The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Helens region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 20 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 Helens region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 4 8 12
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +4
Permanent jobs citing WCF 4 6 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Helens 30.77% 20.00% 21.21%
As % of the Application Development category 50.00% 46.15% 31.82%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 7
Average salary £40,000 £27,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+48.14% -32.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
St Helens
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
8 13 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Helens 61.54% 43.33% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 8 13 22
Average salary £40,000 £27,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+45.45% -28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Merseyside

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Helens 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 Helens region.

St Helens WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Helens 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (100.00%) Web Development
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
1 4 (100.00%) Web Application Development

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Helens 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) HTML5
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 4 (100.00%) VB.NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior C# Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) Senior VB.NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) Web Development
1 4 (100.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) VB.NET