WCF Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 67 60 91
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +31
Contract jobs citing WCF 51 77 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 2.188% 2.475% 1.148%
As % of the Application Development category 7.994% 8.661% 4.679%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 41 23
Average daily rate £300 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £400 £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%
Search 89 WCF jobs in the North West
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 638 889 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.37% 28.58% 24.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 476 428
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £228
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West 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
Cheshire +18 20 £306 -
Manchester -30 15 £300 +9.09%
Lancashire +9 7 £275 -11.29%
Merseyside +4 6 £300 -25.00%
WCF
England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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.

1 113 (99.12%) .NET
2 108 (94.74%) C#
3 93 (81.58%) SQL Server
4 92 (80.70%) ASP.NET
5 78 (68.42%) MVC
6 61 (53.51%) JavaScript
7 57 (50.00%) HTML
7 57 (50.00%) CSS
8 51 (44.74%) jQuery
9 44 (38.60%) SQL Server 2008
10 41 (35.96%) .NET Framework
10 41 (35.96%) Web Services
11 36 (31.58%) SQL
12 33 (28.95%) TDD
12 33 (28.95%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 31 (27.19%) ASP.NET MVC
14 30 (26.32%) Visual Studio
15 29 (25.44%) XML
15 29 (25.44%) SQL Server 2005
16 26 (22.81%) Microsoft
17 22 (19.30%) Ajax
18 21 (18.42%) LINQ
18 21 (18.42%) Windows
19 18 (15.79%) IIS
19 18 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
19 18 (15.79%) WPF
20 16 (14.04%) SharePoint
21 13 (11.40%) Scrum
21 13 (11.40%) HTML5
21 13 (11.40%) Web Application Development

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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
1 113 (99.12%) .NET
2 92 (80.70%) ASP.NET
3 57 (50.00%) HTML
3 57 (50.00%) CSS
4 51 (44.74%) jQuery
5 41 (35.96%) .NET Framework
5 41 (35.96%) Web Services
6 33 (28.95%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 31 (27.19%) ASP.NET MVC
8 29 (25.44%) XML
9 22 (19.30%) Ajax
10 21 (18.42%) LINQ
11 18 (15.79%) WPF
12 13 (11.40%) HTML5
13 10 (8.772%) JSON
14 9 (7.895%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 8 (7.018%) NHibernate
15 8 (7.018%) XSD
15 8 (7.018%) XSLT
16 7 (6.140%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 18 (15.79%) IIS
2 16 (14.04%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.263%) Umbraco
4 3 (2.632%) CMS
5 2 (1.754%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (1.754%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (0.877%) BizTalk Server
6 1 (0.877%) MSMQ
6 1 (0.877%) Windows Azure
6 1 (0.877%) Confluence
6 1 (0.877%) ESB
6 1 (0.877%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 7 (6.140%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.877%) MS Office
2 1 (0.877%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.877%) InfoPath
2 1 (0.877%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 8 (7.018%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.632%) Maximo
3 1 (0.877%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.877%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.018%) Internet
2 4 (3.509%) Intranet
3 1 (0.877%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (81.58%) SQL Server
2 44 (38.60%) SQL Server 2008
3 29 (25.44%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (7.018%) SQL Server 2012
4 8 (7.018%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (6.140%) SQL Server 2000
5 7 (6.140%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (4.386%) MongoDB
7 3 (2.632%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (2.632%) SQLite
8 2 (1.754%) SQL Server 7
9 1 (0.877%) Crystal Reports
9 1 (0.877%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.877%) GIS
9 1 (0.877%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (0.877%) Oracle 11g
9 1 (0.877%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 30 (26.32%) Visual Studio
2 11 (9.649%) Team Foundation Server
3 8 (7.018%) Git (software)
4 5 (4.386%) Subversion
4 5 (4.386%) Visual Studio Team System
5 4 (3.509%) NUnit
6 3 (2.632%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.877%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.877%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.877%) TortoiseSVN
7 1 (0.877%) Selenium
7 1 (0.877%) JIRA
7 1 (0.877%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.877%) Hudson
7 1 (0.877%) Rhino Mocks
7 1 (0.877%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.877%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (7.018%) Retail
2 4 (3.509%) Games
3 3 (2.632%) Finance
3 3 (2.632%) Banking
4 1 (0.877%) Marketing
4 1 (0.877%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 104 (91.23%) Developer
2 45 (39.47%) .NET Developer
3 24 (21.05%) C# Developer
3 24 (21.05%) Software Developer
4 13 (11.40%) Senior Developer
5 9 (7.895%) Web Developer
5 9 (7.895%) ASP.NET Developer
6 8 (7.018%) Agile C# Developer
6 8 (7.018%) CRM Developer
6 8 (7.018%) Senior .NET Developer
7 7 (6.140%) C# .NET Developer
8 6 (5.263%) Dynamics CRM Developer
9 5 (4.386%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.386%) Microsoft Developer
9 5 (4.386%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 4 (3.509%) WPF Developer
10 4 (3.509%) C++/C# Developer
10 4 (3.509%) .NET Web Developer
10 4 (3.509%) C++ Developer
11 3 (2.632%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.772%) N-Tier
2 7 (6.140%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (5.263%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.509%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.632%) NHS
5 3 (2.632%) 3D Graphics
5 3 (2.632%) Mathematics
6 1 (0.877%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 21 (18.42%) Windows
2 3 (2.632%) Windows CE
3 1 (0.877%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (68.42%) MVC
2 33 (28.95%) TDD
3 18 (15.79%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (11.40%) Scrum
4 13 (11.40%) Web Application Development
5 12 (10.53%) MVVM
5 12 (10.53%) E-Commerce
6 9 (7.895%) UML
6 9 (7.895%) OO
7 8 (7.018%) CRM
8 7 (6.140%) Web Development
9 6 (5.263%) Mobile Application Development
9 6 (5.263%) SOA
10 5 (4.386%) Workflow
10 5 (4.386%) Document Management
11 4 (3.509%) Requirements Analysis
11 4 (3.509%) Dependency Injection
11 4 (3.509%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (3.509%) Data Analysis
11 4 (3.509%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 108 (94.74%) C#
2 61 (53.51%) JavaScript
3 36 (31.58%) SQL
4 11 (9.649%) C++
4 11 (9.649%) C
5 10 (8.772%) Java
6 7 (6.140%) VB.NET
7 6 (5.263%) T-SQL
8 5 (4.386%) VB
8 5 (4.386%) VB6
9 4 (3.509%) XPath
10 2 (1.754%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.877%) VBA
11 1 (0.877%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (7.018%) MCTS
2 8 (7.018%) MCAD
2 8 (7.018%) MCSD
3 5 (4.386%) MCPD
3 5 (4.386%) Degree
4 4 (3.509%) PhD
5 3 (2.632%) MCP
6 1 (0.877%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.877%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.877%) SLA
1 1 (0.877%) HL7
1 1 (0.877%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.877%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 26 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.018%) Telerik
3 5 (4.386%) Oracle
4 3 (2.632%) IBM
4 3 (2.632%) SAP
5 2 (1.754%) Razor Risk
5 2 (1.754%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.877%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.877%) Twitter
.Net Developer
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
.Net Developer
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
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
C# ASP.Net Developer - Contract - Lancashire
Lancashire, North West
The core of this role is back-end web application development focussing on developing a new core system for the business.Essential Skills: - C# (.Net 3.5 and...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
ASP.Net Developer Req (MVC, C#, WCF) - Contract
Manchester, North West
Essential Skills: - ASP.Net - C# - MVC 3 /4 - JQuery - HTML 4/5 - CSS - WCF - SQL Server, T-SQL Desirables: - JavaScript - Twitter Bootstrap - Less CSS - Knockout.js - Web Services,...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
Senior Analyst/Programmer
Cheshire
Essential Skills & Experience: *C# *.NET Runtime *ASP.NET *SQL Server *T-SQL *Ability to communicate clearly with employees of all levels.
Rullion IT Plus
Rate: £280 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
Sharepoint Architect
Greater Manchester, North West
Sharepoint 2010, Sharepoint 2013, .NET, C#, Sharepoitn Upgrade, Manchester, 3 Months, £300 - £400 p/day I have an urgent requirement for a Sharepoint Developer to join my Manchester...
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Posted: 15 May 2013
C#/WPF Developer
Stockport, North West
C#/WPF, OOD, HTML, CSS, C++, Stockport, 3-6 Months, Upto £350 p/day Are you an experienced C#/WPF developer?... Your Technical Expertise; C# WPF OOD Experience...
Computer Futures
Posted: 20 May 2013
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