The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swansea region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 21 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 Swansea region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 13 25 18
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -7
Permanent jobs citing WCF 2 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 4.000% 1.163% 6.494%
As % of the Application Development category 9.091% 3.125% 12.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 5
Average salary £40,000 £26,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.94% +6.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Swansea
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
22 32 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swansea 44.00% 37.21% 51.95%
Number of salaries quoted 20 31 37
Average salary £30,000 £29,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.44% +16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £21,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £31,500 £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
West Wales

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swansea 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 Swansea region.

Swansea WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (60.00%) Mercurial
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Azure
2 3 (60.00%) WinForms
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (60.00%) Android
2 3 (60.00%) WPF
2 3 (60.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (60.00%) LINQ
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (60.00%) Blackberry
2 3 (60.00%) GIS
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
2 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swansea 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 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (60.00%) WinForms
2 3 (60.00%) WPF
2 3 (60.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (60.00%) LINQ
2 3 (60.00%) XML
2 3 (60.00%) XSLT
3 2 (40.00%) Flash
3 2 (40.00%) Web Services
3 2 (40.00%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Windows Azure
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
2 3 (60.00%) GIS
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Mercurial
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Forms
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
1 5 (100.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 5 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (40.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Apple iOS
1 3 (60.00%) Android
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) User Experience Design
2 2 (40.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) ActionScript
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle