WCF Contracts in Bedfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire 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 28 31 32
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +1
Contract jobs citing WCF 2 2 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.058% 0.717% 3.413%
As % of the Application Development category 5.263% 4.167% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 8
Average daily rate £381 £375 £198
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.66% +89.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £356 £375 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £406 £375 £288
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
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 38 48 84
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 20.11% 17.20% 28.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 29 41
Average daily rate £350 £325 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +62.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £402
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 8
Average hourly rate - £190.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +300.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
East of England

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedford -1 1 £413 -
Luton -4 1 £350 -6.66%
WCF
East of England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WF
2 1 (50.00%) Use Case
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) NUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
1 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) VB6
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
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