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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 92 81 101
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +20
Permanent jobs citing WPF 122 119 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 2.436% 2.621% 1.752%
As % of the Application Development category 6.004% 6.118% 4.678%
Number of salaries quoted 113 98 74
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +3.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £48,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2032 1945 1582
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.58% 42.84% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1815 1745 1445
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WPF
England

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Salary Histogram

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +16 31 £39,000 +56.00%
Staffordshire +21 24 £35,000 +9.37%
Worcestershire +6 16 £40,000 +60.00%
Coventry -8 15 £45,000 +20.00%
Birmingham -15 15 £47,000 +21.29%
Shropshire -9 8 £31,500 +16.66%
Wolverhampton - 3 £50,000 -
Herefordshire +11 2 £40,000 +15.94%
West Bromwich - 2 £50,000 -
Solihull -25 1 £47,000 +17.50%
Dudley - 1 - -
WPF
England

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 208 (94.55%) .NET
2 187 (85.00%) C#
3 158 (71.82%) SQL Server
4 140 (63.64%) WCF
5 138 (62.73%) ASP.NET
6 105 (47.73%) WinForms
6 105 (47.73%) MVC
7 94 (42.73%) JavaScript
8 85 (38.64%) Microsoft
9 76 (34.55%) CSS
10 75 (34.09%) Windows
11 65 (29.55%) .NET Framework
12 63 (28.64%) SQL
13 61 (27.73%) Silverlight
14 58 (26.36%) SharePoint
15 57 (25.91%) HTML
16 51 (23.18%) Scrum
17 50 (22.73%) Web Services
18 49 (22.27%) MVVM
19 48 (21.82%) jQuery
20 46 (20.91%) ASP.NET MVC
21 45 (20.45%) T-SQL
21 45 (20.45%) BizTalk Server
22 43 (19.55%) XML
22 43 (19.55%) LINQ
23 42 (19.09%) Web Development
23 42 (19.09%) Visual Studio
24 41 (18.64%) C++
25 40 (18.18%) Ajax
26 36 (16.36%) VB.NET

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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
1 208 (94.55%) .NET
2 140 (63.64%) WCF
3 138 (62.73%) ASP.NET
4 105 (47.73%) WinForms
5 76 (34.55%) CSS
6 65 (29.55%) .NET Framework
7 61 (27.73%) Silverlight
8 57 (25.91%) HTML
9 50 (22.73%) Web Services
10 48 (21.82%) jQuery
11 46 (20.91%) ASP.NET MVC
12 43 (19.55%) XML
12 43 (19.55%) LINQ
13 40 (18.18%) Ajax
14 35 (15.91%) CSS3
15 32 (14.55%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 28 (12.73%) DHTML
17 24 (10.91%) HTML5
18 22 (10.00%) Razor View Engine
19 21 (9.545%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 58 (26.36%) SharePoint
2 45 (20.45%) BizTalk Server
3 27 (12.27%) SharePoint 2010
4 20 (9.091%) SharePoint Server
5 13 (5.909%) IIS
6 12 (5.455%) SharePoint Foundation
7 11 (5.000%) Tomcat
7 11 (5.000%) Apache
8 3 (1.364%) ESB
9 1 (0.455%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.455%) MS Project Server
9 1 (0.455%) Umbraco
9 1 (0.455%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 22 (10.00%) InfoPath
2 12 (5.455%) MS Office
3 8 (3.636%) MS Excel
4 4 (1.818%) Photoshop
4 4 (1.818%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 20 (9.091%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.909%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.909%) Agresso
3 1 (0.455%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.182%) LDAP
2 4 (1.818%) HTTP
3 1 (0.455%) Intranet
3 1 (0.455%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 158 (71.82%) SQL Server
2 34 (15.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 32 (14.55%) SQL Server 2008
4 24 (10.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 21 (9.545%) SQL Server 2005
6 13 (5.909%) MySQL
7 4 (1.818%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (1.364%) Big Data
8 3 (1.364%) SQL Server 2012
9 2 (0.909%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.909%) Firebird
9 2 (0.909%) GIS
10 1 (0.455%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 42 (19.09%) Visual Studio
2 35 (15.91%) Team Foundation Server
3 30 (13.64%) NUnit
4 20 (9.091%) MSBuild
5 17 (7.727%) Rhino Mocks
6 16 (7.273%) Moq
6 16 (7.273%) MSTest
7 14 (6.364%) CruiseControl
8 12 (5.455%) Visual Studio Team System
9 7 (3.182%) Subversion
10 5 (2.273%) Expression Blend
11 4 (1.818%) Dreamweaver
12 2 (0.909%) Git (software)
12 2 (0.909%) Oracle Forms
12 2 (0.909%) VSS/SourceSafe
13 1 (0.455%) Hudson
General
1 30 (13.64%) Finance
2 13 (5.909%) Aerospace
2 13 (5.909%) Automotive
2 13 (5.909%) Manufacturing
3 6 (2.727%) Marketing
4 3 (1.364%) Games
5 2 (0.909%) Music
5 2 (0.909%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.455%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 197 (89.55%) Developer
2 112 (50.91%) .NET Developer
3 72 (32.73%) C# Developer
4 47 (21.36%) C# .NET Developer
5 37 (16.82%) Software Developer
6 32 (14.55%) Senior Developer
7 25 (11.36%) ASP.NET Developer
8 24 (10.91%) Web Developer
9 22 (10.00%) Software Engineer
9 22 (10.00%) SharePoint Developer
10 21 (9.545%) Senior .NET Developer
10 21 (9.545%) .NET Web Developer
11 18 (8.182%) C# ASP.NET Developer
12 17 (7.727%) C# Software Developer
13 15 (6.818%) Front-End Developer
13 15 (6.818%) WPF Developer
14 14 (6.364%) .NET Software Developer
15 11 (5.000%) Senior C# Developer
15 11 (5.000%) Senior SharePoint Developer
16 8 (3.636%) VB.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 24 (10.91%) Computer Science
2 17 (7.727%) Inversion of Control
3 15 (6.818%) Mathematics
4 13 (5.909%) Mobile App
5 12 (5.455%) Visualisation
6 8 (3.636%) Enterprise Software
7 7 (3.182%) Smartcard
7 7 (3.182%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.818%) Graphic Design
8 4 (1.818%) Photography
9 1 (0.455%) Replication
9 1 (0.455%) 3D Graphics
9 1 (0.455%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.455%) Blog
9 1 (0.455%) Streaming Music
9 1 (0.455%) iPhone
9 1 (0.455%) Open Source
9 1 (0.455%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 75 (34.09%) Windows
2 20 (9.091%) Solaris
2 20 (9.091%) UNIX
2 20 (9.091%) OpenVMS
3 12 (5.455%) Apple iOS
4 11 (5.000%) Linux
5 5 (2.273%) Android
6 3 (1.364%) Windows CE
7 2 (0.909%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (47.73%) MVC
2 51 (23.18%) Scrum
3 49 (22.27%) MVVM
4 42 (19.09%) Web Development
5 35 (15.91%) Agile Software Development
6 33 (15.00%) TDD
6 33 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (9.091%) Dependency Injection
8 17 (7.727%) UML
8 17 (7.727%) PRINCE
8 17 (7.727%) Web Application Development
8 17 (7.727%) Automation Testing
9 16 (7.273%) Kanban
9 16 (7.273%) OO
10 15 (6.818%) Multithreading
11 13 (5.909%) OOA/OOD
11 13 (5.909%) CAD
11 13 (5.909%) User Experience Design
12 12 (5.455%) MSF
12 12 (5.455%) Unified Process
Programming Languages
1 187 (85.00%) C#
2 94 (42.73%) JavaScript
3 63 (28.64%) SQL
4 45 (20.45%) T-SQL
5 41 (18.64%) C++
6 36 (16.36%) VB.NET
7 24 (10.91%) VB
8 18 (8.182%) Java
9 17 (7.727%) PL/SQL
10 16 (7.273%) PHP
11 15 (6.818%) XAML
12 14 (6.364%) VC++
13 13 (5.909%) Delphi
14 12 (5.455%) VB6
15 11 (5.000%) Python
15 11 (5.000%) Perl
16 4 (1.818%) C
17 1 (0.455%) F#
Qualifications
1 22 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 22 (10.00%) Degree
2 18 (8.182%) MCP
3 17 (7.727%) MCAD
3 17 (7.727%) MCSD
3 17 (7.727%) MCTS
4 13 (5.909%) SC Cleared
4 13 (5.909%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.909%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.636%) TickIT
1 8 (3.636%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.818%) QA
Vendors
1 85 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 24 (10.91%) Adobe
3 22 (10.00%) SAP
4 7 (3.182%) Apple
5 6 (2.727%) Oracle
6 1 (0.455%) Facebook
6 1 (0.455%) Avaya
6 1 (0.455%) Epicor
Solihull, West Midlands
The Senior Developer (C#, .NET & WPF) must have good knowledge of C# and .Net and have a strong academic background... The Senior Developer (C#, .NET & WPF) will be...
Boston Capel
Salary: Depending on experience
Posted: 23 May 2013
Lichfield, West Midlands
You will be joining an experienced team of developers working on various large scale projects for a retained client list utilising your skills in C#, OOP, ASP.Net,...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 5 May 2013
Warwick, West Midlands
C# Developer/ Software Developer - Warwick, Warwickshire - £35k - Excellent Role & Company!C#, WPF, Silverlight, ASP.Net, SQL SERVER, WCF, Developer.This market leading organisation are looking to add a...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £32000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits, Flexi Time
Posted: 10 May 2013
Warwick, West Midlands
C# Developer/ Software Developer/ Programmer C#,WPF, Silverlight, ASP.net, SQL SERVER This market leading organisation are looking to add a C#.net Developer (WPF, WCF, ASP.net &...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £32000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits, Flexi Time
Posted: 1 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
C# Developers: WPF & Asp.Net Requirements... The Job The successful candidates will be possess strong knowledge in OOP techniques and will specialised in the development of either C#/...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Staffordshire
C# Developers: WPF & Asp.Net Requirements... The Job The successful candidates will be possess strong knowledge in OOP techniques and will specialised in the development of either C#/...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013
Cannock, Staffordshire
C# Developers: WPF & Asp.Net Requirements... The Job The successful candidates will be possess strong knowledge in OOP techniques and will specialised in the development of either C#/...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands
The 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 or...
Boston Capel
Salary: Depending on experience
Posted: 23 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
Net Developer (C#, SQL, WPF, WCF, ASP.Net) Location: Warwick... WPF/Silverlight. WCF/Web Services... SQL Server 2005/2008 including: Stored Procedures... Desirable skills: MVVM/MVC. SSIS/SSRS...
Hamlin Knight
Salary: Up to £36,000 per annum flexible working, development
Posted: 22 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
In terms of the projects lined up, most of this year will be spent on desktop type work using C# WPF, WCF, MSMQ technologies with the majority of...
Executive Resource Group
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum 25 days holiday, Private health, Dea
Posted: 20 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Being a Microsoft Gold partner the client works with the newest technologies - ASP.NET 4, WPF, WCF, Apple (IPad and IPhone application work), HTML 5 etc and offer...
Robert Walters
Salary: £20000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Burton-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Windows Forms design experience. Degree level education in IT subject. Awareness of N-Tier architecture. SQL Language - practical experience with SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE... DB creation/modification using...
Blues Point Ltd
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + benefits inc pension, bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
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 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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: 21 May 2013
Cannock, Staffordshire
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),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Worcestershire
Multithreaded development... - Practical MVVM experience. - Automation testing experience... javascript, css html, css3 and javascript, javascript, sql, web development, html, html/css/js, html/css/js, html/css, html/...
Big Red Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Midlands
This is a fantastic opportunity to join the Web Development team of an exciting FTSE 100 listed business and household brand.The successful Web Developer will need to...
Amoria Bond
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum + Pension, Healthcare and various perks
Posted: 23 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Our client is seeking a Web Application Developer you will have a background in software development working in Microsoft environments.
Hudson
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
providing predictive modelling and marketing automation technology... quality computer science graduate or equivalent experience... You will be using .NET, Windows Presentation Foundation, Expression Blend, Visual Studio, C#, etc.....
RecruitmentRevolution.com Limited
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + 8% pension contribution + Profit S
Posted: 22 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Web technologies - ASP.NET MVC3 with Razor running on IIS JavaScript and the jQuery framework The .Net Developer (ASP / VB / SQL) role would suit a candidate that likes...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Computer science background (OO design, design patterns, algorithms) Development experience in C#... Development experience of VB.NET and WPF. Good working knowledge of VB6... Exposure to WCF, SOA,...
Ticketmaster UK
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 15 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
Software Engineer, C#, Visual C++, C++, .Net, Maths, Agile/Scrum, Aerospace/Manufacturing/Automotive, Analyst Programmer/Software Developer - Birmingham, 40-55K + Bens... Technical skills required: C#/.Net or Visual...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
We have a clear picture of the person we are looking for: You have worked on projects involving C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, XML/XSL, COM,...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum plus bonus & benefits package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Warwickshire
Proficient in Objective C or C# Experience of agile development methodologies... computer science, computer games, maths, science) iOS, Android, Window Phone or interactive touch screen development experience... Database...
Tinderstone
Salary: From £24,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Warwickshire
Highly proficient in Objective C or C# Experienced scrum master... computer science, computer games, maths, science) iOS, Android, Window Phone or interactive touch screen development experience... Database Technology -...
Tinderstone
Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Leamington Spa, West Midlands
Have experience in user experience design. - Previous experience of project management from concept to completion. - Have a degree in the field of web/graphic design and a strong...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £37000 - £41000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013
Warwickshire
Experienced scrum master... computer science, computer games, maths, science) iOS, Android, Window Phone or interactive touch screen development experience... SQLLite, MS SQL or MongoDB/Redis... MVC, WPF, WCF.....
Tinderstone
Salary: From £50,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
have a picture of the person we are looking for: You have worked on projects involving C# or VB, ASP.NET, XML/XSL, COM, DHTML, XAML,CSS, JavaScript,...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum plus bonus & benefits package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Warwickshire
Proficient in Objective C or C# 2:1 or above in a relevant degree (e.g. computer science, computer games, maths, science) iOS, Android, Window Phone or interactive...
Tinderstone
Salary: From £18,000 to £24,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013