The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax 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 Halifax 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 16 28 23
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -5
Contract jobs citing WCF 4 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 3.333% 1.322% 0.820%
As % of the Application Development category 44.44% 15.00% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
Average daily rate £313 - £260
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
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
9 20 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 7.500% 8.811% 8.197%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 10
Average daily rate £313 £275 £434
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -36.59%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Average hourly rate - £12.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
West Yorkshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (100.00%) SOAP
1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 12 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 9 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
3 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
1 12 (100.00%) SOAP
1 12 (100.00%) XML
1 12 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 9 (75.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 9 (75.00%) Razor View Engine
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 12 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
1 12 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 12 (100.00%) XML Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) SQL
1 12 (100.00%) T-SQL