The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Norwich region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF 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 Norwich 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 Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank - 26 29
Contract jobs citing WCF 0 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich - 0.588% 2.513%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.222% 7.246%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £205
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
Norwich
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
32 45 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Norwich 25.00% 26.47% 34.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 19
Average daily rate £300 £288 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.34% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £227 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £388 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £16.50 - £26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Norfolk

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Norwich 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 Norwich region.

Norwich WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Sitefinity
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) AutoMapper

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Norwich 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) AutoMapper
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) CMS
1 1 (100.00%) Sitefinity
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft