The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 22 31 29
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -2
Contract jobs citing WCF 18 11 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 6.000% 3.030% 2.524%
As % of the Application Development category 31.03% 17.46% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 3
Average daily rate £316 £271 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.58% -39.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
58 63 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 19.33% 17.36% 17.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 46 30
Average daily rate £325 £335 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% -10.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £242 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Wiltshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon WCF Hourly Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 24 (96.00%) C#
2 22 (88.00%) .NET
3 17 (68.00%) SQL Server
3 17 (68.00%) Web Services
4 16 (64.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 15 (60.00%) Silverlight
5 15 (60.00%) jQuery
6 14 (56.00%) Unit Testing
6 14 (56.00%) XML
7 13 (52.00%) Windows
7 13 (52.00%) .NET Framework
8 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
8 12 (48.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 12 (48.00%) Visual Studio
8 12 (48.00%) SQL
9 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
9 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
10 8 (32.00%) Scrum
10 8 (32.00%) IIS
10 8 (32.00%) XSLT
10 8 (32.00%) Agile Software Development
11 7 (28.00%) JSON
11 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
11 7 (28.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 7 (28.00%) RIA
11 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
11 7 (28.00%) UML
11 7 (28.00%) Client/Server
11 7 (28.00%) ESRI
11 7 (28.00%) ArcGIS

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 22 (88.00%) .NET
2 17 (68.00%) Web Services
3 16 (64.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 15 (60.00%) Silverlight
4 15 (60.00%) jQuery
5 14 (56.00%) XML
6 13 (52.00%) .NET Framework
7 8 (32.00%) XSLT
8 7 (28.00%) JSON
8 7 (28.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
9 6 (24.00%) ASP.NET
9 6 (24.00%) Ajax
10 5 (20.00%) LINQ
11 4 (16.00%) CSS
12 3 (12.00%) HTML
13 1 (4.000%) AppFabric
13 1 (4.000%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 8 (32.00%) IIS
2 7 (28.00%) ArcGIS
3 6 (24.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 6 (24.00%) SharePoint
3 6 (24.00%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (68.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (28.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 12 (48.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 12 (48.00%) Visual Studio
2 7 (28.00%) MSTest
2 7 (28.00%) Moq
3 5 (20.00%) Subversion
General
1 5 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (12.00%) Retail
3 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.000%) Banking
Job Titles
1 24 (96.00%) Developer
2 12 (48.00%) .NET Developer
3 10 (40.00%) C# Developer
4 7 (28.00%) Software Programmer
4 7 (28.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (28.00%) Programmer
4 7 (28.00%) Software Developer
4 7 (28.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 7 (28.00%) C# Programmer
5 6 (24.00%) SharePoint Developer
6 5 (20.00%) .NET Programmer
7 2 (8.000%) .NET Software Engineer
7 2 (8.000%) C# Software Engineer
7 2 (8.000%) C# Software Developer
7 2 (8.000%) Silverlight Developer
7 2 (8.000%) .NET Software Developer
8 1 (4.000%) Architect
8 1 (4.000%) Analyst
8 1 (4.000%) Test Analyst
8 1 (4.000%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) RIA
1 7 (28.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (52.00%) Windows
2 7 (28.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) Unit Testing
2 8 (32.00%) Scrum
2 8 (32.00%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (28.00%) UML
4 2 (8.000%) MVC
5 1 (4.000%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.000%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) C#
2 12 (48.00%) SQL
3 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (28.00%) DV Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.000%) ISEB
4 1 (4.000%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (28.00%) ESRI
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