The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton 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 Brighton 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 - 24 21
Contract jobs citing WCF 0 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton - 4.297% 1.460%
As % of the Application Development category - 14.47% 4.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 0
Average daily rate - £400 -
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 £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
68 76 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 45.95% 29.69% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 26
Average daily rate £315 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
East Sussex

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Azure
2 1 (50.00%) REST

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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
2 1 (50.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft