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The table below looks at the demand for Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WF over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkWindows Workflow Foundation (WF)
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank191192
Rank change on same period last yearUp+1
Matching contract IT job ads151
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.021 %0.001 %
As % of the category below0.746 %0.056 %
Daily rates quoted141
Average minimum daily rate£479£400
Average daily rate£514£475
% change on same period last year+8.27 %
Average maximum daily rate£550£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£320£356
% change on same period last year-10.26 %
Hourly rates quoted00
Average minimum hourly rate--
Average hourly rate--
% change on same period last year-
Average maximum hourly rate--
UK excluding London average hourly rate-£31.00
% change on same period last year-
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads20121781
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled2.833 %1.800 %
Daily rates quoted1134812
Average minimum daily rate£388£447
Average daily rate£422£474
% change on same period last year-11.08 %
Average maximum daily rate£455£501
UK excluding London average daily rate£329£333
% change on same period last year-1.25 %
Hourly rates quoted5624
Average minimum hourly rate£26.78£31.38
Average hourly rate£29.48£33.36
% change on same period last year-11.63 %
Average maximum hourly rate£32.18£35.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate£31.10£32.14
% change on same period last year-3.23 %
WF LondonWF
London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WF across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

City of London WF Demand Trend

WF
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WF across the City of London region.

City of London WF Daily Rate Trend

WF
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WF across the City of London region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

City of London WF Daily Rate Histogram

WF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WF 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 WF.

119 (100.00 %).NET
217 (89.47 %)ASP.NET
315 (78.95 %)WinForms
414 (73.68 %)C#
414 (73.68 %)WPF
513 (68.42 %)Credit Risk
610 (52.63 %)Java
610 (52.63 %)Windows
610 (52.63 %)Middleware
610 (52.63 %)Workflow
78 (42.11 %)Thin Client
78 (42.11 %)Fat Client
87 (36.84 %)Construction
87 (36.84 %)Banking
95 (26.32 %)Investment Banking
95 (26.32 %)XML
104 (21.05 %)EJB
104 (21.05 %)SQL Server
104 (21.05 %)OOD
104 (21.05 %)Sun Certification
104 (21.05 %)OO
104 (21.05 %)WebServices
104 (21.05 %)JAX-WS
104 (21.05 %)EJB 3.0
113 (15.79 %)Multithreading
113 (15.79 %)WCF
113 (15.79 %)Finance
113 (15.79 %)Spring
113 (15.79 %)SQL Server 2005
113 (15.79 %)XHTML

WF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing WF 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 WF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
119 (100.00 %).NET
217 (89.47 %)ASP.NET
315 (78.95 %)WinForms
414 (73.68 %)WPF
510 (52.63 %)Middleware
65 (26.32 %)XML
74 (21.05 %)EJB
74 (21.05 %)WebServices
74 (21.05 %)JAX-WS
74 (21.05 %)EJB 3.0
83 (15.79 %)WCF
83 (15.79 %)CSS
83 (15.79 %)XHTML
83 (15.79 %)Spring
92 (10.53 %)JMS
92 (10.53 %)Hibernate
92 (10.53 %)JDBC
92 (10.53 %)Servlets
92 (10.53 %)XSLT
92 (10.53 %)Swing
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
12 (10.53 %)JBoss
12 (10.53 %)Tomcat
21 (5.263 %)SharePoint
21 (5.263 %)BizTalk Server
21 (5.263 %)CMS
21 (5.263 %)Oracle Workflow
21 (5.263 %)SharePoint Server 2007
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (5.263 %)Internet
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
14 (21.05 %)SQL Server
23 (15.79 %)SQL Server 2005
31 (5.263 %)SQL Server 2000
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (5.263 %)Oracle Forms
11 (5.263 %)NUnit
11 (5.263 %)Subversion
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
17 (36.84 %)Construction
17 (36.84 %)Banking
25 (26.32 %)Investment Banking
33 (15.79 %)Finance
41 (5.263 %)Home Office
41 (5.263 %)Games
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
117 (89.47 %)Developer
27 (36.84 %)Senior Developer
27 (36.84 %).NET Developer
27 (36.84 %)C# Developer
34 (21.05 %)Architect
34 (21.05 %)Senior C# Developer
43 (15.79 %)Systems Developer
43 (15.79 %)Systems Architect
43 (15.79 %)Credit Risk Developer
52 (10.53 %)Lead Developer
52 (10.53 %)Java Developer
52 (10.53 %)Senior Systems Architect
52 (10.53 %)WinForms Developer
52 (10.53 %)Senior Systems Developer
61 (5.263 %)IT Architect
61 (5.263 %)Software Developer
61 (5.263 %)SharePoint Developer
61 (5.263 %)Technical Lead
61 (5.263 %)Senior Software Developer
61 (5.263 %)Lead Software Developer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
113 (68.42 %)Credit Risk
28 (42.11 %)Fat Client
28 (42.11 %)Thin Client
33 (15.79 %)N-Tier
33 (15.79 %)Multithreading
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
110 (52.63 %)Windows
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
110 (52.63 %)Workflow
24 (21.05 %)OO
24 (21.05 %)OOD
33 (15.79 %)UML
42 (10.53 %)Unit Testing
42 (10.53 %)Continuous Integration
42 (10.53 %)SOA
51 (5.263 %)TDD
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
114 (73.68 %)C#
210 (52.63 %)Java
33 (15.79 %)JavaScript
41 (5.263 %)VB
41 (5.263 %)VB6
41 (5.263 %)C++
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
14 (21.05 %)Sun Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
12 (10.53 %)Progress
21 (5.263 %)Oracle
21 (5.263 %)Sybase