The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 23 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 38 55 49
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -6
Permanent jobs citing WCF 14 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 2.941% 0.577% 1.020%
As % of the Application Development category 7.910% 1.181% 2.674%
Number of salaries quoted 14 3 5
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +43.93%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
177 254 187
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 37.18% 48.85% 38.16%
Number of salaries quoted 164 220 172
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,300 £27,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £44,400
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Wiltshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 34 (100.00%) C#
2 30 (88.24%) .NET
3 25 (73.53%) MVC
4 23 (67.65%) ASP.NET
5 20 (58.82%) TDD
5 20 (58.82%) NUnit
5 20 (58.82%) ASP.NET MVC
6 18 (52.94%) Rhino Mocks
6 18 (52.94%) Razor View Engine
6 18 (52.94%) Web Application Development
6 18 (52.94%) ASP.NET MVC 4
6 18 (52.94%) MCTS
6 18 (52.94%) SQL Server
6 18 (52.94%) MCP
6 18 (52.94%) MCAD
6 18 (52.94%) MCSD
6 18 (52.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 14 (41.18%) Moq
8 13 (38.24%) Microsoft
8 13 (38.24%) SQL
8 13 (38.24%) Scrum
8 13 (38.24%) NHibernate
9 12 (35.29%) Kanban
10 11 (32.35%) Castle Windsor
11 10 (29.41%) Finance
12 9 (26.47%) Windows
12 9 (26.47%) BDD
12 9 (26.47%) HTML5
12 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
13 8 (23.53%) LINQ

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 30 (88.24%) .NET
2 23 (67.65%) ASP.NET
3 20 (58.82%) ASP.NET MVC
4 18 (52.94%) Razor View Engine
4 18 (52.94%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 13 (38.24%) NHibernate
6 11 (32.35%) Castle Windsor
7 9 (26.47%) HTML5
8 8 (23.53%) LINQ
8 8 (23.53%) WPF
9 7 (20.59%) .NET Framework
9 7 (20.59%) Ajax
10 6 (17.65%) MonoRail
10 6 (17.65%) HTML
11 5 (14.71%) WinForms
11 5 (14.71%) XML
11 5 (14.71%) XSLT
11 5 (14.71%) Spring.NET
11 5 (14.71%) Ninject
11 5 (14.71%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 4 (11.76%) Apache
2 2 (5.882%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (8.824%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (52.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (5.882%) MySQL
4 2 (5.882%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 20 (58.82%) NUnit
2 18 (52.94%) Rhino Mocks
3 14 (41.18%) Moq
4 8 (23.53%) Subversion
5 5 (14.71%) MSTest
6 1 (2.941%) Visual Studio
General
1 10 (29.41%) Finance
2 7 (20.59%) Games
3 6 (17.65%) Retail
Job Titles
1 32 (94.12%) Developer
2 18 (52.94%) .NET Developer
3 7 (20.59%) Software Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Junior Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Junior .NET Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Graduate Developer
4 5 (14.71%) Graduate
4 5 (14.71%) Junior
4 5 (14.71%) Graduate .NET Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Software Team Leader
5 2 (5.882%) Software Development Team Leader
5 2 (5.882%) Team Leader
5 2 (5.882%) Development Team Leader
5 2 (5.882%) Applications Developer
5 2 (5.882%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.941%) Software Engineer
6 1 (2.941%) Architect
6 1 (2.941%) Technical Architect
6 1 (2.941%) C# Software Engineer
6 1 (2.941%) Senior Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Computer Science
1 5 (14.71%) Inversion of Control
1 5 (14.71%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (5.882%) Open Source
3 1 (2.941%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 9 (26.47%) Windows
2 6 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (73.53%) MVC
2 20 (58.82%) TDD
3 18 (52.94%) Web Application Development
4 13 (38.24%) Scrum
5 12 (35.29%) Kanban
6 9 (26.47%) BDD
6 9 (26.47%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (23.53%) OO
8 5 (14.71%) MVVM
8 5 (14.71%) Dependency Injection
9 4 (11.76%) Unit Testing
10 2 (5.882%) Domain-Driven Design
10 2 (5.882%) Performance Management
10 2 (5.882%) Web Development
10 2 (5.882%) Workflow
10 2 (5.882%) UML
11 1 (2.941%) Agile Software Development
11 1 (2.941%) Software Architecture
11 1 (2.941%) Product Management
11 1 (2.941%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (38.24%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) JavaScript
3 6 (17.65%) PHP
4 4 (11.76%) PHP5
5 3 (8.824%) VB
6 2 (5.882%) T-SQL
6 2 (5.882%) VC++
7 1 (2.941%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.941%) C++
7 1 (2.941%) XAML
Qualifications
1 18 (52.94%) MCTS
1 18 (52.94%) MCP
1 18 (52.94%) MCAD
1 18 (52.94%) MCSD
1 18 (52.94%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.824%) Oracle
Swindon, Wiltshire
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Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Swindon, South West
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Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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