West Midlands WF Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) skills within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WF over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF)
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnborough Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Havant Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Preston Reading Rochdale Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Swindon Tunbridge Wells UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	212	223
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	16	9
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.581 %	0.338 %
Salaries quoted	16	9
Average minimum salary	£34,563	£36,111
Average salary	£34,875	£36,111
% change on same period last year	-3.42 %
Average maximum salary	£35,188	£36,111
UK excluding London average salary	£39,931	£38,411
% change on same period last year	+3.95 %
Application Development West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	2753	2662
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.482 %	1.110 %
Salaries quoted	2483	2399
Average minimum salary	£30,101	£29,936
Average salary	£32,727	£32,733
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
Average maximum salary	£35,353	£35,531
UK excluding London average salary	£35,949	£36,837
% change on same period last year	-2.40 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WF across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WF within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 21 August 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
Warwickshire	-	10	£32,800	-
Coventry	-10	4	£35,000	-22.22 %
Worcestershire	-14	1	£40,000	+14.28 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing WF 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 WF.

1 23 (95.83 %) .NET 1 23 (95.83 %) SQL Server 2 21 (87.50 %) C# 2 21 (87.50 %) WCF 3 20 (83.33 %) WPF 3 20 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 20 (83.33 %) ASP.NET 4 16 (66.67 %) WebServices 4 16 (66.67 %) XML 5 15 (62.50 %) Internet 5 15 (62.50 %) Scrum 6 14 (58.33 %) AJAX 6 14 (58.33 %) Silverlight 6 14 (58.33 %) E-Commerce 6 14 (58.33 %) CSS

7 13 (54.17 %) XHTML 7 13 (54.17 %) Extreme Programming 8 9 (37.50 %) Automotive 9 8 (33.33 %) Electronics 9 8 (33.33 %) Banking 10 7 (29.17 %) Microsoft 10 7 (29.17 %) Windows 11 5 (20.83 %) JavaScript 11 5 (20.83 %) SharePoint 12 4 (16.67 %) WinForms 13 3 (12.50 %) Health 13 3 (12.50 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 3 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 13 3 (12.50 %) OO 13 3 (12.50 %) Workflow

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing WF 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 WF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 23 (95.83 %) .NET 2 21 (87.50 %) WCF 3 20 (83.33 %) WPF 3 20 (83.33 %) ASP.NET 4 16 (66.67 %) WebServices 4 16 (66.67 %) XML 5 14 (58.33 %) CSS 5 14 (58.33 %) Silverlight 5 14 (58.33 %) AJAX 6 13 (54.17 %) XHTML 7 4 (16.67 %) WinForms 8 3 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (8.333 %) Windows SharePoint Services 9 2 (8.333 %) HTML 10 1 (4.167 %) JSON 10 1 (4.167 %) ASP.NET 2.0 10 1 (4.167 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 5 (20.83 %) SharePoint 2 3 (12.50 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (8.333 %) Office Project Server
Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Excel 3 1 (4.167 %) InfoPath	Communications & Networking 1 15 (62.50 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (95.83 %) SQL Server 2 20 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (8.333 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (4.167 %) SQL Server Reporting Services	Development Applications 1 3 (12.50 %) Visual Studio
General 1 9 (37.50 %) Automotive 2 8 (33.33 %) Electronics 2 8 (33.33 %) Banking 3 3 (12.50 %) Health 4 2 (8.333 %) Pensions 5 1 (4.167 %) Publishing 5 1 (4.167 %) Insurance 5 1 (4.167 %) Finance 5 1 (4.167 %) Government	Job Titles 1 23 (95.83 %) Developer 2 17 (70.83 %) .NET Developer 3 15 (62.50 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 14 (58.33 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 4 14 (58.33 %) C# Developer 5 5 (20.83 %) Senior Developer 6 3 (12.50 %) Architect 6 3 (12.50 %) SharePoint Developer 7 2 (8.333 %) Senior Sharepoint Developer 7 2 (8.333 %) Technical Architect 8 1 (4.167 %) Applications Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Software Engineer 8 1 (4.167 %) Software Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) .NET Applications Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (4.167 %) Systems Architect 8 1 (4.167 %) Senior Technical Architect 8 1 (4.167 %) .NET Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Tandem	Operating Systems 1 7 (29.17 %) Windows 2 1 (4.167 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (62.50 %) Scrum 2 14 (58.33 %) E-Commerce 3 13 (54.17 %) Extreme Programming 4 3 (12.50 %) OO 4 3 (12.50 %) Workflow 5 2 (8.333 %) UML 6 1 (4.167 %) OOP 6 1 (4.167 %) Business Intelligence 6 1 (4.167 %) Agile Software Development 6 1 (4.167 %) Content Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Enterprise Architecture 6 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared	Programming Languages 1 21 (87.50 %) C# 2 5 (20.83 %) JavaScript 3 3 (12.50 %) VB 3 3 (12.50 %) VB.NET 4 1 (4.167 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 1 (4.167 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 7 (29.17 %) Microsoft