The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bolton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 20 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 Bolton region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 25 24 24
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Permanent jobs citing WCF 15 16 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 10.20% 10.53% 2.778%
As % of the Application Development category 14.85% 24.24% 5.882%
Number of salaries quoted 15 16 2
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +4.00%
All Application Development
Bolton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
101 66 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 68.71% 43.42% 47.22%
Number of salaries quoted 95 63 34
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £22,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WCF
Manchester

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bolton 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 Bolton region.

Bolton WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 28 (100.00%) C#
2 27 (96.43%) .NET
2 27 (96.43%) ASP.NET
3 25 (89.29%) SQL Server
4 24 (85.71%) MVC
4 24 (85.71%) TDD
5 23 (82.14%) MCTS
5 23 (82.14%) WPF
5 23 (82.14%) Domain-Driven Design
5 23 (82.14%) ASP.NET MVC
5 23 (82.14%) Dependency Injection
5 23 (82.14%) Node.js
5 23 (82.14%) Ninject
5 23 (82.14%) KnockoutJS
5 23 (82.14%) VB
5 23 (82.14%) VB.NET
5 23 (82.14%) Business Intelligence
5 23 (82.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (82.14%) MCP
5 23 (82.14%) MCAD
5 23 (82.14%) MCSD
5 23 (82.14%) Web Application Development
5 23 (82.14%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 3 (10.71%) CSS
6 3 (10.71%) Web Services
6 3 (10.71%) HTML
6 3 (10.71%) jQuery
7 2 (7.143%) Web Development
7 2 (7.143%) JSON
7 2 (7.143%) SQL

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 27 (96.43%) .NET
1 27 (96.43%) ASP.NET
2 23 (82.14%) WPF
2 23 (82.14%) ASP.NET MVC
2 23 (82.14%) Node.js
2 23 (82.14%) Ninject
2 23 (82.14%) KnockoutJS
2 23 (82.14%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 3 (10.71%) CSS
3 3 (10.71%) Web Services
3 3 (10.71%) HTML
3 3 (10.71%) jQuery
4 2 (7.143%) JSON
4 2 (7.143%) XML
5 1 (3.571%) NHibernate
5 1 (3.571%) CSS3
5 1 (3.571%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (3.571%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.143%) CMS
2 1 (3.571%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.571%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (89.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Visual Studio
1 1 (3.571%) NUnit
1 1 (3.571%) CruiseControl
1 1 (3.571%) Subversion
1 1 (3.571%) ReSharper
1 1 (3.571%) Mercurial
1 1 (3.571%) TeamCity
1 1 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (3.571%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (7.143%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 27 (96.43%) Developer
2 26 (92.86%) .NET Developer
3 2 (7.143%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (7.143%) C# Developer
3 2 (7.143%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (7.143%) C# Web Developer
3 2 (7.143%) Senior .NET Web Developer
3 2 (7.143%) Senior Web Developer
3 2 (7.143%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (7.143%) .NET Web Developer
3 2 (7.143%) Senior C# Developer
3 2 (7.143%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (7.143%) Web Developer
3 2 (7.143%) Senior Developer
3 2 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Applications Developer
4 1 (3.571%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.571%) C# Software Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) MVC
1 24 (85.71%) TDD
2 23 (82.14%) Domain-Driven Design
2 23 (82.14%) Dependency Injection
2 23 (82.14%) Business Intelligence
2 23 (82.14%) Web Application Development
3 2 (7.143%) Web Development
4 1 (3.571%) Scrum
4 1 (3.571%) Workflow
4 1 (3.571%) OOP
4 1 (3.571%) CRM
4 1 (3.571%) E-Commerce
4 1 (3.571%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.571%) Pair Programming
4 1 (3.571%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 28 (100.00%) C#
2 23 (82.14%) VB
2 23 (82.14%) VB.NET
3 2 (7.143%) SQL
3 2 (7.143%) T-SQL
4 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 23 (82.14%) MCTS
1 23 (82.14%) Microsoft Certification
1 23 (82.14%) MCP
1 23 (82.14%) MCAD
1 23 (82.14%) MCSD
Vendors
1 1 (3.571%) Microsoft
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