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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 54 38 37
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -1
Permanent jobs citing WCF 12 18 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 3.053% 5.028% 2.473%
As % of the Application Development category 5.714% 9.375% 5.036%
Number of salaries quoted 10 18 7
Average salary £26,500 £37,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.33% +36.36%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
210 192 139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 53.44% 53.63% 49.12%
Number of salaries quoted 187 185 127
Average salary £37,500 £33,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.94% +11.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,000 £20,250
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Leicestershire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

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

Leicester WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 51 (100.00%) C#
1 51 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (92.16%) SQL Server
3 42 (82.35%) ASP.NET
4 34 (66.67%) Ajax
5 32 (62.75%) JavaScript
6 28 (54.90%) N-Tier
7 27 (52.94%) OO
7 27 (52.94%) Visual Studio
7 27 (52.94%) jQuery
8 25 (49.02%) IIS
9 21 (41.18%) Telerik
9 21 (41.18%) DevExpress
10 15 (29.41%) SQL
11 13 (25.49%) MS Excel
11 13 (25.49%) Windows
12 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
13 10 (19.61%) Web Services
13 10 (19.61%) XML
13 10 (19.61%) HTML
13 10 (19.61%) VB.NET
13 10 (19.61%) WinForms
13 10 (19.61%) Web Development
14 9 (17.65%) WPF
14 9 (17.65%) Windows Azure
14 9 (17.65%) CSS
14 9 (17.65%) MVC
14 9 (17.65%) Scrum
15 8 (15.69%) .NET Framework
16 7 (13.73%) User Acceptance Testing

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester 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 51 (100.00%) .NET
2 42 (82.35%) ASP.NET
3 34 (66.67%) Ajax
4 27 (52.94%) jQuery
5 10 (19.61%) Web Services
5 10 (19.61%) XML
5 10 (19.61%) HTML
5 10 (19.61%) WinForms
6 9 (17.65%) WPF
6 9 (17.65%) CSS
7 8 (15.69%) .NET Framework
8 6 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
9 4 (7.843%) XHTML
9 4 (7.843%) XSLT
9 4 (7.843%) LINQ
10 2 (3.922%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 2 (3.922%) Silverlight
10 2 (3.922%) HTML5
11 1 (1.961%) Razor View Engine
11 1 (1.961%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 25 (49.02%) IIS
2 9 (17.65%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 13 (25.49%) MS Excel
2 7 (13.73%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (92.16%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 6 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.961%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 27 (52.94%) Visual Studio
2 2 (3.922%) NUnit
3 1 (1.961%) Rhino Mocks
3 1 (1.961%) Moq
3 1 (1.961%) NCover
3 1 (1.961%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (5.882%) Back Office
1 3 (5.882%) Finance
2 1 (1.961%) Retail
Job Titles
1 43 (84.31%) Developer
2 36 (70.59%) .NET Developer
3 11 (21.57%) C# Developer
4 9 (17.65%) ASP.NET Developer
5 8 (15.69%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (13.73%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Support Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Applications Support
7 6 (11.76%) Senior Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Software Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Applications Support Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Software Support Engineer
8 3 (5.882%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (3.922%) Programmer
9 2 (3.922%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (3.922%) Senior Programmer
10 1 (1.961%) C# Software Developer
10 1 (1.961%) ScrumMaster
10 1 (1.961%) WPF Developer
10 1 (1.961%) C# Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (54.90%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.961%) SaaS
2 1 (1.961%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) OO
2 10 (19.61%) Web Development
3 9 (17.65%) MVC
3 9 (17.65%) Scrum
4 7 (13.73%) User Acceptance Testing
4 7 (13.73%) Data Transformation
4 7 (13.73%) Migration
4 7 (13.73%) CRM
5 6 (11.76%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (9.804%) E-Commerce
7 3 (5.882%) Software Architecture
7 3 (5.882%) MVVM
7 3 (5.882%) OOP
8 2 (3.922%) Extreme Programming
8 2 (3.922%) SEO
8 2 (3.922%) TDD
8 2 (3.922%) UML
8 2 (3.922%) ERP
8 2 (3.922%) Web Analytics
8 2 (3.922%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) C#
2 32 (62.75%) JavaScript
3 15 (29.41%) SQL
4 10 (19.61%) VB.NET
5 7 (13.73%) VB
5 7 (13.73%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.961%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (3.922%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (3.922%) MCSD
2 1 (1.961%) MCTS
2 1 (1.961%) MCP
2 1 (1.961%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.922%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 21 (41.18%) Telerik
1 21 (41.18%) DevExpress
2 12 (23.53%) Microsoft
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