Cheshire WF Jobs

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

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Farnborough Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Havant Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Rochdale Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Tunbridge Wells UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	145	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.759 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	9	0
Average minimum salary	£31,000	-
Average salary	£32,889	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£34,778	-
UK excluding London average salary	£39,933	£38,411
% change on same period last year	+3.96 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1185	1110
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.638 %	0.463 %
Salaries quoted	1086	993
Average minimum salary	£29,632	£30,438
Average salary	£32,707	£32,709
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£35,782	£34,979
UK excluding London average salary	£35,926	£36,840
% change on same period last year	-2.48 %
WF North West

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

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

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WF within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Macclesfield	-	3	£40,000	-
Nantwich	-	1	£30,000	-

WF North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing WF 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 WF.

1 9 (100.00 %) C# 1 9 (100.00 %) .NET 1 9 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 9 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 9 (100.00 %) Windows 2 8 (88.89 %) Workflow 2 8 (88.89 %) VB.NET 3 4 (44.44 %) WinForms 3 4 (44.44 %) N-Tier 3 4 (44.44 %) CRM 3 4 (44.44 %) SharePoint 3 4 (44.44 %) WebServices 3 4 (44.44 %) XML 3 4 (44.44 %) Crystal Reports 3 4 (44.44 %) HTML

3 4 (44.44 %) Java 3 4 (44.44 %) SQL 3 4 (44.44 %) Transact-SQL 3 4 (44.44 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 4 (44.44 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 3 (33.33 %) Pay per click 4 3 (33.33 %) Web Development 4 3 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 4 3 (33.33 %) VB6 4 3 (33.33 %) VB 4 3 (33.33 %) C++ 4 3 (33.33 %) MS Office 4 3 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 4 3 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 4 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing WF 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 WF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (100.00 %) .NET 1 9 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (44.44 %) WebServices 2 4 (44.44 %) XML 2 4 (44.44 %) WinForms 2 4 (44.44 %) HTML 3 3 (33.33 %) .NET Framework 4 2 (22.22 %) WCF 4 2 (22.22 %) CSS 5 1 (11.11 %) ASP 5 1 (11.11 %) XHTML	Application Platforms 1 4 (44.44 %) SharePoint 1 4 (44.44 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (33.33 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 4 (44.44 %) Crystal Reports 2 4 (44.44 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 3 (33.33 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (11.11 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 9 (100.00 %) Developer 2 5 (55.56 %) .NET Developer 3 3 (33.33 %) Software Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) C# Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Senior C# Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Senior .NET Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) SharePoint Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (44.44 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 9 (100.00 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (88.89 %) Workflow 2 4 (44.44 %) CRM 3 3 (33.33 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (33.33 %) Web Design 3 3 (33.33 %) Pay per click 3 3 (33.33 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 9 (100.00 %) C# 2 8 (88.89 %) VB.NET 3 4 (44.44 %) Java 3 4 (44.44 %) SQL 3 4 (44.44 %) Transact-SQL 4 3 (33.33 %) VB 4 3 (33.33 %) C++ 4 3 (33.33 %) VB6 5 2 (22.22 %) JavaScript 6 1 (11.11 %) C 6 1 (11.11 %) VBScript	Vendors 1 3 (33.33 %) Microsoft