The first part of the table below looks at the demand for WPF skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank1109188
Rank change year-on-year
Down-19Down-3
Matching permanent IT job ads283132232262
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK2.348 %2.629 %2.369 %
As % of the Application Development category5.616 %6.562 %6.212 %
Number of salaries quoted259528952046
Average salary£40,000£47,500£55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.78 %-13.63 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£29,000£30,000£32,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£82,500£87,500
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,250£36,000
% change year-on-year
+6.38 %-2.08 %
IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryAll Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
504084911936413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK41.80 %40.06 %38.14 %
Number of salaries quoted447934339731363
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£35,000£35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14 %-

WPF
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WPF within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WPF Demand Trend

WPF
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WPF within the UK.

WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WPF over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

WPF Salary Histogram

WPF
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-182751£40,000-20.00 %
LondonDown-491184£57,500-11.53 %
South EastDown-13529£37,500-
East of EnglandUp+45363£40,000+6.66 %
City of LondonDown-58266£62,500-7.40 %
CambridgeshireUp+22180£39,750+6.00 %
North WestUp+19178£32,500-7.14 %
YorkshireUp+34172£35,000+7.69 %
SurreyUp+4171£42,500+3.65 %
CambridgeUp+34160£40,000+6.66 %
BerkshireNo change0126£35,000-6.66 %
West MidlandsUp+17117£35,000+3.70 %
South WestUp+54116£32,500-7.14 %
East MidlandsUp+40115£37,500+7.14 %
West YorkshireUp+9100£37,500+13.63 %
LeedsUp+1478£40,000+15.10 %
ManchesterDown-1370£32,500-
BedfordshireUp+1363£47,500+26.66 %
NewburyUp+861£37,500-28.57 %
HertfordshireUp+4460£40,000-
BuckinghamshireDown-356£30,000-22.07 %
CheshireDown-154£32,000+12.28 %
Milton KeynesUp+1148£30,000-20.00 %
South YorkshireUp+1846£29,000-3.33 %
ScotlandUp+1446£37,500+10.70 %
HampshireDown-6546£35,000-6.66 %
GuildfordUp+1343£37,500-
SheffieldUp+2042£31,750+41.11 %
NottinghamshireUp+3941£38,000-10.58 %
LeicestershireUp+1540£40,000+3.89 %

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

15466 (95.11 %)C#
25016 (87.28 %).NET
33427 (59.63 %)SQL Server
42954 (51.40 %)WCF
52573 (44.77 %)ASP.NET
62255 (39.24 %)WinForms
71910 (33.23 %)SQL
81778 (30.94 %)Windows
91629 (28.35 %)Microsoft
101555 (27.06 %)TDD
111498 (26.07 %)Finance
121497 (26.05 %)Silverlight
131394 (24.26 %)SQL Server 2008
141352 (23.53 %)MVC
151298 (22.59 %)OO
161233 (21.45 %)Scrum
171228 (21.37 %)Degree
181139 (19.82 %).NET Framework
191123 (19.54 %)JavaScript
201057 (18.39 %)LINQ
211033 (17.97 %)Agile Software Development
221027 (17.87 %)Microsoft Certification
231003 (17.45 %)Web Services
24958 (16.67 %)XML
25949 (16.51 %)NUnit
26934 (16.25 %)VB.NET
27883 (15.36 %)CSS
28882 (15.35 %)ASP.NET MVC
29853 (14.84 %)HTML
30833 (14.49 %)MCP

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK 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.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15016 (87.28 %).NET
22954 (51.40 %)WCF
32573 (44.77 %)ASP.NET
42255 (39.24 %)WinForms
51497 (26.05 %)Silverlight
61139 (19.82 %).NET Framework
71057 (18.39 %)LINQ
81003 (17.45 %)Web Services
9958 (16.67 %)XML
10883 (15.36 %)CSS
11882 (15.35 %)ASP.NET MVC
12853 (14.84 %)HTML
13786 (13.68 %)NHibernate
14688 (11.97 %)Ajax
15615 (10.70 %)jQuery
16543 (9.448 %)ASP.NET MVC 3
17472 (8.213 %)Castle Windsor
18441 (7.674 %)Razor View Engine
19332 (5.777 %)WF
20286 (4.977 %)ADO.NET Entity Framework
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1515 (8.961 %)SharePoint
2229 (3.985 %)SharePoint Server
3169 (2.941 %)IIS
4128 (2.227 %)SharePoint 2010
5127 (2.210 %)BizTalk Server
656 (0.974 %)Oracle Coherence
755 (0.957 %)TIBCO EMS
849 (0.853 %)CMS
947 (0.818 %)MSMQ
1034 (0.592 %)Umbraco
1131 (0.539 %)Rendezvous
1227 (0.470 %)ActiveMQ
1323 (0.400 %)GemFire
1420 (0.348 %)SharePoint Foundation
1518 (0.313 %)ColdFusion
1616 (0.278 %)Amazon S3
1713 (0.226 %)Amazon EC2
1812 (0.209 %)RabbitMQ
1812 (0.209 %)Google App Engine
199 (0.157 %)Oracle Workflow
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1551 (9.588 %)MS Excel
2101 (1.757 %)MS Office
331 (0.539 %)MATLAB
427 (0.470 %)InfoPath
523 (0.400 %)MS Visio
614 (0.244 %)Photoshop
76 (0.104 %)Simulink
85 (0.087 %)MS PowerPoint
94 (0.070 %)Spreadsheet
94 (0.070 %)Adobe Illustrator
103 (0.052 %)Doxygen
112 (0.035 %)Fireworks
121 (0.017 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1118 (2.053 %)Dynamics CRM
225 (0.435 %)Pivotal CRM
316 (0.278 %)Summit
410 (0.174 %)ION MarketView
55 (0.087 %)Google Analytics
55 (0.087 %)Front Arena
55 (0.087 %)Dynamics AX
63 (0.052 %)Prophet
63 (0.052 %)SAP Business One
71 (0.017 %)Dynamics GP
71 (0.017 %)Kondor+
71 (0.017 %)Dynamics NAV
71 (0.017 %)Tridion
71 (0.017 %)Oracle ERP
71 (0.017 %)Oracle Applications
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1128 (2.227 %)Internet
278 (1.357 %)Broadband
373 (1.270 %)TCP/IP
457 (0.992 %)HTTP
524 (0.418 %)VoIP
620 (0.348 %)Firewall
620 (0.348 %)Intranet
717 (0.296 %)FTP
812 (0.209 %)Intrusion Detection
95 (0.087 %)Cisco ICM
95 (0.087 %)Cisco IOS
95 (0.087 %)Ethernet
103 (0.052 %)Kerberos
103 (0.052 %)SNMP
112 (0.035 %)GSM
112 (0.035 %)UMTS
112 (0.035 %)AMQP
112 (0.035 %)DNS
112 (0.035 %)CTI
112 (0.035 %)Extranet
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
13427 (59.63 %)SQL Server
21394 (24.26 %)SQL Server 2008
3612 (10.65 %)SQL Server 2005
4232 (4.037 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
5176 (3.062 %)SQL Server Integration Services
698 (1.705 %)Oracle 11g
788 (1.531 %)MySQL
881 (1.409 %)Oracle 10g
976 (1.322 %)RDBMS
1065 (1.131 %)Oracle 8/8i
1152 (0.905 %)SQL Server 2000
1247 (0.818 %)NoSQL
1340 (0.696 %)Crystal Reports
1437 (0.644 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1536 (0.626 %)ETL
1634 (0.592 %)SQLite
1733 (0.574 %)Data Warehouse
1829 (0.505 %)MS Access
1928 (0.487 %)Text Mining
1928 (0.487 %)Apache Cassandra
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1949 (16.51 %)NUnit
2803 (13.97 %)Visual Studio
3752 (13.09 %)Rhino Mocks
4433 (7.534 %)Subversion
5429 (7.465 %)Moq
6416 (7.239 %)Team Foundation Server
7137 (2.384 %)MSTest
8108 (1.879 %)TeamCity
964 (1.114 %)Cucumber
1060 (1.044 %)Visual Studio Team System
1159 (1.027 %)CruiseControl
1257 (0.992 %)ReSharper
1354 (0.940 %)Selenium
1451 (0.887 %)MSBuild
1544 (0.766 %)JIRA
1642 (0.731 %)MSI
1741 (0.713 %)Expression Blend
1837 (0.644 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1936 (0.626 %)Oracle Forms
2026 (0.452 %)NCover
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11498 (26.07 %)Finance
2661 (11.50 %)Banking
3616 (10.72 %)Front Office
4345 (6.003 %)Investment Banking
5210 (3.654 %)Telecoms
6166 (2.888 %)Games
7156 (2.714 %)Music
8119 (2.071 %)Retail
9116 (2.018 %)Marketing
1094 (1.636 %)Advertising
1148 (0.835 %)Back Office
1247 (0.818 %)Legal
1344 (0.766 %)Electronics
1441 (0.713 %)Financial Institution
1534 (0.592 %)Manufacturing
1534 (0.592 %)Music Industry
1632 (0.557 %)Publishing
1729 (0.505 %)Law
1822 (0.383 %)Automotive
1919 (0.331 %)Online Betting
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
14929 (85.77 %)Developer
22697 (46.93 %)C# Developer
32304 (40.09 %).NET Developer
41320 (22.97 %)C# .NET Developer
5732 (12.74 %)Senior Developer
6665 (11.57 %)Software Developer
7452 (7.865 %)ASP.NET Developer
8448 (7.795 %)Software Engineer
9434 (7.552 %)C# ASP.NET Developer
10399 (6.943 %)WPF Developer
11379 (6.595 %)Senior C# Developer
12283 (4.924 %)Senior .NET Developer
13238 (4.141 %)Junior
14227 (3.950 %)Junior Developer
15226 (3.932 %)C# Software Developer
16185 (3.219 %)C# Software Engineer
17181 (3.149 %)Graduate
18174 (3.028 %)Lead Developer
18174 (3.028 %)WinForms Developer
19163 (2.836 %)Web Developer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1595 (10.35 %)Computer Science
2291 (5.064 %)Derivative
3269 (4.681 %)Mathematics
4230 (4.002 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
5216 (3.758 %)N-Tier
6213 (3.706 %)Fixed Income
7208 (3.619 %)Hedge funds
8177 (3.080 %)Client/Server
9164 (2.854 %)Inversion of Control
10129 (2.245 %)Tandem
11123 (2.140 %)Equities
12106 (1.844 %)Physics
1376 (1.322 %)Equity Derivative
1376 (1.322 %)Embedded Systems
1471 (1.235 %)Credit Derivative
1566 (1.148 %)iPhone
1660 (1.044 %)IPTV
1753 (0.922 %)W3C
1842 (0.731 %)Blackberry
1937 (0.644 %)E-Learning
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11778 (30.94 %)Windows
282 (1.427 %)UNIX
368 (1.183 %)Android
458 (1.009 %)Linux
554 (0.940 %)Windows 7
642 (0.731 %)Windows XP
739 (0.679 %)Windows Server 2003
835 (0.609 %)Windows Vista
927 (0.470 %)Windows Server 2008
1023 (0.400 %)Apple iOS
1118 (0.313 %)Windows Phone 7
1118 (0.313 %)Solaris
1216 (0.278 %)Windows CE
1310 (0.174 %)Windows Mobile
149 (0.157 %)AIX
155 (0.087 %)Windows 2000
163 (0.052 %)Embedded Linux
172 (0.035 %)Windows 2000 Server
172 (0.035 %)Windows NT
181 (0.017 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11555 (27.06 %)TDD
21352 (23.53 %)MVC
31298 (22.59 %)OO
41233 (21.45 %)Scrum
51033 (17.97 %)Agile Software Development
6640 (11.14 %)Multithreading
7606 (10.54 %)MVVM
8602 (10.48 %)Web Application Development
9488 (8.491 %)Kanban
10483 (8.404 %)BDD
11474 (8.248 %)Unit Testing
12347 (6.038 %)Continuous Integration
13330 (5.742 %)Software Engineering
14285 (4.959 %)UML
15277 (4.820 %)Web Development
16244 (4.246 %)E-Commerce
17236 (4.106 %)OOD
18229 (3.985 %)Business Intelligence
19210 (3.654 %)OOP
20201 (3.497 %)Dependency Injection
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
15466 (95.11 %)C#
21910 (33.23 %)SQL
31123 (19.54 %)JavaScript
4934 (16.25 %)VB.NET
5780 (13.57 %)C++
6571 (9.936 %)T-SQL
7535 (9.309 %)Java
8427 (7.430 %)VB
9141 (2.453 %)C
10137 (2.384 %)XAML
11119 (2.071 %)Python
12105 (1.827 %)VBA
1385 (1.479 %)PL/SQL
1484 (1.462 %)Ruby
1583 (1.444 %)VB6
1679 (1.375 %)VC++
1763 (1.096 %)F#
1851 (0.887 %)Perl
1949 (0.853 %)Objective-C
2043 (0.748 %)XPath
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11228 (21.37 %)Degree
21027 (17.87 %)Microsoft Certification
3833 (14.49 %)MCP
4830 (14.44 %)MCTS
5829 (14.42 %)MCSD
6817 (14.22 %)MCAD
757 (0.992 %)Security Cleared
822 (0.383 %)MCPD
920 (0.348 %)SC Cleared
1013 (0.226 %)PhD
1110 (0.174 %)MCITP
1110 (0.174 %)ITIL Certification
129 (0.157 %)Sun Certification
129 (0.157 %)HNC
129 (0.157 %)HND
138 (0.139 %)MCDBA
138 (0.139 %)ISEB
145 (0.087 %)Postgraduate
154 (0.070 %)MCSE
154 (0.070 %)MBA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
178 (1.357 %)QA
222 (0.383 %)ISO 9001
316 (0.278 %)SLA
43 (0.052 %)ISO/IEC 27001
52 (0.035 %)TickIT
52 (0.035 %)ISO 9000
61 (0.017 %)ISO 14001
61 (0.017 %)WAI
61 (0.017 %)HL7
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
175 (1.305 %)Active Directory
29 (0.157 %)Hyper-V
29 (0.157 %)XenServer
29 (0.157 %)vSphere
32 (0.035 %)XenDesktop
32 (0.035 %)VMware Infrastructure
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
160 (1.044 %)SCCM
247 (0.818 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
343 (0.748 %)WMI
414 (0.244 %)SCVMM
55 (0.087 %)Cisco CUCM
63 (0.052 %)HP Quality Center
71 (0.017 %)SCOM
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11629 (28.35 %)Microsoft
2690 (12.01 %)Oracle
3113 (1.966 %)TIBCO
474 (1.288 %)Infragistics
571 (1.235 %)DevExpress
666 (1.148 %)DataSynapse
754 (0.940 %)Sybase
843 (0.748 %)Bloomberg
933 (0.574 %)JBoss
1031 (0.539 %)Google
1128 (0.487 %)Macromedia
1226 (0.452 %)Reuters
1325 (0.435 %)Sun
1422 (0.383 %)Symbian
1520 (0.348 %)ION Trading
1615 (0.261 %)Salesforce.com
1714 (0.244 %)Adobe
1714 (0.244 %)Perforce
1813 (0.226 %)IBM
1912 (0.209 %)Cognos