The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 24 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 Manchester 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 60 30 48
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +18
Contract jobs citing WCF 15 59 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.608% 4.567% 2.303%
As % of the Application Development category 5.068% 15.53% 8.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 33 22
Average daily rate £300 £275 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% +5.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £350 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
296 380 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.73% 29.41% 27.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 219 155
Average daily rate £295 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.66% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
North West

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 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
Wigan +2 1 £300 +9.09%
Altrincham - 1 - -
WCF
North West

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 41 (100.00%) .NET
2 38 (92.68%) C#
3 35 (85.37%) ASP.NET
4 34 (82.93%) SQL Server
4 34 (82.93%) MVC
5 23 (56.10%) CSS
5 23 (56.10%) JavaScript
6 20 (48.78%) HTML
7 19 (46.34%) Web Services
7 19 (46.34%) TDD
8 18 (43.90%) jQuery
9 17 (41.46%) ASP.NET MVC
10 15 (36.59%) SQL
11 14 (34.15%) Ajax
12 12 (29.27%) SharePoint
13 11 (26.83%) SQL Server 2008
13 11 (26.83%) .NET Framework
13 11 (26.83%) LINQ
14 10 (24.39%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 8 (19.51%) NHibernate
15 8 (19.51%) Telerik
16 7 (17.07%) Internet
16 7 (17.07%) Visual Studio
17 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
17 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
17 6 (14.63%) XML
18 5 (12.20%) SQL Server 2005
19 4 (9.756%) Scrum
19 4 (9.756%) XSLT
19 4 (9.756%) T-SQL

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 41 (100.00%) .NET
2 35 (85.37%) ASP.NET
3 23 (56.10%) CSS
4 20 (48.78%) HTML
5 19 (46.34%) Web Services
6 18 (43.90%) jQuery
7 17 (41.46%) ASP.NET MVC
8 14 (34.15%) Ajax
9 11 (26.83%) .NET Framework
9 11 (26.83%) LINQ
10 10 (24.39%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 8 (19.51%) NHibernate
12 6 (14.63%) XML
13 4 (9.756%) XSLT
14 3 (7.317%) DHTML
14 3 (7.317%) WPF
14 3 (7.317%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 2 (4.878%) LINQ to SQL
15 2 (4.878%) REST
15 2 (4.878%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 12 (29.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.878%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.439%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (2.439%) IIS
3 1 (2.439%) CMS
3 1 (2.439%) Umbraco
3 1 (2.439%) Confluence
3 1 (2.439%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (2.439%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 4 (9.756%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.439%) MS Office
2 1 (2.439%) InfoPath
2 1 (2.439%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 2 (4.878%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.439%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.439%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.07%) Internet
2 2 (4.878%) Intranet
3 1 (2.439%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (82.93%) SQL Server
2 11 (26.83%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (12.20%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (7.317%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.439%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (2.439%) GIS
6 1 (2.439%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (2.439%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (2.439%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Visual Studio
2 3 (7.317%) Subversion
2 3 (7.317%) TeamCity
3 1 (2.439%) JIRA
3 1 (2.439%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (2.439%) Retail
1 1 (2.439%) Games
Job Titles
1 38 (92.68%) Developer
2 16 (39.02%) .NET Developer
3 13 (31.71%) C# Developer
4 8 (19.51%) Agile C# Developer
5 6 (14.63%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (7.317%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.317%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.317%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (7.317%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (4.878%) CRM Developer
7 2 (4.878%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 2 (4.878%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
7 2 (4.878%) VB.NET Developer
7 2 (4.878%) SharePoint Developer
8 1 (2.439%) C# Web Developer
8 1 (2.439%) Microsoft Developer
8 1 (2.439%) Microsoft Consultant
8 1 (2.439%) .NET Web Developer
8 1 (2.439%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (2.439%) CRM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.756%) N-Tier
2 2 (4.878%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (4.878%) NHS
3 1 (2.439%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.317%) Windows
2 1 (2.439%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (82.93%) MVC
2 19 (46.34%) TDD
3 6 (14.63%) E-Commerce
4 4 (9.756%) Scrum
4 4 (9.756%) UML
4 4 (9.756%) OOP
4 4 (9.756%) OO
5 3 (7.317%) Web Application Development
6 2 (4.878%) Domain-Driven Design
6 2 (4.878%) CRM
7 1 (2.439%) OOD
7 1 (2.439%) Business Intelligence
7 1 (2.439%) B2B
7 1 (2.439%) RUP
7 1 (2.439%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (2.439%) CMMI
7 1 (2.439%) Problem Management
7 1 (2.439%) Web Development
7 1 (2.439%) Unit Testing
7 1 (2.439%) MSF
Programming Languages
1 38 (92.68%) C#
2 23 (56.10%) JavaScript
3 15 (36.59%) SQL
4 4 (9.756%) T-SQL
5 3 (7.317%) VB.NET
5 3 (7.317%) C
6 2 (4.878%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.439%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (4.878%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.439%) Degree
Vendors
1 8 (19.51%) Telerik
2 6 (14.63%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.878%) Oracle
4 1 (2.439%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.439%) Sitecore
Manchester, North West
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
The individual will have technical knowledge of C#, .NET, SQL Server for web-based ASP.Net (MVC) application development with further experience of WCF etc seen as desirable.
Harvey Nash plc
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Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
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