The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 34 38 31
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -7
Contract jobs citing WCF 2 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.608% 2.358% 1.172%
As % of the Application Development category 2.703% 6.250% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £350 £310 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.90% -25.30%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
74 160 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 22.49% 37.74% 38.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 81 52
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £201 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £395 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 9
Average hourly rate £38.50 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +55.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £35.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £57.70 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Cambridgeshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WCF across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge WCF Hourly Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 14 (100.00%) C#
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (85.71%) ASP.NET
3 10 (71.43%) jQuery
4 9 (64.29%) MVC
4 9 (64.29%) ASP.NET MVC
4 9 (64.29%) Visual Studio
5 7 (50.00%) CSS
5 7 (50.00%) HTML5
6 6 (42.86%) CSS3
6 6 (42.86%) F#
6 6 (42.86%) HTML
6 6 (42.86%) Scrum
7 5 (35.71%) Human Factors
8 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
8 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
8 4 (28.57%) Web Services
8 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
9 3 (21.43%) ADO.NET
9 3 (21.43%) ASP
9 3 (21.43%) XML
9 3 (21.43%) Windows
9 3 (21.43%) OOA/OOD
9 3 (21.43%) OOD
9 3 (21.43%) JSUnit
9 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
9 3 (21.43%) KnockoutJS
10 2 (14.29%) Telerik
10 2 (14.29%) Ajax

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (85.71%) ASP.NET
3 10 (71.43%) jQuery
4 9 (64.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 7 (50.00%) CSS
5 7 (50.00%) HTML5
6 6 (42.86%) CSS3
6 6 (42.86%) HTML
7 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
7 4 (28.57%) Web Services
8 3 (21.43%) ADO.NET
8 3 (21.43%) ASP
8 3 (21.43%) XML
8 3 (21.43%) KnockoutJS
9 2 (14.29%) Ajax
9 2 (14.29%) LINQ
10 1 (7.143%) DHTML
10 1 (7.143%) XHTML
10 1 (7.143%) COM
10 1 (7.143%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) IIS
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) Internet
1 1 (7.143%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Visual Studio
2 3 (21.43%) JSUnit
3 1 (7.143%) Git (software)
3 1 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (7.143%) Investment Banking
1 1 (7.143%) Banking
1 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (78.57%) Developer
2 5 (35.71%) .NET Developer
3 3 (21.43%) UI Designer
3 3 (21.43%) Designer
3 3 (21.43%) User Experience Developer
4 2 (14.29%) UI Programmer
4 2 (14.29%) UI Developer
4 2 (14.29%) C# Developer
5 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Software Developer
5 1 (7.143%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (7.143%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (7.143%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Human Factors
2 1 (7.143%) N-Tier
2 1 (7.143%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) MVC
2 6 (42.86%) Scrum
3 4 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (21.43%) OOA/OOD
4 3 (21.43%) OOD
4 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Data Modelling
5 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (7.143%) Logistics
5 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
5 1 (7.143%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (42.86%) F#
3 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (7.143%) VB.NET
5 1 (7.143%) C++
5 1 (7.143%) C
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Telerik
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) DevExpress