The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 21 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 Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 21 24 18
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -6
Contract jobs citing WCF 23 3 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 10.75% 1.630% 5.738%
As % of the Application Development category 23.23% 3.947% 19.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 8
Average daily rate £353 £281 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.33% -29.68%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £276 £343
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £286 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
99 76 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 46.26% 41.30% 29.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 24 27
Average daily rate £350 £369 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.08% -4.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 10 11
Average hourly rate £39.00 £20.00 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -42.02%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Hampshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke WCF Jobs Demand Trend

WCF
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WCF across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WCF across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Basingstoke WCF Daily Rate Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited WCF.

1 44 (95.65%) C#
2 36 (78.26%) .NET
3 34 (73.91%) SQL Server
4 32 (69.57%) Scrum
5 27 (58.70%) BizTalk Server
6 23 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 22 (47.83%) TDD
7 22 (47.83%) SQL
7 22 (47.83%) Web Services
8 21 (45.65%) BDD
9 18 (39.13%) LINQ
10 17 (36.96%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 17 (36.96%) SOA
10 17 (36.96%) MVC
11 15 (32.61%) Selenium
12 13 (28.26%) .NET Framework
12 13 (28.26%) SpecFlow
12 13 (28.26%) Java
13 12 (26.09%) XML
14 11 (23.91%) OO
14 11 (23.91%) Git (software)
14 11 (23.91%) Agile Software Development
14 11 (23.91%) SQL Server 2005
15 10 (21.74%) Unit Testing
15 10 (21.74%) SOAP
15 10 (21.74%) T-SQL
16 9 (19.57%) ASP.NET
17 8 (17.39%) MySQL
17 8 (17.39%) WSDL
17 8 (17.39%) XML Schema

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited WCF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (78.26%) .NET
2 22 (47.83%) Web Services
3 18 (39.13%) LINQ
4 17 (36.96%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 13 (28.26%) .NET Framework
6 12 (26.09%) XML
7 10 (21.74%) SOAP
8 9 (19.57%) ASP.NET
9 8 (17.39%) WSDL
9 8 (17.39%) XML Schema
9 8 (17.39%) jQuery
9 8 (17.39%) Java EE
9 8 (17.39%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (15.22%) Apache CXF
10 7 (15.22%) REST
10 7 (15.22%) JSON
10 7 (15.22%) Spring Security
10 7 (15.22%) Spring Web Flow
10 7 (15.22%) Spring MVC
10 7 (15.22%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 27 (58.70%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (4.348%) Windows Azure
3 1 (2.174%) IIS
3 1 (2.174%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.174%) MS Visio
1 1 (2.174%) MS PowerPoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (73.91%) SQL Server
2 23 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (23.91%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (17.39%) MySQL
4 8 (17.39%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (2.174%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 15 (32.61%) Selenium
2 13 (28.26%) SpecFlow
3 11 (23.91%) Git (software)
4 8 (17.39%) Subversion
4 8 (17.39%) ReSharper
5 5 (10.87%) WATIR
5 5 (10.87%) FitNesse
5 5 (10.87%) WebDriver
6 2 (4.348%) Visual Studio
6 2 (4.348%) NUnit
7 1 (2.174%) JMeter
7 1 (2.174%) Firebug
7 1 (2.174%) Fiddler
7 1 (2.174%) GitHub
7 1 (2.174%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (2.174%) Retail
1 1 (2.174%) Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (71.74%) Developer
2 23 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 16 (34.78%) .NET Developer
3 16 (34.78%) C# .NET Developer
4 8 (17.39%) ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (17.39%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Agile .NET Developer
4 8 (17.39%) Agile C# Developer
5 7 (15.22%) Architect
5 7 (15.22%) Software Architect
6 6 (13.04%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (10.87%) Analyst
7 5 (10.87%) Test Analyst
7 5 (10.87%) Test Team Leader
7 5 (10.87%) Team Leader
8 4 (8.696%) Java Solutions Architect
8 4 (8.696%) Java Architect
8 4 (8.696%) Applications Developer
9 2 (4.348%) BizTalk Developer
9 2 (4.348%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.39%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.174%) Wiki
2 1 (2.174%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.174%) SUSE
1 1 (2.174%) Windows
1 1 (2.174%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) Scrum
2 22 (47.83%) TDD
3 21 (45.65%) BDD
4 17 (36.96%) SOA
4 17 (36.96%) MVC
5 11 (23.91%) OO
5 11 (23.91%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (21.74%) Unit Testing
7 8 (17.39%) Kanban
8 7 (15.22%) Web Development
9 5 (10.87%) Dependency Injection
10 4 (8.696%) Integration Testing
11 3 (6.522%) UML
11 3 (6.522%) Software Architecture
12 2 (4.348%) Change Data Capture
12 2 (4.348%) AOP
12 2 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
12 2 (4.348%) Multithreading
12 2 (4.348%) OOD
12 2 (4.348%) Pair Programming
Programming Languages
1 44 (95.65%) C#
2 22 (47.83%) SQL
3 13 (28.26%) Java
4 10 (21.74%) T-SQL
5 5 (10.87%) C
5 5 (10.87%) Perl
5 5 (10.87%) C++
5 5 (10.87%) Python
6 4 (8.696%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.174%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.522%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (6.522%) Microsoft