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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank - 44 29
Permanent jobs citing WCF 0 5 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton - 1.276% 3.030%
As % of the Application Development category - 3.205% 7.692%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 7
Average salary - £52,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +40.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
87 156 91
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 22.96% 39.80% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 64 117 84
Average salary £37,500 £41,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.53% +17.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £28,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Bedfordshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 7 (87.50%) MVC
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Web Development
3 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 4 (50.00%) Web Services
3 4 (50.00%) XML
3 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 3 (37.50%) Web Application Development
4 3 (37.50%) jQuery
4 3 (37.50%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (37.50%) CSS
4 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) MCP
4 3 (37.50%) MCAD
4 3 (37.50%) MCSD
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (37.50%) WPF
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) MCTS
5 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (25.00%) NHibernate
5 2 (25.00%) WF
5 2 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (25.00%) Degree

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 7 (87.50%) .NET
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (50.00%) Web Services
2 4 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (37.50%) jQuery
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (37.50%) WPF
3 3 (37.50%) CSS
4 2 (25.00%) XSLT
4 2 (25.00%) WSDL
4 2 (25.00%) WF
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) NHibernate
4 2 (25.00%) RESTful
4 2 (25.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Node.js
4 2 (25.00%) Ninject
4 2 (25.00%) KnockoutJS
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (87.50%) SQL Server
2 4 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 2 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Developer
1 3 (37.50%) Team Leader
1 3 (37.50%) Development Team Leader
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Architect
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Team Leader
2 2 (25.00%) .NET Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Web Team Leader
2 2 (25.00%) Web Development Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Software Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Development Team Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) MVC
2 4 (50.00%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) Web Development
3 3 (37.50%) Web Application Development
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Use Case
4 2 (25.00%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (25.00%) Scrum
4 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (12.50%) ITIL
5 1 (12.50%) PRINCE2
5 1 (12.50%) OO
5 1 (12.50%) RUP
5 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
5 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 2 (25.00%) VB
3 2 (25.00%) VBA
3 2 (25.00%) VB6
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) MCP
1 3 (37.50%) MCAD
1 3 (37.50%) MCSD
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) MCTS
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft