The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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 25 26 20
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -6
Contract jobs citing WCF 7 6 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 2.682% 2.247% 5.903%
As % of the Application Development category 8.974% 7.143% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 5
Average daily rate £266 - £265
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 - £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £285 - £327
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
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
78 84 121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 29.89% 31.46% 42.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 44 77
Average daily rate £280 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £190 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 8
Average hourly rate £32.50 - £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Yorkshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +3 6 £266 -
WCF
Yorkshire

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 9 (100.00%) C#
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
3 6 (66.67%) CSS
3 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 4 (44.44%) HTML
4 4 (44.44%) jQuery
4 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
5 3 (33.33%) SQL
5 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
5 3 (33.33%) Windows
5 3 (33.33%) MVC
6 2 (22.22%) CMS
6 2 (22.22%) N-Tier
6 2 (22.22%) SSL
6 2 (22.22%) Ajax
6 2 (22.22%) XHTML
6 2 (22.22%) DHTML
6 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
6 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
6 2 (22.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
6 2 (22.22%) WPF
6 2 (22.22%) DotNetNuke
6 2 (22.22%) WinForms
7 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
7 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
3 6 (66.67%) CSS
4 4 (44.44%) HTML
4 4 (44.44%) jQuery
5 2 (22.22%) Ajax
5 2 (22.22%) XHTML
5 2 (22.22%) DHTML
5 2 (22.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (22.22%) .NET Framework
5 2 (22.22%) WPF
5 2 (22.22%) WinForms
6 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) CMS
1 2 (22.22%) DotNetNuke
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (44.44%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (11.11%) SQL CLR
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
2 7 (77.78%) .NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) C# Developer
3 2 (22.22%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (11.11%) SQL DBA
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server DBA
4 1 (11.11%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) N-Tier
2 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (22.22%) Software Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
3 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (11.11%) Content Management
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum
3 1 (11.11%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 3 (33.33%) VB.NET
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
4 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
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