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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 50 27 51
Rank change year-on-year
-23 +24
Permanent jobs citing WCF 14 30 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 2.491% 5.102% 1.284%
As % of the Application Development category 6.731% 13.10% 3.043%
Number of salaries quoted 13 30 7
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
208 229 230
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 37.01% 38.95% 42.20%
Number of salaries quoted 195 190 211
Average salary £34,250 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,075 £24,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,200 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
North East

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 17 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -16 9 £31,500 -10.00%
South Shields - 4 £35,000 -
WCF
North East

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 48 (100.00%) .NET
1 48 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 44 (91.67%) C#
3 43 (89.58%) TDD
4 41 (85.42%) MVC
4 41 (85.42%) ASP.NET MVC
5 40 (83.33%) Web Application Development
6 39 (81.25%) SQL Server
7 38 (79.17%) MCP
7 38 (79.17%) MCAD
7 38 (79.17%) MCSD
7 38 (79.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (79.17%) MCTS
7 38 (79.17%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 34 (70.83%) Razor View Engine
8 34 (70.83%) Scrum
9 30 (62.50%) NUnit
9 30 (62.50%) Rhino Mocks
9 30 (62.50%) Moq
9 30 (62.50%) Kanban
10 23 (47.92%) BDD
11 21 (43.75%) SQL Server 2008
12 19 (39.58%) NHibernate
13 18 (37.50%) LINQ
14 15 (31.25%) Dependency Injection
14 15 (31.25%) Ninject
14 15 (31.25%) DTV
15 14 (29.17%) WPF
16 13 (27.08%) .NET Framework
17 12 (25.00%) MSTest

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 48 (100.00%) .NET
1 48 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 41 (85.42%) ASP.NET MVC
3 38 (79.17%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 34 (70.83%) Razor View Engine
5 19 (39.58%) NHibernate
6 18 (37.50%) LINQ
7 15 (31.25%) Ninject
8 14 (29.17%) WPF
9 13 (27.08%) .NET Framework
10 11 (22.92%) Spring.NET
10 11 (22.92%) Unity DI Container
10 11 (22.92%) Castle Windsor
11 9 (18.75%) WinForms
12 6 (12.50%) KnockoutJS
13 5 (10.42%) Web Services
14 4 (8.333%) jQuery
14 4 (8.333%) Node.js
15 3 (6.250%) HTML
15 3 (6.250%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.083%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 1 (2.083%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.333%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (81.25%) SQL Server
2 21 (43.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (4.167%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.083%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 30 (62.50%) NUnit
1 30 (62.50%) Rhino Mocks
1 30 (62.50%) Moq
2 12 (25.00%) MSTest
3 3 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.083%) JIRA
General
1 8 (16.67%) Music
2 4 (8.333%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 47 (97.92%) Developer
2 44 (91.67%) .NET Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Junior Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Graduate
3 9 (18.75%) Junior
3 9 (18.75%) Junior .NET Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Graduate Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Graduate .NET Developer
4 7 (14.58%) C# Developer
5 6 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
5 6 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (8.333%) Senior C# Developer
6 4 (8.333%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (8.333%) Senior Developer
6 4 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
7 3 (6.250%) Applications Developer
7 3 (6.250%) C# Application Developer
8 2 (4.167%) Senior C# Application Developer
8 2 (4.167%) Senior Web Applications Developer
8 2 (4.167%) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (31.25%) DTV
2 11 (22.92%) Inversion of Control
3 9 (18.75%) Computer Science
4 5 (10.42%) Tandem
4 5 (10.42%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (8.333%) Streaming Music
6 2 (4.167%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (89.58%) TDD
2 41 (85.42%) MVC
3 40 (83.33%) Web Application Development
4 34 (70.83%) Scrum
5 30 (62.50%) Kanban
6 23 (47.92%) BDD
7 15 (31.25%) Dependency Injection
8 11 (22.92%) Continuous Integration
9 8 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
10 7 (14.58%) MVVM
11 6 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (10.42%) OO
13 4 (8.333%) CQRS
14 3 (6.250%) SOA
14 3 (6.250%) OOP
14 3 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
15 2 (4.167%) Unit Testing
15 2 (4.167%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 44 (91.67%) C#
2 8 (16.67%) VB
2 8 (16.67%) VB.NET
3 6 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (4.167%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.167%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.167%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (79.17%) MCP
1 38 (79.17%) MCAD
1 38 (79.17%) MCSD
1 38 (79.17%) Microsoft Certification
1 38 (79.17%) MCTS
2 1 (2.083%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (14.58%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.167%) Oracle
South Shields, North East
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Posted: 15 May 2013