The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 37 45 53
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +8
Permanent jobs citing WCF 53 38 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 6.974% 5.013% 3.145%
As % of the Application Development category 11.16% 8.656% 5.556%
Number of salaries quoted 53 31 15
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £35,000 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £55,000 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
475 439 270
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 62.50% 57.92% 56.60%
Number of salaries quoted 432 395 261
Average salary £36,500 £35,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.81% +1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
East Sussex

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

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

Brighton WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 98 (100.00%) .NET
1 98 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 97 (98.98%) C#
3 90 (91.84%) TDD
4 62 (63.27%) SQL
5 61 (62.24%) VB.NET
6 51 (52.04%) BDD
7 44 (44.90%) SQL Server
8 42 (42.86%) Web Services
9 36 (36.73%) Scrum
9 36 (36.73%) Agile Software Development
9 36 (36.73%) XML
10 35 (35.71%) XSLT
10 35 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (32.65%) Computer Science
11 32 (32.65%) WPF
11 32 (32.65%) Web Application Development
11 32 (32.65%) MVC
12 31 (31.63%) Windows
13 30 (30.61%) Degree
13 30 (30.61%) ASP.NET MVC
14 27 (27.55%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 27 (27.55%) Moq
14 27 (27.55%) Razor View Engine
15 26 (26.53%) MVVM
15 26 (26.53%) Rhino Mocks
15 26 (26.53%) Kanban
15 26 (26.53%) MCTS
15 26 (26.53%) NUnit
15 26 (26.53%) WinForms

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 98 (100.00%) .NET
1 98 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 42 (42.86%) Web Services
3 36 (36.73%) XML
4 35 (35.71%) XSLT
5 32 (32.65%) WPF
6 30 (30.61%) ASP.NET MVC
7 27 (27.55%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 27 (27.55%) Razor View Engine
8 26 (26.53%) WinForms
8 26 (26.53%) HTML
9 24 (24.49%) Unity DI Container
10 23 (23.47%) Spring.NET
10 23 (23.47%) Castle Windsor
10 23 (23.47%) Ninject
11 4 (4.082%) CSS
12 3 (3.061%) NHibernate
12 3 (3.061%) .NET Framework
12 3 (3.061%) REST
13 2 (2.041%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 16 (16.33%) RabbitMQ
2 13 (13.27%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.020%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.020%) IIS
Applications
1 23 (23.47%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (44.90%) SQL Server
2 16 (16.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (4.082%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 27 (27.55%) Moq
2 26 (26.53%) Rhino Mocks
2 26 (26.53%) NUnit
3 23 (23.47%) MSTest
4 8 (8.163%) Visual Studio
5 3 (3.061%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.020%) Subversion
6 1 (1.020%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.020%) Git (software)
General
1 5 (5.102%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.020%) Music
2 1 (1.020%) Finance
Job Titles
1 94 (95.92%) Developer
2 87 (88.78%) .NET Developer
3 42 (42.86%) C# Developer
3 42 (42.86%) C# .NET Developer
4 20 (20.41%) Graduate
5 19 (19.39%) Senior Developer
6 18 (18.37%) Senior C# Developer
6 18 (18.37%) Senior .NET Developer
7 17 (17.35%) Graduate Developer
8 16 (16.33%) Lead Developer
8 16 (16.33%) Lead C# Developer
8 16 (16.33%) Lead .NET Developer
9 15 (15.31%) Graduate .NET Developer
10 7 (7.143%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.061%) ASP.NET Developer
11 3 (3.061%) C# Software Developer
11 3 (3.061%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 3 (3.061%) .NET Software Developer
12 2 (2.041%) C# Programmer
12 2 (2.041%) Graduate Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (32.65%) Computer Science
2 23 (23.47%) Inversion of Control
3 10 (10.20%) Open Source
4 1 (1.020%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 31 (31.63%) Windows
2 1 (1.020%) Linux
2 1 (1.020%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (91.84%) TDD
2 51 (52.04%) BDD
3 36 (36.73%) Scrum
3 36 (36.73%) Agile Software Development
4 35 (35.71%) Continuous Integration
5 32 (32.65%) Web Application Development
5 32 (32.65%) MVC
6 26 (26.53%) MVVM
6 26 (26.53%) Kanban
7 23 (23.47%) Dependency Injection
7 23 (23.47%) Refactoring
8 21 (21.43%) Software Engineering
9 19 (19.39%) OOD
10 15 (15.31%) OO
11 12 (12.24%) Integration Testing
12 8 (8.163%) Change Management
13 3 (3.061%) Pair Programming
13 3 (3.061%) Extreme Programming
14 1 (1.020%) OOP
14 1 (1.020%) DSDM
Programming Languages
1 97 (98.98%) C#
2 62 (63.27%) SQL
3 61 (62.24%) VB.NET
4 26 (26.53%) VB
5 8 (8.163%) F#
6 5 (5.102%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.082%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (30.61%) Degree
2 26 (26.53%) MCTS
2 26 (26.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 26 (26.53%) MCP
2 26 (26.53%) MCAD
2 26 (26.53%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.061%) QA
Vendors
1 25 (25.51%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.020%) Facebook
Brighton, South East
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013