The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 17 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 32 47 35
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -12
Permanent jobs citing WCF 2 2 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 0.699% 0.585% 2.120%
As % of the Application Development category 2.353% 1.439% 4.878%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 6
Average salary £43,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.17% +6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
85 139 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 29.72% 40.64% 43.46%
Number of salaries quoted 76 132 117
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £80,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
London

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 22 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 22 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (95.45%) SQL Server
2 21 (95.45%) Web Services
3 19 (86.36%) ASP.NET
3 19 (86.36%) Visual Studio
3 19 (86.36%) Team Foundation Server
4 17 (77.27%) .NET Framework
5 16 (72.73%) VB6
5 16 (72.73%) VB
5 16 (72.73%) HTML
5 16 (72.73%) JavaScript
5 16 (72.73%) Web Development
6 13 (59.09%) HTTP
6 13 (59.09%) TCP/IP
6 13 (59.09%) Degree
7 9 (40.91%) XML
8 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
9 7 (31.82%) C#
10 4 (18.18%) SQL
10 4 (18.18%) iPad
10 4 (18.18%) Android
10 4 (18.18%) iPhone
11 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
11 3 (13.64%) VBScript
11 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
11 3 (13.64%) Oracle
11 3 (13.64%) UML
11 3 (13.64%) ASP
11 3 (13.64%) Oracle 11g

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 22 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (95.45%) Web Services
3 19 (86.36%) ASP.NET
4 17 (77.27%) .NET Framework
5 16 (72.73%) HTML
6 9 (40.91%) XML
7 3 (13.64%) ASP
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) HTTP
1 13 (59.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (95.45%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 19 (86.36%) Visual Studio
1 19 (86.36%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 21 (95.45%) Developer
2 19 (86.36%) .NET Developer
3 18 (81.82%) VB.NET Developer
4 8 (36.36%) VB Developer
4 8 (36.36%) VB6 Developer
4 8 (36.36%) Software Developer
4 8 (36.36%) .NET Software Developer
5 3 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (13.64%) C# Developer
6 2 (9.091%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Analyst Programmer
7 1 (4.545%) Programmer
7 1 (4.545%) Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) iPhone
1 4 (18.18%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Web Development
2 3 (13.64%) UML
3 2 (9.091%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (100.00%) VB.NET
2 16 (72.73%) VB
2 16 (72.73%) JavaScript
2 16 (72.73%) VB6
3 7 (31.82%) C#
4 4 (18.18%) SQL
5 3 (13.64%) T-SQL
5 3 (13.64%) VBScript
5 3 (13.64%) PL/SQL
5 3 (13.64%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle