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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 50 64 42
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -22
Permanent jobs citing WPF 23 7 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 3.594% 1.133% 3.197%
As % of the Application Development category 7.541% 2.341% 7.317%
Number of salaries quoted 21 6 18
Average salary £37,500 £24,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+56.25% -46.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,000 £24,000 £32,200
10% offered a salary of more than £43,250 £28,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +4.16%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
305 299 246
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 47.66% 48.38% 43.69%
Number of salaries quoted 273 267 201
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,700 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WPF
West Midlands

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cannock - 17 £40,000 - 1
Burton-upon-Trent - 4 £34,000 -
Stoke-on-Trent +2 2 £32,500 +35.41%
WPF
West Midlands

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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%) .NET
2 32 (96.97%) SQL Server
3 28 (84.85%) C#
4 27 (81.82%) WCF
5 24 (72.73%) MVC
6 22 (66.67%) Scrum
7 21 (63.64%) ASP.NET
8 20 (60.61%) WinForms
9 19 (57.58%) ASP.NET MVC
10 18 (54.55%) MVVM
10 18 (54.55%) Windows
11 17 (51.52%) Dependency Injection
12 16 (48.48%) TDD
12 16 (48.48%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (45.45%) Kanban
13 15 (45.45%) MCTS
13 15 (45.45%) NUnit
13 15 (45.45%) MCP
13 15 (45.45%) MCAD
13 15 (45.45%) MCSD
13 15 (45.45%) Finance
13 15 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (45.45%) Inversion of Control
13 15 (45.45%) MSTest
13 15 (45.45%) Rhino Mocks
13 15 (45.45%) Moq
13 15 (45.45%) Castle Windsor
13 15 (45.45%) Ninject
13 15 (45.45%) Razor View Engine
13 15 (45.45%) Spring.NET

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (81.82%) WCF
3 21 (63.64%) ASP.NET
4 20 (60.61%) WinForms
5 19 (57.58%) ASP.NET MVC
6 15 (45.45%) Castle Windsor
6 15 (45.45%) Ninject
6 15 (45.45%) Razor View Engine
6 15 (45.45%) Spring.NET
6 15 (45.45%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 15 (45.45%) Unity DI Container
7 5 (15.15%) Middleware
8 4 (12.12%) HTML
9 3 (9.091%) jQuery
9 3 (9.091%) CSS
9 3 (9.091%) Web Services
9 3 (9.091%) XML
9 3 (9.091%) HTML5
10 2 (6.061%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 2 (6.061%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 3 (9.091%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (6.061%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.091%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (96.97%) SQL Server
2 7 (21.21%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (18.18%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 3 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (6.061%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (6.061%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 15 (45.45%) NUnit
1 15 (45.45%) MSTest
1 15 (45.45%) Rhino Mocks
1 15 (45.45%) Moq
2 8 (24.24%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (18.18%) MSBuild
4 4 (12.12%) Subversion
5 2 (6.061%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (3.030%) CruiseControl
General
1 15 (45.45%) Finance
Job Titles
1 32 (96.97%) Developer
2 27 (81.82%) .NET Developer
3 6 (18.18%) C# Developer
3 6 (18.18%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Software Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Web Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior Developer
5 4 (12.12%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (9.091%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (6.061%) C# Programmer
7 2 (6.061%) Programmer
7 2 (6.061%) Applications Developer
7 2 (6.061%) Software Engineer
7 2 (6.061%) Software Programmer
7 2 (6.061%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (6.061%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (6.061%) C# Web Developer
7 2 (6.061%) .NET Programmer
7 2 (6.061%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (6.061%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (45.45%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (9.091%) Computer Science
3 2 (6.061%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.030%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 18 (54.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (72.73%) MVC
2 22 (66.67%) Scrum
3 18 (54.55%) MVVM
4 17 (51.52%) Dependency Injection
5 16 (48.48%) TDD
5 16 (48.48%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (45.45%) Kanban
6 15 (45.45%) Web Application Development
7 4 (12.12%) OO
8 2 (6.061%) SOA
8 2 (6.061%) Service Management
8 2 (6.061%) UML
8 2 (6.061%) OOP
8 2 (6.061%) Unit Testing
8 2 (6.061%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (3.030%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (84.85%) C#
2 8 (24.24%) VB.NET
2 8 (24.24%) SQL
3 5 (15.15%) T-SQL
4 3 (9.091%) VB6
4 3 (9.091%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.091%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (45.45%) MCTS
1 15 (45.45%) MCP
1 15 (45.45%) MCAD
1 15 (45.45%) MCSD
1 15 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (6.061%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.061%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.061%) Oracle
Cannock, West Midlands
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013