The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the M4 Corridor 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 M4 Corridor region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank - 14 -
Permanent jobs citing WCF 0 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor - 10.34% -
As % of the Application Development category - 37.50% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 0
Average salary - £49,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
M4 Corridor
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13 16 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the M4 Corridor 27.08% 27.59% 7.843%
Number of salaries quoted 13 10 4
Average salary £40,000 £50,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +31.57%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
South East

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing WCF across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

M4 Corridor 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 M4 Corridor region.

M4 Corridor WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) WinForms
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
2 5 (83.33%) WPF
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 4 (66.67%) LINQ
3 4 (66.67%) Retail
3 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
4 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
4 2 (33.33%) SOA
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) MVC
5 1 (16.67%) Finance

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) WinForms
2 5 (83.33%) WPF
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) LINQ
Applications
1 6 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 6 (100.00%) Banking
2 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 4 (66.67%) Retail Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) C# Developer
2 5 (83.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 5 (83.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) SOA
1 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft