South East WCF Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) skills within the South East 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	239	282
Rank change on same period last year	+43
Matching contract IT job ads	27	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	0.935 %	0.392 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£462	£353
Average daily rate	£495	£360
% change on same period last year	+37.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£528	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£389	£341
% change on same period last year	+14.03 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.00	£34.17
% change on same period last year	+14.14 %
Application Development South East
Matching contract IT job ads	2888	4077
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	3.808 %	4.325 %
Daily rates quoted	716	965
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£312
Average daily rate	£347	£329
% change on same period last year	+5.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£367	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£336
% change on same period last year	+3.94 %
Hourly rates quoted	281	435
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.77	£34.31
Average hourly rate	£33.78	£36.32
% change on same period last year	-6.98 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.79	£38.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.44	£33.08
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
WCF England

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 South East 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 South East region.

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram

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

WCF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WCF
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing WCF within the South East region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxfordshire	+4	11	-	-
Hampshire	+21	8	£519	-
Berkshire	+36	2	-	-
Buckinghamshire	+8	2	£400	+5.26 %
Thames Valley	+22	1	-	-

WCF England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 57 (98.28 %) .NET 2 53 (91.38 %) C# 3 31 (53.45 %) ASP.NET 4 28 (48.28 %) WPF 5 25 (43.10 %) WebServices 6 22 (37.93 %) SQL Server 7 21 (36.21 %) Windows 8 18 (31.03 %) XML 8 18 (31.03 %) WinForms 9 14 (24.14 %) Microsoft 9 14 (24.14 %) Visual Studio 9 14 (24.14 %) SQL Server 2005 10 13 (22.41 %) SQL 11 12 (20.69 %) OO 12 11 (18.97 %) AJAX

12 11 (18.97 %) .NET Framework 13 10 (17.24 %) C++ 14 8 (13.79 %) OOD 15 6 (10.34 %) Knowledge Management 15 6 (10.34 %) ADO.NET 16 5 (8.621 %) Java 16 5 (8.621 %) XSLT 16 5 (8.621 %) Publishing 16 5 (8.621 %) Web Development 16 5 (8.621 %) ASP.NET 2.0 17 4 (6.897 %) Agile Software Development 17 4 (6.897 %) E-Commerce 17 4 (6.897 %) JavaScript 17 4 (6.897 %) HTML 18 3 (5.172 %) ASP

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 57 (98.28 %) .NET 2 31 (53.45 %) ASP.NET 3 28 (48.28 %) WPF 4 25 (43.10 %) WebServices 5 18 (31.03 %) XML 5 18 (31.03 %) WinForms 6 11 (18.97 %) AJAX 6 11 (18.97 %) .NET Framework 7 6 (10.34 %) ADO.NET 8 5 (8.621 %) XSLT 8 5 (8.621 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 4 (6.897 %) HTML 10 3 (5.172 %) XHTML 10 3 (5.172 %) ASP 10 3 (5.172 %) CSS 10 3 (5.172 %) SOAP 11 2 (3.448 %) WF 12 1 (1.724 %) Silverlight 12 1 (1.724 %) COM+ 12 1 (1.724 %) DCOM	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.172 %) SharePoint 1 3 (5.172 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (3.448 %) ESB 2 2 (3.448 %) BizTalk Server 3 1 (1.724 %) WebLogic Portal 3 1 (1.724 %) Oracle Application Server 3 1 (1.724 %) WebLogic 3 1 (1.724 %) IIS
Applications 1 3 (5.172 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.448 %) Photoshop	Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.172 %) Intranet 2 1 (1.724 %) VLAN 2 1 (1.724 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (37.93 %) SQL Server 2 14 (24.14 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (5.172 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (1.724 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (1.724 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (1.724 %) Data Mining 4 1 (1.724 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 14 (24.14 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (3.448 %) Subversion
General 1 5 (8.621 %) Publishing 2 1 (1.724 %) Games 2 1 (1.724 %) Retail 2 1 (1.724 %) Online Games 2 1 (1.724 %) Telecoms 2 1 (1.724 %) Finance 2 1 (1.724 %) Health	Job Titles 1 51 (87.93 %) Developer 2 33 (56.90 %) C# Developer 3 31 (53.45 %) .NET Developer 4 9 (15.52 %) ASP.NET Developer 4 9 (15.52 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 7 (12.07 %) WinForms Developer 6 4 (6.897 %) SQL Developer 7 3 (5.172 %) Senior .NET Developer 7 3 (5.172 %) Architect 7 3 (5.172 %) Senior Developer 7 3 (5.172 %) .NET Architect 8 2 (3.448 %) .NET Software Engineer 8 2 (3.448 %) Software Engineer 8 2 (3.448 %) Applications Developer 9 1 (1.724 %) .NET Designer 9 1 (1.724 %) .NET Web Developer 9 1 (1.724 %) Senior C# Developer 9 1 (1.724 %) Lead Developer 9 1 (1.724 %) Technical Architect 9 1 (1.724 %) Web Developer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.724 %) N-Tier 1 1 (1.724 %) Replication 1 1 (1.724 %) Clustering 1 1 (1.724 %) PKI 1 1 (1.724 %) Informatics	Operating Systems 1 21 (36.21 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (20.69 %) OO 2 8 (13.79 %) OOD 3 6 (10.34 %) Knowledge Management 4 5 (8.621 %) Web Development 5 4 (6.897 %) Agile Software Development 5 4 (6.897 %) E-Commerce 6 3 (5.172 %) SOA 7 2 (3.448 %) TDD 8 1 (1.724 %) Technical Architecture 8 1 (1.724 %) Load Balancing 8 1 (1.724 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (1.724 %) Continuous Integration 8 1 (1.724 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (1.724 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.724 %) B2B 8 1 (1.724 %) Scrum 8 1 (1.724 %) UML 8 1 (1.724 %) OOA/OOD	Programming Languages 1 53 (91.38 %) C# 2 13 (22.41 %) SQL 3 10 (17.24 %) C++ 4 5 (8.621 %) Java 5 4 (6.897 %) JavaScript 6 2 (3.448 %) VB.NET 7 1 (1.724 %) VC++ 7 1 (1.724 %) VB
System Software 1 3 (5.172 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 14 (24.14 %) Microsoft 2 2 (3.448 %) Oracle