The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 22 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 Yorkshire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 23 26 28
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs citing WCF 3 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 1.948% 0.559% 0.562%
As % of the Application Development category 6.522% 2.000% 2.941%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Average daily rate £275 - £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
North Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
46 50 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 29.87% 27.93% 19.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 36 17
Average daily rate £343 £323 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.20% +43.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £232 £240 £108
10% offered a daily rate of more than £355 £350 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Yorkshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

North Yorkshire WCF Daily 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
York - 2 £275 -
Harrogate - 1 - -
WCF
Yorkshire

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (90.91%) ASP.NET
3 9 (81.82%) C#
4 8 (72.73%) SQL
4 8 (72.73%) MVC
5 7 (63.64%) OO
5 7 (63.64%) Web Services
5 7 (63.64%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (63.64%) TDD
6 6 (54.55%) Ajax
6 6 (54.55%) LINQ
6 6 (54.55%) jQuery
6 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (54.55%) XML
6 6 (54.55%) XSLT
6 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
6 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
6 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
7 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (45.45%) W3C
7 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
7 5 (45.45%) Visual Studio
7 5 (45.45%) HTML
7 5 (45.45%) T-SQL
7 5 (45.45%) CSS
7 5 (45.45%) HTML5
7 5 (45.45%) CSS3
7 5 (45.45%) Razor View Engine
7 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2005
7 5 (45.45%) OOP

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North Yorkshire 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (90.91%) ASP.NET
3 7 (63.64%) Web Services
4 6 (54.55%) Ajax
4 6 (54.55%) LINQ
4 6 (54.55%) jQuery
4 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (54.55%) XML
4 6 (54.55%) XSLT
5 5 (45.45%) HTML
5 5 (45.45%) CSS
5 5 (45.45%) HTML5
5 5 (45.45%) CSS3
5 5 (45.45%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (45.45%) .NET Framework
5 5 (45.45%) JSON
6 3 (27.27%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (18.18%) WPF
7 2 (18.18%) .NET Remoting
8 1 (9.091%) XSD
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
2 5 (45.45%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Visual Studio
1 5 (45.45%) Subversion
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 9 (81.82%) .NET Developer
3 6 (54.55%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Software Developer
4 1 (9.091%) Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) .NET Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) Software Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) SQL Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (9.091%) C# Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET Programmer
4 1 (9.091%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) W3C
2 2 (18.18%) Open Source
2 2 (18.18%) N-Tier
3 1 (9.091%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) MVC
2 7 (63.64%) OO
2 7 (63.64%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (63.64%) TDD
3 5 (45.45%) Data Modelling
3 5 (45.45%) OOP
3 5 (45.45%) Requirements Analysis
3 5 (45.45%) Web Development
4 2 (18.18%) AOP
4 2 (18.18%) OOD
4 2 (18.18%) SOA
5 1 (9.091%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) C#
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 6 (54.55%) JavaScript
4 5 (45.45%) T-SQL
5 2 (18.18%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.091%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Microsoft