The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough 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 Peterborough 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 13 18 22
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +4
Contract jobs citing WCF 4 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 4.255% 2.222% 2.804%
As % of the Application Development category 19.05% 9.524% 9.677%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £315 £418
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.11% -24.55%
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
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
21 21 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 22.34% 23.33% 28.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 13 14
Average daily rate £350 £288 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.73% -17.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £473 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £30.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Cambridgeshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (83.33%) ASP.NET
3 8 (66.67%) Oracle
3 8 (66.67%) DHTML
3 8 (66.67%) VB
3 8 (66.67%) VB6
3 8 (66.67%) NHibernate
4 6 (50.00%) LINQ
4 6 (50.00%) ASP
4 6 (50.00%) COM+
4 6 (50.00%) Finance
5 5 (41.67%) Investment Management
6 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (33.33%) MVC
6 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
7 2 (16.67%) CSS
7 2 (16.67%) Web Services
7 2 (16.67%) OO
7 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
7 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
7 2 (16.67%) Banking
8 1 (8.333%) Asset Management
8 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
8 1 (8.333%) Business Development
8 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
8 1 (8.333%) Migration

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 10 (83.33%) ASP.NET
3 8 (66.67%) DHTML
3 8 (66.67%) NHibernate
4 6 (50.00%) LINQ
4 6 (50.00%) ASP
4 6 (50.00%) COM+
5 2 (16.67%) CSS
5 2 (16.67%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
General
1 6 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (100.00%) Developer
1 12 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (33.33%) C# Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst
4 2 (16.67%) Applications Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Investment Management
2 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (33.33%) MVC
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (8.333%) Asset Management
4 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (8.333%) Business Development
4 1 (8.333%) Data Migration
4 1 (8.333%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (66.67%) VB
2 8 (66.67%) VB6
Vendors
1 8 (66.67%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
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