The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 17 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 67 67 86
Rank change year-on-year
0 +19
Permanent jobs citing WCF 185 201 128
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 3.596% 3.277% 2.485%
As % of the Application Development category 10.96% 8.204% 6.422%
Number of salaries quoted 185 196 116
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £29,750 £30,250
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £59,500 £53,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1688 2450 1993
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 32.81% 39.95% 38.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1516 2212 1785
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +2.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
South East

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Reading -17 60 £40,000 -20.00%
Windsor +4 16 £45,000 -
Maidenhead +17 13 £40,000 -23.80%
Newbury +2 9 £25,000 -37.50%
Ascot - 7 £35,000 -
Wokingham -3 5 £32,500 -18.75%
Slough -30 3 £57,500 +43.75%
Bracknell -30 1 £43,500 -8.42%
WCF
South East

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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.

1 393 (100.00%) .NET
2 374 (95.17%) C#
3 344 (87.53%) ASP.NET
4 319 (81.17%) SQL Server
5 242 (61.58%) MVC
6 213 (54.20%) ASP.NET MVC
7 196 (49.87%) TDD
8 185 (47.07%) Scrum
9 152 (38.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 144 (36.64%) Razor View Engine
11 142 (36.13%) Web Application Development
12 137 (34.86%) Microsoft
13 134 (34.10%) jQuery
14 133 (33.84%) SQL Server 2008
15 129 (32.82%) NUnit
16 128 (32.57%) Rhino Mocks
17 125 (31.81%) MCTS
18 122 (31.04%) MCP
18 122 (31.04%) MCAD
18 122 (31.04%) MCSD
19 120 (30.53%) JavaScript
19 120 (30.53%) Castle Windsor
20 115 (29.26%) ASP.NET MVC 4
21 113 (28.75%) SQL
22 104 (26.46%) NHibernate
23 101 (25.70%) LINQ
24 97 (24.68%) Agile Software Development
25 93 (23.66%) WPF
26 90 (22.90%) CSS
27 86 (21.88%) SQL Server 2005

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire 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
1 393 (100.00%) .NET
2 344 (87.53%) ASP.NET
3 213 (54.20%) ASP.NET MVC
4 144 (36.64%) Razor View Engine
5 134 (34.10%) jQuery
6 120 (30.53%) Castle Windsor
7 115 (29.26%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 104 (26.46%) NHibernate
9 101 (25.70%) LINQ
10 93 (23.66%) WPF
11 90 (22.90%) CSS
12 81 (20.61%) Web Services
13 76 (19.34%) HTML
14 64 (16.28%) Ajax
15 57 (14.50%) Lucene
16 49 (12.47%) .NET Framework
16 49 (12.47%) MonoRail
17 46 (11.70%) WinForms
18 37 (9.415%) HTML5
18 37 (9.415%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 22 (5.598%) SharePoint
2 19 (4.835%) IIS
3 13 (3.308%) CMS
4 10 (2.545%) Windows Azure
5 7 (1.781%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (0.509%) SharePoint Server
6 2 (0.509%) MSMQ
7 1 (0.254%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.254%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 23 (5.852%) MS Excel
2 9 (2.290%) MS Office
3 8 (2.036%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.509%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.509%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.254%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (0.763%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 43 (10.94%) Internet
2 1 (0.254%) Extranet
2 1 (0.254%) Broadband
2 1 (0.254%) HTTP
2 1 (0.254%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 319 (81.17%) SQL Server
2 133 (33.84%) SQL Server 2008
3 86 (21.88%) SQL Server 2005
4 35 (8.906%) SQL Server 2012
5 22 (5.598%) Big Data
5 22 (5.598%) Apache Cassandra
5 22 (5.598%) Text Mining
6 12 (3.053%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (2.036%) Data Mining
8 5 (1.272%) MySQL
9 2 (0.509%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 1 (0.254%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.254%) NoSQL
10 1 (0.254%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 129 (32.82%) NUnit
2 128 (32.57%) Rhino Mocks
3 61 (15.52%) Subversion
4 54 (13.74%) Visual Studio
5 48 (12.21%) TeamCity
6 42 (10.69%) Team Foundation Server
6 42 (10.69%) Moq
7 40 (10.18%) Selenium
8 36 (9.160%) Cucumber
9 32 (8.142%) MSTest
10 22 (5.598%) JIRA
11 5 (1.272%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.254%) Balsamiq Mockups
General
1 31 (7.888%) Games
2 30 (7.634%) Finance
3 24 (6.107%) Music
4 23 (5.852%) Music Industry
5 19 (4.835%) Advertising
6 10 (2.545%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (0.509%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.254%) Banking
Job Titles
1 379 (96.44%) Developer
2 293 (74.55%) .NET Developer
3 110 (27.99%) C# Developer
3 110 (27.99%) C# .NET Developer
4 87 (22.14%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 85 (21.63%) ASP.NET Developer
6 48 (12.21%) Software Developer
7 27 (6.870%) Senior Developer
8 25 (6.361%) Programmer
8 25 (6.361%) WPF Developer
9 21 (5.344%) Web Developer
10 20 (5.089%) Software Engineer
11 19 (4.835%) .NET Programmer
12 16 (4.071%) Applications Developer
13 15 (3.817%) Team Leader
13 15 (3.817%) VB.NET Developer
13 15 (3.817%) Senior .NET Developer
13 15 (3.817%) .NET Web Developer
13 15 (3.817%) .NET Team Leader
14 14 (3.562%) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.94%) Inversion of Control
2 29 (7.379%) Social Media
3 26 (6.616%) SaaS
4 20 (5.089%) Tandem
5 16 (4.071%) Enterprise Software
6 15 (3.817%) Computer Science
7 8 (2.036%) Mathematics
8 5 (1.272%) N-Tier
8 5 (1.272%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.509%) FMCG
9 2 (0.509%) Social Network
10 1 (0.254%) Mashup
10 1 (0.254%) Online Games
10 1 (0.254%) DTV
10 1 (0.254%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 58 (14.76%) Windows
2 27 (6.870%) Android
3 22 (5.598%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.018%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (0.763%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.509%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (61.58%) MVC
2 196 (49.87%) TDD
3 185 (47.07%) Scrum
4 142 (36.13%) Web Application Development
5 97 (24.68%) Agile Software Development
6 79 (20.10%) Kanban
7 65 (16.54%) OO
8 63 (16.03%) BDD
9 53 (13.49%) Web Development
10 48 (12.21%) Continuous Integration
11 35 (8.906%) Scrum-ban
12 33 (8.397%) Dependency Injection
13 32 (8.142%) MVVM
14 25 (6.361%) Workflow
15 22 (5.598%) Analytics
16 17 (4.326%) Domain-Driven Design
16 17 (4.326%) SOA
17 16 (4.071%) Unit Testing
17 16 (4.071%) CQRS
18 13 (3.308%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 374 (95.17%) C#
2 120 (30.53%) JavaScript
3 113 (28.75%) SQL
4 53 (13.49%) VB.NET
5 37 (9.415%) VB
6 34 (8.651%) VB6
7 19 (4.835%) C++
8 18 (4.580%) T-SQL
9 6 (1.527%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.272%) PHP
11 1 (0.254%) Java
11 1 (0.254%) XQuery
11 1 (0.254%) XPath
Qualifications
1 152 (38.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 125 (31.81%) MCTS
3 122 (31.04%) MCP
3 122 (31.04%) MCAD
3 122 (31.04%) MCSD
4 22 (5.598%) Degree
5 2 (0.509%) SC Cleared
5 2 (0.509%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.254%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.254%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.036%) QA
2 2 (0.509%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (1.272%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.509%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 137 (34.86%) Microsoft
2 7 (1.781%) Oracle
3 6 (1.527%) Telerik
4 2 (0.509%) VMware
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