The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes 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 21 57 54
Rank change year-on-year
+36 -3
Contract jobs citing WCF 36 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 6.780% 0.716% 0.332%
As % of the Application Development category 31.03% 4.132% 1.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 4 0
Average daily rate £350 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
116 121 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 21.85% 17.34% 18.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 52 52
Average daily rate £375 £300 £316
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -5.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £259 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £367 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Buckinghamshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Milton Keynes WCF Daily Rate Histogram

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 33 (91.67%) C#
2 31 (86.11%) MVC
3 28 (77.78%) .NET
4 22 (61.11%) Agile Software Development
5 21 (58.33%) NHibernate
6 14 (38.89%) ASP.NET
7 13 (36.11%) KnockoutJS
8 12 (33.33%) TDD
9 11 (30.56%) Finance
9 11 (30.56%) JavaScript
10 10 (27.78%) Scrum
10 10 (27.78%) .NET Framework
11 9 (25.00%) OO
11 9 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (22.22%) SOAP
12 8 (22.22%) N-Tier
13 7 (19.44%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 6 (16.67%) REST
14 6 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
14 6 (16.67%) Oracle Service Bus
14 6 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
14 6 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (16.67%) SOA
14 6 (16.67%) WSDL
14 6 (16.67%) EPoS
14 6 (16.67%) Middleware
14 6 (16.67%) Web Services
14 6 (16.67%) XML
14 6 (16.67%) Oracle
14 6 (16.67%) BPEL

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 (77.78%) .NET
2 21 (58.33%) NHibernate
3 14 (38.89%) ASP.NET
4 13 (36.11%) KnockoutJS
5 10 (27.78%) .NET Framework
6 9 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 8 (22.22%) SOAP
8 7 (19.44%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 6 (16.67%) REST
9 6 (16.67%) WSDL
9 6 (16.67%) Middleware
9 6 (16.67%) Web Services
9 6 (16.67%) XML
10 5 (13.89%) XSD
11 2 (5.556%) soapUI
11 2 (5.556%) Fluent NHibernate
11 2 (5.556%) jQuery
11 2 (5.556%) WPF
12 1 (2.778%) XSLT
12 1 (2.778%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle Service Bus
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (2.778%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.778%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle 11g
2 5 (13.89%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (13.89%) Ant
2 5 (13.89%) Eclipse
2 5 (13.89%) JDeveloper
3 2 (5.556%) WebDriver
3 2 (5.556%) Selenium
4 1 (2.778%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (2.778%) NUnit
4 1 (2.778%) NMock
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 3 (8.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (91.67%) Developer
2 20 (55.56%) .NET Developer
3 9 (25.00%) Programmer
4 7 (19.44%) Agile .NET Developer
5 6 (16.67%) Agile C# Developer
5 6 (16.67%) C# Programmer
5 6 (16.67%) Oracle Developer
5 6 (16.67%) C# Developer
6 5 (13.89%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Lead Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Web Developer
6 5 (13.89%) Oracle SOA Developer
6 5 (13.89%) SOA Developer
7 3 (8.333%) .NET Programmer
8 2 (5.556%) .NET Web Developer
9 1 (2.778%) Software Engineer
9 1 (2.778%) Analyst
9 1 (2.778%) Test Manager
9 1 (2.778%) Test Analyst
9 1 (2.778%) Technical Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) N-Tier
2 6 (16.67%) EPoS
3 5 (13.89%) Web 2.0
4 1 (2.778%) NHS
4 1 (2.778%) SaaS
4 1 (2.778%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.778%) Windows
1 1 (2.778%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (2.778%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (86.11%) MVC
2 22 (61.11%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (33.33%) TDD
4 10 (27.78%) Scrum
5 9 (25.00%) OO
6 6 (16.67%) SOA
6 6 (16.67%) BPEL
7 5 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (13.89%) Workflow
7 5 (13.89%) UML
7 5 (13.89%) Unit Testing
8 4 (11.11%) Web Development
9 3 (8.333%) Web Application Development
10 1 (2.778%) RUP
10 1 (2.778%) Project Management
10 1 (2.778%) MVVM
10 1 (2.778%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 33 (91.67%) C#
2 11 (30.56%) JavaScript
3 5 (13.89%) XPath
3 5 (13.89%) SQL
3 5 (13.89%) XQuery
4 2 (5.556%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (2.778%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle
2 2 (5.556%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.778%) HP
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