WCF Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring WCF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 91 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing WCF 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.15% 0.14% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.85% 0.77% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £466 - -
25th Percentile £472 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £497 - -
90th Percentile £499 - -
England median daily rate £408 £570 £580
% change year-on-year -28.51% -1.72% -17.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

WCF falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 236 259 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 17.43% 17.64% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 107 128
10th Percentile £355 £299 £334
25th Percentile £416 £323 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £595 £514 £602
90th Percentile £700 £610 £691
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 46 10
10th Percentile £40.75 - £41.04
25th Percentile £43.00 - £48.44
Median hourly rate £64.25 £43.00 £56.53
Median % change year-on-year +49.42% -23.93% -13.36%
75th Percentile £65.06 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.63 - £73.98
England median hourly rate £54.70 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -15.85% +13.04% -11.54%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WCF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

WCF job vacancy trend in the East of England

WCF
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WCF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WCF

WCF
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WCF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing WCF

WCF
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the East of England region over the 6 months to 12 October 2025. 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
Norfolk - 1 £475 - 1
Suffolk - 1 £500 -
WCF
England

WCF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Fargate
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Route 53
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS3
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Express.js
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
2 1 (50.00%) NgRx
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SaltStack