Wales WCF Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Andover Aylesbury Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Farnham Flintshire Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Liverpool London Loughborough M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rotherham Rugby Sale Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Welwyn Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	102	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.687 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	4	0
Average minimum salary	£32,000	-
Average salary	£36,250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£40,500	-
UK excluding London average salary	£39,023	£40,491
% change on same period last year	-3.62 %
Application Development Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	582	576
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.377 %	0.257 %
Salaries quoted	567	539
Average minimum salary	£29,810	£28,077
Average salary	£33,094	£31,754
% change on same period last year	+4.21 %
Average maximum salary	£36,377	£35,431
UK excluding London average salary	£36,028	£36,569
% change on same period last year	-1.48 %
WCF UK

WCF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WCF across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WCF
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WCF across the Wales region.

WCF
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

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 Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	-	3	£36,667	-
North Wales	-	1	£35,000	-

WCF UK

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 9 (100.00 %) C# 1 9 (100.00 %) Visual Studio 1 9 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 9 (100.00 %) .NET 1 9 (100.00 %) Microsoft 1 9 (100.00 %) Agile Software Development 2 8 (88.89 %) VB6 2 8 (88.89 %) Insurance 2 8 (88.89 %) MVC 2 8 (88.89 %) Migration 2 8 (88.89 %) SQL Server 2 8 (88.89 %) Windows 2 8 (88.89 %) SharePoint 2 8 (88.89 %) VB 2 8 (88.89 %) SOA

2 8 (88.89 %) Java 2 8 (88.89 %) .NET Framework 2 8 (88.89 %) Degree 2 8 (88.89 %) WF 2 8 (88.89 %) Visual Studio Team System 2 8 (88.89 %) Windows Server 2008 3 2 (22.22 %) SQL 4 1 (11.11 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (11.11 %) JavaScript 4 1 (11.11 %) CSS 4 1 (11.11 %) XML 4 1 (11.11 %) XSLT 4 1 (11.11 %) N-Tier 4 1 (11.11 %) OOP 4 1 (11.11 %) OO

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales 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 9 (100.00 %) ASP.NET 1 9 (100.00 %) .NET 2 8 (88.89 %) MVC 2 8 (88.89 %) .NET Framework 2 8 (88.89 %) WF 3 1 (11.11 %) CSS 3 1 (11.11 %) XML 3 1 (11.11 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 8 (88.89 %) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (88.89 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 9 (100.00 %) Visual Studio 2 8 (88.89 %) Visual Studio Team System
General 1 8 (88.89 %) Insurance 2 1 (11.11 %) Pensions	Job Titles 1 5 (55.56 %) Analyst 1 5 (55.56 %) Analyst Programmer 1 5 (55.56 %) Programmer 2 4 (44.44 %) C# Analyst Programmer 3 3 (33.33 %) Senior C# Analyst Programmer 3 3 (33.33 %) Senior Programmer 3 3 (33.33 %) Software Architect 3 3 (33.33 %) Architect 3 3 (33.33 %) Senior Analyst 3 3 (33.33 %) Senior Analyst Programmer 4 1 (11.11 %) Systems Developer 4 1 (11.11 %) Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) N-Tier 1 1 (11.11 %) Social Network	Operating Systems 1 8 (88.89 %) Windows 1 8 (88.89 %) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (100.00 %) Agile Software Development 2 8 (88.89 %) Migration 2 8 (88.89 %) SOA 3 1 (11.11 %) OOP 3 1 (11.11 %) OO 3 1 (11.11 %) Unit Testing	Programming Languages 1 9 (100.00 %) C# 2 8 (88.89 %) VB6 2 8 (88.89 %) VB 2 8 (88.89 %) Java 3 2 (22.22 %) SQL 4 1 (11.11 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (11.11 %) JavaScript
Qualifications 1 8 (88.89 %) Degree	Vendors 1 9 (100.00 %) Microsoft