The first table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 23 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 50 50 57
Rank change year-on-year
0 +7
Permanent jobs citing WPF 12 8 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 2.158% 1.363% 0.366%
As % of the Application Development category 5.660% 3.493% 0.893%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 2
Average salary £22,500 £36,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.35% -3.94%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
212 229 224
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 38.13% 39.01% 40.95%
Number of salaries quoted 197 190 201
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +10.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
North East

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 23 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -2 12 £22,500 -37.06%
WPF
North East

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 18 (81.82%) .NET
2 17 (77.27%) ASP.NET
3 15 (68.18%) WinForms
3 15 (68.18%) WCF
4 13 (59.09%) MVC
5 12 (54.55%) TDD
5 12 (54.55%) C#
5 12 (54.55%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (40.91%) Dependency Injection
6 9 (40.91%) Ninject
6 9 (40.91%) Web Application Development
6 9 (40.91%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
6 9 (40.91%) MCP
6 9 (40.91%) MCAD
6 9 (40.91%) MCSD
6 9 (40.91%) Windows
6 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (40.91%) MCTS
7 8 (36.36%) .NET Framework
7 8 (36.36%) Scrum
7 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
7 8 (36.36%) HTML
7 8 (36.36%) MVVM
8 7 (31.82%) KnockoutJS
8 7 (31.82%) CSS
9 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
9 5 (22.73%) NUnit
9 5 (22.73%) Tandem
9 5 (22.73%) VB.NET

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 18 (81.82%) .NET
2 17 (77.27%) ASP.NET
3 15 (68.18%) WinForms
3 15 (68.18%) WCF
4 12 (54.55%) ASP.NET MVC
5 9 (40.91%) Ninject
5 9 (40.91%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 8 (36.36%) .NET Framework
6 8 (36.36%) HTML
7 7 (31.82%) KnockoutJS
7 7 (31.82%) CSS
8 5 (22.73%) Castle Windsor
8 5 (22.73%) Razor View Engine
8 5 (22.73%) Unity DI Container
8 5 (22.73%) Spring.NET
9 4 (18.18%) Node.js
10 3 (13.64%) JSON
10 3 (13.64%) Ajax
10 3 (13.64%) Web Services
10 3 (13.64%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) WordPress
1 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Photoshop
1 4 (18.18%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) NUnit
1 5 (22.73%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (22.73%) Moq
1 5 (22.73%) MSTest
2 2 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.545%) Xcode
General
1 4 (18.18%) Music
Job Titles
1 17 (77.27%) Developer
2 15 (68.18%) .NET Developer
3 6 (27.27%) C# Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Junior .NET Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Graduate Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Junior Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Junior
4 5 (22.73%) Graduate
4 5 (22.73%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (22.73%) Graduate .NET Developer
5 4 (18.18%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (18.18%) Designer
5 4 (18.18%) Web Designer
5 4 (18.18%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (13.64%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (4.545%) .NET Team Leader
7 1 (4.545%) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
1 5 (22.73%) Tandem
1 5 (22.73%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (22.73%) Inversion of Control
2 4 (18.18%) Visualisation
2 4 (18.18%) Streaming Music
3 2 (9.091%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 2 (9.091%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) MVC
2 12 (54.55%) TDD
3 9 (40.91%) Dependency Injection
3 9 (40.91%) Web Application Development
4 8 (36.36%) Scrum
4 8 (36.36%) MVVM
5 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (22.73%) Kanban
6 4 (18.18%) User Experience Design
6 4 (18.18%) Web Usability
6 4 (18.18%) Domain-Driven Design
6 4 (18.18%) Web Design
7 3 (13.64%) OOP
7 3 (13.64%) SOA
7 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
8 2 (9.091%) UML
8 2 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (4.545%) Migration
9 1 (4.545%) OO
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) C#
2 5 (22.73%) VB.NET
3 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 4 (18.18%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) C
3 4 (18.18%) VB
4 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
4 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (40.91%) MCP
1 9 (40.91%) MCAD
1 9 (40.91%) MCSD
1 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Certification
1 9 (40.91%) MCTS
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Adobe
3 3 (13.64%) Oracle