Canary Wharf WCF Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) skills within the Canary Wharf region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gerrards Cross Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Milton Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	13	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	5.439 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	13	0
Average minimum salary	£65,385	-
Average salary	£69,038	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£72,692	-
UK excluding London average salary	£37,984	£38,483
% change on same period last year	-1.29 %
Application Development Canary Wharf
Matching permanent IT job ads	239	519
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.129 %	0.216 %
Salaries quoted	194	423
Average minimum salary	£51,667	£59,985
Average salary	£56,802	£66,157
% change on same period last year	-14.14 %
Average maximum salary	£61,936	£72,330
UK excluding London average salary	£35,926	£36,840
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
WCF London

WCF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WCF across the Canary Wharf region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WCF
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WCF across the Canary Wharf region.

WCF
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Canary Wharf region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 %) OO 3 9 (64.29 %) SOA 3 9 (64.29 %) VMS 3 9 (64.29 %) Pascal 3 9 (64.29 %) C 3 9 (64.29 %) Banking 4 8 (57.14 %) Reference Data 4 8 (57.14 %) Agile Software Development 5 7 (50.00 %) Investment Banking 6 5 (35.71 %) WebServices 7 4 (28.57 %) XML 7 4 (28.57 %) Windows 7 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server

7 4 (28.57 %) Finance 8 3 (21.43 %) Visual Studio 8 3 (21.43 %) ASP.NET 9 2 (14.29 %) SQL 9 2 (14.29 %) Transact-SQL 9 2 (14.29 %) VB.NET 9 2 (14.29 %) UML 9 2 (14.29 %) XSLT 9 2 (14.29 %) SharePoint 9 2 (14.29 %) Telecoms 9 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft 9 2 (14.29 %) BizTalk Server 9 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 9 2 (14.29 %) WinForms 9 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 5 (35.71 %) WebServices 3 4 (28.57 %) XML 4 3 (21.43 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (14.29 %) XSLT 5 2 (14.29 %) WinForms 6 1 (7.143 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 2 (14.29 %) SharePoint 1 2 (14.29 %) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (57.14 %) Reference Data 2 4 (28.57 %) SQL Server 3 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 3 (21.43 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (7.143 %) Visual Studio Team System
General 1 9 (64.29 %) Banking 2 7 (50.00 %) Investment Banking 3 4 (28.57 %) Finance 4 2 (14.29 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 9 (64.29 %) Team Leader 1 9 (64.29 %) Development Team Leader 2 3 (21.43 %) Developer 2 3 (21.43 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (14.29 %) Architect 3 2 (14.29 %) BizTalk Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) C# Developer 4 1 (7.143 %) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) Exotic Derivative 1 2 (14.29 %) Derivative	Operating Systems 1 9 (64.29 %) VMS 2 4 (28.57 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (85.71 %) OO 2 9 (64.29 %) SOA 3 8 (57.14 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (14.29 %) Unit Testing 4 2 (14.29 %) Continuous Integration 4 2 (14.29 %) UML 5 1 (7.143 %) TDD 5 1 (7.143 %) Business Intelligence	Programming Languages 1 14 (100.00 %) C# 2 9 (64.29 %) C 2 9 (64.29 %) Pascal 3 2 (14.29 %) SQL 3 2 (14.29 %) Transact-SQL 3 2 (14.29 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 2 (14.29 %) Degree	Vendors 1 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft