The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 21 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 Surrey 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 52 48 81
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +33
Contract jobs citing WCF 28 51 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 2.410% 3.142% 1.207%
As % of the Application Development category 8.459% 10.85% 4.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 37 11
Average daily rate £335 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.28% -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £265 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £49.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
331 470 533
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 28.49% 28.96% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 267 290
Average daily rate £350 £350 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 15 15
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £19.00 £17.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
South East

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WCF across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Surrey WCF Daily Rate Histogram

WCF
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey WCF Hourly 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 21 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
Guildford -10 7 £450 +12.50%
Leatherhead +10 6 £305 -12.85%
Lightwater - 1 £350 -
Epsom - 1 £350 -
WCF
South East

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 65 (92.86%) .NET
2 49 (70.00%) C#
3 43 (61.43%) ASP.NET
4 42 (60.00%) XML
5 40 (57.14%) Scrum
6 39 (55.71%) SQL
7 37 (52.86%) Microsoft
8 32 (45.71%) MVC
9 30 (42.86%) Windows
10 28 (40.00%) Visual Studio
11 27 (38.57%) WF
12 26 (37.14%) VB.NET
13 25 (35.71%) XSLT
14 24 (34.29%) SharePoint
14 24 (34.29%) Workflow
15 22 (31.43%) CRM
15 22 (31.43%) MS Office
16 21 (30.00%) Dynamics CRM
17 19 (27.14%) SQL Server
17 19 (27.14%) SOA
18 17 (24.29%) Telecoms
19 16 (22.86%) Finance
19 16 (22.86%) Oracle
19 16 (22.86%) .NET Framework
19 16 (22.86%) Degree
20 12 (17.14%) Web Services
21 10 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
21 10 (14.29%) Moq
21 10 (14.29%) WPF
22 9 (12.86%) jQuery

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 65 (92.86%) .NET
2 43 (61.43%) ASP.NET
3 42 (60.00%) XML
4 27 (38.57%) WF
5 25 (35.71%) XSLT
6 16 (22.86%) .NET Framework
7 12 (17.14%) Web Services
8 10 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
8 10 (14.29%) WPF
9 9 (12.86%) jQuery
10 8 (11.43%) Silverlight
11 7 (10.00%) HTML
12 6 (8.571%) CSS
12 6 (8.571%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 6 (8.571%) LINQ
13 5 (7.143%) NHibernate
13 5 (7.143%) SOAP
14 4 (5.714%) ASP
14 4 (5.714%) WSDL
14 4 (5.714%) XML Schema
Application Platforms
1 24 (34.29%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.143%) ESB
2 5 (7.143%) IIS
3 4 (5.714%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (5.714%) Oracle Coherence
4 3 (4.286%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (4.286%) Windows Azure
5 2 (2.857%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (2.857%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (1.429%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 22 (31.43%) MS Office
2 4 (5.714%) MS Excel
3 3 (4.286%) InfoPath
3 3 (4.286%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 21 (30.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.429%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.286%) BSS
2 1 (1.429%) HTTPS
2 1 (1.429%) DNS
2 1 (1.429%) GSM
2 1 (1.429%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.429%) UMTS
2 1 (1.429%) HTTP
2 1 (1.429%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (27.14%) SQL Server
2 8 (11.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (8.571%) Oracle 11g
4 5 (7.143%) SQL Server 2005
5 4 (5.714%) Oracle 10g
6 3 (4.286%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (4.286%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (2.857%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (2.857%) Data Mining
7 2 (2.857%) RDBMS
8 1 (1.429%) SQL Server 2012
8 1 (1.429%) NoSQL
8 1 (1.429%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 28 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 10 (14.29%) Moq
3 9 (12.86%) NUnit
4 8 (11.43%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (7.143%) Subversion
6 3 (4.286%) TeamCity
6 3 (4.286%) ReSharper
6 3 (4.286%) MSI
7 1 (1.429%) Git (software)
7 1 (1.429%) JIRA
7 1 (1.429%) Telelogic TAU
7 1 (1.429%) XMLSpy
7 1 (1.429%) Rational Rose
General
1 17 (24.29%) Telecoms
2 16 (22.86%) Finance
3 2 (2.857%) Marketing
3 2 (2.857%) Games
4 1 (1.429%) Aerospace
4 1 (1.429%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.429%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 54 (77.14%) Developer
2 39 (55.71%) .NET Developer
3 15 (21.43%) VB.NET Developer
4 14 (20.00%) C# Developer
5 12 (17.14%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (8.571%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (7.143%) Design Engineer
7 5 (7.143%) Architect
8 4 (5.714%) Systems Developer
8 4 (5.714%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (5.714%) SOA Developer
8 4 (5.714%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 3 (4.286%) Oracle Developer
9 3 (4.286%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.286%) Software Engineer
9 3 (4.286%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (4.286%) SharePoint Developer
10 2 (2.857%) .NET Web Developer
10 2 (2.857%) Software Development Engineer
10 2 (2.857%) Web Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.43%) Computer Science
2 3 (4.286%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.286%) Inversion of Control
2 3 (4.286%) Mathematics
3 2 (2.857%) Physics
3 2 (2.857%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (2.857%) Kinect
4 1 (1.429%) Open Source
4 1 (1.429%) Applied Mathematics
4 1 (1.429%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 30 (42.86%) Windows
2 1 (1.429%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (57.14%) Scrum
2 32 (45.71%) MVC
3 24 (34.29%) Workflow
4 22 (31.43%) CRM
5 19 (27.14%) SOA
6 9 (12.86%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (12.86%) TDD
7 5 (7.143%) Release Management
7 5 (7.143%) OO
8 4 (5.714%) Service Delivery
8 4 (5.714%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (5.714%) BDD
9 3 (4.286%) User Stories
9 3 (4.286%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (4.286%) Use Case
9 3 (4.286%) Migration
9 3 (4.286%) Data Modelling
9 3 (4.286%) UML
10 2 (2.857%) OOP
10 2 (2.857%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 49 (70.00%) C#
2 39 (55.71%) SQL
3 26 (37.14%) VB.NET
4 9 (12.86%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.43%) PL/SQL
6 6 (8.571%) Perl
6 6 (8.571%) AWK
7 4 (5.714%) Java
7 4 (5.714%) C++
7 4 (5.714%) Python
7 4 (5.714%) sed
8 3 (4.286%) XPath
8 3 (4.286%) C
9 2 (2.857%) VB
10 1 (1.429%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (22.86%) Degree
2 4 (5.714%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.714%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.857%) ISTQB
3 2 (2.857%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.429%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.714%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.429%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 37 (52.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (22.86%) Oracle
3 6 (8.571%) Teradata
4 2 (2.857%) WSO2
5 1 (1.429%) Nokia Siemens Networks
5 1 (1.429%) Telelogic
5 1 (1.429%) Google
5 1 (1.429%) Lotus
5 1 (1.429%) SAP
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