The first table below looks at the demand for WF 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 WF over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Workflow Foundation (WF, WWF)
Rank 337 391 377
Rank change year-on-year
+54 -14
Contract jobs citing WF 52 14 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.236% 0.052% 0.173%
As % of the Application Development category 0.814% 0.185% 0.567%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 7 33
Average daily rate £475 £363 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+31.03% -30.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £320 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £540 £595
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £360
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £16.55
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6388 7563 9347
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.00% 28.03% 30.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 4622 4989 6271
Average daily rate £406 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.56% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £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 90 106 133
Average hourly rate £41.50 £33.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.96% -3.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.45 £17.20
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%
WF
England

WF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London WF Jobs Demand Trend

WF
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WF across the London region.

London WF Daily Rate Trend

WF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WF across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London WF Daily Rate Histogram

WF
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WF across the London region.

London WF Hourly Rate Trend

WF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WF within the London region over the 3 months to 21 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 +34 21 £510 +56.92%
Brentford -10 1 £330 +5.60%
Docklands, London - 1 £413 -
Greenwich - 1 £425 -
WF
England

WF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing WF 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 WF.

1 71 (81.61%) C#
2 68 (78.16%) WCF
3 61 (70.11%) .NET
4 37 (42.53%) TDD
5 35 (40.23%) Agile Software Development
6 33 (37.93%) WPF
7 32 (36.78%) ASP.NET
8 31 (35.63%) XML
9 28 (32.18%) Microsoft
10 27 (31.03%) Workflow
11 26 (29.89%) CSS
11 26 (29.89%) Windows
12 24 (27.59%) SQL Server
12 24 (27.59%) jQuery
13 23 (26.44%) XSLT
14 22 (25.29%) Finance
15 20 (22.99%) MVC
16 19 (21.84%) Team Foundation Server
17 18 (20.69%) JavaScript
18 17 (19.54%) Visual Studio
18 17 (19.54%) Scrum
18 17 (19.54%) LINQ
19 16 (18.39%) SQL
20 15 (17.24%) Web Services
20 15 (17.24%) NHibernate
20 15 (17.24%) MVVM
21 14 (16.09%) ASP.NET MVC
21 14 (16.09%) CQRS
21 14 (16.09%) HTML
22 13 (14.94%) SharePoint

WF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing WF 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 WF. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 68 (78.16%) WCF
2 61 (70.11%) .NET
3 33 (37.93%) WPF
4 32 (36.78%) ASP.NET
5 31 (35.63%) XML
6 26 (29.89%) CSS
7 24 (27.59%) jQuery
8 23 (26.44%) XSLT
9 17 (19.54%) LINQ
10 15 (17.24%) Web Services
10 15 (17.24%) NHibernate
11 14 (16.09%) ASP.NET MVC
11 14 (16.09%) HTML
12 12 (13.79%) .NET Framework
13 10 (11.49%) Ajax
14 9 (10.34%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 8 (9.195%) RESTful
16 7 (8.046%) RSS
17 6 (6.897%) ADO.NET
18 5 (5.747%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 13 (14.94%) SharePoint
2 9 (10.34%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (5.747%) Windows Azure
3 5 (5.747%) IIS
3 5 (5.747%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.299%) CMS
4 2 (2.299%) Oracle Workflow
4 2 (2.299%) Rendezvous
4 2 (2.299%) SharePoint Server
4 2 (2.299%) ESB
5 1 (1.149%) MQSeries
Applications
1 11 (12.64%) InfoPath
2 5 (5.747%) MS Excel
3 4 (4.598%) MS Office
4 1 (1.149%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.34%) Extranet
2 3 (3.448%) HTTP
3 1 (1.149%) Broadband
3 1 (1.149%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (27.59%) SQL Server
2 8 (9.195%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (3.448%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (3.448%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.448%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.299%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (2.299%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.299%) OLAP
5 1 (1.149%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.149%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.149%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.149%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 19 (21.84%) Team Foundation Server
2 17 (19.54%) Visual Studio
3 11 (12.64%) MSTest
3 11 (12.64%) Rhino Mocks
3 11 (12.64%) NUnit
4 5 (5.747%) MSBuild
5 4 (4.598%) MSI
5 4 (4.598%) CruiseControl
5 4 (4.598%) WiX
6 3 (3.448%) InstallShield
7 1 (1.149%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.149%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 1 (1.149%) Subversion
7 1 (1.149%) JMeter
General
1 22 (25.29%) Finance
2 12 (13.79%) Banking
3 11 (12.64%) Investment Banking
4 4 (4.598%) Front Office
4 4 (4.598%) Back Office
5 2 (2.299%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 70 (80.46%) Developer
2 29 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 16 (18.39%) .NET Developer
4 11 (12.64%) Senior Developer
5 10 (11.49%) Web Developer
6 8 (9.195%) SharePoint Developer
7 7 (8.046%) .NET Web Developer
8 5 (5.747%) Consultant
8 5 (5.747%) Programmer
9 4 (4.598%) Architect
9 4 (4.598%) Analyst
9 4 (4.598%) SharePoint Consultant
9 4 (4.598%) Release Engineer
9 4 (4.598%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (4.598%) Build Engineer
10 3 (3.448%) Software Build Engineer
10 3 (3.448%) C# Programmer
10 3 (3.448%) Technical Leader
10 3 (3.448%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (3.448%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.195%) Hedge funds
1 8 (9.195%) Social Media
2 7 (8.046%) Web 2.0
3 3 (3.448%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.448%) Derivative
4 2 (2.299%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.149%) Data Integration
5 1 (1.149%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.149%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 26 (29.89%) Windows
2 8 (9.195%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (3.448%) Linux
4 2 (2.299%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.149%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.149%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.149%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.149%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.149%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (42.53%) TDD
2 35 (40.23%) Agile Software Development
3 27 (31.03%) Workflow
4 20 (22.99%) MVC
5 17 (19.54%) Scrum
6 15 (17.24%) MVVM
7 14 (16.09%) CQRS
8 12 (13.79%) OOP
9 10 (11.49%) OO
9 10 (11.49%) Web Development
9 10 (11.49%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (9.195%) Code Coverage
10 8 (9.195%) SOA
10 8 (9.195%) Dependency Injection
11 7 (8.046%) User Acceptance Testing
11 7 (8.046%) Document Management
12 6 (6.897%) Multithreading
13 4 (4.598%) Migration
13 4 (4.598%) Stakeholder Management
13 4 (4.598%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 71 (81.61%) C#
2 18 (20.69%) JavaScript
3 16 (18.39%) SQL
4 11 (12.64%) F#
5 10 (11.49%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.747%) VB
6 5 (5.747%) VB6
7 3 (3.448%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.448%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.448%) Perl
7 3 (3.448%) XAML
8 2 (2.299%) C++
9 1 (1.149%) PHP
9 1 (1.149%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (3.448%) Degree
2 1 (1.149%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.448%) QA
1 3 (3.448%) Dublin Core
Systems Management
1 3 (3.448%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 28 (32.18%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.046%) TIBCO
3 4 (4.598%) Oracle
4 2 (2.299%) Telerik
4 2 (2.299%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.149%) EPiServer
5 1 (1.149%) DevExpress
5 1 (1.149%) Siebel
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