The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hounslow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 23 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 Hounslow region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 12 11 11
Rank change year-on-year
-1 0
Permanent jobs citing WCF 6 4 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hounslow 8.824% 7.143% 11.25%
As % of the Application Development category 25.00% 25.00% 30.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 9
Average salary - £39,250 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.77%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Hounslow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
24 16 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hounslow 35.29% 28.57% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 14 15 30
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £38,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £55,000 £46,000
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 Hounslow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Hounslow 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 Hounslow region.

Hounslow WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hounslow 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) Scrum
2 7 (87.50%) TDD
3 6 (75.00%) .NET Framework
3 6 (75.00%) Degree
3 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (75.00%) OOA/OOD
3 6 (75.00%) Cognizant
3 6 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 6 (75.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) LINQ
4 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 1 (12.50%) CSS
5 1 (12.50%) SOAP
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) MCP
5 1 (12.50%) MCAD
5 1 (12.50%) MCSD
5 1 (12.50%) ASP
5 1 (12.50%) C#
5 1 (12.50%) HTML
5 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (12.50%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 1 (12.50%) BDD
5 1 (12.50%) Castle Windsor

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hounslow 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (75.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (25.00%) LINQ
3 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (12.50%) CSS
4 1 (12.50%) SOAP
4 1 (12.50%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) ASP
4 1 (12.50%) HTML
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (12.50%) Castle Windsor
4 1 (12.50%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (12.50%) Lucene
4 1 (12.50%) NHibernate
4 1 (12.50%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) Designer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (75.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Scrum
1 7 (87.50%) TDD
2 6 (75.00%) OOA/OOD
2 6 (75.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Scrum-ban
3 1 (12.50%) Web Application Development
3 1 (12.50%) MVC
3 1 (12.50%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) MCP
2 1 (12.50%) MCAD
2 1 (12.50%) MCSD
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (12.50%) MCTS
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Cognizant