WPF Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for WPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WPF over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) UK / England
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	241	374	258
Rank change year-on-year	+133	-116
Contract jobs citing WPF	405	274	448
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.95%	0.55%	0.88%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	2.96%	1.91%	3.16%
Number of daily rates quoted	300	211	322
Median daily rate	£513	£500	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.50%	+11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£325	£310
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£625	£638
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£350	£340
% change year-on-year	-	+2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted	24	2	4
Median hourly rate	£47.83	£41.25	£45.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+15.95%	-8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£40.00	£38.25	£23.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.70	£44.25	£49.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£45.00	£41.25	£34.38
% change year-on-year	+9.09%	+20.00%

WPF is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills England
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	13677	14326	14175
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	32.21%	29.02%	27.78%
Number of daily rates quoted	9502	10197	9645
Median daily rate	£450	£425	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.88%	+9.67%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£588	£570	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£398	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.00%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	184	167	191
Median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£37.23
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+18.05%	-3.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£21.85	£18.80	£17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£50.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£40.00
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-10.00%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing WPF as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category.

WPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing WPF in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for WPF in England

WPF
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing WPF in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for WPF in England

WPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for WPF in England

WPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing WPF in England over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for WPF in England

WPF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the England region over the 3 months to 24 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	+64	255	£563	-1.31%	69
South West	+36	41	£325	-9.09%	10
South East	+27	31	£400	+2.56%	31
East Midlands	-6	19	£368	-13.52%	12
West Midlands	+40	17	£335	-20.00%	15
North West	+31	17	£339	-3.21%	17
East of England	+1	16	£410	+17.14%	16
North East	-	4	£450	-	2
Yorkshire	+10	3	£320	-1.53%	12
WPF UK

WPF
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing WPF also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for WPF.

1	722 (93.28%)	C#
2	575 (74.29%)	.NET
3	316 (40.83%)	SQL Server
4	284 (36.69%)	SQL
5	267 (34.50%)	WCF
6	257 (33.20%)	Agile Software Development
7	254 (32.82%)	MVVM
8	242 (31.27%)	TDD
9	193 (24.94%)	Finance
10	189 (24.42%)	MVC
11	176 (22.74%)	ASP.NET
12	165 (21.32%)	Front Office
13	153 (19.77%)	Banking
13	153 (19.77%)	Microsoft
14	152 (19.64%)	HTML

15	147 (18.99%)	Multithreading
16	143 (18.48%)	JavaScript
17	129 (16.67%)	WinForms
18	120 (15.50%)	Oracle
19	113 (14.60%)	Unit Testing
19	113 (14.60%)	.NET Framework
20	103 (13.31%)	Scrum
21	102 (13.18%)	Java
22	101 (13.05%)	Team Foundation Server
23	100 (12.92%)	ASP.NET Web API
24	99 (12.79%)	OO
25	91 (11.76%)	Windows
26	90 (11.63%)	Dependency Injection
27	88 (11.37%)	CSS
27	88 (11.37%)	Software Engineering

WPF
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	21 (2.71%)	NServiceBus
2	16 (2.07%)	SharePoint
3	12 (1.55%)	ArcGIS
4	11 (1.42%)	Apache Spark
5	10 (1.29%)	Oracle Coherence
6	7 (0.90%)	CMS
7	5 (0.65%)	IIS
8	4 (0.52%)	Tomcat
9	3 (0.39%)	Sitecore CMS
9	3 (0.39%)	ThingWorx
9	3 (0.39%)	WebLogic
9	3 (0.39%)	WebSphere
10	2 (0.26%)	Confluence
10	2 (0.26%)	Oracle SOA Suite
10	2 (0.26%)	Umbraco
11	1 (0.13%)	Elasticsearch
11	1 (0.13%)	EPiServer
11	1 (0.13%)	SAS
11	1 (0.13%)	SharePoint 2010
11	1 (0.13%)	SharePoint 2013

Applications
1	15 (1.94%)	Microsoft Excel
2	8 (1.03%)	Microsoft Office
3	2 (0.26%)	Photoshop
4	1 (0.13%)	Adobe Illustrator
4	1 (0.13%)	MS Visio
4	1 (0.13%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	25 (3.23%)	ION MarketView
2	15 (1.94%)	RMDS
3	5 (0.65%)	Dynamics CRM
4	2 (0.26%)	thinkFolio
5	1 (0.13%)	Bloomberg AIM
5	1 (0.13%)	Dynamics AX
5	1 (0.13%)	Endur
5	1 (0.13%)	Magento
5	1 (0.13%)	Markit EDM
5	1 (0.13%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	32 (4.13%)	Microsoft Azure
2	7 (0.90%)	Cloud Computing
3	5 (0.65%)	Amazon AWS
4	3 (0.39%)	OpenShift
4	3 (0.39%)	PaaS
5	1 (0.13%)	Amazon EC2
5	1 (0.13%)	Amazon S3
5	1 (0.13%)	AWS CloudFormation
5	1 (0.13%)	GitHub

Communications & Networking
1	10 (1.29%)	Link 16
2	8 (1.03%)	AMQP
3	5 (0.65%)	TCP/IP
4	3 (0.39%)	RS-232
5	2 (0.26%)	Remote Desktop
5	2 (0.26%)	Wi-Fi
6	1 (0.13%)	DNS
6	1 (0.13%)	Ethernet
6	1 (0.13%)	HTTP
6	1 (0.13%)	HTTPS
6	1 (0.13%)	NetScaler
6	1 (0.13%)	NFC
6	1 (0.13%)	PPP
6	1 (0.13%)	SMPP
6	1 (0.13%)	snoop
6	1 (0.13%)	SSL
6	1 (0.13%)	WPA

Database & Business Intelligence
1	316 (40.83%)	SQL Server
2	42 (5.43%)	Relational Database
3	36 (4.65%)	NoSQL
3	36 (4.65%)	SQL Server 2008
4	31 (4.01%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	30 (3.88%)	Oracle Database
6	27 (3.49%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
7	21 (2.71%)	Big Data
8	19 (2.45%)	SQL Server 2016
9	16 (2.07%)	MongoDB
9	16 (2.07%)	SQL Server 2012
10	13 (1.68%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	12 (1.55%)	Redis
11	12 (1.55%)	SQL Server 2005
12	11 (1.42%)	MySQL
12	11 (1.42%)	RDBMS
13	10 (1.29%)	Power BI
14	9 (1.16%)	Oracle Database 10g
15	8 (1.03%)	Azure SQL Database
15	8 (1.03%)	SQL Server 2000

Development Applications
1	101 (13.05%)	Team Foundation Server
2	72 (9.30%)	NUnit
3	68 (8.79%)	Visual Studio
4	33 (4.26%)	Mockito
5	32 (4.13%)	Git (software)
6	24 (3.10%)	JUnit
7	23 (2.97%)	Subversion
8	22 (2.84%)	TestNG
9	21 (2.71%)	Moq
10	20 (2.58%)	SpecFlow
11	19 (2.45%)	ReSharper
12	18 (2.33%)	MSBuild
13	17 (2.20%)	JIRA
14	15 (1.94%)	Maven
14	15 (1.94%)	MSTest
14	15 (1.94%)	TeamCity
15	14 (1.81%)	Jenkins
16	11 (1.42%)	Gradle
17	9 (1.16%)	AccuRev
17	9 (1.16%)	Axure RP

General
1	193 (24.94%)	Finance
2	165 (21.32%)	Front Office
3	153 (19.77%)	Banking
4	76 (9.82%)	Investment Banking
5	18 (2.33%)	Back Office
5	18 (2.33%)	Marketing
6	13 (1.68%)	Advertising
7	10 (1.29%)	Avionics
7	10 (1.29%)	Manufacturing
7	10 (1.29%)	Military
8	4 (0.52%)	Automotive
9	3 (0.39%)	Digital Economy
9	3 (0.39%)	Financial Institution
9	3 (0.39%)	Legal
10	2 (0.26%)	Billing
10	2 (0.26%)	Electronics
10	2 (0.26%)	Games
10	2 (0.26%)	Publishing
11	1 (0.13%)	Aerospace
11	1 (0.13%)	Telecoms

Job Titles
1	676 (87.34%)	Developer
2	463 (59.82%)	C# Developer
3	322 (41.60%)	WPF Developer
4	260 (33.59%)	.NET Developer
5	250 (32.30%)	C# WPF Developer
6	152 (19.64%)	C# .NET Developer
7	73 (9.43%)	Senior Developer
8	56 (7.24%)	UI Developer
9	55 (7.11%)	Software Developer
9	55 (7.11%)	SQL Developer
10	53 (6.85%)	WCF Developer
11	50 (6.46%)	WinForms Developer
12	48 (6.20%)	Senior C# Developer
13	43 (5.56%)	ASP.NET Developer
13	43 (5.56%)	C# WCF Developer
14	40 (5.17%)	Front Office Developer
15	36 (4.65%)	Angular Developer
16	35 (4.52%)	C# Developer - Electronic Trading
16	35 (4.52%)	Electronic Trading Developer
16	35 (4.52%)	Java Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	575 (74.29%)	.NET
2	267 (34.50%)	WCF
3	176 (22.74%)	ASP.NET
4	152 (19.64%)	HTML
5	129 (16.67%)	WinForms
6	113 (14.60%)	.NET Framework
7	100 (12.92%)	ASP.NET Web API
8	88 (11.37%)	CSS
9	83 (10.72%)	HTML5
10	82 (10.59%)	ASP.NET MVC
11	81 (10.47%)	AngularJS
12	60 (7.75%)	XML
13	54 (6.98%)	LINQ
14	53 (6.85%)	Entity Framework
15	44 (5.68%)	Web Services
16	41 (5.30%)	React
17	39 (5.04%)	Silverlight
18	37 (4.78%)	RESTful
19	34 (4.39%)	jQuery
19	34 (4.39%)	Reactive Extensions

Miscellaneous
1	81 (10.47%)	Fixed Income
2	65 (8.40%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
3	60 (7.75%)	Greenfield Project
4	53 (6.85%)	User Experience
5	48 (6.20%)	Analytical Skills
6	43 (5.56%)	Derivative
7	38 (4.91%)	Computer Science
8	35 (4.52%)	Equities
9	26 (3.36%)	Hedge funds
9	26 (3.36%)	Virtual Team
10	24 (3.10%)	Client/Server
11	21 (2.71%)	Data Structures
12	16 (2.07%)	Mobile App
13	13 (1.68%)	Equity Derivative
14	12 (1.55%)	Fintech
14	12 (1.55%)	Market Risk
15	9 (1.16%)	Enterprise Software
15	9 (1.16%)	N-Tier
16	8 (1.03%)	Algorithms
17	7 (0.90%)	SCADA

Operating Systems
1	91 (11.76%)	Windows
2	16 (2.07%)	Unix
3	13 (1.68%)	Linux
4	12 (1.55%)	Android
5	9 (1.16%)	Apple iOS
6	3 (0.39%)	Solaris
6	3 (0.39%)	Windows Server
7	2 (0.26%)	Windows Server 2008
8	1 (0.13%)	Windows 10
8	1 (0.13%)	Windows Embedded Compact
8	1 (0.13%)	Windows Phone
8	1 (0.13%)	Windows Server 2003
8	1 (0.13%)	Windows Server 2012

Processes & Methodologies
1	257 (33.20%)	Agile Software Development
2	254 (32.82%)	MVVM
3	242 (31.27%)	TDD
4	189 (24.42%)	MVC
5	147 (18.99%)	Multithreading
6	113 (14.60%)	Unit Testing
7	103 (13.31%)	Scrum
8	99 (12.79%)	OO
9	90 (11.63%)	Dependency Injection
10	88 (11.37%)	Software Engineering
11	72 (9.30%)	Continuous Integration
12	63 (8.14%)	Test Automation
13	58 (7.49%)	SDLC
14	55 (7.11%)	Multithreaded Programming
15	54 (6.98%)	Electronic Trading
16	45 (5.81%)	BDD
17	41 (5.30%)	Mathematics
18	40 (5.17%)	SOLID
19	37 (4.78%)	Web Development
20	30 (3.88%)	Continuous Improvement

Programming Languages
1	722 (93.28%)	C#
2	284 (36.69%)	SQL
3	143 (18.48%)	JavaScript
4	102 (13.18%)	Java
5	73 (9.43%)	C++
6	56 (7.24%)	XAML
7	42 (5.43%)	VB.NET
8	37 (4.78%)	T-SQL
9	32 (4.13%)	Python
10	27 (3.49%)	VB
11	21 (2.71%)	PL/SQL
12	18 (2.33%)	Shell Script
13	16 (2.07%)	VBA
14	14 (1.81%)	C
15	10 (1.29%)	TypeScript
15	10 (1.29%)	VB6
16	8 (1.03%)	PowerShell
17	6 (0.78%)	ES6
17	6 (0.78%)	Perl
18	2 (0.26%)	Scala

Qualifications
1	67 (8.66%)	Degree
2	53 (6.85%)	Security Cleared
3	36 (4.65%)	SC Cleared
4	20 (2.58%)	Computer Science Degree
5	14 (1.81%)	Microsoft Certification
6	11 (1.42%)	Numerate Degree
7	6 (0.78%)	CFA
8	3 (0.39%)	MBA
9	2 (0.26%)	ISEB
9	2 (0.26%)	ISTQB
9	2 (0.26%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
9	2 (0.26%)	PhD
10	1 (0.13%)	Master's Degree
10	1 (0.13%)	MCP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	25 (3.23%)	QA
2	10 (1.29%)	MIL-STD-1553
3	3 (0.39%)	MiFID
4	1 (0.13%)	IEC 62304
4	1 (0.13%)	ISO 13485
4	1 (0.13%)	ISO 8583

System Software
1	2 (0.26%)	Firmware
2	1 (0.13%)	Active Directory
2	1 (0.13%)	Docker
2	1 (0.13%)	Platform Symphony

Systems Management
1	1 (0.13%)	Opscode Chef
1	1 (0.13%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)

Vendors
1	153 (19.77%)	Microsoft
2	120 (15.50%)	Oracle
3	40 (5.17%)	TIBCO
4	38 (4.91%)	ION Trading
5	32 (4.13%)	DevExpress
6	26 (3.36%)	Telerik
7	24 (3.10%)	Reuters
8	23 (2.97%)	Syncfusion
9	21 (2.71%)	Infragistics
10	17 (2.20%)	Sybase
11	13 (1.68%)	Bloomberg
11	13 (1.68%)	Xamarin
12	5 (0.65%)	Sitecore
13	4 (0.52%)	Google
13	4 (0.52%)	GUPTA
13	4 (0.52%)	IBM
14	3 (0.39%)	Red Hat
14	3 (0.39%)	SAP
14	3 (0.39%)	Sun
15	2 (0.26%)	Murex