The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 37 55 36
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -19
Permanent jobs citing WCF 44 14 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 6.331% 2.254% 4.031%
As % of the Application Development category 13.84% 5.323% 9.589%
Number of salaries quoted 44 13 16
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £33,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +20.30%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,600 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £70,000 £37,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
318 263 219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 45.76% 42.35% 42.03%
Number of salaries quoted 280 237 181
Average salary £41,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Hampshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

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

Basingstoke WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 98 (98.99%) .NET
2 96 (96.97%) C#
3 83 (83.84%) SQL Server
4 76 (76.77%) ASP.NET
5 63 (63.64%) Microsoft
6 59 (59.60%) Windows
7 53 (53.54%) MVC
8 51 (51.52%) WPF
9 41 (41.41%) TDD
10 36 (36.36%) Scrum
11 32 (32.32%) ASP.NET MVC
12 31 (31.31%) LINQ
13 30 (30.30%) WinForms
13 30 (30.30%) Oracle
14 27 (27.27%) Java
15 26 (26.26%) SQL
16 24 (24.24%) JavaScript
16 24 (24.24%) CSS
17 23 (23.23%) Web Services
18 22 (22.22%) XML
18 22 (22.22%) Visual Studio
19 21 (21.21%) NUnit
19 21 (21.21%) Rhino Mocks
20 20 (20.20%) ASP.NET MVC 4
20 20 (20.20%) C++
20 20 (20.20%) BizTalk Server
21 19 (19.19%) Microsoft Certification
21 19 (19.19%) MCP
21 19 (19.19%) MCAD
21 19 (19.19%) MCSD

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 98 (98.99%) .NET
2 76 (76.77%) ASP.NET
3 51 (51.52%) WPF
4 32 (32.32%) ASP.NET MVC
5 31 (31.31%) LINQ
6 30 (30.30%) WinForms
7 24 (24.24%) CSS
8 23 (23.23%) Web Services
9 22 (22.22%) XML
10 20 (20.20%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 18 (18.18%) HTML
12 17 (17.17%) .NET Framework
12 17 (17.17%) Castle Windsor
12 17 (17.17%) Razor View Engine
13 15 (15.15%) MFC
14 14 (14.14%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 14 (14.14%) jQuery
15 13 (13.13%) NHibernate
15 13 (13.13%) XSLT
16 12 (12.12%) XSD
Application Platforms
1 20 (20.20%) BizTalk Server
2 12 (12.12%) IIS
2 12 (12.12%) MSMQ
3 9 (9.091%) Oracle Coherence
4 7 (7.071%) Windows Azure
5 2 (2.020%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.010%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 10 (10.10%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.010%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 9 (9.091%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.091%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (83.84%) SQL Server
2 17 (17.17%) SQL Server 2008
3 12 (12.12%) Oracle 8/8i
4 9 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
5 8 (8.081%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (7.071%) SQL Server 2005
7 4 (4.040%) SQL Server 2012
8 2 (2.020%) MS Access
9 1 (1.010%) MySQL
9 1 (1.010%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 22 (22.22%) Visual Studio
2 21 (21.21%) NUnit
2 21 (21.21%) Rhino Mocks
3 9 (9.091%) Selenium
4 8 (8.081%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 8 (8.081%) MSTest
4 8 (8.081%) Moq
5 6 (6.061%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.030%) Git (software)
6 3 (3.030%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (3.030%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.020%) JMeter
7 2 (2.020%) Subversion
7 2 (2.020%) GitHub
7 2 (2.020%) WATIR
7 2 (2.020%) FitNesse
7 2 (2.020%) Firebug
7 2 (2.020%) Fiddler
7 2 (2.020%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.010%) ReSharper
General
1 15 (15.15%) Finance
2 9 (9.091%) Banking
3 2 (2.020%) Games
4 1 (1.010%) Retail
4 1 (1.010%) Music
4 1 (1.010%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.010%) Automotive
4 1 (1.010%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 79 (79.80%) Developer
2 42 (42.42%) .NET Developer
3 35 (35.35%) C# Developer
4 15 (15.15%) C# .NET Developer
5 10 (10.10%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 9 (9.091%) ASP.NET Developer
6 9 (9.091%) Software Developer
6 9 (9.091%) Software Engineer
7 8 (8.081%) Lead Developer
8 7 (7.071%) Lead C# Developer
8 7 (7.071%) Systems Architect
8 7 (7.071%) Architect
9 5 (5.051%) Applications Developer
10 4 (4.040%) Senior Consultant
10 4 (4.040%) Consultant
10 4 (4.040%) Junior
10 4 (4.040%) Junior Developer
11 3 (3.030%) Senior BizTalk Consultant
11 3 (3.030%) BizTalk Consultant
11 3 (3.030%) C# Application Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.18%) Inversion of Control
2 7 (7.071%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (7.071%) Client/Server
2 7 (7.071%) PKI
3 6 (6.061%) Mobile App
4 3 (3.030%) iPhone
4 3 (3.030%) iPad
4 3 (3.030%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.020%) Tandem
5 2 (2.020%) N-Tier
5 2 (2.020%) Mobile Computing
5 2 (2.020%) Open Source
6 1 (1.010%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.010%) SaaS
6 1 (1.010%) Computer Science
6 1 (1.010%) Wiki
6 1 (1.010%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 59 (59.60%) Windows
2 14 (14.14%) Windows 7
3 10 (10.10%) Linux
4 8 (8.081%) UNIX
4 8 (8.081%) Solaris
5 6 (6.061%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (3.030%) Android
6 3 (3.030%) Apple iOS
6 3 (3.030%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (2.020%) SUSE
7 2 (2.020%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (53.54%) MVC
2 41 (41.41%) TDD
3 36 (36.36%) Scrum
4 19 (19.19%) Web Application Development
5 14 (14.14%) Kanban
6 13 (13.13%) BDD
7 12 (12.12%) OO
8 11 (11.11%) SOA
9 10 (10.10%) Dependency Injection
9 10 (10.10%) Unit Testing
10 9 (9.091%) Release Management
10 9 (9.091%) Project Management
11 8 (8.081%) Strategic Management
11 8 (8.081%) MVVM
11 8 (8.081%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (8.081%) Time Management
12 7 (7.071%) Technical Architecture
13 6 (6.061%) Scrum-ban
14 5 (5.051%) Mobile Application Development
15 4 (4.040%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 96 (96.97%) C#
2 27 (27.27%) Java
3 26 (26.26%) SQL
4 24 (24.24%) JavaScript
5 20 (20.20%) C++
6 7 (7.071%) T-SQL
6 7 (7.071%) VC++
7 4 (4.040%) PL/SQL
8 2 (2.020%) Python
8 2 (2.020%) C
8 2 (2.020%) VB.NET
8 2 (2.020%) VBA
8 2 (2.020%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (19.19%) Microsoft Certification
1 19 (19.19%) MCP
1 19 (19.19%) MCAD
1 19 (19.19%) MCSD
1 19 (19.19%) MCTS
2 10 (10.10%) Degree
3 4 (4.040%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.010%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.010%) QA
Vendors
1 63 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 30 (30.30%) Oracle
3 9 (9.091%) Perforce
4 2 (2.020%) TIBCO
4 2 (2.020%) webMethods
4 2 (2.020%) IBM
5 1 (1.010%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.010%) Appcelerator
5 1 (1.010%) Adobe
5 1 (1.010%) Infragistics
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