Oxfordshire WCF Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Location Aberdeen Aldershot Andover Banbury Barnet Basildon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexley Bexleyheath Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Farnham Flintshire Gatwick Gerrards Cross Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Leominster Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rochdale Romford Rotherham Rugby Sale Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Sittingbourne Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southam Southampton Southwark St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swindon Telford Tonbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	106	120
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching permanent IT job ads	21	21
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.065 %	1.587 %
Salaries quoted	21	21
Average minimum salary	£35,476	£36,238
Average salary	£40,357	£39,548
% change on same period last year	+2.04 %
Average maximum salary	£45,238	£42,857
UK excluding London average salary	£39,402	£40,091
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
Application Development Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1017	1323
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.680 %	0.590 %
Salaries quoted	951	1214
Average minimum salary	£32,778	£31,418
Average salary	£36,076	£34,539
% change on same period last year	+4.44 %
Average maximum salary	£39,374	£37,660
UK excluding London average salary	£36,023	£36,564
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
WCF South East

WCF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing WCF across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WCF
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WCF across the Oxfordshire region.

WCF
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WCF across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	+11	19	£40,263	+1.22 %
Banbury	-	1	£37,500	-

WCF South East

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, 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 52 (100.00 %) .NET 2 46 (88.46 %) C# 3 43 (82.69 %) WPF 4 42 (80.77 %) Microsoft 5 29 (55.77 %) ASP.NET 6 28 (53.85 %) SQL Server 7 24 (46.15 %) Silverlight 8 23 (44.23 %) XML 9 22 (42.31 %) Scrum 9 22 (42.31 %) WF 10 21 (40.38 %) VB.NET 11 20 (38.46 %) OO 12 19 (36.54 %) WebServices 13 17 (32.69 %) Extreme Programming 13 17 (32.69 %) SQL Server 2005

14 15 (28.85 %) VB 15 14 (26.92 %) SQL 16 12 (23.08 %) TDD 17 11 (21.15 %) AJAX 18 10 (19.23 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 19 9 (17.31 %) Microsoft Certification 19 9 (17.31 %) MCP 19 9 (17.31 %) MCAD 19 9 (17.31 %) MCSD 20 8 (15.38 %) JavaScript 20 8 (15.38 %) HTML 20 8 (15.38 %) IIS 21 7 (13.46 %) COM+ 21 7 (13.46 %) DCOM 21 7 (13.46 %) Delphi

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, 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 52 (100.00 %) .NET 2 43 (82.69 %) WPF 3 29 (55.77 %) ASP.NET 4 24 (46.15 %) Silverlight 5 23 (44.23 %) XML 6 22 (42.31 %) WF 7 19 (36.54 %) WebServices 8 11 (21.15 %) AJAX 9 8 (15.38 %) HTML 10 7 (13.46 %) ADO.NET 10 7 (13.46 %) COM+ 10 7 (13.46 %) DCOM 10 7 (13.46 %) .NET Framework 11 3 (5.769 %) LINQ 11 3 (5.769 %) WinForms 12 1 (1.923 %) XSL 12 1 (1.923 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 8 (15.38 %) IIS 2 7 (13.46 %) MTS
Applications 1 3 (5.769 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 7 (13.46 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 28 (53.85 %) SQL Server 2 17 (32.69 %) SQL Server 2005 3 10 (19.23 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 6 (11.54 %) DTS 5 5 (9.615 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (1.923 %) Visual Studio
General 1 6 (11.54 %) Retail 1 6 (11.54 %) Auditing 2 1 (1.923 %) Online Banking 2 1 (1.923 %) Finance 2 1 (1.923 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 51 (98.08 %) Developer 2 45 (86.54 %) .NET Developer 3 29 (55.77 %) C# Developer 4 9 (17.31 %) SQL Developer 4 9 (17.31 %) SQL Server Developer 5 7 (13.46 %) Delphi Developer 5 7 (13.46 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 6 (11.54 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 6 6 (11.54 %) VB.NET Developer 7 1 (1.923 %) C# Software Engineer 7 1 (1.923 %) Web Developer 7 1 (1.923 %) Applications Developer 7 1 (1.923 %) Software Developer 7 1 (1.923 %) Software Engineer 7 1 (1.923 %) Web Applications Developer 7 1 (1.923 %) .NET Web Developer 7 1 (1.923 %) C# Web Developer 7 1 (1.923 %) WinForms Developer 7 1 (1.923 %) C# Application Developer 7 1 (1.923 %) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.692 %) Tandem 2 2 (3.846 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 3 (5.769 %) Windows 2 1 (1.923 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 22 (42.31 %) Scrum 2 20 (38.46 %) OO 3 17 (32.69 %) Extreme Programming 4 12 (23.08 %) TDD 5 6 (11.54 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (3.846 %) CRM 7 1 (1.923 %) Workflow 7 1 (1.923 %) Automated Testing 7 1 (1.923 %) Unit Testing 7 1 (1.923 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 46 (88.46 %) C# 2 21 (40.38 %) VB.NET 3 15 (28.85 %) VB 4 14 (26.92 %) SQL 5 8 (15.38 %) JavaScript 6 7 (13.46 %) Transact-SQL 6 7 (13.46 %) Delphi 7 2 (3.846 %) Ruby 8 1 (1.923 %) Java 8 1 (1.923 %) C++
Qualifications 1 9 (17.31 %) MCP 1 9 (17.31 %) MCAD 1 9 (17.31 %) MCSD 1 9 (17.31 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (3.846 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.923 %) QA
Vendors 1 42 (80.77 %) Microsoft