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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 51 35 41
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +6
Permanent jobs citing WCF 10 17 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.066% 3.769% 2.179%
As % of the Application Development category 6.061% 8.808% 4.592%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 9
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £29,500 £35,600
10% offered a salary of more than £46,400 £40,000 £40,200
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Newcastle upon Tyne
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
165 193 196
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 34.09% 42.79% 47.46%
Number of salaries quoted 153 158 174
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £54,750 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Tyne and Wear

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

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

Newcastle upon Tyne WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 35 (100.00%) .NET
1 35 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 31 (88.57%) C#
3 29 (82.86%) TDD
3 29 (82.86%) MVC
4 28 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 26 (74.29%) Web Application Development
6 25 (71.43%) SQL Server
7 24 (68.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 24 (68.57%) MCP
7 24 (68.57%) MCAD
7 24 (68.57%) MCSD
7 24 (68.57%) MCTS
7 24 (68.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 23 (65.71%) Scrum
9 20 (57.14%) NUnit
9 20 (57.14%) Razor View Engine
9 20 (57.14%) Rhino Mocks
9 20 (57.14%) Moq
9 20 (57.14%) Kanban
10 17 (48.57%) LINQ
10 17 (48.57%) WPF
11 15 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
11 15 (42.86%) BDD
11 15 (42.86%) NHibernate
12 13 (37.14%) DTV
13 12 (34.29%) .NET Framework
14 9 (25.71%) WinForms
14 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
14 9 (25.71%) Windows

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 35 (100.00%) .NET
1 35 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 28 (80.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 24 (68.57%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 20 (57.14%) Razor View Engine
5 17 (48.57%) LINQ
5 17 (48.57%) WPF
6 15 (42.86%) NHibernate
7 12 (34.29%) .NET Framework
8 9 (25.71%) WinForms
8 9 (25.71%) Ninject
9 8 (22.86%) KnockoutJS
10 5 (14.29%) Web Services
10 5 (14.29%) Castle Windsor
10 5 (14.29%) Unity DI Container
10 5 (14.29%) Spring.NET
11 4 (11.43%) Ajax
11 4 (11.43%) jQuery
11 4 (11.43%) Node.js
11 4 (11.43%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 15 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (11.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (57.14%) NUnit
1 20 (57.14%) Rhino Mocks
1 20 (57.14%) Moq
2 6 (17.14%) MSTest
3 2 (5.714%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 6 (17.14%) Music
2 2 (5.714%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 34 (97.14%) Developer
2 31 (88.57%) .NET Developer
3 9 (25.71%) C# Developer
4 8 (22.86%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (22.86%) ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (20.00%) Junior .NET Developer
5 7 (20.00%) Graduate Developer
5 7 (20.00%) Junior Developer
5 7 (20.00%) Junior
5 7 (20.00%) Graduate
5 7 (20.00%) Graduate .NET Developer
6 6 (17.14%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Senior Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 6 (17.14%) Senior C# Developer
7 4 (11.43%) Senior .NET Developer
8 2 (5.714%) Software Engineer
8 2 (5.714%) Web Developer
8 2 (5.714%) Applications Developer
8 2 (5.714%) Senior Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (37.14%) DTV
2 7 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 5 (14.29%) Tandem
3 5 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (14.29%) Inversion of Control
4 4 (11.43%) Streaming Music
5 2 (5.714%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 9 (25.71%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (82.86%) TDD
1 29 (82.86%) MVC
2 26 (74.29%) Web Application Development
3 23 (65.71%) Scrum
4 20 (57.14%) Kanban
5 15 (42.86%) BDD
6 9 (25.71%) MVVM
6 9 (25.71%) Dependency Injection
7 5 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (11.43%) Domain-Driven Design
8 4 (11.43%) Waterfall
9 3 (8.571%) Agile Software Development
9 3 (8.571%) OOP
9 3 (8.571%) SOA
10 2 (5.714%) Unit Testing
11 1 (2.857%) OO
Programming Languages
1 31 (88.57%) C#
2 6 (17.14%) SQL
3 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
3 4 (11.43%) VB
3 4 (11.43%) VB.NET
3 4 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.43%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (68.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 24 (68.57%) MCP
1 24 (68.57%) MCAD
1 24 (68.57%) MCSD
1 24 (68.57%) MCTS
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle