The first table below looks at the demand for MFC skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited MFC over the 3 months to 22 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)
Rank 191 154 161
Rank change year-on-year
-37 +7
Permanent jobs citing MFC 8 36 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.159% 0.780% 0.246%
As % of the Application Development category 0.393% 1.826% 0.654%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 8
Average salary £37,500 £25,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -21.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,100 £22,500 £26,300
10% offered a salary of more than £40,900 £37,500 £33,100
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2036 1972 1529
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.48% 42.73% 37.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1820 1773 1397
Average salary £37,000 £36,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.06% +3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,985 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
MFC
England

MFC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands MFC Jobs Demand Trend

MFC
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing MFC across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands MFC Salary Trend

MFC
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing MFC within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Staffordshire - 5 £37,500 -
Birmingham - 2 £37,000 -
Solihull - 1 £34,500 -
MFC
England

MFC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing MFC 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 MFC.

1 17 (73.91%) C#
1 17 (73.91%) C++
2 14 (60.87%) .NET
3 13 (56.52%) VC++
3 13 (56.52%) Degree
4 11 (47.83%) Mathematics
4 11 (47.83%) Physics
5 7 (30.43%) CAD
5 7 (30.43%) MATLAB
5 7 (30.43%) Borland
5 7 (30.43%) Visual Studio
5 7 (30.43%) OO
6 6 (26.09%) Windows
6 6 (26.09%) C
6 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
7 5 (21.74%) SQL
8 4 (17.39%) STL
8 4 (17.39%) Finance
8 4 (17.39%) LAN
8 4 (17.39%) Requirements Analysis
9 2 (8.696%) Web Development
9 2 (8.696%) .NET Framework
9 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
9 2 (8.696%) Manufacturing
9 2 (8.696%) WinForms
9 2 (8.696%) WPF
9 2 (8.696%) Silverlight
9 2 (8.696%) jQuery
9 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
9 2 (8.696%) CSS3

MFC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing MFC 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 MFC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (60.87%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) STL
3 2 (8.696%) .NET Framework
3 2 (8.696%) WinForms
3 2 (8.696%) WPF
3 2 (8.696%) Silverlight
3 2 (8.696%) jQuery
3 2 (8.696%) CSS3
3 2 (8.696%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (8.696%) XHTML
3 2 (8.696%) Web Services
3 2 (8.696%) CSS
3 2 (8.696%) HTML
4 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
Communications & Networking
1 4 (17.39%) LAN
2 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 2 (8.696%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.348%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 17 (73.91%) Software Engineer
2 12 (52.17%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Software Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Real Time Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Design Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Test Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior Developer
5 2 (8.696%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior Test Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior Software Developer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior Software Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Junior
6 1 (4.348%) C++ Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) C++ Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (47.83%) Mathematics
1 11 (47.83%) Physics
2 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) Windows CE
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (30.43%) CAD
1 7 (30.43%) OO
2 4 (17.39%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (8.696%) Web Development
3 2 (8.696%) Multithreading
3 2 (8.696%) Automation Testing
3 2 (8.696%) MVC
3 2 (8.696%) PRINCE
3 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.348%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 17 (73.91%) C#
1 17 (73.91%) C++
2 13 (56.52%) VC++
3 7 (30.43%) MATLAB
4 6 (26.09%) C
5 5 (21.74%) SQL
6 2 (8.696%) T-SQL
6 2 (8.696%) JavaScript
6 2 (8.696%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (4.348%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Borland
2 1 (4.348%) VMware