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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 39 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing WCF 4 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 1.646% 0.952% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.883% 2.198% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 0
Average salary £40,750 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.42% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
103 91 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 42.39% 43.33% 35.60%
Number of salaries quoted 76 43 47
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,500 £28,750
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%
WCF
County Antrim

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 14 (100.00%) C#
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (85.71%) WPF
3 9 (64.29%) Finance
4 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
5 7 (50.00%) .NET Framework
6 6 (42.86%) Multithreading
6 6 (42.86%) SQL
7 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
7 5 (35.71%) Sybase
7 5 (35.71%) Oracle
7 5 (35.71%) Windows
7 5 (35.71%) Technical Architecture
7 5 (35.71%) Scrum
7 5 (35.71%) WinForms
8 4 (28.57%) Workflow
8 4 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
8 4 (28.57%) WF
9 3 (21.43%) Front Office
9 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
10 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
10 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
10 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
10 2 (14.29%) Banking
11 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
11 1 (7.143%) Ajax
11 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
11 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (85.71%) WPF
3 7 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 5 (35.71%) WinForms
5 4 (28.57%) WF
6 3 (21.43%) ASP.NET
7 1 (7.143%) Ajax
7 1 (7.143%) jQuery
7 1 (7.143%) COM
7 1 (7.143%) Web Services
7 1 (7.143%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (7.143%) OLTP
2 1 (7.143%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (64.29%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Front Office
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) C# Developer
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 6 (42.86%) C# .NET Developer
2 6 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 4 (28.57%) Applications Specialist
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Software Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Software Applications Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) WPF Developer
5 1 (7.143%) GUI Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Support Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.143%) Front Office Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.143%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.143%) Open Source
2 1 (7.143%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Multithreading
2 5 (35.71%) Technical Architecture
2 5 (35.71%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) Workflow
3 4 (28.57%) Strategic Planning
4 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
5 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (7.143%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (7.143%) MVVM
5 1 (7.143%) Configuration Management
5 1 (7.143%) Project Management
5 1 (7.143%) MVC
5 1 (7.143%) OO
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
3 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
3 1 (7.143%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
1 5 (35.71%) Sybase
1 5 (35.71%) Oracle
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