The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 21 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 Canary Wharf 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 42 43 47
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Contract jobs citing WCF 12 6 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 2.985% 1.571% 2.811%
As % of the Application Development category 9.756% 4.762% 8.861%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 14
Average daily rate £600 £513 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.07% +7.89%
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 £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
123 126 158
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 30.60% 32.98% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 80 131
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
London

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 19 (95.00%) C#
2 15 (75.00%) Multithreading
3 14 (70.00%) OO
4 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (60.00%) Derivative
5 11 (55.00%) C++
5 11 (55.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (50.00%) Degree
7 9 (45.00%) WPF
7 9 (45.00%) VBA
7 9 (45.00%) .NET
8 8 (40.00%) Oracle
8 8 (40.00%) XML
8 8 (40.00%) XSLT
9 7 (35.00%) Technical Architecture
10 6 (30.00%) SQL
10 6 (30.00%) Finance
10 6 (30.00%) Scrum
11 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 5 (25.00%) Front Office
11 5 (25.00%) SQLPlus
11 5 (25.00%) TOAD
11 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
11 5 (25.00%) .NET Framework
11 5 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
12 4 (20.00%) Banking
12 4 (20.00%) Investment Banking
13 3 (15.00%) TDD
13 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
13 3 (15.00%) RAD

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 9 (45.00%) WPF
1 9 (45.00%) .NET
2 8 (40.00%) XML
2 8 (40.00%) XSLT
3 5 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 3 (15.00%) Web Services
4 3 (15.00%) Silverlight
5 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
6 1 (5.000%) NHibernate
6 1 (5.000%) WinForms
6 1 (5.000%) Middleware
6 1 (5.000%) Struts
6 1 (5.000%) JSON
6 1 (5.000%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) TIBCO EMS
2 1 (5.000%) Rendezvous
Applications
1 1 (5.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.000%) RMDS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (25.00%) SQLPlus
2 5 (25.00%) TOAD
3 3 (15.00%) OLAP
3 3 (15.00%) Oracle OLAP
3 3 (15.00%) QlikView
4 1 (5.000%) Data Mart
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.000%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.000%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (10.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (10.00%) Moq
2 2 (10.00%) NUnit
2 2 (10.00%) CruiseControl
3 1 (5.000%) ERwin
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Front Office
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Investment Banking
4 2 (10.00%) Back Office
5 1 (5.000%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Developer
2 12 (60.00%) C# Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Market Risk Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Agile .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Front Office Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Lead Developer
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst Developer
5 1 (5.000%) CRM Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) C# Analyst Programmer
5 1 (5.000%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (5.000%) Programmer
5 1 (5.000%) Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Data Architect
5 1 (5.000%) Architect
5 1 (5.000%) C# Programmer
5 1 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (5.000%) Microsoft CRM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 12 (60.00%) Derivative
2 11 (55.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (15.00%) Credit Derivative
3 3 (15.00%) Market Risk
4 1 (5.000%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (5.000%) Visualisation
4 1 (5.000%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.000%) Physics
4 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.000%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (75.00%) Multithreading
2 14 (70.00%) OO
3 7 (35.00%) Technical Architecture
4 6 (30.00%) Scrum
5 5 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (15.00%) TDD
6 3 (15.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (15.00%) RAD
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (10.00%) BPEL
7 2 (10.00%) BPMN
7 2 (10.00%) UML
7 2 (10.00%) OOP
7 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 2 (10.00%) SOA
7 2 (10.00%) Process Management
8 1 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (5.000%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 19 (95.00%) C#
2 11 (55.00%) C++
3 9 (45.00%) VBA
4 6 (30.00%) SQL
5 3 (15.00%) Java
6 1 (5.000%) Ruby
6 1 (5.000%) Python
6 1 (5.000%) Assembly Language
6 1 (5.000%) F#
Qualifications
1 10 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Business Objects
4 2 (10.00%) TIBCO
5 1 (5.000%) Reuters
5 1 (5.000%) Bloomberg
5 1 (5.000%) Sybase
5 1 (5.000%) 29West