The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leatherhead region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 17 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 Leatherhead 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 6 16 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing WCF 7 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leatherhead 29.17% 5.495% -
As % of the Application Development category 58.33% 19.23% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 0
Average daily rate £305 £350 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.85% -
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 £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
Leatherhead
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12 26 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leatherhead 50.00% 28.57% 26.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 24 2
Average daily rate £320 £375 £328
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.66% +14.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £350 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £425 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.00
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 Leatherhead region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead region.

Leatherhead WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leatherhead 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 16 (100.00%) C#
1 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (81.25%) SOA
2 13 (81.25%) Telecoms
3 9 (56.25%) XML
4 8 (50.00%) Degree
5 7 (43.75%) Oracle
6 6 (37.50%) SQL
7 5 (31.25%) Silverlight
7 5 (31.25%) PL/SQL
7 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
8 4 (25.00%) AWK
8 4 (25.00%) Teradata
8 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (25.00%) NUnit
8 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
8 4 (25.00%) Perl
8 4 (25.00%) Python
8 4 (25.00%) WPF
8 4 (25.00%) Moq
8 4 (25.00%) sed
9 3 (18.75%) Scrum
9 3 (18.75%) Java
9 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
9 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
9 3 (18.75%) SOAP
9 3 (18.75%) Web Services
9 3 (18.75%) Oracle Coherence
9 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
10 2 (12.50%) Physics

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leatherhead 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (56.25%) XML
3 5 (31.25%) Silverlight
3 5 (31.25%) .NET Framework
4 4 (25.00%) WPF
5 3 (18.75%) ASP.NET
5 3 (18.75%) SOAP
5 3 (18.75%) Web Services
6 2 (12.50%) XSLT
6 2 (12.50%) WSDL
6 2 (12.50%) XML Schema
6 2 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (6.250%) REST
7 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 1 (6.250%) HTML
7 1 (6.250%) Middleware
7 1 (6.250%) Ajax
7 1 (6.250%) NHibernate
7 1 (6.250%) LINQ
7 1 (6.250%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle Coherence
2 2 (12.50%) ActiveMQ
3 1 (6.250%) ESB
3 1 (6.250%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) GSM
1 1 (6.250%) 3GPP
1 1 (6.250%) UMTS
1 1 (6.250%) SNMP
1 1 (6.250%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (6.250%) RDBMS
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) NUnit
1 4 (25.00%) Moq
2 1 (6.250%) Subversion
2 1 (6.250%) JIRA
2 1 (6.250%) Rational Rose
2 1 (6.250%) Telelogic TAU
General
1 13 (81.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (75.00%) Developer
2 10 (62.50%) .NET Developer
3 7 (43.75%) C# Developer
4 6 (37.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (25.00%) Design Engineer
6 2 (12.50%) VB.NET Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Software Design Engineer
7 1 (6.250%) Middleware Developer
7 1 (6.250%) SOA Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
2 2 (12.50%) Physics
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (6.250%) Open Source
3 1 (6.250%) Applied Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) SOA
2 4 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (18.75%) Scrum
4 2 (12.50%) UML
4 2 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 2 (12.50%) Network Planning
4 2 (12.50%) Use Case
5 1 (6.250%) Release Management
5 1 (6.250%) Integration Testing
5 1 (6.250%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (6.250%) Performance Management
5 1 (6.250%) Product Management
5 1 (6.250%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.250%) User Stories
5 1 (6.250%) Data Management
5 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
5 1 (6.250%) Regression Testing
5 1 (6.250%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 16 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) PL/SQL
4 4 (25.00%) Perl
4 4 (25.00%) Python
4 4 (25.00%) AWK
4 4 (25.00%) sed
5 3 (18.75%) Java
6 2 (12.50%) XPath
6 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
7 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (6.250%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (43.75%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Teradata
3 2 (12.50%) WSO2
4 1 (6.250%) Google
4 1 (6.250%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 1 (6.250%) Telelogic