The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 23 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 70 34 45
Rank change year-on-year
-36 +11
Permanent jobs citing WCF 2 32 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 0.301% 4.863% 2.372%
As % of the Application Development category 1.176% 20.92% 7.947%
Number of salaries quoted 2 32 12
Average salary £57,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+43.75% -11.11%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
170 153 151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 25.60% 23.25% 29.84%
Number of salaries quoted 154 135 142
Average salary £57,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+43.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Berkshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) MVC
2 9 (90.00%) Finance
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
3 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (80.00%) Visual Studio
3 8 (80.00%) ASP.NET
4 7 (70.00%) OO
4 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (60.00%) Subversion
5 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (60.00%) Degree
5 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
5 6 (60.00%) WPF
5 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
5 6 (60.00%) TeamCity
5 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (30.00%) CSS
6 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
7 2 (20.00%) Ajax
7 2 (20.00%) jQuery
7 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
8 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
8 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (10.00%) Ext JS
8 1 (10.00%) JSON

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (60.00%) WPF
3 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (30.00%) CSS
4 3 (30.00%) .NET Framework
5 2 (20.00%) Ajax
5 2 (20.00%) jQuery
5 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (10.00%) Ext JS
6 1 (10.00%) JSON
6 1 (10.00%) SOAP
6 1 (10.00%) XML
6 1 (10.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (10.00%) MSMQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (80.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (10.00%) MongoDB
4 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 6 (60.00%) Subversion
2 6 (60.00%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (90.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (90.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (60.00%) C# Developer
3 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 6 (60.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 6 (60.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Developer
5 1 (10.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) MVC
2 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (70.00%) OO
3 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (10.00%) B2C
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (90.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
Slough, Berkshire
A graduate with a Computer Science degree -Proven experience of designing and developing a greenfield solution -Considerable experience in software development including experience of using C#, Visual Studio...
Neilson Financial Services Ltd
Salary: From £55,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013