WCF Contracts in Somerset
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset 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 Somerset 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 33 33 31
Rank change year-on-year
0 -2
Contract jobs citing WCF 3 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 1.630% 1.190% 2.454%
As % of the Application Development category 6.818% 3.175% 5.195%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £458 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.54% -
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
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 44 63 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 23.91% 37.50% 47.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 40
Average daily rate £320 £335 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.47% +21.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £240 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £410 £355
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
South West

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Taunton - 3 £458 -
WCF
South West

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) .NET
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
1 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
1 5 (71.43%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) C
2 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 4 (57.14%) SOA
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Oracle
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
2 4 (57.14%) WPF
3 3 (42.86%) WF
3 3 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 3 (42.86%) RAD
3 3 (42.86%) COBIT
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (42.86%) Service Management
3 3 (42.86%) TickIT
3 3 (42.86%) Change Management
3 3 (42.86%) ITSM
3 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 5 (71.43%) .NET
1 5 (71.43%) XML
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
2 4 (57.14%) WPF
3 3 (42.86%) WF
3 3 (42.86%) HTML
3 3 (42.86%) ASP
3 3 (42.86%) CSS
3 3 (42.86%) XSL
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (14.29%) Silverlight
5 1 (14.29%) SOAP
5 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 3 (42.86%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Azure
3 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Visual Studio
2 3 (42.86%) Subversion
3 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Development Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Developer
3 1 (14.29%) BizTalk Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) SOA
2 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
2 3 (42.86%) Performance Management
2 3 (42.86%) RAD
2 3 (42.86%) Service Management
2 3 (42.86%) Change Management
2 3 (42.86%) ITSM
2 3 (42.86%) Pair Programming
2 3 (42.86%) TOGAF
2 3 (42.86%) UML
2 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
3 1 (14.29%) MVC
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) C
2 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) VB6
3 3 (42.86%) VBScript
3 3 (42.86%) VB
3 3 (42.86%) Java
3 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) ISEB Practitioner
1 3 (42.86%) ISEB
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (42.86%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) COBIT
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) TickIT
1 3 (42.86%) ISO 9000
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
1 4 (57.14%) Oracle
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