The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Devon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 20 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 Devon 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 26 29 20
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -9
Contract jobs citing WCF 3 2 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 1.724% 1.105% 4.054%
As % of the Application Development category 4.225% 3.390% 8.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £225 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £32.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
Devon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
71 59 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Devon 40.80% 32.60% 46.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 32 32
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £450 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 8
Average hourly rate - £10.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -66.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
South West

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon 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 Devon region over the 3 months to 20 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
Exeter - 2 - -
WCF
South West

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) Silverlight
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET
3 4 (50.00%) MVC
4 3 (37.50%) LINQ
4 3 (37.50%) jQuery
4 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (37.50%) WPF
4 3 (37.50%) Java
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 3 (37.50%) Foundry
4 3 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 2 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
5 2 (25.00%) N-Tier
5 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (25.00%) Ajax
5 2 (25.00%) NHibernate
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Logistics
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Subversion
6 1 (12.50%) Workflow
6 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
6 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (12.50%) RESTful

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Devon 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (62.50%) ASP.NET
2 5 (62.50%) Silverlight
3 3 (37.50%) LINQ
3 3 (37.50%) jQuery
3 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
3 3 (37.50%) WPF
3 3 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 2 (25.00%) Ajax
4 2 (25.00%) NHibernate
5 1 (12.50%) Web Services
5 1 (12.50%) Middleware
5 1 (12.50%) REST
5 1 (12.50%) Memcached
5 1 (12.50%) AppFabric
5 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
1 1 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (12.50%) ArcGIS
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 1 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (12.50%) Subversion
1 1 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 6 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (50.00%) C# Developer
4 3 (37.50%) Silverlight Developer
4 3 (37.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) MVC
2 2 (25.00%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Logistics
2 2 (25.00%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (12.50%) OO
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Workflow
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (37.50%) Java
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Foundry