The first table below looks at the demand for MFC skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MFC over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)
Rank 96 115 80
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -35
Permanent jobs citing MFC 27 8 45
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.488% 0.398% 2.100%
As % of the Application Development category 3.129% 0.776% 4.233%
Number of salaries quoted 20 7 44
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £35,000 £30,450
10% offered a salary of more than £42,750 £52,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Application Development
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
863 1031 1063
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.55% 51.29% 49.60%
Number of salaries quoted 803 917 952
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
MFC
Cambridgeshire

MFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge MFC Jobs Demand Trend

MFC
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge MFC Salary Trend

MFC
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing MFC across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridge MFC Salary Histogram

MFC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing MFC 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 MFC.

1 36 (100.00%) C++
2 33 (91.67%) C#
3 23 (63.89%) .NET
4 19 (52.78%) Degree
5 18 (50.00%) Windows
6 15 (41.67%) Visual Studio
7 10 (27.78%) Java
7 10 (27.78%) Computer Science
8 9 (25.00%) WPF
8 9 (25.00%) Perl
8 9 (25.00%) STL
9 7 (19.44%) XML
9 7 (19.44%) HTML
10 6 (16.67%) SQL
10 6 (16.67%) VBScript
10 6 (16.67%) OLE
10 6 (16.67%) ActiveX
10 6 (16.67%) Firmware
10 6 (16.67%) Signal Processing
10 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
10 6 (16.67%) Electronics
11 5 (13.89%) ASP.NET
11 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
12 4 (11.11%) OOD
12 4 (11.11%) OO
12 4 (11.11%) Scrum
12 4 (11.11%) Windows 8
12 4 (11.11%) Multithreading
12 4 (11.11%) Windows 7
13 3 (8.333%) Android

MFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing MFC 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 MFC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (63.89%) .NET
2 9 (25.00%) WPF
2 9 (25.00%) STL
3 7 (19.44%) XML
3 7 (19.44%) HTML
4 6 (16.67%) OLE
4 6 (16.67%) ActiveX
5 5 (13.89%) ASP.NET
6 2 (5.556%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 1 (2.778%) OpenGL
Applications
1 2 (5.556%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.556%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.778%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.556%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.556%) DB2
2 2 (5.556%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 15 (41.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (5.556%) dotTrace
2 2 (5.556%) AQtime
General
1 6 (16.67%) Electronics
2 3 (8.333%) Finance
3 1 (2.778%) Military
3 1 (2.778%) Music
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) Developer
2 21 (58.33%) Software Engineer
3 15 (41.67%) Software Developer
4 9 (25.00%) C++ Developer
4 9 (25.00%) C# Developer
5 6 (16.67%) C++/C# Developer
5 6 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (16.67%) .NET Developer
6 4 (11.11%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.556%) Programmer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Software Engineer
7 2 (5.556%) Software Programmer
7 2 (5.556%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.556%) C++ Software Developer
8 1 (2.778%) C# Application Developer
8 1 (2.778%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Computer Science
2 6 (16.67%) Firmware
3 3 (8.333%) Pocket PC
4 1 (2.778%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 18 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Windows 8
2 4 (11.11%) Windows 7
3 3 (8.333%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.67%) Signal Processing
1 6 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (11.11%) OOD
2 4 (11.11%) OO
2 4 (11.11%) Scrum
2 4 (11.11%) Multithreading
3 1 (2.778%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (2.778%) Regression Testing
3 1 (2.778%) Project Management
3 1 (2.778%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) C++
2 33 (91.67%) C#
3 10 (27.78%) Java
4 9 (25.00%) Perl
5 6 (16.67%) SQL
5 6 (16.67%) VBScript
6 3 (8.333%) Python
7 2 (5.556%) C
Qualifications
1 19 (52.78%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (5.556%) Oracle
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
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Computer People
Salary: £1.00 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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C# .net Developer required in Cambridge to work on desktop applications... To be considered you be degree educated and highly comfortable working with C# .net for desktop applications.....
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Fantastic + prospects
Posted: 20 May 2013
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