WCF Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 69 63 61
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -2
Contract jobs citing WCF 26 41 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.592% 1.829% 2.167%
As % of the Application Development category 6.736% 7.621% 8.705%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 28 33
Average daily rate £325 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £425 £312
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
Search 48 WCF jobs in the West Midlands
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 386 538 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.64% 24.00% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 293 255
Average daily rate £300 £300 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £17.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.85% -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £40.00 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
England

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham +9 14 £325 +8.33%
Warwickshire -3 2 £275 -
Worcestershire - 2 - -
Coventry -5 1 £300 -25.00%
Shropshire - 1 - -
WCF
England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 51 (83.61%) .NET
2 48 (78.69%) C#
3 40 (65.57%) SQL Server
4 38 (62.30%) ASP.NET
5 26 (42.62%) JavaScript
6 23 (37.70%) SQL
7 22 (36.07%) Visual Studio
7 22 (36.07%) Windows
8 19 (31.15%) Web Services
9 16 (26.23%) .NET Framework
9 16 (26.23%) jQuery
10 15 (24.59%) HTML
10 15 (24.59%) MVC
11 14 (22.95%) CSS
12 12 (19.67%) XML
12 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
12 12 (19.67%) WPF
12 12 (19.67%) ASP.NET MVC
13 11 (18.03%) SQL Server 2008
14 10 (16.39%) Mobile App
15 9 (14.75%) Windows Mobile
15 9 (14.75%) VB.NET
16 8 (13.11%) Team Foundation Server
17 7 (11.48%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 7 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
17 7 (11.48%) Unit Testing
17 7 (11.48%) Ajax
18 6 (9.836%) Silverlight
18 6 (9.836%) UML
19 5 (8.197%) MS Excel

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 51 (83.61%) .NET
2 38 (62.30%) ASP.NET
3 19 (31.15%) Web Services
4 16 (26.23%) .NET Framework
4 16 (26.23%) jQuery
5 15 (24.59%) HTML
6 14 (22.95%) CSS
7 12 (19.67%) XML
7 12 (19.67%) WPF
7 12 (19.67%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (11.48%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 7 (11.48%) Ajax
9 6 (9.836%) Silverlight
10 5 (8.197%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 4 (6.557%) Managed Extensibility Framework
11 4 (6.557%) WinForms
11 4 (6.557%) WF
11 4 (6.557%) SOAP
12 3 (4.918%) XSLT
12 3 (4.918%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.197%) IIS
2 4 (6.557%) ArcGIS
3 3 (4.918%) SharePoint
3 3 (4.918%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (3.279%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (1.639%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.639%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.639%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (1.639%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.639%) SharePoint Foundation
Applications
1 5 (8.197%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.279%) InfoPath
2 2 (3.279%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.918%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.639%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (65.57%) SQL Server
2 11 (18.03%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (8.197%) SQL Server 2005
4 4 (6.557%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.639%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.639%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.639%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.639%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 22 (36.07%) Visual Studio
2 8 (13.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (8.197%) Moq
4 4 (6.557%) MSTest
5 3 (4.918%) Subversion
6 2 (3.279%) MSBuild
7 1 (1.639%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (1.639%) CruiseControl
7 1 (1.639%) NUnit
7 1 (1.639%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.639%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (3.279%) Retail
1 2 (3.279%) Marketing
1 2 (3.279%) Finance
1 2 (3.279%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.639%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (1.639%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.639%) Swedish Language
2 1 (1.639%) Billing
Job Titles
1 54 (88.52%) Developer
2 30 (49.18%) .NET Developer
3 15 (24.59%) C# Developer
4 11 (18.03%) ASP.NET Developer
5 10 (16.39%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (13.11%) Mobile Developer
7 7 (11.48%) Mobile Applications Developer
8 6 (9.836%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 5 (8.197%) Web Developer
10 4 (6.557%) Senior Project Manager
10 4 (6.557%) C# Programmer
10 4 (6.557%) Software Programmer
10 4 (6.557%) Senior Manager
10 4 (6.557%) Programmer
10 4 (6.557%) Software Engineer
10 4 (6.557%) Software Developer
10 4 (6.557%) Project Manager
11 3 (4.918%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.918%) Senior .NET Developer
12 2 (3.279%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.39%) Mobile App
2 5 (8.197%) Client/Server
3 4 (6.557%) RIA
3 4 (6.557%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.639%) Pocket PC
4 1 (1.639%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 22 (36.07%) Windows
2 9 (14.75%) Windows Mobile
3 4 (6.557%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.639%) UNIX
4 1 (1.639%) Linux
4 1 (1.639%) Windows CE
4 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.639%) Windows Vista
4 1 (1.639%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.639%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (24.59%) MVC
2 7 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (11.48%) Unit Testing
3 6 (9.836%) UML
4 5 (8.197%) TDD
5 4 (6.557%) BDD
5 4 (6.557%) Logistics
5 4 (6.557%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (6.557%) Change Management
5 4 (6.557%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (6.557%) E-Commerce
6 3 (4.918%) CRM
7 2 (3.279%) Software Testing
7 2 (3.279%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (3.279%) Workflow
7 2 (3.279%) OO
8 1 (1.639%) RUP
8 1 (1.639%) OOA/OOD
8 1 (1.639%) OOD
8 1 (1.639%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 48 (78.69%) C#
2 26 (42.62%) JavaScript
3 23 (37.70%) SQL
4 9 (14.75%) VB.NET
5 4 (6.557%) T-SQL
6 3 (4.918%) XAML
7 2 (3.279%) J#
7 2 (3.279%) VB
8 1 (1.639%) Perl
8 1 (1.639%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.639%) Java
8 1 (1.639%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 5 (8.197%) DV Cleared
1 5 (8.197%) Security Cleared
2 3 (4.918%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.639%) ISEB
3 1 (1.639%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.639%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (19.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.557%) ESRI
2 4 (6.557%) Oracle
3 2 (3.279%) Apple
3 2 (3.279%) Adobe
3 2 (3.279%) Macromedia
4 1 (1.639%) DevExpress
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You will need; C# ASP.NET WCF SQL Server In addition to the above key skills you will also need JQuery, JavaScript and any exposure to transactional websites...
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Rate: From £300 to £315 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
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