The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the York region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 23 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 York 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing WCF 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in York 2.326% - -
As % of the Application Development category 5.556% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £275 - -
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
York
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
36 20 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in York 41.86% 34.48% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 3
Average daily rate £352 £325 £108
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.23% +202.32%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WCF
North Yorkshire

WCF
Jobs Demand Trend

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

York 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 York region.

York WCF Daily Rate Trend

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) C#
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
3 7 (77.78%) MVC
3 7 (77.78%) OO
3 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 7 (77.78%) Web Services
4 6 (66.67%) XML
4 6 (66.67%) XSLT
4 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (66.67%) TDD
4 6 (66.67%) Ajax
4 6 (66.67%) LINQ
4 6 (66.67%) jQuery
4 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (55.56%) HTML5
5 5 (55.56%) CSS3
5 5 (55.56%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (55.56%) JSON
5 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (55.56%) Requirements Analysis
5 5 (55.56%) Web Development
5 5 (55.56%) Subversion
5 5 (55.56%) OOP
5 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
5 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
5 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (55.56%) W3C
5 5 (55.56%) HTML

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
3 7 (77.78%) Web Services
4 6 (66.67%) XML
4 6 (66.67%) XSLT
4 6 (66.67%) Ajax
4 6 (66.67%) LINQ
4 6 (66.67%) jQuery
4 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (55.56%) HTML5
5 5 (55.56%) CSS3
5 5 (55.56%) Razor View Engine
5 5 (55.56%) JSON
5 5 (55.56%) HTML
5 5 (55.56%) CSS
6 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
7 2 (22.22%) .NET Remoting
7 2 (22.22%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (11.11%) SOAP
8 1 (11.11%) XSD
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Subversion
1 5 (55.56%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Developer
1 8 (88.89%) .NET Developer
2 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) C# Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) .NET Programmer
3 1 (11.11%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) W3C
2 2 (22.22%) Open Source
2 2 (22.22%) N-Tier
3 1 (11.11%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) MVC
1 7 (77.78%) OO
2 6 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (66.67%) TDD
3 5 (55.56%) Requirements Analysis
3 5 (55.56%) Web Development
3 5 (55.56%) OOP
3 5 (55.56%) Data Modelling
4 2 (22.22%) AOP
4 2 (22.22%) OOD
4 2 (22.22%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 5 (55.56%) T-SQL
5 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Microsoft