The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 24 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 Hampshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 76 107 72
Rank change year-on-year
+31 -35
Permanent jobs citing WCF 112 72 111
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 3.244% 1.876% 3.059%
As % of the Application Development category 8.485% 4.875% 7.366%
Number of salaries quoted 108 68 88
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £43,250 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1320 1477 1507
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 38.24% 38.49% 41.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1169 1360 1334
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
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 Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Basingstoke +21 43 £41,000 +2.50%
Farnborough +12 16 £50,000 +25.00%
Portsmouth +8 13 £37,500 +1.35%
Southampton -2 13 £35,000 -12.50%
Havant +6 5 £47,500 +18.75%
Gosport - 3 £21,500 -
Ringwood -2 1 £45,000 +12.50%
Winchester -7 1 £31,000 -34.73%
WCF
South East

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 223 (98.67%) C#
2 220 (97.35%) .NET
3 175 (77.43%) ASP.NET
4 161 (71.24%) SQL Server
5 131 (57.96%) MVC
6 100 (44.25%) Microsoft
7 96 (42.48%) WPF
8 80 (35.40%) Windows
9 79 (34.96%) ASP.NET MVC
10 75 (33.19%) Web Services
11 62 (27.43%) TDD
12 60 (26.55%) LINQ
13 56 (24.78%) Scrum
14 55 (24.34%) .NET Framework
15 51 (22.57%) JavaScript
16 49 (21.68%) SQL
16 49 (21.68%) ASP.NET MVC 4
17 48 (21.24%) HTML
18 47 (20.80%) WinForms
19 41 (18.14%) Degree
20 39 (17.26%) CSS
21 38 (16.81%) Oracle
21 38 (16.81%) Web Application Development
22 37 (16.37%) XML
23 36 (15.93%) Visual Studio
24 34 (15.04%) C++
24 34 (15.04%) Microsoft Certification
24 34 (15.04%) jQuery
25 32 (14.16%) NUnit
25 32 (14.16%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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
1 220 (97.35%) .NET
2 175 (77.43%) ASP.NET
3 96 (42.48%) WPF
4 79 (34.96%) ASP.NET MVC
5 75 (33.19%) Web Services
6 60 (26.55%) LINQ
7 55 (24.34%) .NET Framework
8 49 (21.68%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 48 (21.24%) HTML
10 47 (20.80%) WinForms
11 39 (17.26%) CSS
12 37 (16.37%) XML
13 34 (15.04%) jQuery
14 32 (14.16%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 31 (13.72%) Razor View Engine
16 27 (11.95%) Castle Windsor
16 27 (11.95%) ASP
17 22 (9.735%) SOAP
18 20 (8.850%) Ajax
19 19 (8.407%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 22 (9.735%) BizTalk Server
2 17 (7.522%) Windows Azure
3 15 (6.637%) IIS
4 13 (5.752%) MSMQ
5 9 (3.982%) Oracle Coherence
6 8 (3.540%) SharePoint
7 3 (1.327%) DotNetNuke
7 3 (1.327%) Umbraco
7 3 (1.327%) Immediacy CMS
7 3 (1.327%) Sitecore CMS
7 3 (1.327%) CMS
7 3 (1.327%) Sitefinity
7 3 (1.327%) Kentico
7 3 (1.327%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (0.885%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (0.885%) LiveLink
8 2 (0.885%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.442%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 21 (9.292%) MS Excel
2 8 (3.540%) Photoshop
3 2 (0.885%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.442%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 9 (3.982%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.867%) Internet
2 3 (1.327%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.885%) HTTP
4 1 (0.442%) Network Security
4 1 (0.442%) SSL
4 1 (0.442%) Firewall
4 1 (0.442%) MPLS
4 1 (0.442%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 161 (71.24%) SQL Server
2 29 (12.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (8.850%) SQL Server 2005
4 12 (5.310%) Oracle 8/8i
5 11 (4.867%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (4.867%) MySQL
6 10 (4.425%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 9 (3.982%) Oracle 11g
7 9 (3.982%) MS Access
8 6 (2.655%) SQL Server 2012
9 1 (0.442%) SQL Server 2000
9 1 (0.442%) GIS
9 1 (0.442%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 36 (15.93%) Visual Studio
2 32 (14.16%) NUnit
3 31 (13.72%) Rhino Mocks
4 15 (6.637%) MSTest
4 15 (6.637%) Moq
5 13 (5.752%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (3.982%) Subversion
6 9 (3.982%) Selenium
7 8 (3.540%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 6 (2.655%) Cucumber
9 5 (2.212%) WebDriver
10 3 (1.327%) Git (software)
10 3 (1.327%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.885%) GitHub
11 2 (0.885%) JMeter
11 2 (0.885%) Firebug
11 2 (0.885%) Fiddler
11 2 (0.885%) FitNesse
11 2 (0.885%) WATIR
12 1 (0.442%) ReSharper
General
1 22 (9.735%) Finance
2 9 (3.982%) Banking
3 5 (2.212%) Retail
4 2 (0.885%) Games
4 2 (0.885%) Telecoms
4 2 (0.885%) Music
5 1 (0.442%) Automotive
5 1 (0.442%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 200 (88.50%) Developer
2 130 (57.52%) .NET Developer
3 74 (32.74%) C# Developer
4 49 (21.68%) C# .NET Developer
5 31 (13.72%) ASP.NET Developer
5 31 (13.72%) Senior Developer
6 29 (12.83%) Software Engineer
7 25 (11.06%) Software Developer
8 23 (10.18%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 18 (7.965%) Senior .NET Developer
10 16 (7.080%) C# Software Engineer
10 16 (7.080%) .NET Software Engineer
11 12 (5.310%) Junior
11 12 (5.310%) Junior Developer
12 11 (4.867%) Applications Developer
13 10 (4.425%) Senior Software Developer
14 9 (3.982%) C# Application Developer
14 9 (3.982%) .NET Applications Developer
14 9 (3.982%) Web Developer
14 9 (3.982%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 28 (12.39%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (11.06%) Computer Science
2 25 (11.06%) Inversion of Control
3 8 (3.540%) Client/Server
3 8 (3.540%) N-Tier
4 7 (3.097%) PKI
5 5 (2.212%) Tandem
6 4 (1.770%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.885%) Mobile Computing
7 2 (0.885%) Replication
7 2 (0.885%) Life Science
8 1 (0.442%) Taxonomies
8 1 (0.442%) Streaming Music
8 1 (0.442%) Wiki
8 1 (0.442%) Social Network
8 1 (0.442%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.442%) iPhone
8 1 (0.442%) Open Source
8 1 (0.442%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.442%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 80 (35.40%) Windows
2 14 (6.195%) Windows 7
3 10 (4.425%) Linux
4 8 (3.540%) UNIX
4 8 (3.540%) Solaris
5 6 (2.655%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (1.327%) Android
6 3 (1.327%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.885%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.885%) SUSE
7 2 (0.885%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (57.96%) MVC
2 62 (27.43%) TDD
3 56 (24.78%) Scrum
4 38 (16.81%) Web Application Development
5 30 (13.27%) OO
6 24 (10.62%) Kanban
7 22 (9.735%) MVVM
8 21 (9.292%) Continuous Integration
9 19 (8.407%) Dependency Injection
10 16 (7.080%) Unit Testing
10 16 (7.080%) Agile Software Development
10 16 (7.080%) BDD
11 14 (6.195%) SOA
12 13 (5.752%) Web Development
13 12 (5.310%) Workflow
14 11 (4.867%) Project Management
15 9 (3.982%) Release Management
16 8 (3.540%) Time Management
16 8 (3.540%) Strategic Management
17 7 (3.097%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 223 (98.67%) C#
2 51 (22.57%) JavaScript
3 49 (21.68%) SQL
4 34 (15.04%) C++
5 29 (12.83%) Java
6 11 (4.867%) T-SQL
7 9 (3.982%) VB.NET
8 7 (3.097%) VC++
9 4 (1.770%) PL/SQL
9 4 (1.770%) XPath
10 3 (1.327%) VB
11 2 (0.885%) VBA
11 2 (0.885%) C
11 2 (0.885%) Perl
11 2 (0.885%) Python
11 2 (0.885%) VB6
12 1 (0.442%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 41 (18.14%) Degree
2 34 (15.04%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (13.72%) MCTS
3 31 (13.72%) MCP
3 31 (13.72%) MCAD
3 31 (13.72%) MCSD
4 11 (4.867%) Security Cleared
5 2 (0.885%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.442%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.770%) QA
2 1 (0.442%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.442%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 100 (44.25%) Microsoft
2 38 (16.81%) Oracle
3 9 (3.982%) Adobe
3 9 (3.982%) Perforce
4 3 (1.327%) Alterian
4 3 (1.327%) EPiServer
4 3 (1.327%) Sitecore
4 3 (1.327%) Ektron
5 2 (0.885%) TIBCO
5 2 (0.885%) webMethods
5 2 (0.885%) Avaya
5 2 (0.885%) Cisco
5 2 (0.885%) IBM
5 2 (0.885%) Tandberg
5 2 (0.885%) Blue Coat
6 1 (0.442%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.442%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.442%) Appcelerator
Portsmouth, Hampshire, South East
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Salary: To £40,000 per annum dependent on experience
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £39,999 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40-48k+ExBens
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
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Salary: From £40,000 to £48,000 per annum 40000-48000 + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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Salary: £43000 - £52000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
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