The first table below looks at the demand for WCF skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Rank 73 79 60
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -19
Contract jobs citing WCF 40 33 43
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 2.107% 1.440% 2.367%
As % of the Application Development category 7.030% 6.022% 9.598%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 10 12
Average daily rate £313 £300 £268
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +12.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £183 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £426 £337
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £39.00 - £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £39.00 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year
+11.42% +7.69%
All Application Development
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
569 548 448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 29.98% 23.91% 24.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 326 231
Average daily rate £300 £310 £285
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.22% +8.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £213 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 18
Average hourly rate £33.00 £13.75 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+140.00% -67.64%
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 Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
West Yorkshire +12 29 £313 +4.16%
South Yorkshire 0 7 £266 -
North Yorkshire +1 3 £275 -
WCF
England

WCF
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 78 (93.98%) .NET
2 77 (92.77%) C#
3 61 (73.49%) SQL Server
4 41 (49.40%) ASP.NET
4 41 (49.40%) SQL
5 32 (38.55%) SQL Server 2008
6 30 (36.14%) MVC
7 29 (34.94%) ASP.NET MVC
7 29 (34.94%) Agile Software Development
8 28 (33.73%) CSS
9 27 (32.53%) JavaScript
9 27 (32.53%) Razor View Engine
10 25 (30.12%) SOAP
10 25 (30.12%) .NET Framework
11 24 (28.92%) T-SQL
11 24 (28.92%) XML
12 21 (25.30%) HTML
13 20 (24.10%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 17 (20.48%) Web Services
14 17 (20.48%) jQuery
15 15 (18.07%) Windows
15 15 (18.07%) SQL Server 2005
16 14 (16.87%) WPF
16 14 (16.87%) VB.NET
17 13 (15.66%) Visual Studio
17 13 (15.66%) XSLT
18 11 (13.25%) OO
18 11 (13.25%) Workflow
18 11 (13.25%) TDD
19 10 (12.05%) WinForms

WCF
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 78 (93.98%) .NET
2 41 (49.40%) ASP.NET
3 29 (34.94%) ASP.NET MVC
4 28 (33.73%) CSS
5 27 (32.53%) Razor View Engine
6 25 (30.12%) SOAP
6 25 (30.12%) .NET Framework
7 24 (28.92%) XML
8 21 (25.30%) HTML
9 20 (24.10%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 17 (20.48%) jQuery
10 17 (20.48%) Web Services
11 14 (16.87%) WPF
12 13 (15.66%) XSLT
13 10 (12.05%) WinForms
13 10 (12.05%) LINQ
14 8 (9.639%) REST
14 8 (9.639%) Ajax
15 7 (8.434%) XHTML
15 7 (8.434%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 10 (12.05%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (6.024%) CMS
3 4 (4.819%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.410%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 4 (4.819%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (2.410%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.410%) SSL
2 1 (1.205%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (73.49%) SQL Server
2 32 (38.55%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (18.07%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (9.639%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.410%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (2.410%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.410%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.205%) Microsoft Analysis Services
6 1 (1.205%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.205%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.205%) SQL CLR
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) Visual Studio
2 7 (8.434%) Subversion
2 7 (8.434%) Team Foundation Server
2 7 (8.434%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 2 (2.410%) Git (software)
3 2 (2.410%) JIRA
3 2 (2.410%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (1.205%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (2.410%) Finance
2 1 (1.205%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 80 (96.39%) Developer
2 41 (49.40%) .NET Developer
3 30 (36.14%) C# Developer
4 16 (19.28%) ASP.NET Developer
4 16 (19.28%) XML Developer
5 9 (10.84%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (8.434%) Software Developer
7 6 (7.229%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (6.024%) BizTalk Developer
9 4 (4.819%) WPF Developer
10 3 (3.614%) Agile .NET Developer
10 3 (3.614%) Web Developer
11 2 (2.410%) .NET Web Developer
11 2 (2.410%) .NET Software Developer
11 2 (2.410%) C# Web Developer
12 1 (1.205%) .NET Programmer
12 1 (1.205%) Software Programmer
12 1 (1.205%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
12 1 (1.205%) ASP.NET Programmer
12 1 (1.205%) C# Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.024%) N-Tier
1 5 (6.024%) W3C
2 2 (2.410%) Open Source
3 1 (1.205%) Clustering
3 1 (1.205%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.07%) Windows
2 2 (2.410%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (36.14%) MVC
2 29 (34.94%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (13.25%) TDD
3 11 (13.25%) Workflow
3 11 (13.25%) OO
4 9 (10.84%) Web Development
5 6 (7.229%) Document Management
5 6 (7.229%) Scrum
6 5 (6.024%) OOP
6 5 (6.024%) Data Modelling
6 5 (6.024%) Requirements Analysis
7 4 (4.819%) OOD
7 4 (4.819%) Content Management
8 3 (3.614%) SOA
8 3 (3.614%) CMMI
8 3 (3.614%) RUP
8 3 (3.614%) Test Scripting
9 2 (2.410%) AOP
9 2 (2.410%) Unit Testing
9 2 (2.410%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 77 (92.77%) C#
2 41 (49.40%) SQL
3 27 (32.53%) JavaScript
4 24 (28.92%) T-SQL
5 14 (16.87%) VB.NET
6 9 (10.84%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.410%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (6.024%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (3.614%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.205%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.024%) Oracle
3 2 (2.410%) Perforce
3 2 (2.410%) EPiServer
4 1 (1.205%) Remedy
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