The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Shropshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 22 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 Shropshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 36 23 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Permanent jobs citing WCF 1 10 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 0.437% 6.098% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.515% 14.29% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 0
Average salary £32,500 £37,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.90% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Shropshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
66 70 89
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Shropshire 28.82% 42.68% 60.54%
Number of salaries quoted 41 57 87
Average salary £32,500 £32,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £21,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £67,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
West Midlands

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Shropshire 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 Shropshire region.

Shropshire WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the Shropshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Telford -7 1 £32,500 -14.47%
WCF
West Midlands

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 5 (83.33%) Subversion
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) Ajax
3 4 (66.67%) Google
3 4 (66.67%) Acrobat
3 4 (66.67%) Marketing
3 4 (66.67%) Web Development
3 4 (66.67%) Google Maps API
3 4 (66.67%) Kentico
3 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 4 (66.67%) Flash
3 4 (66.67%) Photoshop
3 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) PHP
3 4 (66.67%) Content Management
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) Publishing
3 4 (66.67%) CMS
3 4 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (66.67%) WinForms
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) MVC
4 2 (33.33%) TDD

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Shropshire 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
2 5 (83.33%) XML
2 5 (83.33%) Ajax
3 4 (66.67%) Google Maps API
3 4 (66.67%) Flash
3 4 (66.67%) HTML
3 4 (66.67%) CSS
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) WinForms
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (33.33%) NHibernate
4 2 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (33.33%) LINQ
5 1 (16.67%) WPF
5 1 (16.67%) HTML5
5 1 (16.67%) Castle Windsor
5 1 (16.67%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Kentico
1 4 (66.67%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Acrobat
1 4 (66.67%) Photoshop
1 4 (66.67%) Adobe Illustrator
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Subversion
2 4 (66.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (33.33%) NUnit
3 2 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (66.67%) Marketing
1 4 (66.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Web Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Web Developer
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Web Development
1 4 (66.67%) Content Management
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Web Application Development
3 1 (16.67%) Kanban
3 1 (16.67%) BDD
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum-ban
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) MCTS
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (16.67%) MCP
1 1 (16.67%) MCAD
1 1 (16.67%) MCSD
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft