The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 22 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 Colchester region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 24 8 17
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +9
Permanent jobs citing WCF 3 54 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 1.714% 29.83% 12.23%
As % of the Application Development category 6.000% 43.20% 22.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3 41 28
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £38,400 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,400 £42,500 £39,300
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Colchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
50 125 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Colchester 28.57% 69.06% 53.71%
Number of salaries quoted 49 102 118
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £31,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Essex

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Colchester 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 Colchester region.

Colchester WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Colchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Colchester WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
2 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (80.00%) MVC
3 8 (80.00%) Objective-C
3 8 (80.00%) VB.NET
3 8 (80.00%) WPF
3 8 (80.00%) MS Excel
3 8 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (70.00%) .NET Framework
4 7 (70.00%) Mobile App
4 7 (70.00%) Mobile Application Development
4 7 (70.00%) Android
4 7 (70.00%) Silverlight
4 7 (70.00%) SQL
4 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
4 7 (70.00%) OO
4 7 (70.00%) J2ME
5 1 (10.00%) OLAP
5 1 (10.00%) CSS
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Colchester 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (90.00%) ASP.NET
3 8 (80.00%) WPF
3 8 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 7 (70.00%) .NET Framework
4 7 (70.00%) Silverlight
4 7 (70.00%) J2ME
5 1 (10.00%) CSS
5 1 (10.00%) HTML
5 1 (10.00%) jQuery
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Applications
1 8 (80.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) OLAP
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Systems Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Development Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Development Team Leader
3 1 (10.00%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (70.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) MVC
2 7 (70.00%) Mobile Application Development
2 7 (70.00%) OO
3 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (80.00%) Objective-C
2 8 (80.00%) VB.NET
3 7 (70.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft