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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 73 71 59
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -12
Permanent jobs citing WCF 13 18 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 1.559% 1.957% 1.923%
As % of the Application Development category 3.904% 5.325% 4.781%
Number of salaries quoted 13 18 12
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £33,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £40,000 £38,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
All Application Development
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
333 338 251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 39.93% 36.74% 40.22%
Number of salaries quoted 310 324 234
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £46,000 £50,000
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 Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton WCF Salary Trend

WCF
Salary Histogram

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

Southampton WCF Salary Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 24 (100.00%) C#
2 23 (95.83%) .NET
3 22 (91.67%) ASP.NET
4 20 (83.33%) MVC
5 14 (58.33%) WPF
5 14 (58.33%) LINQ
6 13 (54.17%) Enterprise Software
7 11 (45.83%) ADO.NET
7 11 (45.83%) HTML
8 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
9 8 (33.33%) TDD
9 8 (33.33%) Scrum
9 8 (33.33%) Web Application Development
9 8 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 8 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
9 8 (33.33%) Kanban
9 8 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
9 8 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
10 6 (25.00%) BDD
11 5 (20.83%) Rhino Mocks
11 5 (20.83%) Castle Windsor
11 5 (20.83%) NUnit
11 5 (20.83%) MCTS
11 5 (20.83%) MCP
11 5 (20.83%) MCAD
11 5 (20.83%) MCSD
11 5 (20.83%) Windows
11 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
12 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
12 4 (16.67%) Computer Science

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 23 (95.83%) .NET
2 22 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 14 (58.33%) WPF
3 14 (58.33%) LINQ
4 11 (45.83%) ADO.NET
4 11 (45.83%) HTML
5 8 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 8 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
5 8 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (20.83%) Castle Windsor
7 4 (16.67%) .NET Framework
7 4 (16.67%) WinForms
8 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 2
8 3 (12.50%) REST
8 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 3 (12.50%) HTML5
8 3 (12.50%) NHibernate
8 3 (12.50%) Lucene
8 3 (12.50%) SOAP
9 2 (8.333%) Unity DI Container
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) Immediacy CMS
1 3 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
1 3 (12.50%) Sitefinity
1 3 (12.50%) Kentico
1 3 (12.50%) Umbraco
1 3 (12.50%) DotNetNuke
1 3 (12.50%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.167%) Network Security
1 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.167%) CTI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (8.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (20.83%) NUnit
2 3 (12.50%) Selenium
2 3 (12.50%) WebDriver
2 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 3 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 2 (8.333%) Moq
3 2 (8.333%) MSTest
General
1 2 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (4.167%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (95.83%) Developer
2 21 (87.50%) .NET Developer
3 15 (62.50%) C# Developer
3 15 (62.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 14 (58.33%) C# Software Engineer
4 14 (58.33%) .NET Software Engineer
4 14 (58.33%) Software Engineer
5 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Programmer
5 3 (12.50%) C# Programmer
5 3 (12.50%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) .NET Programmer
5 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 3 (12.50%) Programmer
6 2 (8.333%) Graduate
6 2 (8.333%) Junior
6 2 (8.333%) Junior Developer
6 2 (8.333%) Junior .NET Developer
6 2 (8.333%) Graduate Developer
6 2 (8.333%) Graduate .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (54.17%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.333%) Replication
3 2 (8.333%) Life Science
3 2 (8.333%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (83.33%) MVC
2 8 (33.33%) TDD
2 8 (33.33%) Scrum
2 8 (33.33%) Web Application Development
2 8 (33.33%) Kanban
3 6 (25.00%) BDD
4 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (12.50%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (12.50%) Scrum-ban
5 3 (12.50%) CQRS
5 3 (12.50%) Content Management
6 2 (8.333%) OOP
6 2 (8.333%) OO
6 2 (8.333%) Automated Testing
6 2 (8.333%) Web Development
6 2 (8.333%) Unit Testing
6 2 (8.333%) MVVM
6 2 (8.333%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (4.167%) Multithreading
7 1 (4.167%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (8.333%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) MCTS
1 5 (20.83%) MCP
1 5 (20.83%) MCAD
1 5 (20.83%) MCSD
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.167%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) EPiServer
1 3 (12.50%) Sitecore
1 3 (12.50%) Ektron
1 3 (12.50%) Alterian
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
Southampton, Hampshire
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Southampton, South East
Graduate / Junior .NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows Forms, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013