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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 36 18 29
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +11
Permanent jobs citing WCF 2 14 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 1.111% 9.929% 3.911%
As % of the Application Development category 3.333% 20.29% 13.73%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 6
Average salary £65,000 £65,000 £48,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
60 69 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 33.33% 48.94% 28.49%
Number of salaries quoted 45 59 45
Average salary £45,000 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +31.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Hertfordshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans 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 St Albans region.

St Albans WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 17 (100.00%) C#
1 17 (100.00%) MVC
1 17 (100.00%) OO
2 16 (94.12%) Microsoft Certification
2 16 (94.12%) Kanban
2 16 (94.12%) SQL Server 2008
2 16 (94.12%) Rhino Mocks
2 16 (94.12%) Cucumber
2 16 (94.12%) BDD
2 16 (94.12%) Castle Windsor
2 16 (94.12%) Scrum-ban
2 16 (94.12%) MCTS
2 16 (94.12%) NHibernate
2 16 (94.12%) Selenium
2 16 (94.12%) Silverlight
2 16 (94.12%) LINQ
2 16 (94.12%) Finance
2 16 (94.12%) Scrum
2 16 (94.12%) TDD
2 16 (94.12%) NUnit
2 16 (94.12%) Lucene
2 16 (94.12%) MCP
2 16 (94.12%) MCAD
2 16 (94.12%) MCSD
2 16 (94.12%) .NET
2 16 (94.12%) SQL Server
2 16 (94.12%) ASP.NET
2 16 (94.12%) ASP.NET MVC
2 16 (94.12%) Web Application Development
2 16 (94.12%) Enterprise Software

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans 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 16 (94.12%) Castle Windsor
1 16 (94.12%) NHibernate
1 16 (94.12%) Silverlight
1 16 (94.12%) LINQ
1 16 (94.12%) Lucene
1 16 (94.12%) .NET
1 16 (94.12%) ASP.NET
1 16 (94.12%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (5.882%) HTML5
2 1 (5.882%) CSS
2 1 (5.882%) Ajax
2 1 (5.882%) jQuery
2 1 (5.882%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (94.12%) SQL Server 2008
1 16 (94.12%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (94.12%) Rhino Mocks
1 16 (94.12%) Cucumber
1 16 (94.12%) Selenium
1 16 (94.12%) NUnit
2 1 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 16 (94.12%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
1 16 (94.12%) .NET Developer
2 1 (5.882%) Software Development Team Leader
2 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
2 1 (5.882%) Development Team Leader
2 1 (5.882%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 16 (94.12%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) MVC
1 17 (100.00%) OO
2 16 (94.12%) Kanban
2 16 (94.12%) BDD
2 16 (94.12%) Scrum-ban
2 16 (94.12%) Scrum
2 16 (94.12%) TDD
2 16 (94.12%) Web Application Development
3 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (94.12%) Microsoft Certification
1 16 (94.12%) MCTS
1 16 (94.12%) MCP
1 16 (94.12%) MCAD
1 16 (94.12%) MCSD