The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 24 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 56 20 65
Rank change year-on-year
-36 +45
Permanent jobs citing WCF 40 67 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 3.416% 7.901% 1.951%
As % of the Application Development category 6.536% 17.45% 4.884%
Number of salaries quoted 28 63 19
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -34.78%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
612 384 389
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 52.26% 45.28% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 355 310 306
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -11.39%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Scotland

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Glasgow WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 56 (93.33%) C#
2 39 (65.00%) .NET
3 33 (55.00%) TDD
3 33 (55.00%) WPF
4 27 (45.00%) ASP.NET
5 23 (38.33%) SQL Server
6 19 (31.67%) Java
7 18 (30.00%) MVC
7 18 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 16 (26.67%) Front Office
9 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
10 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 14 (23.33%) MCP
10 14 (23.33%) Software Engineering
10 14 (23.33%) MCTS
11 13 (21.67%) NHibernate
11 13 (21.67%) C++
11 13 (21.67%) Scrum
12 12 (20.00%) HTML
12 12 (20.00%) MCAD
12 12 (20.00%) MCSD
12 12 (20.00%) Music
12 12 (20.00%) Music Industry
12 12 (20.00%) NUnit
12 12 (20.00%) Kanban
12 12 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
12 12 (20.00%) Moq
12 12 (20.00%) BDD
12 12 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
12 12 (20.00%) Web Application Development

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 39 (65.00%) .NET
2 33 (55.00%) WPF
3 27 (45.00%) ASP.NET
4 18 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 13 (21.67%) NHibernate
6 12 (20.00%) HTML
6 12 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
6 12 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 11 (18.33%) CSS
7 11 (18.33%) XML
8 10 (16.67%) jQuery
8 10 (16.67%) .NET Framework
9 8 (13.33%) LINQ
10 7 (11.67%) WebSphere
11 5 (8.333%) Web Services
12 4 (6.667%) ASP
12 4 (6.667%) JSP
12 4 (6.667%) Servlets
12 4 (6.667%) SOAP
12 4 (6.667%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (11.67%) TIBCO EMS
1 7 (11.67%) SharePoint
1 7 (11.67%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (6.667%) Tomcat
3 2 (3.333%) DotNetNuke
3 2 (3.333%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.667%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.667%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.000%) Intranet
2 2 (3.333%) HTTP
3 1 (1.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (38.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (11.67%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (6.667%) RDBMS
5 2 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (3.333%) Big Data
6 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (20.00%) NUnit
1 12 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 12 (20.00%) Moq
2 9 (15.00%) Subversion
3 4 (6.667%) Git (software)
4 1 (1.667%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.667%) Oracle Forms
General
1 16 (26.67%) Front Office
2 12 (20.00%) Music
2 12 (20.00%) Music Industry
3 9 (15.00%) Finance
4 4 (6.667%) Banking
5 2 (3.333%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.333%) Games
Job Titles
1 50 (83.33%) Developer
2 24 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 18 (30.00%) .NET Developer
4 15 (25.00%) Front Office Developer
5 12 (20.00%) WPF Developer
6 7 (11.67%) Web Developer
7 5 (8.333%) Software Engineer
8 4 (6.667%) Applications Developer
8 4 (6.667%) Java Software Engineer
8 4 (6.667%) Web Applications Developer
8 4 (6.667%) Technical Leader
9 2 (3.333%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.333%) SharePoint Developer
10 1 (1.667%) C# .NET Developer
10 1 (1.667%) Junior SharePoint Developer
10 1 (1.667%) Senior SharePoint Developer
10 1 (1.667%) Senior .NET Developer
10 1 (1.667%) Junior Web Developer
10 1 (1.667%) Senior Web Developer
10 1 (1.667%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Derivative
2 8 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (10.00%) Equities
3 6 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.333%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (3.333%) SaaS
5 1 (1.667%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.333%) Apple iOS
1 5 (8.333%) Android
2 3 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (55.00%) TDD
2 18 (30.00%) MVC
3 14 (23.33%) Software Engineering
4 13 (21.67%) Scrum
5 12 (20.00%) Kanban
5 12 (20.00%) BDD
5 12 (20.00%) Web Application Development
6 9 (15.00%) Unit Testing
6 9 (15.00%) Electronic Trading
7 7 (11.67%) OO
8 5 (8.333%) Web Development
9 4 (6.667%) Multithreading
10 3 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
11 2 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
11 2 (3.333%) AOP
11 2 (3.333%) Dependency Injection
11 2 (3.333%) Change Control
11 2 (3.333%) Big Data Analytics
11 2 (3.333%) Analytics
12 1 (1.667%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 56 (93.33%) C#
2 19 (31.67%) Java
3 13 (21.67%) C++
4 10 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 7 (11.67%) SQL
6 4 (6.667%) VB
6 4 (6.667%) PHP
7 2 (3.333%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.667%) Ruby
8 1 (1.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (23.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 14 (23.33%) MCP
1 14 (23.33%) MCTS
2 12 (20.00%) MCAD
2 12 (20.00%) MCSD
3 9 (15.00%) Degree
4 2 (3.333%) MCPD
Vendors
1 15 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.67%) TIBCO
3 4 (6.667%) JBoss
4 1 (1.667%) Oracle
4 1 (1.667%) Adobe
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Job role: WCF Technical Lead... Qualifier Candidates must be eligible to live and work in the UK without restrictions Key Skill Technical and Design Leadership, WCF and C#
FPSG Connect
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Job role: Technical Lead... The company are using the latest development technologies and techniques. They offer their staff the opportunity to have a creative influence into project setups...
FPSG Connect
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
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: 22 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
This includes electronic trading for Cash and Derivative products. The high availability, low latency environment consists of C++ and Java pricing and risk engines, C# and third party...
Claremont Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 1 May 2013