The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 24 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 Warrington region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 20 39 20
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -19
Permanent jobs citing WCF 32 32 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 8.791% 6.107% 6.810%
As % of the Application Development category 28.32% 11.07% 17.92%
Number of salaries quoted 32 30 18
Average salary £25,500 £31,500 £30,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-19.04% +3.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £37,500 £42,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
113 289 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 31.04% 55.15% 37.99%
Number of salaries quoted 99 270 96
Average salary £30,000 £33,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,500 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Cheshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Warrington region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Warrington WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 93 (100.00%) .NET
1 93 (100.00%) C#
2 87 (93.55%) ASP.NET
3 76 (81.72%) MVC
4 69 (74.19%) SQL Server
5 66 (70.97%) ASP.NET MVC
6 54 (58.06%) WPF
7 49 (52.69%) MCP
7 49 (52.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 49 (52.69%) MCTS
8 45 (48.39%) TDD
9 43 (46.24%) NUnit
9 43 (46.24%) Continuous Integration
9 43 (46.24%) Rhino Mocks
9 43 (46.24%) Razor View Engine
10 40 (43.01%) Web Application Development
10 40 (43.01%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 40 (43.01%) MCAD
10 40 (43.01%) MCSD
10 40 (43.01%) Windows
10 40 (43.01%) JavaScript
11 39 (41.94%) WinForms
11 39 (41.94%) Ninject
11 39 (41.94%) Dependency Injection
12 38 (40.86%) Inversion of Control
12 38 (40.86%) MSTest
12 38 (40.86%) Moq
12 38 (40.86%) Spring.NET
12 38 (40.86%) Kanban
12 38 (40.86%) .NET Framework

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington 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 93 (100.00%) .NET
2 87 (93.55%) ASP.NET
3 66 (70.97%) ASP.NET MVC
4 54 (58.06%) WPF
5 43 (46.24%) Razor View Engine
6 40 (43.01%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 39 (41.94%) WinForms
7 39 (41.94%) Ninject
8 38 (40.86%) Spring.NET
8 38 (40.86%) .NET Framework
8 38 (40.86%) Castle Windsor
8 38 (40.86%) Unity DI Container
9 31 (33.33%) HTML
10 26 (27.96%) CSS
11 22 (23.66%) jQuery
12 14 (15.05%) XML
13 13 (13.98%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 12 (12.90%) Ajax
15 9 (9.677%) XSLT
16 7 (7.527%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.376%) IIS
1 5 (5.376%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.376%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.75%) Intranet
2 2 (2.151%) ADSL
2 2 (2.151%) Wireless
3 1 (1.075%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (74.19%) SQL Server
2 18 (19.35%) SQL Server 2005
3 13 (13.98%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.075%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.075%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 43 (46.24%) NUnit
1 43 (46.24%) Rhino Mocks
2 38 (40.86%) MSTest
2 38 (40.86%) Moq
3 6 (6.452%) Git (software)
4 5 (5.376%) Selenium
5 1 (1.075%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (26.88%) Finance
2 1 (1.075%) Back Office
2 1 (1.075%) Advertising
2 1 (1.075%) Music
Job Titles
1 77 (82.80%) Developer
2 70 (75.27%) .NET Developer
3 24 (25.81%) ASP.NET Developer
4 20 (21.51%) C# Developer
4 20 (21.51%) C# .NET Developer
5 19 (20.43%) Junior
5 19 (20.43%) Junior Developer
5 19 (20.43%) Junior .NET Developer
6 18 (19.35%) Graduate Developer
6 18 (19.35%) Graduate
6 18 (19.35%) Graduate .NET Developer
7 15 (16.13%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 9 (9.677%) Software Engineer
9 7 (7.527%) Web Developer
10 5 (5.376%) Senior Developer
10 5 (5.376%) Senior .NET Developer
10 5 (5.376%) Senior C# Developer
11 2 (2.151%) .NET Web Developer
11 2 (2.151%) .NET Architect
11 2 (2.151%) Chief Technology Officer
Miscellaneous
1 38 (40.86%) Inversion of Control
2 26 (27.96%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (19.35%) Computer Science
4 9 (9.677%) Client/Server
4 9 (9.677%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.151%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.075%) Streaming Music
Operating Systems
1 40 (43.01%) Windows
2 2 (2.151%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.075%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (81.72%) MVC
2 45 (48.39%) TDD
3 43 (46.24%) Continuous Integration
4 40 (43.01%) Web Application Development
5 39 (41.94%) Dependency Injection
6 38 (40.86%) Kanban
6 38 (40.86%) MVVM
6 38 (40.86%) Scrum
7 32 (34.41%) OO
8 28 (30.11%) Web Development
9 16 (17.20%) Agile Software Development
10 7 (7.527%) SOA
11 6 (6.452%) Unit Testing
12 3 (3.226%) ERP
13 2 (2.151%) OOD
13 2 (2.151%) OOP
13 2 (2.151%) Migration
13 2 (2.151%) Performance Testing
14 1 (1.075%) BDD
14 1 (1.075%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 93 (100.00%) C#
2 40 (43.01%) JavaScript
3 21 (22.58%) SQL
4 9 (9.677%) XPath
5 7 (7.527%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.226%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.075%) Ruby
7 1 (1.075%) VB
Qualifications
1 49 (52.69%) MCP
1 49 (52.69%) Microsoft Certification
1 49 (52.69%) MCTS
2 40 (43.01%) MCAD
2 40 (43.01%) MCSD
3 9 (9.677%) MCPD
Vendors
1 15 (16.13%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.075%) Facebook
Warrington, Cheshire
The company have recently deployed a very successful web application and due to enormous success they require a Software Developer with strong skills in C#, ASP.Net and...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
ASP.NET Web Developer / C# / SQL Server / MVC / JavaScript / CSS / HTML / Warrington... Applicants to this role must have 2-3 years' experience with: *ASP.NET *C# *SQL Server *...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £23000 - £28000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Warrington, North West
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, WCF, RESTful, Web API, SQL Server 2012, Agile, TDD,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £50000 - £70000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Our client can provide you with exposure to .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4 (Razor), WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, continuous integration, dependency injection (Ninject / Spring.net etc),...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013