The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Wales 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 West Wales 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing WCF 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
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 £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
West Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
7 37 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Wales 15.22% 45.12% 31.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 26
Average daily rate £322 £440 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.81% +3.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £40.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Wales

WCF
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Wales 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Junior
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Junior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL