The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 18 June 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 63 65 77
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +12
Permanent jobs citing WCF 4106 4171 3864
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 3.981% 3.692% 3.174%
As % of the Application Development category 9.842% 8.750% 7.815%
Number of salaries quoted 3800 3892 3661
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+0.62% +6.00%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41719 47670 49441
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.45% 42.19% 40.61%
Number of salaries quoted 36617 42474 44001
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WCF
UK

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the England region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +15 1558 £52,500 -2.77% 173
South East +14 944 £40,000 - 107
North West +10 454 £37,500 +7.14% 81
East of England -9 400 £42,500 - 40
West Midlands +11 256 £40,000 +14.28% 37
Yorkshire -6 199 £35,000 - 19
South West -6 150 £40,000 +14.28% 24
East Midlands -17 123 £37,500 - 21
North East +1 22 £35,000 -6.66% 10
Midlands +18 4 £40,000 -11.11%
WCF
UK

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 8168 (95.50%) .NET
2 7965 (93.13%) C#
3 6229 (72.83%) ASP.NET
4 5969 (69.79%) SQL Server
5 4336 (50.70%) MVC
6 3458 (40.43%) SQL
7 3445 (40.28%) TDD
8 3247 (37.96%) WPF
9 3239 (37.87%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2707 (31.65%) Microsoft
11 2598 (30.38%) JavaScript
12 2521 (29.48%) Scrum
13 2198 (25.70%) CSS
14 2170 (25.37%) .NET Framework
15 2168 (25.35%) Web Services
16 1958 (22.89%) OO
17 1910 (22.33%) HTML
18 1898 (22.19%) SQL Server 2008
19 1885 (22.04%) Microsoft Certification
20 1863 (21.78%) Windows
21 1813 (21.20%) Web Application Development
22 1811 (21.17%) Agile Software Development
23 1722 (20.13%) MCSD
24 1695 (19.82%) MCAD
24 1695 (19.82%) NUnit
25 1692 (19.78%) MCP
26 1675 (19.58%) ASP.NET MVC 4
27 1664 (19.46%) MCTS
28 1654 (19.34%) Finance
29 1650 (19.29%) jQuery

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 8168 (95.50%) .NET
2 6229 (72.83%) ASP.NET
3 3247 (37.96%) WPF
4 3239 (37.87%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2198 (25.70%) CSS
6 2170 (25.37%) .NET Framework
7 2168 (25.35%) Web Services
8 1910 (22.33%) HTML
9 1675 (19.58%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 1650 (19.29%) jQuery
11 1495 (17.48%) XML
12 1493 (17.46%) Razor View Engine
13 1430 (16.72%) LINQ
14 1376 (16.09%) WinForms
15 1269 (14.84%) Ajax
16 1198 (14.01%) NHibernate
17 991 (11.59%) Castle Windsor
18 928 (10.85%) Silverlight
19 911 (10.65%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
20 728 (8.512%) Ninject
Application Platforms
1 882 (10.31%) SharePoint
2 601 (7.027%) IIS
3 387 (4.525%) BizTalk Server
4 333 (3.893%) Windows Azure
5 297 (3.472%) SharePoint 2010
6 276 (3.227%) CMS
7 174 (2.034%) SharePoint Server
8 138 (1.613%) SharePoint 2013
9 136 (1.590%) Umbraco
10 108 (1.263%) Amazon AWS
11 70 (0.818%) Sitecore CMS
12 60 (0.702%) ESB
13 56 (0.655%) SharePoint Foundation
14 45 (0.526%) Kentico
15 44 (0.514%) Sitefinity
16 40 (0.468%) Oracle Coherence
17 35 (0.409%) DotNetNuke
18 31 (0.362%) Apache
19 30 (0.351%) Immediacy CMS
20 26 (0.304%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 933 (10.91%) MS Excel
2 155 (1.812%) MS Office
3 98 (1.146%) InfoPath
4 30 (0.351%) Photoshop
5 22 (0.257%) MS Visio
6 14 (0.164%) Fireworks
7 12 (0.140%) MS PowerPoint
8 10 (0.117%) Spreadsheet
9 5 (0.058%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.047%) SPSS
11 1 (0.012%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.012%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.012%) MS Project
11 1 (0.012%) Maple
Business Applications
1 248 (2.900%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.269%) SAP Business One
3 15 (0.175%) Dynamics AX
4 13 (0.152%) SalesLogix
5 12 (0.140%) Oracle BPM
6 10 (0.117%) Dynamics NAV
7 7 (0.082%) Tridion
8 6 (0.070%) Agresso
9 5 (0.058%) Dynamics GP
10 4 (0.047%) Google Analytics
10 4 (0.047%) RMDS
11 3 (0.035%) Bond Adapt
12 2 (0.023%) Oracle Financials
12 2 (0.023%) Summit
12 2 (0.023%) WebTrends
12 2 (0.023%) Advent Portfolio Exchange
13 1 (0.012%) BusinessWorks
13 1 (0.012%) assyst
13 1 (0.012%) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking
1 425 (4.969%) Internet
2 225 (2.631%) HTTP
3 133 (1.555%) TCP/IP
4 100 (1.169%) Intranet
5 37 (0.433%) Broadband
6 36 (0.421%) Extranet
7 25 (0.292%) FTP
8 24 (0.281%) Firewall
9 21 (0.246%) AMQP
10 18 (0.210%) LAN
11 17 (0.199%) DNS
12 15 (0.175%) SSH
13 14 (0.164%) SSL
14 13 (0.152%) BSS
15 8 (0.094%) VoIP
16 7 (0.082%) GSM
17 6 (0.070%) Kerberos
17 6 (0.070%) SNMP
17 6 (0.070%) Modbus
18 5 (0.058%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5969 (69.79%) SQL Server
2 1898 (22.19%) SQL Server 2008
3 854 (9.985%) SQL Server 2005
4 760 (8.886%) SQL Server 2012
5 483 (5.647%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 480 (5.612%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 199 (2.327%) MySQL
8 116 (1.356%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 102 (1.193%) Oracle 8/8i
10 90 (1.052%) SQL Server 2000
11 86 (1.005%) NoSQL
12 79 (0.924%) Crystal Reports
13 74 (0.865%) Data Warehouse
14 64 (0.748%) RDBMS
15 60 (0.702%) Azure SQL Database
16 56 (0.655%) Big Data
17 55 (0.643%) Oracle 11g
17 55 (0.643%) PostgreSQL
18 35 (0.409%) Microsoft Analysis Services
18 35 (0.409%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1695 (19.82%) NUnit
2 1333 (15.59%) Rhino Mocks
3 1278 (14.94%) Visual Studio
4 996 (11.65%) Team Foundation Server
5 877 (10.25%) Moq
6 600 (7.015%) Subversion
7 508 (5.939%) MSTest
8 270 (3.157%) MSBuild
9 224 (2.619%) TeamCity
10 187 (2.186%) Selenium
11 163 (1.906%) Cucumber
12 159 (1.859%) CruiseControl
13 106 (1.239%) Git (software)
14 100 (1.169%) VSS/SourceSafe
15 85 (0.994%) JIRA
16 81 (0.947%) Visual Studio Team System
17 80 (0.935%) SpecFlow
18 48 (0.561%) Oracle Forms
19 36 (0.421%) Jenkins
20 31 (0.362%) WebDriver
General
1 1654 (19.34%) Finance
2 478 (5.589%) Banking
3 427 (4.992%) Games
4 305 (3.566%) Front Office
5 282 (3.297%) Retail
6 204 (2.385%) Investment Banking
7 155 (1.812%) Music Industry
8 140 (1.637%) Back Office
9 134 (1.567%) Legal
10 123 (1.438%) Advertising
11 111 (1.298%) Telecoms
12 82 (0.959%) Marketing
13 79 (0.924%) Law
14 56 (0.655%) Manufacturing
15 41 (0.479%) Financial Institution
16 34 (0.398%) Publishing
17 28 (0.327%) Automotive
18 21 (0.246%) Aerospace
19 15 (0.175%) Online Betting
20 9 (0.105%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 7224 (84.46%) Developer
2 4231 (49.47%) .NET Developer
3 2477 (28.96%) C# Developer
4 1687 (19.72%) C# .NET Developer
5 1192 (13.94%) Senior Developer
6 992 (11.60%) ASP.NET Developer
7 972 (11.36%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 701 (8.196%) Software Developer
9 549 (6.419%) Senior .NET Developer
10 495 (5.787%) Web Developer
11 461 (5.390%) Software Engineer
12 445 (5.203%) Senior C# Developer
13 348 (4.069%) Architect
14 278 (3.250%) Junior
15 270 (3.157%) Team Leader
16 267 (3.122%) Junior Developer
17 257 (3.005%) Applications Developer
18 251 (2.935%) Lead Developer
19 226 (2.642%) SharePoint Developer
19 226 (2.642%) Agile C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 658 (7.693%) Computer Science
2 629 (7.354%) Inversion of Control
3 448 (5.238%) Enterprise Software
4 357 (4.174%) N-Tier
5 264 (3.087%) Mathematics
6 254 (2.970%) Mobile App
7 211 (2.467%) Client/Server
8 207 (2.420%) Tandem
9 171 (1.999%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 144 (1.684%) Hedge funds
11 127 (1.485%) Derivative
12 102 (1.193%) SaaS
13 98 (1.146%) Open Source
14 96 (1.122%) Social Network
15 89 (1.041%) iPhone
16 85 (0.994%) Fixed Income
17 80 (0.935%) Physics
18 73 (0.854%) Social Media
19 68 (0.795%) Digital Media
20 60 (0.702%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 1863 (21.78%) Windows
2 203 (2.373%) Android
3 137 (1.602%) Linux
4 110 (1.286%) Apple iOS
5 79 (0.924%) Windows Server 2008
6 74 (0.865%) UNIX
7 55 (0.643%) Windows Server 2003
8 52 (0.608%) Windows Mobile
9 38 (0.444%) Windows 7
10 34 (0.398%) Windows 8
11 28 (0.327%) Windows Phone
12 26 (0.304%) Windows Server 2012
12 26 (0.304%) Solaris
12 26 (0.304%) Windows XP
13 23 (0.269%) Windows Phone 8
14 21 (0.246%) Windows CE
15 20 (0.234%) OpenVMS
16 10 (0.117%) Windows 2000 Server
16 10 (0.117%) Windows NT
17 7 (0.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4336 (50.70%) MVC
2 3445 (40.28%) TDD
3 2521 (29.48%) Scrum
4 1958 (22.89%) OO
5 1813 (21.20%) Web Application Development
6 1811 (21.17%) Agile Software Development
7 1097 (12.83%) BDD
8 1055 (12.33%) Kanban
9 856 (10.01%) Dependency Injection
10 840 (9.821%) Continuous Integration
11 748 (8.745%) MVVM
12 682 (7.974%) E-Commerce
13 677 (7.915%) Unit Testing
14 582 (6.805%) Web Development
15 537 (6.278%) SOA
16 522 (6.103%) Domain-Driven Design
17 508 (5.939%) Multithreading
18 495 (5.787%) OOP
19 456 (5.331%) UML
20 362 (4.232%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 7965 (93.13%) C#
2 3458 (40.43%) SQL
3 2598 (30.38%) JavaScript
4 1152 (13.47%) VB.NET
5 1144 (13.38%) T-SQL
6 595 (6.957%) VB
7 403 (4.712%) C++
8 337 (3.940%) Java
9 172 (2.011%) VB6
10 162 (1.894%) VBA
11 158 (1.847%) Ruby
12 155 (1.812%) XAML
13 148 (1.730%) PHP
14 127 (1.485%) PowerShell
15 111 (1.298%) PL/SQL
16 108 (1.263%) C
17 94 (1.099%) Python
18 56 (0.655%) XPath
19 52 (0.608%) Perl
20 48 (0.561%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1885 (22.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 1722 (20.13%) MCSD
3 1695 (19.82%) MCAD
4 1692 (19.78%) MCP
5 1664 (19.46%) MCTS
6 1169 (13.67%) Degree
7 150 (1.754%) Security Cleared
8 119 (1.391%) SC Cleared
9 63 (0.737%) DV Cleared
10 43 (0.503%) MCPD
11 26 (0.304%) PhD
12 16 (0.187%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 15 (0.175%) MCSE
14 11 (0.129%) ISEB
15 9 (0.105%) CTC Cleared
16 7 (0.082%) ISTQB
17 5 (0.058%) Sun Certification
18 3 (0.035%) HND
18 3 (0.035%) Microsoft Certified Architect
19 2 (0.023%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 283 (3.309%) QA
2 27 (0.316%) ISO 9001
3 15 (0.175%) SLA
4 9 (0.105%) PCI DSS
4 9 (0.105%) Dublin Core
5 6 (0.070%) Basel III
6 2 (0.023%) ISO 14001
6 2 (0.023%) HL7
7 1 (0.012%) IAS 39
7 1 (0.012%) COBIT
7 1 (0.012%) TickIT
7 1 (0.012%) Data Quality
System Software
1 87 (1.017%) Active Directory
2 40 (0.468%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (0.094%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.047%) Squid
5 3 (0.035%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.012%) Shibboleth
6 1 (0.012%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 10 (0.117%) SCCM
1 10 (0.117%) SCOM
2 9 (0.105%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 5 (0.058%) WMI
4 2 (0.023%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (0.023%) Nagios
4 2 (0.023%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.012%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2707 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 577 (6.746%) Oracle
3 146 (1.707%) Telerik
4 90 (1.052%) DevExpress
5 86 (1.005%) Sitecore
6 78 (0.912%) Google
7 59 (0.690%) Tableau
8 55 (0.643%) EPiServer
9 43 (0.503%) Infragistics
10 41 (0.479%) Perforce
10 41 (0.479%) SAP
11 40 (0.468%) VMware
12 34 (0.398%) Adobe
12 34 (0.398%) Facebook
13 32 (0.374%) DataSynapse
14 31 (0.362%) Sybase
15 30 (0.351%) Alterian
15 30 (0.351%) Ektron
16 27 (0.316%) Bloomberg
17 25 (0.292%) TIBCO
Manchester, North West
The key skills needed for this role are: C# SQL Server Web Services WCF ASP.Net Any experience working with Agile is a good to have, but by...
Computer Futures
Salary: £27000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
The company have recently deployed a very successful web application and due to enormous success they require a Software Developer with strong skills in C#, ASP.Net and...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
Software Engineer, Microsoft .Net Framework, , C#, ASP.net, Microsoft SQL Server, source control, web services, WCF , SQL, WCF... Candidates with experience of developing disperate systems using web services...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
My client is looking for a C#.NET Developer with the following background: *Proven C#.NET Development experience (ideally 4.0)*Experience with WCF and/or MVC *VB...
Cornucopia IT Resourcing Limited
Salary: £00 - £1 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Maidenhead, Berkshire
Developer, Programmer, Engineer, C#, ASP.NET, WCF, Windows Communication Foundation, MVC, VB.NET Cornucopia is currently working with a very highly regarded company which has an immediate requirement...
Cornucopia IT Resourcing
Salary: £00 - £1 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Preston, Lancashire
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £35,000 to £43,000 per annum Plus Pension, Holidays
Posted: 14 June 2013
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
Kingfisher Consultancy
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + pension, health, life cover
Posted: 14 June 2013
Woking, Surrey
set2recruit
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, South West
Brightside Group
Salary: Up to £50,000
Posted: 6 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus, Pension (10%), Healthcare
Posted: 15 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Kingfisher Consultancy
Salary: £32000 - £38000 per annum + pension, life assurance,health
Posted: 14 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 15 June 2013
Derby, Derbyshire
Executive Resource Group
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum Pension, Health, 25 Days Holiday
Posted: 12 June 2013
Ashford, Kent
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 30,000 - 35,000
Posted: 14 June 2013
Wigan, North West
Mint
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Chester, North West
greywood
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Chester, Cheshire
Greywood Associates Limited
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £48000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Tyne and Wear, North East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £250.00 - £380.00 per annum
Posted: 30 May 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + generous bonus and benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Bedfordshire, South East
Sovereign Business Resource
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Essex
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Ipswich, East Anglia
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000.00 - £42000.00 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
MINT Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013