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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 48 34 33
Rank change year-on-year
-14 -1
Permanent jobs citing WCF 15 23 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 2.415% 4.618% 4.949%
As % of the Application Development category 5.376% 10.13% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 15 20 29
Average salary £47,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.15% -7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Dorset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
279 227 250
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dorset 44.93% 45.58% 42.66%
Number of salaries quoted 253 201 201
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% -4.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £40,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
South West

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

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

Dorset WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bournemouth -5 11 £47,500 +46.15%
Dorchester - 1 £35,000 -
WCF
South West

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 27 (90.00%) .NET
2 25 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 22 (73.33%) C#
4 21 (70.00%) ASP.NET
5 16 (53.33%) Scrum
6 15 (50.00%) MVC
6 15 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 15 (50.00%) TDD
6 15 (50.00%) MCTS
6 15 (50.00%) MCP
6 15 (50.00%) MCAD
6 15 (50.00%) MCSD
6 15 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 15 (50.00%) Web Application Development
6 15 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 14 (46.67%) Razor View Engine
7 14 (46.67%) Kanban
7 14 (46.67%) Rhino Mocks
7 14 (46.67%) NUnit
8 12 (40.00%) Web Services
8 12 (40.00%) BDD
9 11 (36.67%) Moq
9 11 (36.67%) NHibernate
10 10 (33.33%) HTML
10 10 (33.33%) SQL
10 10 (33.33%) VB.NET
11 9 (30.00%) Windows
11 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
12 8 (26.67%) Music

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dorset 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 27 (90.00%) .NET
2 21 (70.00%) ASP.NET
3 15 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 15 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 14 (46.67%) Razor View Engine
5 12 (40.00%) Web Services
6 11 (36.67%) NHibernate
7 10 (33.33%) HTML
8 6 (20.00%) XML
8 6 (20.00%) CSS
8 6 (20.00%) SOAP
8 6 (20.00%) WSDL
8 6 (20.00%) ASP
8 6 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
8 6 (20.00%) WSE
9 4 (13.33%) XSLT
9 4 (13.33%) WinForms
10 3 (10.00%) Lucene
10 3 (10.00%) MFC
10 3 (10.00%) Unity DI Container
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 2 (6.667%) Fireworks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (30.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
4 4 (13.33%) MySQL
5 1 (3.333%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) Rhino Mocks
1 14 (46.67%) NUnit
2 11 (36.67%) Moq
3 6 (20.00%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (10.00%) Selenium
4 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (10.00%) MSTest
5 2 (6.667%) Appcelerator Titanium
5 2 (6.667%) Visual Studio
5 2 (6.667%) Dreamweaver
6 1 (3.333%) Git (software)
General
1 8 (26.67%) Music
1 8 (26.67%) Music Industry
2 3 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (3.333%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 27 (90.00%) Developer
2 26 (86.67%) .NET Developer
3 9 (30.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (13.33%) .NET Software Developer
4 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
4 4 (13.33%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Software Development Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Development Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (6.667%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Team Leader
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.00%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (6.667%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Windows Vista
2 6 (20.00%) Linux
2 6 (20.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (53.33%) Scrum
2 15 (50.00%) MVC
2 15 (50.00%) TDD
2 15 (50.00%) Web Application Development
3 14 (46.67%) Kanban
4 12 (40.00%) BDD
5 6 (20.00%) Migration
5 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (20.00%) Data Migration
6 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (10.00%) OO
6 3 (10.00%) Scrum-ban
6 3 (10.00%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (6.667%) Mobile Application Development
7 2 (6.667%) Web Design
8 1 (3.333%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 22 (73.33%) C#
2 10 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 6 (20.00%) T-SQL
3 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (20.00%) PHP
3 6 (20.00%) PL/SQL
4 3 (10.00%) VB
4 3 (10.00%) C++
5 2 (6.667%) Java
6 1 (3.333%) VB6
6 1 (3.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (50.00%) MCTS
1 15 (50.00%) MCP
1 15 (50.00%) MCAD
1 15 (50.00%) MCSD
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.00%) Citrix
1 6 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (6.667%) Appcelerator
2 2 (6.667%) Adobe
3 1 (3.333%) Facebook
Bournemouth, South West
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: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
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...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bournemouth, South West
Opus` key client are seeking a C++ programmer to join their rapidly expanding and succesful team-- This position requires a highly self-motivated individual who thrives in an...
OPUS
Salary: GBP25000 to GBP40000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013