The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 23 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 Guildford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 25 16 20
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +4
Contract jobs citing WCF 7 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 3.256% 4.202% 0.752%
As % of the Application Development category 9.091% 18.52% 2.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Average daily rate £450 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £54.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
77 27 36
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 35.81% 22.69% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 13 20
Average daily rate £320 £400 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 2
Average hourly rate £43.50 £31.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.09% -16.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Surrey

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford WCF Hourly Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 7 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
3 5 (71.43%) .NET
4 4 (57.14%) Scrum
4 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
4 4 (57.14%) LINQ
5 3 (42.86%) Windows
5 3 (42.86%) SQL
5 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
5 3 (42.86%) Web Services
6 2 (28.57%) XML
6 2 (28.57%) CSS
6 2 (28.57%) IIS
6 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
6 2 (28.57%) ASP
6 2 (28.57%) C++
6 2 (28.57%) HTML
6 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (28.57%) MVC
6 2 (28.57%) Games
6 2 (28.57%) OO
6 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
6 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
6 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
6 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (28.57%) Code Coverage
6 2 (28.57%) MSI
6 2 (28.57%) Degree
6 2 (28.57%) ESB

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 5 (71.43%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
2 4 (57.14%) LINQ
3 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) ASP
4 2 (28.57%) HTML
4 2 (28.57%) WPF
4 2 (28.57%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) NHibernate
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (28.57%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (28.57%) REST
4 2 (28.57%) CSS3
4 2 (28.57%) Backbone.js
4 2 (28.57%) KnockoutJS
4 2 (28.57%) Caliburn.Micro
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
1 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (28.57%) ESB
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
1 2 (28.57%) MSI
1 2 (28.57%) ReSharper
1 2 (28.57%) Subversion
1 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
1 2 (28.57%) Moq
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
General
1 2 (28.57%) Games
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Development Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Development Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (28.57%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (28.57%) Kinect
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) Code Coverage
2 2 (28.57%) Load Testing
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
2 2 (28.57%) Automated Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
2 2 (28.57%) Software Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Process Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) BDD
2 2 (28.57%) Game Development
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C++
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) C
4 1 (14.29%) PL/SQL
4 1 (14.29%) VB
4 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
1 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle