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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 26 34 32
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -2
Permanent jobs citing WCF 13 4 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 6.047% 1.980% 3.828%
As % of the Application Development category 12.26% 3.774% 8.511%
Number of salaries quoted 13 4 8
Average salary £37,500 £37,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.35% +23.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,700 £29,050 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £33,592
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
106 106 94
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 49.30% 52.48% 44.98%
Number of salaries quoted 100 99 93
Average salary £33,500 £31,500 £33,592
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.34% -6.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £26,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WCF
Hampshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

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

Portsmouth WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 19 (100.00%) C#
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
3 14 (73.68%) .NET Framework
4 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
5 12 (63.16%) OO
5 12 (63.16%) WPF
6 9 (47.37%) MySQL
6 9 (47.37%) Degree
7 8 (42.11%) Windows
8 7 (36.84%) MS Access
8 7 (36.84%) Web Services
8 7 (36.84%) MVC
8 7 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
8 7 (36.84%) Subversion
8 7 (36.84%) LINQ
8 7 (36.84%) SQL Server 2005
8 7 (36.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (36.84%) WinForms
8 7 (36.84%) CSLA
8 7 (36.84%) CSLA.NET
8 7 (36.84%) MVVM
9 6 (31.58%) XML
9 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
10 5 (26.32%) SOAP
10 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
10 5 (26.32%) Visual Studio
10 5 (26.32%) Scrum
10 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET MVC
10 5 (26.32%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
3 14 (73.68%) .NET Framework
4 12 (63.16%) WPF
5 7 (36.84%) Web Services
5 7 (36.84%) LINQ
5 7 (36.84%) WinForms
5 7 (36.84%) CSLA
5 7 (36.84%) CSLA.NET
6 6 (31.58%) XML
7 5 (26.32%) SOAP
7 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (26.32%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (26.32%) REST
8 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 4 (21.05%) XSLT
9 3 (15.79%) XSD
9 3 (15.79%) HTML
10 2 (10.53%) jQuery
11 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.263%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
2 9 (47.37%) MySQL
3 7 (36.84%) MS Access
3 7 (36.84%) SQL Server 2005
3 7 (36.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Subversion
2 5 (26.32%) Visual Studio
3 3 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Developer
2 9 (47.37%) C# .NET Developer
2 9 (47.37%) .NET Developer
2 9 (47.37%) C# Developer
3 7 (36.84%) Applications Developer
3 7 (36.84%) Senior Developer
3 7 (36.84%) C# Application Developer
3 7 (36.84%) .NET Applications Developer
4 4 (21.05%) Team Leader
4 4 (21.05%) .NET Team Leader
5 2 (10.53%) C# Programmer
5 2 (10.53%) Graduate Programmer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) .NET Programmer
5 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (10.53%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
2 1 (5.263%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.263%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) OO
2 7 (36.84%) MVC
2 7 (36.84%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (36.84%) MVVM
3 5 (26.32%) Scrum
4 3 (15.79%) UML
4 3 (15.79%) OOA/OOD
4 3 (15.79%) Web Application Development
5 2 (10.53%) Waterfall
5 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
6 1 (5.263%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) XPath
4 2 (10.53%) C++
4 2 (10.53%) VB.NET
5 1 (5.263%) Delphi
5 1 (5.263%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (47.37%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.263%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
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