The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London 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 27 29 33
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +4
Contract jobs citing WCF 3 2 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 1.754% 0.948% 3.980%
As % of the Application Development category 7.895% 4.348% 17.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
Average daily rate £400 £530 £436
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.52% +21.60%
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 £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
38 46 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 22.22% 21.80% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 30 49
Average daily rate £413 £500 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.50% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £473 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £578 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £45.00 £42.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% +13.33%
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 Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 3 (75.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) Front Office
3 2 (50.00%) MVC
3 2 (50.00%) WPF
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Ajax

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Ajax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
1 3 (75.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
1 4 (100.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) SQL