The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 London 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 99 109 129
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +20
Contract jobs citing WCF 425 471 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 1.968% 1.759% 1.514%
As % of the Application Development category 6.782% 6.309% 4.949%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 341 358
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £300 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
Average hourly rate £112.50 £36.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+206.12% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6267 7466 9557
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.02% 27.88% 30.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4907 6404
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 103 140
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.20 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £55.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
England

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London WCF Hourly Rate Trend

WCF
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WCF across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London WCF Hourly Rate Histogram

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 London 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
City of London +16 161 £488 -2.50%
Canary Wharf -4 12 £600 +17.07%
Docklands, London +5 3 £400 -24.52%
Brentford - 1 £330 -
Ilford - 1 £213 -
WCF
England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1 804 (92.10%) C#
2 732 (83.85%) .NET
3 501 (57.39%) SQL Server
4 367 (42.04%) SQL
5 359 (41.12%) ASP.NET
6 344 (39.40%) WPF
7 324 (37.11%) TDD
8 271 (31.04%) MVC
9 241 (27.61%) Agile Software Development
10 227 (26.00%) Banking
11 216 (24.74%) Microsoft
12 204 (23.37%) Finance
13 197 (22.57%) OO
14 195 (22.34%) Web Services
15 194 (22.22%) Scrum
16 188 (21.53%) .NET Framework
17 187 (21.42%) Multithreading
18 186 (21.31%) ASP.NET MVC
19 160 (18.33%) Front Office
20 159 (18.21%) JavaScript
21 152 (17.41%) Windows
22 150 (17.18%) XML
22 150 (17.18%) SQL Server 2008
23 145 (16.61%) Oracle
24 140 (16.04%) Investment Banking
25 127 (14.55%) jQuery
26 115 (13.17%) CSS
27 113 (12.94%) MS Excel
28 105 (12.03%) LINQ
29 104 (11.91%) HTML

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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
1 732 (83.85%) .NET
2 359 (41.12%) ASP.NET
3 344 (39.40%) WPF
4 195 (22.34%) Web Services
5 188 (21.53%) .NET Framework
6 186 (21.31%) ASP.NET MVC
7 150 (17.18%) XML
8 127 (14.55%) jQuery
9 115 (13.17%) CSS
10 105 (12.03%) LINQ
11 104 (11.91%) HTML
12 83 (9.507%) Silverlight
12 83 (9.507%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 75 (8.591%) WinForms
14 73 (8.362%) NHibernate
15 69 (7.904%) WF
16 64 (7.331%) Ajax
16 64 (7.331%) REST
17 63 (7.216%) JSON
18 57 (6.529%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 47 (5.384%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.926%) CMS
3 37 (4.238%) IIS
4 34 (3.895%) Windows Azure
5 28 (3.207%) BizTalk Server
6 26 (2.978%) MSMQ
7 22 (2.520%) WebSphere MQ
8 21 (2.405%) SharePoint Server
8 21 (2.405%) SharePoint 2010
9 14 (1.604%) Umbraco
9 14 (1.604%) ESB
9 14 (1.604%) Oracle Workflow
10 13 (1.489%) Sitecore CMS
11 10 (1.145%) SharePoint 2013
12 8 (0.916%) TIBCO EMS
13 6 (0.687%) Oracle Coherence
14 5 (0.573%) Rendezvous
14 5 (0.573%) ArcGIS
14 5 (0.573%) Sitefinity
14 5 (0.573%) Kentico
Applications
1 113 (12.94%) MS Excel
2 10 (1.145%) MS Office
3 7 (0.802%) InfoPath
4 6 (0.687%) Spreadsheet
5 2 (0.229%) PowerPivot
5 2 (0.229%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.115%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 11 (1.260%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (1.145%) RMDS
3 2 (0.229%) Agresso
3 2 (0.229%) Bond Adapt
4 1 (0.115%) Google Analytics
4 1 (0.115%) SiteCatalyst
4 1 (0.115%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 33 (3.780%) HTTP
2 13 (1.489%) Internet
3 4 (0.458%) Intranet
4 2 (0.229%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.115%) SAN
5 1 (0.115%) RTP
5 1 (0.115%) SS7
5 1 (0.115%) BSS
5 1 (0.115%) AMQP
5 1 (0.115%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.115%) DNS
5 1 (0.115%) Broadband
5 1 (0.115%) ISDN
5 1 (0.115%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 501 (57.39%) SQL Server
2 150 (17.18%) SQL Server 2008
3 72 (8.247%) SQL Server 2005
4 63 (7.216%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 58 (6.644%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 28 (3.207%) OLAP
7 24 (2.749%) SQL Server 2012
8 21 (2.405%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 20 (2.291%) SQL Server 2000
10 15 (1.718%) MySQL
11 14 (1.604%) SQLPlus
12 13 (1.489%) Data Warehouse
12 13 (1.489%) TOAD
13 11 (1.260%) Oracle 8/8i
14 10 (1.145%) Oracle OLAP
15 7 (0.802%) Sybase ASE
15 7 (0.802%) Crystal Reports
15 7 (0.802%) Oracle 10g
15 7 (0.802%) Big Data
16 6 (0.687%) GIS
Development Applications
1 101 (11.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 98 (11.23%) Visual Studio
3 70 (8.018%) NUnit
4 56 (6.415%) Subversion
5 47 (5.384%) Rhino Mocks
6 27 (3.093%) Selenium
7 20 (2.291%) MSTest
8 18 (2.062%) SpecFlow
9 13 (1.489%) Git (software)
10 12 (1.375%) CruiseControl
11 11 (1.260%) Oracle Forms
11 11 (1.260%) TeamCity
11 11 (1.260%) WebDriver
12 9 (1.031%) TortoiseSVN
12 9 (1.031%) Moq
12 9 (1.031%) JIRA
13 8 (0.916%) MSBuild
14 6 (0.687%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
15 4 (0.458%) Visual Studio Team System
16 3 (0.344%) Mercurial
General
1 227 (26.00%) Banking
2 204 (23.37%) Finance
3 160 (18.33%) Front Office
4 140 (16.04%) Investment Banking
5 24 (2.749%) Back Office
5 24 (2.749%) Telecoms
6 16 (1.833%) Retail
7 13 (1.489%) Financial Institution
8 8 (0.916%) Marketing
9 6 (0.687%) Publishing
10 3 (0.344%) Law
11 2 (0.229%) Games
11 2 (0.229%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.229%) Advertising
12 1 (0.115%) Multimedia
12 1 (0.115%) Local Government
12 1 (0.115%) Legal
Job Titles
1 736 (84.31%) Developer
2 409 (46.85%) C# Developer
3 326 (37.34%) .NET Developer
4 144 (16.49%) C# .NET Developer
5 102 (11.68%) Senior Developer
6 74 (8.477%) ASP.NET Developer
7 50 (5.727%) Senior .NET Developer
8 47 (5.384%) Senior C# Developer
9 46 (5.269%) Architect
10 45 (5.155%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 45 (5.155%) WPF Developer
11 37 (4.238%) Software Developer
12 36 (4.124%) Web Developer
13 24 (2.749%) C# Software Developer
14 23 (2.635%) .NET Web Developer
15 22 (2.520%) Programmer
16 21 (2.405%) SharePoint Developer
17 20 (2.291%) Analyst
18 19 (2.176%) Agile C# Developer
19 16 (1.833%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 85 (9.737%) Derivative
2 79 (9.049%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 53 (6.071%) Fixed Income
4 47 (5.384%) N-Tier
5 39 (4.467%) Computer Science
6 37 (4.238%) Hedge funds
7 26 (2.978%) Inversion of Control
8 23 (2.635%) Equities
9 19 (2.176%) Grid Computing
10 18 (2.062%) Open Source
11 17 (1.947%) Market Risk
11 17 (1.947%) RIA
12 16 (1.833%) Mathematics
13 15 (1.718%) Credit Derivative
14 12 (1.375%) Credit Risk
15 11 (1.260%) Enterprise Software
16 10 (1.145%) Web 2.0
17 9 (1.031%) Social Media
18 8 (0.916%) iPhone
19 6 (0.687%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 152 (17.41%) Windows
2 12 (1.375%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (0.802%) Linux
4 6 (0.687%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (0.687%) Windows Server 2012
5 5 (0.573%) HPUX
6 3 (0.344%) Windows XP
6 3 (0.344%) Windows 7
7 2 (0.229%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.229%) Windows 8
7 2 (0.229%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (0.115%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.115%) UNIX
8 1 (0.115%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.115%) Android
8 1 (0.115%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (37.11%) TDD
2 271 (31.04%) MVC
3 241 (27.61%) Agile Software Development
4 197 (22.57%) OO
5 194 (22.22%) Scrum
6 187 (21.42%) Multithreading
7 79 (9.049%) BDD
8 74 (8.477%) MVVM
9 56 (6.415%) E-Commerce
10 55 (6.300%) SOA
10 55 (6.300%) Unit Testing
11 53 (6.071%) Continuous Integration
12 49 (5.613%) Workflow
13 39 (4.467%) Risk Management
14 35 (4.009%) Web Development
14 35 (4.009%) Memory Management
15 33 (3.780%) Analytics
16 32 (3.666%) Dependency Injection
17 31 (3.551%) OOP
18 27 (3.093%) UML
Programming Languages
1 804 (92.10%) C#
2 367 (42.04%) SQL
3 159 (18.21%) JavaScript
4 98 (11.23%) T-SQL
5 69 (7.904%) VBA
6 55 (6.300%) C++
7 48 (5.498%) Java
8 45 (5.155%) PL/SQL
9 35 (4.009%) VB
10 17 (1.947%) VB.NET
11 14 (1.604%) F#
12 13 (1.489%) VB6
13 10 (1.145%) Python
14 9 (1.031%) PowerShell
15 6 (0.687%) XAML
15 6 (0.687%) VBScript
16 5 (0.573%) Perl
17 4 (0.458%) Scala
17 4 (0.458%) C++/CLI
18 3 (0.344%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 73 (8.362%) Degree
2 10 (1.145%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (1.145%) PhD
3 9 (1.031%) MCP
3 9 (1.031%) MCAD
3 9 (1.031%) MCSD
3 9 (1.031%) MCTS
4 8 (0.916%) Security Cleared
5 4 (0.458%) SC Cleared
6 2 (0.229%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.229%) ISTQB
6 2 (0.229%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (0.916%) WCAG
1 8 (0.916%) QA
2 3 (0.344%) Dublin Core
3 1 (0.115%) WAI
3 1 (0.115%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (2.062%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.229%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (1.489%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.115%) WMI
Vendors
1 216 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 145 (16.61%) Oracle
3 19 (2.176%) TIBCO
3 19 (2.176%) Bloomberg
4 18 (2.062%) Reuters
5 17 (1.947%) DevExpress
6 16 (1.833%) Sybase
7 14 (1.604%) Sitecore
8 12 (1.375%) EPiServer
9 11 (1.260%) DataSynapse
9 11 (1.260%) Infragistics
10 10 (1.145%) Business Objects
10 10 (1.145%) Syncfusion
11 9 (1.031%) HP
12 8 (0.916%) IBM
13 6 (0.687%) Mercator
13 6 (0.687%) VMware
14 5 (0.573%) Telerik
14 5 (0.573%) 29West
14 5 (0.573%) ESRI
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