WCF Contracts in the City of London

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 162 176
Rank change year-on-year +37 +14 -35
Contract jobs citing WCF 6 14 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.38% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.25% 1.31% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 6
10th Percentile £616 £495 £413
25th Percentile £622 £505 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £675 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +2.13%
75th Percentile £647 £713 £652
90th Percentile £649 - £682
Central London median daily rate £638 £675 £600
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.50% +2.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of 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 480 1,072 1,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.61% 29.01% 30.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 689 1,058
10th Percentile £400 £425 £425
25th Percentile £463 £505 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.60% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £738 £710
90th Percentile £788 £825 £797
Central London median daily rate £551 £625 £600
% change year-on-year -11.88% +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £58.25 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £59.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +25.26% +171.43%
75th Percentile - £60.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £59.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +25.26% +171.43%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for WCF in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCF in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for WCF in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCF in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for WCF in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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