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

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 69 61 70
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +9
Permanent jobs citing WCF 56 46 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 2.979% 3.219% 2.614%
As % of the Application Development category 7.071% 7.233% 4.649%
Number of salaries quoted 55 39 46
Average salary £40,125 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+0.31% -
90% offered a salary of more than £35,250 £29,800 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.56% +4.00%
All Application Development
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
792 636 1011
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 42.13% 44.51% 56.23%
Number of salaries quoted 695 575 940
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £29,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £51,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WCF
South East

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Witney -2 13 £45,000 +38.46%
Oxford -34 13 £36,250 -9.37%
Bicester - 9 £52,500 -
WCF
South East

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

1 113 (94.96%) .NET
2 110 (92.44%) C#
3 106 (89.08%) SQL Server
4 78 (65.55%) ASP.NET
5 65 (54.62%) Microsoft
6 63 (52.94%) SQL
7 60 (50.42%) SQL Server 2008
8 55 (46.22%) JavaScript
9 50 (42.02%) TDD
10 49 (41.18%) Web Services
11 45 (37.82%) .NET Framework
11 45 (37.82%) WPF
12 44 (36.97%) Microsoft Certification
13 39 (32.77%) VB
14 38 (31.93%) HTML
14 38 (31.93%) T-SQL
15 36 (30.25%) CSS
15 36 (30.25%) Agile Software Development
16 34 (28.57%) VB6
17 33 (27.73%) MVC
18 29 (24.37%) SQL Server 2005
18 29 (24.37%) ASP.NET MVC
19 27 (22.69%) Scrum
20 25 (21.01%) MS Excel
21 23 (19.33%) MCP
21 23 (19.33%) MCAD
21 23 (19.33%) MCSD
21 23 (19.33%) MCTS
21 23 (19.33%) Ruby
21 23 (19.33%) Web Application Development

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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
1 113 (94.96%) .NET
2 78 (65.55%) ASP.NET
3 49 (41.18%) Web Services
4 45 (37.82%) .NET Framework
4 45 (37.82%) WPF
5 38 (31.93%) HTML
6 36 (30.25%) CSS
7 29 (24.37%) ASP.NET MVC
8 23 (19.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 21 (17.65%) LINQ
10 20 (16.81%) Node.js
11 16 (13.45%) KnockoutJS
11 16 (13.45%) Ninject
12 12 (10.08%) NHibernate
13 10 (8.403%) XML
14 8 (6.723%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 8 (6.723%) Razor View Engine
14 8 (6.723%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 7 (5.882%) RabbitMQ
15 7 (5.882%) REST
Application Platforms
1 7 (5.882%) Umbraco
1 7 (5.882%) CMS
2 6 (5.042%) SharePoint
2 6 (5.042%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (4.202%) SharePoint Server
3 5 (4.202%) DotNetNuke
3 5 (4.202%) Immediacy CMS
3 5 (4.202%) Sitecore CMS
3 5 (4.202%) Kentico
3 5 (4.202%) Sitefinity
4 4 (3.361%) ESB
5 1 (0.840%) IIS
Applications
1 25 (21.01%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.361%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.681%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 18 (15.13%) AMQP
2 1 (0.840%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.840%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 106 (89.08%) SQL Server
2 60 (50.42%) SQL Server 2008
3 29 (24.37%) SQL Server 2005
4 18 (15.13%) SQL Server 2012
5 5 (4.202%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (4.202%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 4 (3.361%) NoSQL
7 3 (2.521%) QlikView
8 2 (1.681%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.840%) DTS
9 1 (0.840%) MySQL
9 1 (0.840%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 18 (15.13%) Team Foundation Server
2 17 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 4 (3.361%) Git (software)
4 3 (2.521%) Subversion
5 2 (1.681%) Rhino Mocks
5 2 (1.681%) NUnit
6 1 (0.840%) Oracle Forms
General
1 15 (12.61%) Finance
2 11 (9.244%) Games
3 4 (3.361%) Advertising
4 2 (1.681%) Banking
4 2 (1.681%) Publishing
5 1 (0.840%) Retail
5 1 (0.840%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 116 (97.48%) Developer
2 51 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 37 (31.09%) Software Developer
4 21 (17.65%) Senior Developer
5 19 (15.97%) C# Developer
6 11 (9.244%) C# .NET Developer
7 8 (6.723%) ASP.NET Developer
8 6 (5.042%) Senior C# Developer
9 5 (4.202%) Junior
9 5 (4.202%) Junior C# Developer
9 5 (4.202%) Senior .NET Developer
9 5 (4.202%) Junior .NET Developer
9 5 (4.202%) Junior Developer
9 5 (4.202%) BizTalk Developer
9 5 (4.202%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (4.202%) Junior C# .NET Developer
10 4 (3.361%) C# Web Developer
10 4 (3.361%) Web Developer
11 3 (2.521%) Graduate
11 3 (2.521%) Development Manager
Miscellaneous
1 17 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 11 (9.244%) iPhone
2 11 (9.244%) Mobile App
2 11 (9.244%) Enterprise Software
3 8 (6.723%) N-Tier
3 8 (6.723%) Client/Server
4 5 (4.202%) Streaming Music
5 2 (1.681%) Kindle
6 1 (0.840%) Tandem
6 1 (0.840%) Mashup
6 1 (0.840%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 22 (18.49%) Windows
2 19 (15.97%) Linux
3 12 (10.08%) Android
4 11 (9.244%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.840%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (42.02%) TDD
2 36 (30.25%) Agile Software Development
3 33 (27.73%) MVC
4 27 (22.69%) Scrum
5 23 (19.33%) Web Application Development
6 19 (15.97%) OO
7 16 (13.45%) Dependency Injection
7 16 (13.45%) Domain-Driven Design
8 15 (12.61%) Web Development
8 15 (12.61%) OOP
9 12 (10.08%) Migration
10 7 (5.882%) Content Management
11 6 (5.042%) CRM
12 4 (3.361%) BDD
13 3 (2.521%) PRINCE2
13 3 (2.521%) DSDM
13 3 (2.521%) E-Commerce
13 3 (2.521%) SOA
13 3 (2.521%) Unit Testing
13 3 (2.521%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 110 (92.44%) C#
2 63 (52.94%) SQL
3 55 (46.22%) JavaScript
4 39 (32.77%) VB
5 38 (31.93%) T-SQL
6 34 (28.57%) VB6
7 23 (19.33%) Ruby
8 19 (15.97%) C
9 11 (9.244%) VB.NET
10 3 (2.521%) Delphi
11 1 (0.840%) C++
11 1 (0.840%) PHP
11 1 (0.840%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 44 (36.97%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (19.33%) MCP
2 23 (19.33%) MCAD
2 23 (19.33%) MCSD
2 23 (19.33%) MCTS
3 13 (10.92%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.97%) QA
2 2 (1.681%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (1.681%) SCOM
Vendors
1 65 (54.62%) Microsoft
2 11 (9.244%) Google
3 5 (4.202%) Oracle
3 5 (4.202%) Alterian
3 5 (4.202%) EPiServer
3 5 (4.202%) Sitecore
3 5 (4.202%) Ektron
4 4 (3.361%) Facebook
5 3 (2.521%) DevExpress
6 1 (0.840%) Sun