Building the War Chest before the leap?

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Thanks for your input. I'm in West of England nr Bristol.

As I said 'A view to become a contractor when I feel I have the necessary experience/Skills' I am fully aware that I do not currently have the experience. I am shooting for 4-5 years at 2 or 3 different firms as a minimum.

My skills and area of specialism are in WPF- Windows desktop development. The contract market is well paid and seemingly buoyant in London but mostly all in the FX Banking sector. Closer to home a bit more thin on the ground but still potentially viable.

Thanks

There is a reason why the market for WPF is banking in London. No one else uses it any more and so it's a very limited market

[Hardgrafter]

WPF is the best current solution for developing desktop apps for the Windows desktop. There's plenty of WinForms still around so I think WPF will be alive for a while yet. Be interesting to see if Microsoft stick with xaml for windows 10. If so, the transition should be fairly straightforward.

You're right, there's not as many opportunities out there as ASP.NET or MVC but there's still enough. The learning curve with xaml is fairly steep so being an expert puts you in a smaller pool of devs chasing a smaller pool of jobs.