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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 32 41 25
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -16
Permanent jobs citing WCF 5 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in High Wycombe 2.646% 0.435% 0.667%
As % of the Application Development category 7.813% 1.042% 2.381%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 1
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% -5.26%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
High Wycombe
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
64 96 42
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in High Wycombe 33.86% 41.74% 28.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62 92 40
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,200 £28,100
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Buckinghamshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

High Wycombe 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 High Wycombe region.

High Wycombe WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the High Wycombe 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 18 (100.00%) C#
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (83.33%) WPF
3 9 (50.00%) SOA
4 7 (38.89%) Enterprise Architecture
4 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
5 6 (33.33%) C++
5 6 (33.33%) Visual Studio
5 6 (33.33%) Web Services
5 6 (33.33%) Degree
5 6 (33.33%) Physics
5 6 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 6 (33.33%) MVVM
6 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (27.78%) TDD
6 5 (27.78%) Windows
7 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
7 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
8 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
8 3 (16.67%) JSON
8 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
8 3 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 3 (16.67%) Fluent NHibernate
8 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
8 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 3 (16.67%) Kanban

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the High Wycombe 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 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (83.33%) WPF
3 6 (33.33%) Web Services
4 4 (22.22%) ASP.NET
5 3 (16.67%) RESTful
5 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (16.67%) Fluent NHibernate
5 3 (16.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 3 (16.67%) Unity DI Container
5 3 (16.67%) .NET Framework
5 3 (16.67%) JSON
6 1 (5.556%) WinForms
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 6 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Developer
2 9 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 7 (38.89%) C# Developer
4 6 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 6 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
5 5 (27.78%) .NET Developer
5 5 (27.78%) Senior C# Developer
6 4 (22.22%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (5.556%) WinForms Developer
7 1 (5.556%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Agile C# Developer
7 1 (5.556%) WPF Developer
7 1 (5.556%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Software Architect
7 1 (5.556%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.556%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Physics
2 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.556%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) SOA
2 7 (38.89%) Enterprise Architecture
2 7 (38.89%) Data Modelling
3 6 (33.33%) MVVM
3 6 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Multithreading
4 5 (27.78%) Agile Software Development
4 5 (27.78%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Kanban
5 3 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.556%) Microsoft