Poole WCF Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) skills within the Poole region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Location Aberdeen Banbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire City of London Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Leeds Lincolnshire London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesbrough Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stevenage Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford UK Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£368	£331
% change on same period last year	+11.04 %
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	£35.30	£36.00
% change on same period last year	-1.94 %
Application Development Poole
Matching contract IT job ads	22	48
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.030 %	0.047 %
Daily rates quoted	8	24
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£308
Average daily rate	£302	£332
% change on same period last year	-8.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£315	£355
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.73 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.24	£22.86
Average hourly rate	£20.31	£25.00
% change on same period last year	-18.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.38	£27.14
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.38	£32.95
% change on same period last year	-1.71 %
WCF Dorset

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.