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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
Rank 35 39 50
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +11
Permanent jobs citing WPF 24 19 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Woking 6.316% 4.241% 2.715%
As % of the Application Development category 15.00% 12.18% 8.333%
Number of salaries quoted 22 19 12
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +60.00%
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £37,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+5.33% +4.16%
All Application Development
Woking
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
160 156 144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Woking 42.11% 34.82% 32.58%
Number of salaries quoted 143 149 122
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £32,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WPF
Surrey

WPF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking WPF Salary Trend

WPF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Woking 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 39 (100.00%) C#
1 39 (100.00%) .NET
2 37 (94.87%) SQL Server
3 35 (89.74%) MVVM
4 34 (87.18%) Scrum
5 29 (74.36%) ASP.NET
6 28 (71.79%) Windows
6 28 (71.79%) Web Application Development
7 27 (69.23%) WCF
7 27 (69.23%) TDD
7 27 (69.23%) MVC
8 26 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 26 (66.67%) NUnit
8 26 (66.67%) WinForms
8 26 (66.67%) VB
8 26 (66.67%) VB.NET
8 26 (66.67%) MCP
8 26 (66.67%) MCAD
8 26 (66.67%) MCSD
8 26 (66.67%) Kanban
8 26 (66.67%) MCTS
8 26 (66.67%) NHibernate
8 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 26 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
8 26 (66.67%) Moq
8 26 (66.67%) BDD
8 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 26 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
9 14 (35.90%) SQL Server 2012
9 14 (35.90%) SQL Server 2008

WPF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Woking 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 39 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (74.36%) ASP.NET
3 27 (69.23%) WCF
4 26 (66.67%) WinForms
4 26 (66.67%) NHibernate
4 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
4 26 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 26 (66.67%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (5.128%) CSS
5 2 (5.128%) Ajax
5 2 (5.128%) jQuery
6 1 (2.564%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.564%) SharePoint 2013
1 1 (2.564%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (2.564%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (94.87%) SQL Server
2 14 (35.90%) SQL Server 2012
2 14 (35.90%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.128%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (5.128%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 26 (66.67%) NUnit
1 26 (66.67%) Rhino Mocks
1 26 (66.67%) Moq
General
1 2 (5.128%) Electronics
2 1 (2.564%) Finance
2 1 (2.564%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 31 (79.49%) Developer
2 28 (71.79%) .NET Developer
3 7 (17.95%) Software Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) .NET Software Engineer
4 6 (15.38%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (5.128%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (5.128%) C# Developer
5 2 (5.128%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (5.128%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (2.564%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Software Developer
6 1 (2.564%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.564%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 28 (71.79%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (89.74%) MVVM
2 34 (87.18%) Scrum
3 28 (71.79%) Web Application Development
4 27 (69.23%) TDD
4 27 (69.23%) MVC
5 26 (66.67%) Kanban
5 26 (66.67%) BDD
6 8 (20.51%) OO
7 2 (5.128%) Multithreading
8 1 (2.564%) Data Transformation
8 1 (2.564%) Unit Testing
8 1 (2.564%) Database Tuning
8 1 (2.564%) OOP
8 1 (2.564%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (2.564%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 39 (100.00%) C#
2 26 (66.67%) VB
2 26 (66.67%) VB.NET
3 2 (5.128%) JavaScript
3 2 (5.128%) SQL
3 2 (5.128%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 26 (66.67%) MCP
1 26 (66.67%) MCAD
1 26 (66.67%) MCSD
1 26 (66.67%) MCTS
2 9 (23.08%) Degree
Woking, Surrey
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013