The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 22 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 Buckinghamshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 29 65 70
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +5
Contract jobs citing WCF 44 8 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 5.419% 0.798% 0.378%
As % of the Application Development category 21.05% 4.233% 1.724%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 7 1
Average daily rate £350 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
209 189 232
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 25.74% 18.84% 21.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 97 100
Average daily rate £325 £310 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -6.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 9
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
South East

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire WCF Daily Rate Histogram

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Milton Keynes +35 33 £350 +16.66%
Marlow - 2 £600 -
Beaconsfield - 1 £260 -
WCF
South East

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 38 (82.61%) C#
2 32 (69.57%) MVC
2 32 (69.57%) .NET
3 28 (60.87%) Agile Software Development
4 23 (50.00%) NHibernate
5 14 (30.43%) TDD
5 14 (30.43%) ASP.NET
6 13 (28.26%) SOAP
6 13 (28.26%) JavaScript
7 12 (26.09%) KnockoutJS
8 11 (23.91%) .NET Framework
9 10 (21.74%) SQL
9 10 (21.74%) Scrum
9 10 (21.74%) Finance
10 9 (19.57%) SOA
11 8 (17.39%) OO
11 8 (17.39%) Web Services
11 8 (17.39%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (17.39%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
12 7 (15.22%) Selenium
12 7 (15.22%) soapUI
12 7 (15.22%) N-Tier
13 6 (13.04%) WSDL
13 6 (13.04%) EPoS
13 6 (13.04%) XML
13 6 (13.04%) Oracle
13 6 (13.04%) Middleware
13 6 (13.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 6 (13.04%) REST

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 32 (69.57%) .NET
2 23 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 14 (30.43%) ASP.NET
4 13 (28.26%) SOAP
5 12 (26.09%) KnockoutJS
6 11 (23.91%) .NET Framework
7 8 (17.39%) Web Services
7 8 (17.39%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (17.39%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 7 (15.22%) soapUI
9 6 (13.04%) WSDL
9 6 (13.04%) XML
9 6 (13.04%) Middleware
9 6 (13.04%) REST
10 5 (10.87%) WPF
10 5 (10.87%) XSD
11 4 (8.696%) jQuery
12 2 (4.348%) WinForms
12 2 (4.348%) CSS
12 2 (4.348%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.174%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.174%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (10.87%) SQL Server
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (15.22%) Selenium
2 6 (13.04%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (10.87%) Ant
3 5 (10.87%) JDeveloper
3 5 (10.87%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (10.87%) Eclipse
4 4 (8.696%) WebDriver
5 1 (2.174%) NMock
5 1 (2.174%) NUnit
General
1 10 (21.74%) Finance
2 2 (4.348%) Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (73.91%) Developer
2 20 (43.48%) .NET Developer
3 9 (19.57%) Programmer
4 6 (13.04%) Oracle Developer
4 6 (13.04%) C# Developer
4 6 (13.04%) C# Programmer
4 6 (13.04%) Agile .NET Developer
4 6 (13.04%) Agile C# Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Oracle SOA Developer
5 5 (10.87%) SOA Developer
5 5 (10.87%) Lead Developer
6 4 (8.696%) Web Developer
6 4 (8.696%) Tester
6 4 (8.696%) ASP.NET Developer
6 4 (8.696%) Automated Tester
7 3 (6.522%) .NET Programmer
7 3 (6.522%) Architect
8 2 (4.348%) Software Engineer
8 2 (4.348%) Analyst
8 2 (4.348%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) N-Tier
2 6 (13.04%) EPoS
3 5 (10.87%) Web 2.0
4 3 (6.522%) SaaS
5 2 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.174%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.174%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (2.174%) Windows
1 1 (2.174%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (69.57%) MVC
2 28 (60.87%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (30.43%) TDD
4 10 (21.74%) Scrum
5 9 (19.57%) SOA
6 8 (17.39%) OO
7 7 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (13.04%) BPEL
9 5 (10.87%) Unit Testing
9 5 (10.87%) Workflow
9 5 (10.87%) UML
10 4 (8.696%) Automated Testing
11 3 (6.522%) Web Application Development
11 3 (6.522%) Web Development
12 2 (4.348%) Data Modelling
13 1 (2.174%) Functional Testing
13 1 (2.174%) MVVM
13 1 (2.174%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 38 (82.61%) C#
2 13 (28.26%) JavaScript
3 10 (21.74%) SQL
4 5 (10.87%) XPath
4 5 (10.87%) XQuery
5 2 (4.348%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.174%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (2.174%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (2.174%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Oracle
2 5 (10.87%) HP
3 2 (4.348%) Microsoft
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