WCF Contracts in Oxfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire 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 52 55 46
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -9
Contract jobs citing WCF 1 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.221% 0.159% 0.668%
As % of the Application Development category 1.020% 0.505% 1.554%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £350
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
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 98 198 193
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 21.63% 31.43% 42.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 103 115
Average daily rate £320 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 11 5
Average hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
South East

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WCF across the Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire WCF Hourly Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
3 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 4 (57.14%) SOA
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (42.86%) jQuery
4 3 (42.86%) HTML5
4 3 (42.86%) TDD
5 2 (28.57%) Banking
5 2 (28.57%) JIRA
5 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
5 2 (28.57%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
5 2 (28.57%) MVC
5 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
5 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (28.57%) Middleware
5 2 (28.57%) XML
5 2 (28.57%) Windows
5 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
5 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
5 2 (28.57%) CSS
5 2 (28.57%) VB.NET

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 3 (42.86%) jQuery
3 3 (42.86%) HTML5
4 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
4 2 (28.57%) Middleware
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) CSS
4 2 (28.57%) WF
4 2 (28.57%) AppFabric
5 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (14.29%) Caliburn.Micro
5 1 (14.29%) Kendo UI
5 1 (14.29%) WinForms
5 1 (14.29%) JSON
5 1 (14.29%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint Server
1 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint 2013
1 2 (28.57%) Windows Azure
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2005
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
1 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
2 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
2 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
2 1 (14.29%) MSI
General
1 2 (28.57%) Banking
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint Developer
2 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Developer
2 2 (28.57%) BizTalk Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Programmer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) SOA
1 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Testing
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
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