WCF Contracts in the South East

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for WCF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WCF over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 215 262
Rank change year-on-year +20 +47 -52
Contract jobs citing WCF 4 9 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.072% 0.15% 0.064%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 0.86% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
10th Percentile - - £413
25th Percentile - £406 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £478
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -13.61% +16.46%
75th Percentile - £419 £538
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £600 £533 £650
% change year-on-year +12.68% -18.08% +10.64%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

WCF is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 738 1,047 1,550
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 13.30% 17.94% 19.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 458 743 1,032
10th Percentile £313 £363 £353
25th Percentile £406 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £600
90th Percentile £668 £725 £673
England median daily rate £550 £563 £563
% change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 36 41
10th Percentile £35.00 £39.75 £21.00
25th Percentile £56.13 £54.38 £31.25
Median hourly rate £61.60 £70.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +55.56% +4.05%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.72 £67.80
England median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing WCF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for WCF in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCF in the South East.

Daily rate trend for WCF in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCF in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for WCF in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the South East region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hampshire +1 3 £400 -3.03%
Thames Valley +13 1 £400 - 2
Buckinghamshire - 1 £400 - 2
WCF
England

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Applications Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Blazor
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) RESTful
3 2 (50.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (25.00%) REST
4 1 (25.00%) SOAP
4 1 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (25.00%) WinForms
4 1 (25.00%) WPF
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Design Patterns
3 2 (50.00%) ERD
3 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (50.00%) UML
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Full Stack Development
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA