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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 26 - 40
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing WCF 1 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 0.500% - 0.339%
As % of the Application Development category 2.703% - 1.613%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 1
Average salary £40,000 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
37 69 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 18.50% 22.26% 21.02%
Number of salaries quoted 28 52 38
Average salary £38,750 £42,500 £48,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.82% -12.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £75,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
England

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) DevExpress
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) DevExpress