The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 20 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 20 29 39
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +10
Permanent jobs citing WCF 74 113 69
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 7.708% 8.089% 5.425%
As % of the Application Development category 22.29% 16.17% 11.94%
Number of salaries quoted 67 93 68
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
332 699 578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 34.58% 50.04% 45.44%
Number of salaries quoted 296 565 504
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
East of England

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Essex region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 20 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
Basildon +17 43 £45,000 -5.26%
Brentwood - 6 £43,500 -
Colchester -16 3 £40,000 +2.56%
Harlow +30 1 £47,500 -
WCF
East of England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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.

1 143 (92.26%) .NET
2 131 (84.52%) C#
3 104 (67.10%) WPF
4 94 (60.65%) SQL Server
5 79 (50.97%) Silverlight
6 75 (48.39%) Finance
7 73 (47.10%) OO
8 70 (45.16%) MVC
9 64 (41.29%) ASP.NET
10 54 (34.84%) SQL
11 44 (28.39%) HTML
11 44 (28.39%) Enterprise Software
12 41 (26.45%) JavaScript
13 39 (25.16%) CSS
14 38 (24.52%) .NET Framework
15 37 (23.87%) WinForms
16 36 (23.23%) jQuery
17 32 (20.65%) MS Excel
18 31 (20.00%) Microsoft
19 30 (19.35%) Windows
19 30 (19.35%) TDD
20 28 (18.06%) ASP.NET MVC
21 27 (17.42%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
21 27 (17.42%) OOP
22 26 (16.77%) IIS
23 25 (16.13%) Visual Studio
24 24 (15.48%) VB.NET
25 23 (14.84%) T-SQL
26 21 (13.55%) Web Services
27 20 (12.90%) Ajax

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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
1 143 (92.26%) .NET
2 104 (67.10%) WPF
3 79 (50.97%) Silverlight
4 64 (41.29%) ASP.NET
5 44 (28.39%) HTML
6 39 (25.16%) CSS
7 38 (24.52%) .NET Framework
8 37 (23.87%) WinForms
9 36 (23.23%) jQuery
10 28 (18.06%) ASP.NET MVC
11 27 (17.42%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 21 (13.55%) Web Services
13 20 (12.90%) Ajax
14 13 (8.387%) HTML5
15 11 (7.097%) Unity DI Container
16 9 (5.806%) LINQ
16 9 (5.806%) NHibernate
16 9 (5.806%) XML
17 8 (5.161%) ASP.NET MVC 2
17 8 (5.161%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 26 (16.77%) IIS
2 4 (2.581%) MSMQ
Applications
1 32 (20.65%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.290%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.581%) VoIP
1 4 (2.581%) FTP
1 4 (2.581%) Cisco ICM
1 4 (2.581%) Cisco IOS
2 3 (1.935%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (60.65%) SQL Server
2 19 (12.26%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (5.806%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 7 (4.516%) MySQL
4 7 (4.516%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (2.581%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.645%) OLAP
6 1 (0.645%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.645%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.645%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 25 (16.13%) Visual Studio
2 16 (10.32%) Rhino Mocks
3 15 (9.677%) NUnit
4 13 (8.387%) MSTest
5 12 (7.742%) Subversion
6 9 (5.806%) Team Foundation Server
7 7 (4.516%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.935%) JIRA
8 3 (1.935%) Mercurial
8 3 (1.935%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.290%) Moq
10 1 (0.645%) QUnit
10 1 (0.645%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.645%) Git (software)
10 1 (0.645%) CruiseControl
10 1 (0.645%) Eclipse
General
1 75 (48.39%) Finance
2 7 (4.516%) Financial Institution
3 6 (3.871%) Retail
4 3 (1.935%) Back Office
5 2 (1.290%) Banking
6 1 (0.645%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 118 (76.13%) Developer
2 46 (29.68%) C# Developer
3 44 (28.39%) Analyst
4 37 (23.87%) .NET Developer
5 35 (22.58%) Technical Analyst
6 21 (13.55%) C# .NET Developer
7 19 (12.26%) Web Developer
8 15 (9.677%) Software Developer
9 14 (9.032%) Senior Developer
9 14 (9.032%) Silverlight Developer
9 14 (9.032%) WPF Developer
10 9 (5.806%) Junior
11 8 (5.161%) Junior Developer
11 8 (5.161%) Junior C# Developer
12 7 (4.516%) SQL Developer
12 7 (4.516%) Analyst Developer
12 7 (4.516%) Systems Developer
13 6 (3.871%) Senior .NET Developer
14 4 (2.581%) Developer Analyst
14 4 (2.581%) Technical Developer
Miscellaneous
1 44 (28.39%) Enterprise Software
2 11 (7.097%) Mobile App
3 9 (5.806%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (2.581%) RIA
5 3 (1.935%) iPhone
5 3 (1.935%) SaaS
6 2 (1.290%) Social Media
6 2 (1.290%) Inversion of Control
7 1 (0.645%) Hedge funds
7 1 (0.645%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 30 (19.35%) Windows
2 11 (7.097%) Android
3 5 (3.226%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (1.935%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (47.10%) OO
2 70 (45.16%) MVC
3 30 (19.35%) TDD
4 27 (17.42%) OOP
5 16 (10.32%) Unit Testing
5 16 (10.32%) Dependency Injection
6 10 (6.452%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (5.806%) SOA
7 9 (5.806%) Data Protection
8 8 (5.161%) MVVM
9 7 (4.516%) System Testing
9 7 (4.516%) Mobile Application Development
10 6 (3.871%) Web Application Development
11 5 (3.226%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (3.226%) Change Control
12 4 (2.581%) Software Testing
12 4 (2.581%) Web Development
13 3 (1.935%) Code Coverage
13 3 (1.935%) User Acceptance Testing
14 2 (1.290%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (84.52%) C#
2 54 (34.84%) SQL
3 41 (26.45%) JavaScript
4 24 (15.48%) VB.NET
5 23 (14.84%) T-SQL
6 12 (7.742%) XAML
7 10 (6.452%) PHP
8 8 (5.161%) Objective-C
9 5 (3.226%) Tcl
9 5 (3.226%) VB
9 5 (3.226%) Java
10 4 (2.581%) C++
10 4 (2.581%) VB6
10 4 (2.581%) XPath
10 4 (2.581%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.645%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (3.871%) MCP
1 6 (3.871%) MCAD
1 6 (3.871%) MCSD
1 6 (3.871%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (3.871%) MCTS
2 1 (0.645%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (2.581%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (2.581%) Cisco CUCM
2 3 (1.935%) Nagios
Vendors
1 31 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.452%) DevExpress
3 6 (3.871%) Oracle
4 4 (2.581%) Cisco
5 1 (0.645%) ION Trading
Essex
Software Applications Developer ( Winforms, SQL Server, Windows Forms, C#.NET, VB.NET ) needed... The ideal candidate will have commercial experience in Winforms, (Windows Forms) Development, C#.NET and...
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Essex, South East
Responsibilities: C#.NET Software Developer - Global Insurance Organisation - C#/ .NET/ SQL / WPF / WCF / MVVM - EssexFrom an extensive knowledge of Brokasure Enterprise, work closely with the functional design team...
Argyll Scott International
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Brentwood, Essex
You will have the opportunity to be involved in SOA and have the opportunity to grow your career as a senior developer and progress into a senior architect.
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £40000 to £47000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Brentwood, East Anglia
NET C# Developer I have a fantastic opportunity for a senior and experienced developer to join a well established client in the Essex area as a senior developer-...
OPUS
Salary: GBP40000 to GBP47000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Basildon, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Essex
Skills/Experience required: ** Experience developing ASP.Net applications with Visual Studio ** VB.Net and ASP.Net 3.5/4.0 ** MYSQL ** HTML and CSS Knowledge ** Javascript and Jquery **...
Gregory James
Salary: £25000 to £35000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
Waltham Abbey, Essex
d) C# and ASP.Net development experience. e) Microsoft Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Visio 2010, Microsoft InfoPath 2010 experience... g) WCF, WPF and BDC experience... i) SQL, CAML,...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: 30000 - 35000
Posted: 14 May 2013
Basildon, UK - with some travel
3-5 years experience in web optimisation/front end development or similar role Be able to deliver best-in-class front-end code from scratch across a broad...
ePay
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Tech Developer/Analyst - Insurance - C#,.NET 3.5/4,OOP,WCF,Silverlight or WPF,Prism,T-SQL Essential Excellent development experience in C#, .NET 3.5/4.0...
Personnel IT
Salary: £45000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Essex
Expert-level C# .NET 3.5/4.0 development experience * Strong hands-on experience in designing and developing Enterprise-scale applications/products in .NET * Strong hands-on experience...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013