%) HTML5
10 1 (3.333%) NHibernate
10 1 (3.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 1 (3.333%) REST
10 1 (3.333%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (10.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (60.00%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (90.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (83.33%) Developer
2 13 (43.33%) .NET Developer
3 11 (36.67%) Senior Developer
4 2 (6.667%) Software Developer
4 2 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Lead Software Developer
5 1 (3.333%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Agile C# Developer
5 1 (3.333%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (3.333%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (3.333%) C# Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Senior Software Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.333%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 20 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) OO
2 6 (20.00%) CRM
3 5 (16.67%) OOP
3 5 (16.67%) MVC
4 4 (13.33%) TDD
5 3 (10.00%) Scrum
6 2 (6.667%) Web Development
6 2 (6.667%) Unit Testing
6 2 (6.667%) Time Management
7 1 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) C#
2 23 (76.67%) JavaScript
2 23 (76.67%) SQL
3 20 (66.67%) Ruby
3 20 (66.67%) C
4 18 (60.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (6.667%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (66.67%) Microsoft