The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 23 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 Cambridgeshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 45 46 41
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -5
Contract jobs citing WCF 7 18 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.296% 2.620% 2.045%
As % of the Application Development category 5.512% 7.229% 6.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 5
Average daily rate £350 £313 £415
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -24.69%
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
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
127 249 183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 23.52% 36.24% 34.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 124 82
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 £225 £225 £251
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 22 15
Average hourly rate £35.50 £35.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% +40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £15.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £50.80 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
East of England

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire WCF Hourly Rate Trend

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Peterborough +6 4 £350 +11.11%
Cambridge +2 2 £350 +12.90%
WCF
East of England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 31 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (93.55%) C#
3 24 (77.42%) ASP.NET
4 14 (45.16%) MVC
5 12 (38.71%) jQuery
6 11 (35.48%) Visual Studio
7 10 (32.26%) ASP
7 10 (32.26%) Oracle
7 10 (32.26%) DHTML
7 10 (32.26%) CSS
7 10 (32.26%) NHibernate
7 10 (32.26%) ASP.NET MVC
8 9 (29.03%) LINQ
8 9 (29.03%) VB6
8 9 (29.03%) VB
9 8 (25.81%) HTML5
10 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
10 7 (22.58%) Web Services
10 7 (22.58%) Finance
10 7 (22.58%) COM+
11 6 (19.35%) Scrum
11 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (19.35%) HTML
11 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
11 6 (19.35%) F#
11 6 (19.35%) CSS3
12 5 (16.13%) Investment Management
12 5 (16.13%) XML
12 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
12 5 (16.13%) .NET Framework

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 31 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (77.42%) ASP.NET
3 12 (38.71%) jQuery
4 10 (32.26%) ASP
4 10 (32.26%) DHTML
4 10 (32.26%) CSS
4 10 (32.26%) NHibernate
4 10 (32.26%) ASP.NET MVC
5 9 (29.03%) LINQ
6 8 (25.81%) HTML5
7 7 (22.58%) Web Services
7 7 (22.58%) COM+
8 6 (19.35%) HTML
8 6 (19.35%) CSS3
9 5 (16.13%) XML
9 5 (16.13%) .NET Framework
10 4 (12.90%) ADO.NET
11 3 (9.677%) KnockoutJS
11 3 (9.677%) Ajax
12 1 (3.226%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (3.226%) SharePoint 2013
1 1 (3.226%) SharePoint
1 1 (3.226%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (12.90%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.226%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.226%) HTTP
1 1 (3.226%) Internet
1 1 (3.226%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (22.58%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 11 (35.48%) Visual Studio
2 3 (9.677%) JSUnit
2 3 (9.677%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (6.452%) Git (software)
General
1 7 (22.58%) Finance
2 3 (9.677%) Banking
3 1 (3.226%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (87.10%) Developer
2 20 (64.52%) .NET Developer
3 7 (22.58%) ASP.NET Developer
4 6 (19.35%) C# Developer
5 5 (16.13%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (16.13%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (9.677%) UI Designer
6 3 (9.677%) Designer
6 3 (9.677%) User Experience Developer
7 2 (6.452%) Analyst Developer
7 2 (6.452%) Analyst
7 2 (6.452%) Applications Developer
7 2 (6.452%) UI Programmer
7 2 (6.452%) UI Developer
8 1 (3.226%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.226%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (3.226%) Microsoft Developer
8 1 (3.226%) SharePoint Developer
8 1 (3.226%) Software Developer
8 1 (3.226%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Human Factors
2 1 (3.226%) Social Media
2 1 (3.226%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.226%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.677%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (45.16%) MVC
2 6 (19.35%) Scrum
2 6 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (16.13%) Investment Management
3 5 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
4 4 (12.90%) OOD
4 4 (12.90%) OOA/OOD
4 4 (12.90%) Unit Testing
5 3 (9.677%) OO
5 3 (9.677%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.226%) Data Migration
6 1 (3.226%) Multithreading
6 1 (3.226%) MVVM
6 1 (3.226%) CQRS
6 1 (3.226%) Network Architecture
6 1 (3.226%) SOA
6 1 (3.226%) Migration
6 1 (3.226%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (3.226%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 29 (93.55%) C#
2 9 (29.03%) VB6
2 9 (29.03%) VB
3 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
3 6 (19.35%) F#
4 3 (9.677%) SQL
4 3 (9.677%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.226%) C++
5 1 (3.226%) C
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.452%) Telerik
4 1 (3.226%) DevExpress
4 1 (3.226%) Sybase
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