The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire 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 29 23 30
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +7
Contract jobs citing WCF 2 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 0.952% 1.408% 3.004%
As % of the Application Development category 2.667% 5.085% 6.250%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £350 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+40.00% -
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
Leicestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
75 59 112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicestershire 35.71% 27.70% 48.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 22 28
Average daily rate £300 £275 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £375 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 21
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
East Midlands

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Leicester -6 2 £350 +40.00%
WCF
East Midlands

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 15 (93.75%) C#
2 14 (87.50%) .NET
3 11 (68.75%) ASP.NET
4 10 (62.50%) Web Services
5 8 (50.00%) MVC
6 7 (43.75%) Razor View Engine
7 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
8 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
8 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
8 4 (25.00%) jQuery
9 3 (18.75%) Ajax
9 3 (18.75%) OO
9 3 (18.75%) N-Tier
10 2 (12.50%) OOP
10 2 (12.50%) GIS
10 2 (12.50%) WinForms
10 2 (12.50%) SQL
10 2 (12.50%) IIS
10 2 (12.50%) Telerik
10 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
10 2 (12.50%) Google Maps API
10 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
10 2 (12.50%) TAPI
10 2 (12.50%) DevExpress
10 2 (12.50%) LINQ
11 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC
11 1 (6.250%) MVVM
11 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
11 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (6.250%) Multithreading

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicestershire 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 14 (87.50%) .NET
2 11 (68.75%) ASP.NET
3 10 (62.50%) Web Services
4 7 (43.75%) Razor View Engine
5 4 (25.00%) jQuery
6 3 (18.75%) Ajax
7 2 (12.50%) .NET Framework
7 2 (12.50%) Google Maps API
7 2 (12.50%) TAPI
7 2 (12.50%) WinForms
7 2 (12.50%) LINQ
8 1 (6.250%) XML
8 1 (6.250%) XHTML
8 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (6.250%) WPF
8 1 (6.250%) WF
8 1 (6.250%) CSS
8 1 (6.250%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) GIS
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (6.250%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (6.250%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.250%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 11 (68.75%) C# Developer
3 10 (62.50%) .NET Developer
4 8 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (43.75%) .NET Web Developer
5 7 (43.75%) C# Web Developer
5 7 (43.75%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (43.75%) Web Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Applications Developer
6 1 (6.250%) WPF Developer
6 1 (6.250%) OBIEE Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# Application Developer
6 1 (6.250%) .NET Applications Developer
6 1 (6.250%) SQL Developer
6 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) MVC
2 3 (18.75%) OO
3 2 (12.50%) OOP
3 2 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Multithreading
4 1 (6.250%) MVVM
4 1 (6.250%) Workflow
4 1 (6.250%) TDD
4 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) C#
2 4 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
4 1 (6.250%) C++
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Telerik
1 2 (12.50%) DevExpress
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle