The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hampshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 62 78 66
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -12
Contract jobs citing WCF 39 20 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 2.434% 1.286% 2.019%
As % of the Application Development category 8.280% 4.320% 7.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 9 13
Average daily rate £310 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.61% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £270 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
Average hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £34.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +36.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.00 £35.00 £33.00
% change year-on-year
+20.00% +6.06%
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
471 463 541
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.40% 29.77% 28.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 215 223
Average daily rate £325 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £463 £438
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 49 73
Average hourly rate £40.00 £39.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% +8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £20.00 £33.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £42.50 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
WCF
South East

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Basingstoke +2 21 £268 -22.18% 7
Southampton -1 4 £400 - 4
Havant -1 1 - -
Portsmouth - - - - 4
Ringwood - - - -
Gosport - - - -
Winchester - - - -
Farnborough - - - - 1
WCF
South East

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 82 (95.35%) C#
2 76 (88.37%) .NET
3 69 (80.23%) SQL Server
4 41 (47.67%) Scrum
5 40 (46.51%) MVC
6 37 (43.02%) BizTalk Server
6 37 (43.02%) SQL Server 2008
7 31 (36.05%) SQL
8 28 (32.56%) jQuery
9 25 (29.07%) TDD
10 23 (26.74%) .NET Framework
10 23 (26.74%) Web Services
11 22 (25.58%) BDD
11 22 (25.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 21 (24.42%) XML
13 20 (23.26%) ASP.NET
14 18 (20.93%) SOA
15 16 (18.60%) Java
15 16 (18.60%) LINQ
16 15 (17.44%) CSS
16 15 (17.44%) Java EE
17 14 (16.28%) Selenium
17 14 (16.28%) SpecFlow
18 13 (15.12%) Agile Software Development
18 13 (15.12%) HTML
18 13 (15.12%) T-SQL
19 12 (13.95%) SOAP
20 11 (12.79%) UML
20 11 (12.79%) JavaScript
20 11 (12.79%) MS Visio

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 76 (88.37%) .NET
2 28 (32.56%) jQuery
3 23 (26.74%) .NET Framework
3 23 (26.74%) Web Services
4 22 (25.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 21 (24.42%) XML
6 20 (23.26%) ASP.NET
7 16 (18.60%) LINQ
8 15 (17.44%) CSS
8 15 (17.44%) Java EE
9 13 (15.12%) HTML
10 12 (13.95%) SOAP
11 11 (12.79%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (9.302%) REST
13 7 (8.140%) HTML5
13 7 (8.140%) WF
13 7 (8.140%) Spring Security
13 7 (8.140%) Spring Web Flow
13 7 (8.140%) Apache CXF
13 7 (8.140%) JPA
Application Platforms
1 37 (43.02%) BizTalk Server
2 6 (6.977%) SharePoint
3 5 (5.814%) Windows Azure
3 5 (5.814%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (5.814%) ESB
4 4 (4.651%) Confluence
4 4 (4.651%) SharePoint 2013
5 3 (3.488%) EPiServer CMS
5 3 (3.488%) CMS
6 2 (2.326%) IBM Notes
7 1 (1.163%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (12.79%) MS Visio
2 8 (9.302%) MS PowerPoint
3 6 (6.977%) MS Excel
4 4 (4.651%) InfoPath
4 4 (4.651%) MS Office
5 3 (3.488%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.163%) Network Security
1 1 (1.163%) Intranet
1 1 (1.163%) Internet
1 1 (1.163%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (80.23%) SQL Server
2 37 (43.02%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (9.302%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (8.140%) MySQL
4 7 (8.140%) SQL Server 2000
5 3 (3.488%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (2.326%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (2.326%) OLAP
7 1 (1.163%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (1.163%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (16.28%) Selenium
1 14 (16.28%) SpecFlow
2 10 (11.63%) Git (software)
2 10 (11.63%) Subversion
3 7 (8.140%) ReSharper
4 5 (5.814%) WATIR
4 5 (5.814%) FitNesse
4 5 (5.814%) WebDriver
5 4 (4.651%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.488%) NUnit
7 2 (2.326%) JIRA
7 2 (2.326%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.163%) GitHub
8 1 (1.163%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.163%) Firebug
8 1 (1.163%) Fiddler
8 1 (1.163%) JMeter
General
1 4 (4.651%) Finance
1 4 (4.651%) Telecoms
2 3 (3.488%) Retail
3 2 (2.326%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.326%) Banking
3 2 (2.326%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (59.30%) Developer
2 23 (26.74%) C# Developer
3 22 (25.58%) .NET Developer
4 11 (12.79%) C# .NET Developer
5 8 (9.302%) Analyst
5 8 (9.302%) Architect
5 8 (9.302%) ASP.NET Developer
5 8 (9.302%) Author
5 8 (9.302%) Technical Author
6 7 (8.140%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 7 (8.140%) Agile .NET Developer
6 7 (8.140%) Agile C# Developer
6 7 (8.140%) Software Architect
6 7 (8.140%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.814%) Test Analyst
7 5 (5.814%) Test Team Leader
7 5 (5.814%) Team Leader
8 4 (4.651%) Technical Writer
8 4 (4.651%) Java Architect
8 4 (4.651%) SharePoint Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.302%) Wiki
2 7 (8.140%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.326%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.163%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.163%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.163%) SaaS
4 1 (1.163%) Social Media
4 1 (1.163%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.302%) Windows
2 1 (1.163%) Linux
2 1 (1.163%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (47.67%) Scrum
2 40 (46.51%) MVC
3 25 (29.07%) TDD
4 22 (25.58%) BDD
5 18 (20.93%) SOA
6 13 (15.12%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (12.79%) UML
8 10 (11.63%) OO
9 8 (9.302%) Web Development
9 8 (9.302%) Unit Testing
10 7 (8.140%) Kanban
11 6 (6.977%) User Acceptance Testing
11 6 (6.977%) Integration Testing
12 5 (5.814%) Workflow
13 4 (4.651%) Migration
13 4 (4.651%) Systems Analysis
13 4 (4.651%) Business Analysis
13 4 (4.651%) Software Architecture
14 3 (3.488%) Dependency Injection
14 3 (3.488%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 82 (95.35%) C#
2 31 (36.05%) SQL
3 16 (18.60%) Java
4 13 (15.12%) T-SQL
5 11 (12.79%) JavaScript
6 5 (5.814%) Python
6 5 (5.814%) Perl
6 5 (5.814%) C
6 5 (5.814%) C++
7 1 (1.163%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.163%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (1.163%) SC Cleared
1 1 (1.163%) Security Cleared
1 1 (1.163%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (1.163%) MCAD
1 1 (1.163%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.302%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.163%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 9 (10.47%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.488%) EPiServer
3 2 (2.326%) Lotus
3 2 (2.326%) Oracle
4 1 (1.163%) Adobe
4 1 (1.163%) Casewise
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