The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stockport region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 17 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 Stockport region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 35 32 34
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +2
Permanent jobs citing WPF 8 2 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 3.941% 1.020% 3.867%
As % of the Application Development category 5.333% 1.869% 6.087%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 7
Average salary £32,500 £28,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.07% -11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.63%
All Application Development
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
150 107 115
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 73.89% 54.59% 63.54%
Number of salaries quoted 150 96 107
Average salary £32,500 £32,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £19,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
Manchester

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
1 16 (100.00%) C#
2 15 (93.75%) SQL Server
2 15 (93.75%) WinForms
3 14 (87.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 14 (87.50%) ASP.NET
3 14 (87.50%) MVC
3 14 (87.50%) Windows
3 14 (87.50%) MVVM
3 14 (87.50%) WCF
4 13 (81.25%) Rhino Mocks
4 13 (81.25%) Moq
4 13 (81.25%) Castle Windsor
4 13 (81.25%) Ninject
4 13 (81.25%) Razor View Engine
4 13 (81.25%) Web Application Development
4 13 (81.25%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 13 (81.25%) Unity DI Container
4 13 (81.25%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (81.25%) Scrum
4 13 (81.25%) MCP
4 13 (81.25%) MCAD
4 13 (81.25%) MCSD
4 13 (81.25%) Dependency Injection
4 13 (81.25%) Inversion of Control
4 13 (81.25%) MSTest
4 13 (81.25%) Continuous Integration
4 13 (81.25%) Kanban
4 13 (81.25%) Spring.NET
4 13 (81.25%) TDD

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (93.75%) WinForms
3 14 (87.50%) ASP.NET
3 14 (87.50%) WCF
3 14 (87.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 13 (81.25%) Castle Windsor
4 13 (81.25%) Ninject
4 13 (81.25%) Razor View Engine
4 13 (81.25%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 13 (81.25%) Unity DI Container
4 13 (81.25%) Spring.NET
5 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (6.250%) WF
5 1 (6.250%) LINQ
5 1 (6.250%) CSS
5 1 (6.250%) Ajax
5 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (93.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (81.25%) NUnit
1 13 (81.25%) MSTest
1 13 (81.25%) Rhino Mocks
1 13 (81.25%) Moq
2 1 (6.250%) Subversion
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
1 2 (12.50%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (93.75%) .NET Developer
3 1 (6.250%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (81.25%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 14 (87.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) MVC
1 14 (87.50%) MVVM
2 13 (81.25%) Web Application Development
2 13 (81.25%) Continuous Integration
2 13 (81.25%) Kanban
2 13 (81.25%) Dependency Injection
2 13 (81.25%) Scrum
2 13 (81.25%) TDD
3 2 (12.50%) Practice Management
4 1 (6.250%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (12.50%) VB
2 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
2 2 (12.50%) VB6
Qualifications
1 13 (81.25%) MCP
1 13 (81.25%) MCAD
1 13 (81.25%) MCSD
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft Certification
1 13 (81.25%) MCTS
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) Telerik
Stockport, North West
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Posted: 15 May 2013