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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 75 112 116
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +4
Permanent jobs citing WPF 84 44 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 2.669% 1.274% 1.234%
As % of the Application Development category 6.442% 3.682% 3.632%
Number of salaries quoted 56 38 26
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £33,875
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +10.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1304 1195 1184
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 41.44% 34.59% 33.98%
Number of salaries quoted 798 958 875
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
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 Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Glasgow +3 50 £47,500 +23.37%
Aberdeen +21 21 £41,250 -8.33%
Edinburgh +3 9 £42,500 +21.42%
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
Fife - 1 £35,000 -
West Lothian - 1 £32,500 -
WPF
UK

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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.

1 140 (100.00%) C#
2 101 (72.14%) .NET
3 64 (45.71%) WCF
4 53 (37.86%) SQL Server
5 46 (32.86%) Microsoft
6 45 (32.14%) ASP.NET
7 44 (31.43%) C++
7 44 (31.43%) WinForms
8 42 (30.00%) Finance
9 39 (27.86%) Java
10 35 (25.00%) Windows
10 35 (25.00%) MVC
11 34 (24.29%) ASP.NET MVC
12 33 (23.57%) TDD
13 29 (20.71%) .NET Framework
14 27 (19.29%) LINQ
15 24 (17.14%) Computer Science
15 24 (17.14%) Front Office
15 24 (17.14%) JavaScript
16 23 (16.43%) Banking
17 21 (15.00%) SQL
17 21 (15.00%) Unit Testing
18 20 (14.29%) Degree
18 20 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
19 19 (13.57%) OO
19 19 (13.57%) XML
19 19 (13.57%) SQL Server 2008
20 17 (12.14%) Subversion
21 16 (11.43%) Visual Studio
22 15 (10.71%) Software Engineering

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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
1 101 (72.14%) .NET
2 64 (45.71%) WCF
3 45 (32.14%) ASP.NET
4 44 (31.43%) WinForms
5 34 (24.29%) ASP.NET MVC
6 29 (20.71%) .NET Framework
7 27 (19.29%) LINQ
8 19 (13.57%) XML
9 10 (7.143%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 10 (7.143%) Silverlight
9 10 (7.143%) COM+
10 9 (6.429%) HTML
10 9 (6.429%) jQuery
10 9 (6.429%) Ninject
11 8 (5.714%) ASP.NET 2.0
12 7 (5.000%) SOAP
12 7 (5.000%) WebSphere
12 7 (5.000%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 6 (4.286%) CSS
13 6 (4.286%) MFC
Application Platforms
1 10 (7.143%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.000%) WebSphere MQ
2 7 (5.000%) TIBCO EMS
3 3 (2.143%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (1.429%) Windows Azure
5 1 (0.714%) MSMQ
5 1 (0.714%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.714%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (3.571%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.571%) LAN
1 5 (3.571%) Ethernet
2 3 (2.143%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (37.86%) SQL Server
2 19 (13.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (4.286%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (4.286%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (3.571%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (2.857%) DB2
6 1 (0.714%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.714%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 17 (12.14%) Subversion
2 16 (11.43%) Visual Studio
3 8 (5.714%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (2.857%) Rhino Mocks
4 4 (2.857%) Moq
4 4 (2.857%) MSTest
4 4 (2.857%) NUnit
5 2 (1.429%) Git (software)
5 2 (1.429%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.714%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 1 (0.714%) Oracle Forms
General
1 42 (30.00%) Finance
2 24 (17.14%) Front Office
3 23 (16.43%) Banking
4 9 (6.429%) Investment Banking
5 7 (5.000%) Games
6 6 (4.286%) Private Banking
6 6 (4.286%) Advertising
7 5 (3.571%) Electronics
7 5 (3.571%) Music
8 4 (2.857%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.714%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 117 (83.57%) Developer
2 50 (35.71%) .NET Developer
2 50 (35.71%) C# Developer
3 25 (17.86%) WPF Developer
4 21 (15.00%) Software Developer
5 18 (12.86%) Software Engineer
6 15 (10.71%) Front Office Developer
7 14 (10.00%) Senior Developer
8 12 (8.571%) Microsoft Developer
9 9 (6.429%) C# .NET Developer
10 7 (5.000%) .NET Software Developer
11 6 (4.286%) Technical Leader
11 6 (4.286%) .NET Software Engineer
12 5 (3.571%) Senior Software Developer
12 5 (3.571%) Senior .NET Developer
13 4 (2.857%) Programmer
13 4 (2.857%) Lead Developer
14 3 (2.143%) Senior C# Developer
14 3 (2.143%) C++ Developer
14 3 (2.143%) WinForms Developer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (17.14%) Computer Science
2 14 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 13 (9.286%) Derivative
4 11 (7.857%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (6.429%) Fixed Income
5 9 (6.429%) Mathematics
6 8 (5.714%) Equities
7 5 (3.571%) Streaming Music
7 5 (3.571%) Visualisation
7 5 (3.571%) CUDA
8 4 (2.857%) Physics
8 4 (2.857%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 4 (2.857%) Credit Derivative
9 3 (2.143%) Inversion of Control
10 2 (1.429%) SaaS
10 2 (1.429%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 35 (25.00%) Windows
2 12 (8.571%) UNIX
3 4 (2.857%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (25.00%) MVC
2 33 (23.57%) TDD
3 21 (15.00%) Unit Testing
4 19 (13.57%) OO
5 15 (10.71%) Software Engineering
6 14 (10.00%) Electronic Trading
6 14 (10.00%) Multithreading
7 13 (9.286%) MVVM
8 12 (8.571%) Scrum
9 9 (6.429%) Agile Software Development
10 8 (5.714%) Dependency Injection
11 7 (5.000%) Web Application Development
12 6 (4.286%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (4.286%) Investment Management
13 5 (3.571%) CRM
13 5 (3.571%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (3.571%) Domain-Driven Design
14 4 (2.857%) Analytics
14 4 (2.857%) Business Analysis
14 4 (2.857%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (100.00%) C#
2 44 (31.43%) C++
3 39 (27.86%) Java
4 24 (17.14%) JavaScript
5 21 (15.00%) SQL
6 14 (10.00%) VB
7 8 (5.714%) VB6
7 8 (5.714%) Perl
8 6 (4.286%) Python
9 5 (3.571%) C
9 5 (3.571%) VC++
10 4 (2.857%) Bash shell
10 4 (2.857%) F#
10 4 (2.857%) Korn
11 2 (1.429%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.714%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 20 (14.29%) Degree
1 20 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (7.143%) MCP
3 8 (5.714%) MCSD
4 7 (5.000%) MCAD
4 7 (5.000%) MCTS
5 4 (2.857%) MCPD
Vendors
1 46 (32.86%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.00%) Sybase
3 7 (5.000%) TIBCO
4 5 (3.571%) ION Trading
5 4 (2.857%) Infragistics
6 2 (1.429%) MarketAxess
6 2 (1.429%) Tradeweb
6 2 (1.429%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.714%) Oracle
7 1 (0.714%) Wall Street Systems
Edinburgh, Scotland
They are looking for an Agile Senior .NET Developer (C#/WPF/UI Design) to come in and add something to an already talented and highly technical team.The...
Annapurna HR
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
The successful candidate will have a degree in Computing, Software Engineering or equivalent and will have solid commercial experience of C#, WPF and WinForms. If you have experience...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £35000 - £53000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Senior Software Developer / Lead Software Developer (C# / WPF / WinForms) Reed's client, a market leading company based in Aberdeen, is looking to recruit a Senior Developer on a...
Reed Technology
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Neg DOE
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Lothian, Scotland
The Junior Developer must have good knowledge of at least one Microsoft visual programming language (C#, .Net, VB etc) as well as experience with relational databases and MySQL...
Boston Capel
Salary: £18k to £25k depending on experience
Posted: 25 May 2013
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013