WCF Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend 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 Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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 61 73 58
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -15
Contract jobs citing WCF 27 18 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.151% 1.150% 1.867%
As % of the Application Development category 7.714% 5.341% 8.468%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 7
Average daily rate £313 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £271 £239
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £430 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
All Application Development
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 350 337 248
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 27.89% 21.53% 22.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 207 134
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £212 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+94.11% -60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
Yorkshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire WCF Daily Rate Trend

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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire 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
Leeds -1 13 £295 -15.71%
Halifax +12 4 £313 -
Huddersfield - 3 £313 -
Bradford - 2 £325 -
WCF
Yorkshire

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 49 (92.45%) C#
1 49 (92.45%) .NET
2 39 (73.58%) SQL Server
3 25 (47.17%) SQL
4 23 (43.40%) SOAP
4 23 (43.40%) SQL Server 2008
5 21 (39.62%) Razor View Engine
5 21 (39.62%) Agile Software Development
6 19 (35.85%) ASP.NET MVC
7 18 (33.96%) T-SQL
8 17 (32.08%) .NET Framework
9 16 (30.19%) MVC
9 16 (30.19%) XML
9 16 (30.19%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 15 (28.30%) JavaScript
10 15 (28.30%) ASP.NET
10 15 (28.30%) CSS
11 10 (18.87%) HTML
12 9 (16.98%) Workflow
12 9 (16.98%) WPF
13 7 (13.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 7 (13.21%) WinForms
13 7 (13.21%) REST
14 6 (11.32%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (11.32%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
14 6 (11.32%) SQL Server 2005
14 6 (11.32%) Silverlight
14 6 (11.32%) Windows
14 6 (11.32%) BizTalk Server
15 5 (9.434%) XSLT

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 49 (92.45%) .NET
2 23 (43.40%) SOAP
3 21 (39.62%) Razor View Engine
4 19 (35.85%) ASP.NET MVC
5 17 (32.08%) .NET Framework
6 16 (30.19%) XML
6 16 (30.19%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 15 (28.30%) ASP.NET
7 15 (28.30%) CSS
8 10 (18.87%) HTML
9 9 (16.98%) WPF
10 7 (13.21%) WinForms
10 7 (13.21%) REST
11 6 (11.32%) Silverlight
12 5 (9.434%) XSLT
12 5 (9.434%) XHTML
12 5 (9.434%) jQuery
13 2 (3.774%) Web Services
14 1 (1.887%) Managed Extensibility Framework
14 1 (1.887%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 6 (11.32%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (5.660%) CMS
3 2 (3.774%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.660%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (3.774%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.887%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (73.58%) SQL Server
2 23 (43.40%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (13.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (11.32%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (3.774%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 6 (11.32%) Team Foundation Server
1 6 (11.32%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 3 (5.660%) Visual Studio
3 2 (3.774%) JIRA
3 2 (3.774%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (1.887%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (1.887%) Finance
Job Titles
1 52 (98.11%) Developer
2 26 (49.06%) C# Developer
3 23 (43.40%) .NET Developer
4 16 (30.19%) XML Developer
5 6 (11.32%) C# .NET Developer
5 6 (11.32%) ASP.NET Developer
6 5 (9.434%) BizTalk Developer
7 4 (7.547%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 4 (7.547%) WPF Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Agile .NET Developer
8 3 (5.660%) Web Developer
9 2 (3.774%) .NET Web Developer
9 2 (3.774%) C# Web Developer
9 2 (3.774%) Software Developer
9 2 (3.774%) .NET Software Developer
10 1 (1.887%) SQL Programmer
10 1 (1.887%) ASP.NET Programmer
10 1 (1.887%) C# Programmer
10 1 (1.887%) Tester
10 1 (1.887%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (1.887%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.32%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (39.62%) Agile Software Development
2 16 (30.19%) MVC
3 9 (16.98%) Workflow
4 5 (9.434%) Document Management
5 3 (5.660%) OO
5 3 (5.660%) TDD
5 3 (5.660%) Content Management
6 2 (3.774%) CMMI
6 2 (3.774%) Scrum
6 2 (3.774%) Web Development
6 2 (3.774%) RUP
6 2 (3.774%) OOD
6 2 (3.774%) CRM
6 2 (3.774%) E-Commerce
6 2 (3.774%) UML
6 2 (3.774%) MVVM
6 2 (3.774%) Integration Testing
6 2 (3.774%) Test Scripting
7 1 (1.887%) Multithreading
7 1 (1.887%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (92.45%) C#
2 25 (47.17%) SQL
3 18 (33.96%) T-SQL
4 15 (28.30%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.434%) PL/SQL
5 5 (9.434%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (3.774%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.887%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (7.547%) Oracle
2 2 (3.774%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.774%) Perforce
2 2 (3.774%) EPiServer
3 1 (1.887%) Remedy
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