The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts 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 Belfast 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 13 28 30
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +2
Contract jobs citing WCF 21 1 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 10.82% 0.617% 4.281%
As % of the Application Development category 22.34% 2.000% 13.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £36.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
94 50 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 48.45% 30.86% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 16 23
Average daily rate £350 £280 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -16.41%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £36.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
County Antrim

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 26 (92.86%) C#
3 25 (89.29%) WPF
4 23 (82.14%) SQL Server
5 20 (71.43%) WF
6 19 (67.86%) WinForms
7 17 (60.71%) SQL
8 16 (57.14%) Sybase
8 16 (57.14%) Oracle
8 16 (57.14%) UML
9 15 (53.57%) VB
10 7 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 4 (14.29%) Multithreading
11 4 (14.29%) ADO.NET
12 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
12 3 (10.71%) Web Services
12 3 (10.71%) OOP
12 3 (10.71%) VBA
12 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
12 3 (10.71%) ETL
12 3 (10.71%) Finance
12 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2005
12 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 2 (7.143%) Banking
14 1 (3.571%) .NET Framework
14 1 (3.571%) Spreadsheet
14 1 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
14 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
14 1 (3.571%) T-SQL
14 1 (3.571%) Data Warehouse

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (89.29%) WPF
3 20 (71.43%) WF
4 19 (67.86%) WinForms
5 4 (14.29%) ADO.NET
6 3 (10.71%) ASP.NET
6 3 (10.71%) Web Services
7 1 (3.571%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Spreadsheet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (82.14%) SQL Server
2 7 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (10.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
2 1 (3.571%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (10.71%) Finance
2 2 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Developer
2 23 (82.14%) C# Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Database Developer
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Database Developer
4 1 (3.571%) SQL Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.571%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) UML
2 4 (14.29%) Multithreading
3 3 (10.71%) OOP
3 3 (10.71%) ETL
4 1 (3.571%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) C#
2 17 (60.71%) SQL
3 15 (53.57%) VB
4 3 (10.71%) VBA
5 1 (3.571%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 16 (57.14%) Sybase
1 16 (57.14%) Oracle