The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Bradford 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 27 28 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing WCF 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 1.081% 0.629% -
As % of the Application Development category 5.405% 3.846% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £310
% change year-on-year
- +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +6.06%
All Application Development
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
37 26 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 20.00% 16.35% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 15
Average daily rate £320 £165 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+93.93% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £165 £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £9.73
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
WCF
West Yorkshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Content Management
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) EPiServer
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 1 (33.33%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (33.33%) SOAP
3 1 (33.33%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) XML Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (33.33%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) EPiServer