WCF Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 61 60 47
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -13
Contract jobs citing WCF 15 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 2.013% 0.899% 1.597%
As % of the Application Development category 5.682% 3.361% 7.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 3
Average daily rate £295 £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.71% +27.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £39.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 264 238 141
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 35.44% 26.74% 22.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 158 79
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £264 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 2
Average hourly rate £33.00 £22.50 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+46.66% -47.05%
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 Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds WCF Hourly Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 30 (96.77%) C#
2 28 (90.32%) .NET
3 15 (48.39%) SQL Server
4 14 (45.16%) ASP.NET
5 12 (38.71%) SQL
5 12 (38.71%) MVC
6 11 (35.48%) HTML
6 11 (35.48%) CSS
7 10 (32.26%) BizTalk Server
8 9 (29.03%) VB.NET
8 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
8 9 (29.03%) PL/SQL
8 9 (29.03%) Workflow
9 8 (25.81%) SQL Server 2005
9 8 (25.81%) Windows
10 7 (22.58%) XSLT
10 7 (22.58%) WinForms
10 7 (22.58%) REST
11 6 (19.35%) Razor View Engine
11 6 (19.35%) Silverlight
11 6 (19.35%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
11 6 (19.35%) SOAP
11 6 (19.35%) Web Services
12 5 (16.13%) Document Management
13 4 (12.90%) Scrum
13 4 (12.90%) Web Development
13 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
13 4 (12.90%) Oracle
13 4 (12.90%) WPF
14 3 (9.677%) ASP.NET MVC

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 28 (90.32%) .NET
2 14 (45.16%) ASP.NET
3 11 (35.48%) CSS
3 11 (35.48%) HTML
4 7 (22.58%) WinForms
4 7 (22.58%) XSLT
4 7 (22.58%) REST
5 6 (19.35%) Razor View Engine
5 6 (19.35%) SOAP
5 6 (19.35%) Web Services
5 6 (19.35%) Silverlight
6 4 (12.90%) WPF
7 3 (9.677%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (6.452%) ASP.NET MVC 2
8 2 (6.452%) LINQ
8 2 (6.452%) jQuery
8 2 (6.452%) XML
9 1 (3.226%) Middleware
9 1 (3.226%) ASP
9 1 (3.226%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 10 (32.26%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.226%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (9.677%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.452%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (48.39%) SQL Server
2 8 (25.81%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (9.677%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 6 (19.35%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 3 (9.677%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.452%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (6.452%) JIRA
3 2 (6.452%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.226%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (3.226%) Finance
Job Titles
1 30 (96.77%) Developer
2 17 (54.84%) .NET Developer
3 8 (25.81%) C# Developer
4 6 (19.35%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (16.13%) ASP.NET Developer
5 5 (16.13%) BizTalk Developer
6 4 (12.90%) Software Developer
6 4 (12.90%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 3 (9.677%) Agile .NET Developer
8 2 (6.452%) Web Developer
8 2 (6.452%) C# Web Developer
8 2 (6.452%) .NET Web Developer
9 1 (3.226%) .NET Software Engineer
9 1 (3.226%) SQL Developer
9 1 (3.226%) .NET Programmer
9 1 (3.226%) Software Programmer
9 1 (3.226%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
9 1 (3.226%) Programmer
9 1 (3.226%) Tester
9 1 (3.226%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.226%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (25.81%) Windows
2 2 (6.452%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) MVC
2 9 (29.03%) Workflow
3 5 (16.13%) Document Management
4 4 (12.90%) Web Development
4 4 (12.90%) Scrum
4 4 (12.90%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (9.677%) OO
6 2 (6.452%) RUP
6 2 (6.452%) CRM
6 2 (6.452%) E-Commerce
6 2 (6.452%) OOD
6 2 (6.452%) UML
6 2 (6.452%) CMMI
6 2 (6.452%) Integration Testing
6 2 (6.452%) Test Scripting
6 2 (6.452%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (3.226%) Multithreading
7 1 (3.226%) Manual Testing
7 1 (3.226%) Test Management
7 1 (3.226%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (96.77%) C#
2 12 (38.71%) SQL
3 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
3 9 (29.03%) PL/SQL
3 9 (29.03%) VB.NET
4 1 (3.226%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (6.452%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.226%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (12.90%) Oracle
2 2 (6.452%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.452%) Perforce
3 1 (3.226%) Remedy
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