WCF Contracts in Central London

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 166 182
Rank change year-on-year +36 +16 -35
Contract jobs citing WCF 6 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.25% 0.24% 0.40%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.11% 0.86% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 8
10th Percentile £616 £501 £426
25th Percentile £622 £505 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £605 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.37% +0.83% -4.00%
75th Percentile £647 £713 £666
90th Percentile £649 - £718
London median daily rate £600 £613 £720
% change year-on-year -2.04% -14.93% +12.94%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London 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 540 1,045 1,380
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.28% 27.45% 30.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 684 1,119
10th Percentile £413 £425 £425
25th Percentile £456 £501 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £713
90th Percentile £788 £820 £800
London median daily rate £575 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.33
25th Percentile - - £53.94
Median hourly rate - - £62.25
Median % change year-on-year - - +255.71%
75th Percentile - - £69.94
90th Percentile - - £74.18
London median hourly rate £40.00 £67.25 £48.04
% change year-on-year -40.52% +39.99% -3.92%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing WCF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for WCF in Central London

WCF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCF in Central London.

Daily rate trend for WCF in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCF in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for WCF in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the Central London region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
City of London +40 6 £638 +5.37% 1
WCF
London

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) TeamCity
2 1 (16.67%) NUnit
2 1 (16.67%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 5 (83.33%) Banking
1 5 (83.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 5 (83.33%) Senior
1 5 (83.33%) Senior DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SSIS Developer
2 1 (16.67%) SSRS Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) RabbitMQ
2 5 (83.33%) WinForms
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
3 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (16.67%) Entity Framework
3 1 (16.67%) jQuery
3 1 (16.67%) JSON
3 1 (16.67%) KnockoutJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Configuration Management
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Migration
1 5 (83.33%) SDLC
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Line Management
2 1 (16.67%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle