The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 24 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 Staffordshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank - 30 29
Contract jobs citing WCF 0 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire - 1.852% 4.147%
As % of the Application Development category - 5.333% 7.965%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 8
Average daily rate - £413 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +65.00%
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 £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
24 75 113
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 28.57% 34.72% 52.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 31 69
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
West Midlands

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript