The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington 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 Warrington 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 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WCF 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 2.459% - -
As % of the Application Development category 14.29% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
21 30 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 17.21% 31.91% 25.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 16
Average daily rate £283 £350 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.28% +3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £212 £260 £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £435 £900
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Cheshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Maximo
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Java EE
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 3 (100.00%) WebSphere
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Java EE
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (100.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Maximo
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (100.00%) Asset Management
1 3 (100.00%) Data Management
1 3 (100.00%) Feature Driven Development
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft