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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 37 27 44
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +17
Permanent jobs citing WCF 31 40 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 5.219% 6.957% 2.862%
As % of the Application Development category 11.44% 14.39% 5.776%
Number of salaries quoted 29 33 16
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
271 278 277
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staffordshire 45.62% 48.35% 49.55%
Number of salaries quoted 245 244 242
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £50,000
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 Staffordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Staffordshire WCF Salary Histogram

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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Cannock -4 24 £42,500 -10.52%
Stoke-on-Trent -7 2 £32,500 +18.18%
Burton-upon-Trent - 1 £35,000 -
WCF
West Midlands

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 65 (100.00%) .NET
2 58 (89.23%) SQL Server
3 50 (76.92%) C#
4 47 (72.31%) ASP.NET
4 47 (72.31%) MVC
5 41 (63.08%) Scrum
6 38 (58.46%) ASP.NET MVC
7 37 (56.92%) TDD
8 36 (55.38%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (50.77%) MCTS
9 33 (50.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (50.77%) MCP
9 33 (50.77%) MCAD
9 33 (50.77%) MCSD
10 32 (49.23%) NUnit
10 32 (49.23%) Kanban
10 32 (49.23%) Rhino Mocks
10 32 (49.23%) Razor View Engine
10 32 (49.23%) Castle Windsor
11 31 (47.69%) Web Application Development
11 31 (47.69%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 30 (46.15%) Dependency Injection
13 29 (44.62%) Ninject
14 28 (43.08%) Unity DI Container
14 28 (43.08%) Moq
14 28 (43.08%) Inversion of Control
14 28 (43.08%) MSTest
14 28 (43.08%) Spring.NET
15 26 (40.00%) WPF
15 26 (40.00%) Windows

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staffordshire 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 65 (100.00%) .NET
2 47 (72.31%) ASP.NET
3 38 (58.46%) ASP.NET MVC
4 32 (49.23%) Castle Windsor
4 32 (49.23%) Razor View Engine
5 31 (47.69%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 29 (44.62%) Ninject
7 28 (43.08%) Unity DI Container
7 28 (43.08%) Spring.NET
8 26 (40.00%) WPF
9 18 (27.69%) WinForms
10 9 (13.85%) .NET Remoting
11 8 (12.31%) Web Services
12 6 (9.231%) .NET Framework
12 6 (9.231%) HTML5
13 5 (7.692%) LINQ
13 5 (7.692%) HTML
14 4 (6.154%) XML
14 4 (6.154%) Middleware
14 4 (6.154%) Lucene
Application Platforms
1 6 (9.231%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (3.077%) ESB
2 2 (3.077%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (3.077%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (13.85%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.077%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.77%) HTTP
2 2 (3.077%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (89.23%) SQL Server
2 11 (16.92%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (12.31%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (10.77%) OLTP
5 4 (6.154%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (3.077%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 32 (49.23%) NUnit
1 32 (49.23%) Rhino Mocks
2 28 (43.08%) Moq
2 28 (43.08%) MSTest
3 14 (21.54%) Team Foundation Server
4 10 (15.38%) MSBuild
5 4 (6.154%) Cucumber
5 4 (6.154%) Selenium
5 4 (6.154%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.077%) Subversion
7 1 (1.538%) Oracle Forms
7 1 (1.538%) CruiseControl
General
1 11 (16.92%) Finance
2 3 (4.615%) Music
3 2 (3.077%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 65 (100.00%) Developer
2 51 (78.46%) .NET Developer
3 14 (21.54%) Senior Developer
4 8 (12.31%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (6.154%) C# Developer
5 4 (6.154%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (4.615%) Web Developer
7 2 (3.077%) Applications Developer
7 2 (3.077%) Web Applications Developer
7 2 (3.077%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (3.077%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (3.077%) BizTalk Developer
7 2 (3.077%) Technical Developer
7 2 (3.077%) Software Developer
8 1 (1.538%) C# Programmer
8 1 (1.538%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (1.538%) Senior BizTalk Developer
8 1 (1.538%) Software Programmer
8 1 (1.538%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (1.538%) Senior SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (43.08%) Inversion of Control
2 9 (13.85%) N-Tier
3 3 (4.615%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.538%) Streaming Video
4 1 (1.538%) Streaming Music
4 1 (1.538%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 26 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (72.31%) MVC
2 41 (63.08%) Scrum
3 37 (56.92%) TDD
4 36 (55.38%) Continuous Integration
5 32 (49.23%) Kanban
6 31 (47.69%) Web Application Development
7 30 (46.15%) Dependency Injection
8 16 (24.62%) MVVM
8 16 (24.62%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (20.00%) OO
10 9 (13.85%) Unit Testing
11 7 (10.77%) E-Commerce
11 7 (10.77%) SOA
12 4 (6.154%) BDD
12 4 (6.154%) Scrum-ban
13 3 (4.615%) Workflow
14 2 (3.077%) Agile Software Development
15 1 (1.538%) Migration
15 1 (1.538%) Domain-Driven Design
15 1 (1.538%) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages
1 50 (76.92%) C#
2 18 (27.69%) VB.NET
3 15 (23.08%) VB
4 12 (18.46%) SQL
5 10 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 10 (15.38%) VB6
6 2 (3.077%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.538%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (50.77%) MCP
1 33 (50.77%) MCAD
1 33 (50.77%) MCSD
1 33 (50.77%) Microsoft Certification
1 33 (50.77%) MCTS
2 2 (3.077%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.077%) QA
Vendors
1 25 (38.46%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.538%) Oracle
Lichfield, West Midlands
You will be joining an experienced team of developers working on various large scale projects for a retained client list utilising your skills in C#, OOP, ASP.Net,...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 5 May 2013
Cannock, West Midlands
This is a globally recognised business services organisation, who have now converged their IT teams in order to deliver a robust IT service to all the businesses within...
Salary: £40000 - £46500 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 2 May 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
C#, ASP.Net, VB.NET, SQL, Visual Basic, Developer, Systems, Stoke, Staffordshire, ecommerce... The main skills required for the role include: -solid MS SQL server experience (2005 onwards) -...
Spring Technology
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Plus benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cannock, West Midlands
Our client can provide you with exposure to: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Our client is seeking a Web Application Developer you will have a background in software development working in Microsoft environments.
Hudson
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Stoke on Trent, West Midlands
Our client is seeking a Wed/ Application Developer you will have a background in software development working in Microsoft environments.
Hudson
Salary: Excellent Benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
Computer science background (OO design, design patterns, algorithms) Development experience in C#... Development experience of VB.NET and WPF. Good working knowledge of VB6... Exposure to WCF, SOA,...
Ticketmaster UK
Salary: Competative
Posted: 15 May 2013