The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 23 37 38
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +1
Contract jobs citing WCF 25 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 6.219% 1.928% 3.061%
As % of the Application Development category 21.19% 10.13% 12.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 5 5
Average daily rate £275 £363 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.13% -13.69%
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
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
118 79 100
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 29.35% 19.04% 25.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 37 50
Average daily rate £265 £270 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% -32.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £175 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 10
Average hourly rate £27.50 £32.25 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.72% +21.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £26.28 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £35.22 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
East of England

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Essex WCF Daily Rate Histogram

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 Essex region over the 3 months to 24 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
Chelmsford - 11 £265 -
Colchester +4 3 £325 +30.00%
Basildon -3 1 £250 -29.82%
Witham - 1 £215 -
WCF
East of England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (88.89%) ASP.NET
3 20 (74.07%) C#
4 16 (59.26%) SQL
5 14 (51.85%) MVC
6 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
7 8 (29.63%) Web Services
7 8 (29.63%) XML
7 8 (29.63%) E-Commerce
7 8 (29.63%) LINQ
7 8 (29.63%) NHibernate
8 7 (25.93%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (25.93%) SharePoint
8 7 (25.93%) Visual Studio
9 6 (22.22%) IIS
9 6 (22.22%) XHTML
9 6 (22.22%) Windows
10 5 (18.52%) HTTP
10 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
10 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
10 5 (18.52%) TDD
10 5 (18.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
10 5 (18.52%) Web Development
10 5 (18.52%) Network Load Balancing
11 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
11 4 (14.81%) HTML
12 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
12 3 (11.11%) CSS

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 27 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (88.89%) ASP.NET
3 8 (29.63%) Web Services
3 8 (29.63%) XML
3 8 (29.63%) LINQ
3 8 (29.63%) NHibernate
4 7 (25.93%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (22.22%) XHTML
6 4 (14.81%) HTML
7 3 (11.11%) CSS
7 3 (11.11%) jQuery
7 3 (11.11%) HTML5
8 2 (7.407%) Razor View Engine
8 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 2 (7.407%) Unity DI Container
8 2 (7.407%) WPF
8 2 (7.407%) Silverlight
8 2 (7.407%) XSLT
8 2 (7.407%) ASP
8 2 (7.407%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 7 (25.93%) SharePoint
2 6 (22.22%) IIS
3 3 (11.11%) CMS
4 2 (7.407%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (3.704%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) HTTP
1 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (7.407%) Internet
3 1 (3.704%) CTI
3 1 (3.704%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (18.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (7.407%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (3.704%) GIS
5 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (25.93%) Visual Studio
2 3 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (7.407%) MSTest
3 2 (7.407%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (3.704%) QUnit
4 1 (3.704%) Jasmine
General
1 1 (3.704%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (77.78%) Developer
2 13 (48.15%) .NET Developer
3 11 (40.74%) C# Developer
4 10 (37.04%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Web Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Server Support
5 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Applications Support
5 3 (11.11%) Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Web Support Engineer
5 3 (11.11%) Web Analyst
5 3 (11.11%) Web Engineer
6 2 (7.407%) Web Support Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Server Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Server Support Analyst
6 2 (7.407%) Support Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.407%) Tandem
1 2 (7.407%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.704%) NHS
2 1 (3.704%) IVR
2 1 (3.704%) SaaS
2 1 (3.704%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (18.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (51.85%) MVC
2 8 (29.63%) E-Commerce
3 5 (18.52%) TDD
3 5 (18.52%) Web Development
3 5 (18.52%) Network Load Balancing
4 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
5 3 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 3 (11.11%) Capacity Management
6 2 (7.407%) Unit Testing
6 2 (7.407%) CRM
7 1 (3.704%) SOA
7 1 (3.704%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (3.704%) B2B
7 1 (3.704%) OOP
7 1 (3.704%) Data Management
7 1 (3.704%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (3.704%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (3.704%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (3.704%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 20 (74.07%) C#
2 16 (59.26%) SQL
3 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
4 2 (7.407%) XPath
4 2 (7.407%) C
4 2 (7.407%) T-SQL
5 1 (3.704%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.704%) XQuery
5 1 (3.704%) Python
5 1 (3.704%) XAML
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.704%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.407%) VMware
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle
3 1 (3.704%) Salesforce.com
Chelmsford, Essex
Web Developer (C#.Net) £200 - £230 day (6 months) Essex I have an immediate requirement for a C# Developer for a 6 month contract in Essex.
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £200 - 230 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Chelmsford, East Anglia
C/ASP/Net/MVC/Legacy/WCF-Opus Recruitment Solutions require an experienced C#-Net developer for an immediate requirement in Chelmsford- Working alongside a team of six, you...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Chelmsford, Essex
C/ASP/Net/MVC/Legacy/WCF... More specifically, its important to note that there will be a large proportion of time spent on maintaining and re-engineering legacy...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £280 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Chelmsford, Essex
C/ASP/Net/MVC/Legacy/WCF... More specifically, its important to note that there will be a large proportion of time spent on maintaining and re-engineering legacy...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £250 to £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Essex
I am looking for a Back End Developer with asp.net, c#, mvc, wcf, sql, linq, nhibernate, visual studio, xml, xhtml, tfs and ecommerce experience to join a...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £250 - £300 per day + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Essex
C#, ASP.Net, JavaScript, T-SQL, TFS, TDD, SOA, Essex, London These are excellent contract opportunities for high calibre Contract C# ASP.Net Developers, to work on systems...
Kyna Associates
Rate: £300 - 350 Per Annum £350 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Essex
C# (Frameworks 1.1 - 4.5) Web development. Exposure / Experience in SOA... JavaScript / JQUERY / AJAX. WCF / ASMX Web Services... Entity Framework. Enterprise Library. T-SQL... IIS setup and...
Oliver James Associates
Rate: £250 - £340 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Essex, South East
C# .NET Developer (C#/.NET/MVC)- Essex - £220p.d. C# .NET Developer (C#/.NET/MVC) Essex £220p.d.4-6 Months, chance for extension My client, a leading...
Annapurna HR
Rate: £200.00 - £220 per day
Posted: 18 May 2013
Essex
The successful candidate will be able to demonstrate a proven track record of delivering first class rich web applications and will be skilled and knowledgeable in HTML 4/...
Connectus
Rate: £550 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013