The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brentford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 17 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 Brentford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 22 23 19
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -4
Permanent jobs citing WCF 4 10 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentford 4.706% 6.024% 1.639%
As % of the Application Development category 10.53% 28.57% 5.882%
Number of salaries quoted 4 10 1
Average salary £36,400 £55,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.81% +37.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Brentford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
38 35 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brentford 44.71% 21.08% 27.87%
Number of salaries quoted 9 28 7
Average salary £36,400 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.20% +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
London

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brentford 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 Brentford region.

Brentford WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentford 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 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
2 4 (57.14%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (57.14%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 4 (57.14%) Silverlight
2 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 3 (42.86%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 3 (42.86%) NUnit
3 3 (42.86%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) NHibernate
3 3 (42.86%) Kanban
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (42.86%) Rhino Mocks
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (42.86%) Web Application Development
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (28.57%) Castle Windsor
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum-ban
4 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
4 2 (28.57%) LINQ

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brentford 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 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) Windows SharePoint Services
2 4 (57.14%) Silverlight
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (42.86%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 3 (42.86%) NHibernate
4 2 (28.57%) Castle Windsor
4 2 (28.57%) Lucene
4 2 (28.57%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) NUnit
1 3 (42.86%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Moq
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
1 4 (57.14%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Music
2 1 (14.29%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Unit Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Kanban
2 3 (42.86%) BDD
2 3 (42.86%) MVC
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) TDD
2 3 (42.86%) Web Application Development
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum-ban
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) MCP
2 1 (14.29%) MCAD
2 1 (14.29%) MCSD
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MCTS