The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stockport region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 24 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 Stockport region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 26 34 29
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -5
Permanent jobs citing WCF 17 4 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 8.374% 2.000% 3.911%
As % of the Application Development category 11.18% 3.670% 6.542%
Number of salaries quoted 17 1 7
Average salary £36,000 £28,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% +24.44%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
152 109 107
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 74.88% 54.50% 59.78%
Number of salaries quoted 152 97 99
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 £25,500 £19,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Manchester

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 23 (100.00%) C#
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 21 (91.30%) SQL Server
3 14 (60.87%) ASP.NET
4 13 (56.52%) Windows
4 13 (56.52%) WinForms
4 13 (56.52%) MVC
4 13 (56.52%) TDD
4 13 (56.52%) WPF
4 13 (56.52%) ASP.NET MVC
4 13 (56.52%) MVVM
5 12 (52.17%) Rhino Mocks
5 12 (52.17%) Moq
5 12 (52.17%) Dependency Injection
5 12 (52.17%) Inversion of Control
5 12 (52.17%) MSTest
5 12 (52.17%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (52.17%) Kanban
5 12 (52.17%) Spring.NET
5 12 (52.17%) Castle Windsor
5 12 (52.17%) Ninject
5 12 (52.17%) Razor View Engine
5 12 (52.17%) Web Application Development
5 12 (52.17%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 12 (52.17%) Unity DI Container
5 12 (52.17%) NUnit
5 12 (52.17%) MCTS
5 12 (52.17%) Scrum
5 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
5 12 (52.17%) Microsoft Certification

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (60.87%) ASP.NET
3 13 (56.52%) WinForms
3 13 (56.52%) WPF
3 13 (56.52%) ASP.NET MVC
4 12 (52.17%) Spring.NET
4 12 (52.17%) Castle Windsor
4 12 (52.17%) Ninject
4 12 (52.17%) Razor View Engine
4 12 (52.17%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 12 (52.17%) Unity DI Container
5 10 (43.48%) .NET Framework
5 10 (43.48%) LINQ
6 9 (39.13%) CSS
6 9 (39.13%) Web Services
7 8 (34.78%) HTML
8 2 (8.696%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 1 (4.348%) Ajax
9 1 (4.348%) WF
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.348%) IIS
1 1 (4.348%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (91.30%) SQL Server
2 8 (34.78%) Crystal Reports
2 8 (34.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 8 (34.78%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (52.17%) Rhino Mocks
1 12 (52.17%) Moq
1 12 (52.17%) MSTest
1 12 (52.17%) NUnit
2 1 (4.348%) Subversion
General
1 1 (4.348%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (100.00%) Developer
2 20 (86.96%) .NET Developer
3 2 (8.696%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.348%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (52.17%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (4.348%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 13 (56.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) MVC
1 13 (56.52%) TDD
1 13 (56.52%) MVVM
2 12 (52.17%) Dependency Injection
2 12 (52.17%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (52.17%) Kanban
2 12 (52.17%) Web Application Development
2 12 (52.17%) Scrum
3 1 (4.348%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (39.13%) SQL
3 8 (34.78%) T-SQL
3 8 (34.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) MCTS
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft Certification
1 12 (52.17%) MCP
1 12 (52.17%) MCAD
1 12 (52.17%) MCSD
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
2 8 (34.78%) Infragistics
2 8 (34.78%) DevExpress
3 1 (4.348%) Telerik
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