Worcestershire WCF Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) skills within the Worcestershire 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 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Location Aylesbury Basingstoke Beckenham Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gerrards Cross Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich New Milton Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Reading Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Street Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tunbridge Wells Twickenham Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	53	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.818 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	4	0
Average minimum salary	£35,500	-
Average salary	£36,875	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£38,250	-
UK excluding London average salary	£37,928	£38,494
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Application Development Worcestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	220	207
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.118 %	0.086 %
Salaries quoted	207	188
Average minimum salary	£30,713	£29,015
Average salary	£32,827	£31,238
% change on same period last year	+5.08 %
Average maximum salary	£34,941	£33,462
UK excluding London average salary	£35,949	£36,837
% change on same period last year	-2.40 %
WCF West Midlands

WCF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WCF across the Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

WCF
Salary Histogram

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

WCF
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the Worcestershire 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
Worcester	-	4	£36,875	-

WCF West Midlands

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 6 (100.00 %) C# 2 5 (83.33 %) .NET 2 5 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2 5 (83.33 %) Windows 2 5 (83.33 %) WPF 3 3 (50.00 %) WF 3 3 (50.00 %) Microsoft 3 3 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 3 3 (50.00 %) WebServices 3 3 (50.00 %) C++ 4 2 (33.33 %) VB 4 2 (33.33 %) VB.NET 4 2 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 4 2 (33.33 %) XML 4 2 (33.33 %) N-Tier

4 2 (33.33 %) OOD 4 2 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 4 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (33.33 %) Tandem 4 2 (33.33 %) Scrum 4 2 (33.33 %) WinForms 4 2 (33.33 %) Mathematics 5 1 (16.67 %) Silverlight 5 1 (16.67 %) Wireless 5 1 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development 5 1 (16.67 %) AJAX 5 1 (16.67 %) JSON 5 1 (16.67 %) SCADA 5 1 (16.67 %) VC++ 5 1 (16.67 %) SharePoint

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT jobs across the Worcestershire 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 5 (83.33 %) .NET 1 5 (83.33 %) WPF 2 3 (50.00 %) WF 2 3 (50.00 %) ASP.NET 2 3 (50.00 %) WebServices 3 2 (33.33 %) XML 3 2 (33.33 %) WinForms 4 1 (16.67 %) AJAX 4 1 (16.67 %) JSON 4 1 (16.67 %) Silverlight 4 1 (16.67 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 1 (16.67 %) SharePoint
Communications & Networking 1 1 (16.67 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2 2 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) Visual Studio	Job Titles 1 5 (83.33 %) Developer 2 3 (50.00 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (33.33 %) Software Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (16.67 %) Senior Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) Programmer 4 1 (16.67 %) C# Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) .NET Software Engineer 4 1 (16.67 %) Senior Programmer 4 1 (16.67 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) N-Tier 1 2 (33.33 %) Tandem 1 2 (33.33 %) Mathematics 2 1 (16.67 %) SCADA	Operating Systems 1 5 (83.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) OOA/OOD 1 2 (33.33 %) OOD 1 2 (33.33 %) Scrum 2 1 (16.67 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 6 (100.00 %) C# 2 3 (50.00 %) C++ 3 2 (33.33 %) VB 3 2 (33.33 %) VB.NET 4 1 (16.67 %) VC++
Vendors 1 3 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 1 (16.67 %) Cisco