The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 69 49 65
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +16
Contract jobs citing WCF 14 32 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 1.113% 2.344% 1.038%
As % of the Application Development category 4.230% 8.767% 4.430%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 1
Average daily rate £338 £325 £188
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% +73.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £16.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
331 365 316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.31% 26.74% 23.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 193 109
Average daily rate £310 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -15.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 12 36
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
England

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WCF across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

East Midlands WCF Daily Rate Histogram

WCF
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WCF across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire -13 4 £325 +4.00%
Leicestershire -8 2 £350 +40.00%
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
WCF
England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 65 (95.59%) C#
2 60 (88.24%) .NET
3 46 (67.65%) ASP.NET
4 33 (48.53%) SQL Server
5 22 (32.35%) IIS
6 21 (30.88%) Web Services
6 21 (30.88%) Windows
7 18 (26.47%) Visual Studio
7 18 (26.47%) .NET Framework
8 17 (25.00%) jQuery
9 16 (23.53%) WPF
9 16 (23.53%) Ajax
10 15 (22.06%) LINQ
10 15 (22.06%) SQL Server 2008
10 15 (22.06%) JavaScript
11 14 (20.59%) SQL
11 14 (20.59%) MVC
12 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
13 12 (17.65%) TDD
13 12 (17.65%) MVVM
14 11 (16.18%) SOA
14 11 (16.18%) HTML
15 10 (14.71%) Finance
15 10 (14.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
16 9 (13.24%) Razor View Engine
16 9 (13.24%) SQL Server 2012
16 9 (13.24%) Multithreading
16 9 (13.24%) WinForms
16 9 (13.24%) OO
17 8 (11.76%) N-Tier

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 60 (88.24%) .NET
2 46 (67.65%) ASP.NET
3 21 (30.88%) Web Services
4 18 (26.47%) .NET Framework
5 17 (25.00%) jQuery
6 16 (23.53%) WPF
6 16 (23.53%) Ajax
7 15 (22.06%) LINQ
8 11 (16.18%) HTML
9 10 (14.71%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 9 (13.24%) Razor View Engine
10 9 (13.24%) WinForms
11 8 (11.76%) CSS
12 7 (10.29%) Managed Extensibility Framework
13 6 (8.824%) ASP.NET MVC
13 6 (8.824%) SOAP
14 5 (7.353%) .NET Remoting
14 5 (7.353%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 5 (7.353%) Reactive Extensions
15 4 (5.882%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 22 (32.35%) IIS
2 5 (7.353%) MSMQ
3 1 (1.471%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (7.353%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.941%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (8.824%) SNMP
1 6 (8.824%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.941%) Intranet
3 1 (1.471%) GPRS
3 1 (1.471%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (48.53%) SQL Server
2 15 (22.06%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (13.24%) SQL Server 2012
4 8 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (10.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (8.824%) GIS
7 3 (4.412%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (1.471%) Star Schema
8 1 (1.471%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 18 (26.47%) Visual Studio
2 8 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (8.824%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 5 (7.353%) Expression Blend
5 4 (5.882%) NUnit
5 4 (5.882%) MSTest
6 1 (1.471%) Git (software)
General
1 10 (14.71%) Finance
2 2 (2.941%) Retail
3 1 (1.471%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 63 (92.65%) Developer
2 34 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 27 (39.71%) .NET Developer
4 18 (26.47%) C# .NET Developer
5 13 (19.12%) ASP.NET Developer
6 11 (16.18%) WPF Developer
6 11 (16.18%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 10 (14.71%) Web Developer
8 9 (13.24%) C# Web Developer
9 7 (10.29%) .NET Web Developer
10 4 (5.882%) Applications Developer
11 3 (4.412%) Deployment Engineer
12 2 (2.941%) SQL Developer
12 2 (2.941%) SQL Server Developer
12 2 (2.941%) Software Developer
12 2 (2.941%) Silverlight Developer
12 2 (2.941%) Designer
12 2 (2.941%) .NET Software Developer
13 1 (1.471%) OBIEE Developer
13 1 (1.471%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) N-Tier
2 1 (1.471%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.88%) Windows
2 6 (8.824%) Windows 7
3 5 (7.353%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.59%) MVC
2 12 (17.65%) TDD
2 12 (17.65%) MVVM
3 11 (16.18%) SOA
4 9 (13.24%) OO
4 9 (13.24%) Multithreading
5 7 (10.29%) Unit Testing
6 6 (8.824%) OOP
7 4 (5.882%) CRM
8 3 (4.412%) OOD
8 3 (4.412%) Workflow
8 3 (4.412%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (4.412%) Software Engineering
8 3 (4.412%) Web Development
9 2 (2.941%) Dependency Injection
10 1 (1.471%) Business Development
10 1 (1.471%) Investment Management
10 1 (1.471%) Scrum
10 1 (1.471%) Agile Software Development
10 1 (1.471%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 65 (95.59%) C#
2 15 (22.06%) JavaScript
3 14 (20.59%) SQL
4 4 (5.882%) T-SQL
5 3 (4.412%) C++
6 2 (2.941%) Java
7 1 (1.471%) VB
7 1 (1.471%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.471%) VB6
Qualifications
1 3 (4.412%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (7.353%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (7.353%) WMI
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.29%) Telerik
3 6 (8.824%) DevExpress
4 4 (5.882%) Oracle
Nottingham, East Midlands
My client based in Nottingham is looking for a .NET developer for a 3 month contract with possible extention.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013