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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 7 24 39
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +15
Permanent jobs citing WCF 43 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 30.28% 1.980% 0.649%
As % of the Application Development category 45.74% 5.405% 1.538%
Number of salaries quoted 40 2 1
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +7.95%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
94 37 65
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 66.20% 36.63% 42.21%
Number of salaries quoted 84 36 38
Average salary £45,000 £32,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+38.46% -
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £24,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Essex

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon 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 Basildon region.

Basildon WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Basildon region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Basildon WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 81 (96.43%) .NET
2 77 (91.67%) WPF
3 71 (84.52%) C#
4 59 (70.24%) Silverlight
5 50 (59.52%) SQL Server
5 50 (59.52%) OO
6 48 (57.14%) Finance
7 35 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (28.57%) OOP
9 21 (25.00%) ASP.NET
9 21 (25.00%) MVC
10 18 (21.43%) JavaScript
11 17 (20.24%) CSS
11 17 (20.24%) HTML
12 15 (17.86%) WinForms
13 14 (16.67%) TDD
13 14 (16.67%) SQL
13 14 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
14 12 (14.29%) Rhino Mocks
15 10 (11.90%) .NET Framework
15 10 (11.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 10 (11.90%) Web Services
15 10 (11.90%) XAML
16 9 (10.71%) Unity DI Container
16 9 (10.71%) Unit Testing
17 8 (9.524%) MSTest
17 8 (9.524%) Dependency Injection
17 8 (9.524%) T-SQL
17 8 (9.524%) Windows
18 7 (8.333%) MS Excel

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon 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 81 (96.43%) .NET
2 77 (91.67%) WPF
3 59 (70.24%) Silverlight
4 21 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 17 (20.24%) CSS
5 17 (20.24%) HTML
6 15 (17.86%) WinForms
7 10 (11.90%) .NET Framework
7 10 (11.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 10 (11.90%) Web Services
8 9 (10.71%) Unity DI Container
9 7 (8.333%) Ajax
9 7 (8.333%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (7.143%) jQuery
11 5 (5.952%) NHibernate
11 5 (5.952%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 5 (5.952%) Castle Windsor
11 5 (5.952%) Razor View Engine
12 4 (4.762%) MonoRail
12 4 (4.762%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (5.952%) IIS
2 1 (1.190%) MSMQ
Applications
1 7 (8.333%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.190%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.762%) VoIP
2 2 (2.381%) Internet
3 1 (1.190%) FTP
3 1 (1.190%) Cisco ICM
3 1 (1.190%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (59.52%) SQL Server
2 14 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.190%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (14.29%) Rhino Mocks
2 8 (9.524%) MSTest
3 6 (7.143%) NUnit
4 5 (5.952%) Subversion
4 5 (5.952%) Visual Studio
5 4 (4.762%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.190%) Moq
General
1 48 (57.14%) Finance
2 4 (4.762%) Retail
3 1 (1.190%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 55 (65.48%) Developer
2 36 (42.86%) Analyst
3 33 (39.29%) Technical Analyst
4 25 (29.76%) C# Developer
5 17 (20.24%) Web Developer
6 14 (16.67%) Silverlight Developer
6 14 (16.67%) WPF Developer
7 9 (10.71%) C# .NET Developer
8 8 (9.524%) .NET Developer
9 6 (7.143%) Senior Developer
10 4 (4.762%) Developer Analyst
10 4 (4.762%) Software Developer
11 3 (3.571%) Senior Web Developer
11 3 (3.571%) Analyst Developer
11 3 (3.571%) Senior Software Developer
12 2 (2.381%) Technical Developer
12 2 (2.381%) Software Analyst
13 1 (1.190%) Analyst Programmer
13 1 (1.190%) Programmer
13 1 (1.190%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (41.67%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (8.333%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.381%) iPhone
3 2 (2.381%) SaaS
4 1 (1.190%) Tandem
4 1 (1.190%) RIA
4 1 (1.190%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.524%) Windows
2 2 (2.381%) Android
2 2 (2.381%) Windows Mobile
3 1 (1.190%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (1.190%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (59.52%) OO
2 24 (28.57%) OOP
3 21 (25.00%) MVC
4 14 (16.67%) TDD
5 9 (10.71%) Unit Testing
6 8 (9.524%) Dependency Injection
7 7 (8.333%) System Testing
7 7 (8.333%) Data Protection
8 5 (5.952%) Web Application Development
8 5 (5.952%) MVVM
9 4 (4.762%) Software Testing
10 2 (2.381%) Content Management
11 1 (1.190%) OOD
11 1 (1.190%) Scrum
11 1 (1.190%) Continuous Integration
11 1 (1.190%) Multithreading
11 1 (1.190%) Kanban
11 1 (1.190%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 71 (84.52%) C#
2 18 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 14 (16.67%) SQL
4 10 (11.90%) XAML
5 8 (9.524%) T-SQL
6 2 (2.381%) PHP
7 1 (1.190%) VB
7 1 (1.190%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.190%) Java
7 1 (1.190%) C++
7 1 (1.190%) Tcl
7 1 (1.190%) VB6
7 1 (1.190%) XPath
7 1 (1.190%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (5.952%) MCTS
1 5 (5.952%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (5.952%) MCP
1 5 (5.952%) MCAD
1 5 (5.952%) MCSD
System Software
1 1 (1.190%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.190%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 5 (5.952%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.190%) Oracle
2 1 (1.190%) Cisco
Basildon, South East
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Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013