The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bath region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 21 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 Bath region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 42 31 37
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +6
Permanent jobs citing WCF 8 14 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 2.025% 6.604% 1.515%
As % of the Application Development category 4.494% 10.45% 2.727%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 3
Average salary £28,500 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.57% -22.22%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Bath
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
178 134 110
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bath 45.06% 63.21% 55.56%
Number of salaries quoted 164 133 104
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Somerset

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bath WCF Jobs Demand Trend

WCF
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WCF across the Bath region.

Bath WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Bath region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bath WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath region citing WCF 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 WCF.

1 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 23 (76.67%) C#
3 22 (73.33%) SQL Server
4 18 (60.00%) WinForms
5 17 (56.67%) ASP.NET
6 16 (53.33%) Web Services
6 16 (53.33%) MVC
7 15 (50.00%) .NET Framework
8 14 (46.67%) jQuery
9 13 (43.33%) Mobile App
9 13 (43.33%) Finance
10 12 (40.00%) JavaScript
11 8 (26.67%) Scrum
11 8 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
11 8 (26.67%) TDD
11 8 (26.67%) LINQ
12 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
12 7 (23.33%) Automated Testing
12 7 (23.33%) ASP
12 7 (23.33%) Oracle
12 7 (23.33%) Windows
12 7 (23.33%) N-Tier
13 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 6 (20.00%) KnockoutJS
14 5 (16.67%) Degree
15 2 (6.667%) Ajax
16 1 (3.333%) Ext JS
16 1 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
16 1 (3.333%) Domain-Driven Design
16 1 (3.333%) Windows Azure

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bath region citing WCF 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 WCF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 18 (60.00%) WinForms
3 17 (56.67%) ASP.NET
4 16 (53.33%) Web Services
5 15 (50.00%) .NET Framework
6 14 (46.67%) jQuery
7 8 (26.67%) LINQ
8 7 (23.33%) ASP
9 6 (20.00%) KnockoutJS
10 2 (6.667%) Ajax
11 1 (3.333%) Ext JS
11 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (3.333%) HTML5
11 1 (3.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 1 (3.333%) CSS3
11 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 1 (3.333%) XML
11 1 (3.333%) CSS
11 1 (3.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.333%) Windows Azure
1 1 (3.333%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (73.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (43.33%) Finance
2 1 (3.333%) Games
Job Titles
1 30 (100.00%) Developer
2 19 (63.33%) .NET Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Senior Developer
4 7 (23.33%) ScrumMaster
5 6 (20.00%) .NET Team Leader
5 6 (20.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 6 (20.00%) Team Leader
5 6 (20.00%) Agile .NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Senior Microsoft Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Developer
6 1 (3.333%) C# Developer
6 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (3.333%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (43.33%) Mobile App
2 7 (23.33%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) MVC
2 8 (26.67%) Scrum
2 8 (26.67%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (26.67%) TDD
3 7 (23.33%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (23.33%) Automated Testing
4 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (3.333%) Domain-Driven Design
5 1 (3.333%) Unit Testing
5 1 (3.333%) OO
5 1 (3.333%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 23 (76.67%) C#
2 12 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Oracle
2 1 (3.333%) Microsoft