The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stroud region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 17 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 Stroud region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 11 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -
Permanent jobs citing WCF 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stroud 5.000% 0.926% -
As % of the Application Development category 6.250% 2.500% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Stroud
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
16 40 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stroud 80.00% 37.04% 75.00%
Number of salaries quoted 13 12 8
Average salary £32,500 £34,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.41% +36.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £33,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £33,750 £27,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Gloucestershire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stroud 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 Stroud region.

Stroud WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stroud 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%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) MCP
3 2 (50.00%) MCAD
3 2 (50.00%) MCSD
3 2 (50.00%) OO
3 2 (50.00%) VB
3 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) TDD
3 2 (50.00%) NUnit
3 2 (50.00%) MCTS
3 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (50.00%) Tandem
3 2 (50.00%) MonoRail
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
3 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stroud 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%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) MonoRail
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
3 2 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
4 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (25.00%) HTML
4 1 (25.00%) CSS
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 7
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Tandem
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (25.00%) Release Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) SOA
3 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (25.00%) XPath
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) MCP
1 2 (50.00%) MCAD
1 2 (50.00%) MCSD
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) MCTS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle