Nottingham WCF Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) skills within the Nottingham region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Location Abbots Langley Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England England Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leeds Lincolnshire London Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes North West Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stowmarket Suffolk Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	7	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	6.422 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£225	-
Average daily rate	£256	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£288	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£389	£341
% change on same period last year	+14.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.00	£34.17
% change on same period last year	+14.14 %
Application Development Nottingham
Matching contract IT job ads	109	46
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.144 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	29	9
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£323
Average daily rate	£349	£328
% change on same period last year	+6.27 %
Average maximum daily rate	£363	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.50
Average hourly rate	-	£19.88
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£24.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
WCF Nottinghamshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WCF
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WCF across the Nottingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WCF
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WCF across the Nottingham region.

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WCF across the Nottingham region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

WCF
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 7 (100.00 %) .NET 2 6 (85.71 %) C# 3 5 (71.43 %) SQL Server 3 5 (71.43 %) ASP 3 5 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 3 5 (71.43 %) XML 3 5 (71.43 %) Windows 3 5 (71.43 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (14.29 %) WF 4 1 (14.29 %) Finance 4 1 (14.29 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 7 (100.00 %) .NET 2 5 (71.43 %) ASP 2 5 (71.43 %) ASP.NET 2 5 (71.43 %) XML 3 1 (14.29 %) WF	Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (71.43 %) SQL Server 1 5 (71.43 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Visual Studio	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 7 (100.00 %) Developer 2 6 (85.71 %) .NET Developer 3 3 (42.86 %) C# Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) Senior Developer	Operating Systems 1 5 (71.43 %) Windows
Programming Languages 1 6 (85.71 %) C# 2 1 (14.29 %) SQL