The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Dartford 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 Dartford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 7 - 12
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WCF 9 0 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dartford 18.75% - 17.86%
As % of the Application Development category 47.37% - 20.41%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 10
Average salary £40,000 - £27,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Dartford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
19 13 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dartford 39.58% 32.50% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 17 12 48
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Kent

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dartford 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 Dartford region.

Dartford WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dartford 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
1 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 16 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 14 (87.50%) C#
3 12 (75.00%) MCP
3 12 (75.00%) MCAD
3 12 (75.00%) MCSD
3 12 (75.00%) MVC
3 12 (75.00%) Scrum
3 12 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 12 (75.00%) MCTS
3 12 (75.00%) Kanban
3 12 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 12 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
3 12 (75.00%) Web Application Development
3 12 (75.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 12 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 10 (62.50%) Rhino Mocks
4 10 (62.50%) Moq
4 10 (62.50%) BDD
4 10 (62.50%) NHibernate
4 10 (62.50%) Music
4 10 (62.50%) Music Industry
4 10 (62.50%) TDD
4 10 (62.50%) NUnit
5 6 (37.50%) HTML
5 6 (37.50%) CSS
6 4 (25.00%) IIS
6 4 (25.00%) XHTML
6 4 (25.00%) SQL

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dartford 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 16 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 12 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
2 12 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 10 (62.50%) NHibernate
4 6 (37.50%) HTML
4 6 (37.50%) CSS
5 4 (25.00%) XHTML
5 4 (25.00%) Ajax
6 2 (12.50%) ASP
6 2 (12.50%) RSS
6 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
6 2 (12.50%) WF
6 2 (12.50%) LINQ
6 2 (12.50%) HTML5
6 2 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) IIS
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (75.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (62.50%) NUnit
1 10 (62.50%) Rhino Mocks
1 10 (62.50%) Moq
2 4 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (62.50%) Music
1 10 (62.50%) Music Industry
2 4 (25.00%) Law
2 4 (25.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (62.50%) .NET Developer
3 4 (25.00%) Web Developer
4 2 (12.50%) ASP Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Classic ASP Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) MVC
1 12 (75.00%) Scrum
1 12 (75.00%) Kanban
1 12 (75.00%) Web Application Development
2 10 (62.50%) TDD
2 10 (62.50%) BDD
3 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (25.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (75.00%) MCP
1 12 (75.00%) MCAD
1 12 (75.00%) MCSD
1 12 (75.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (75.00%) MCTS
Dartford, South East
Our client will provide you with training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013