WCF Contracts in the East of England

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 105 121 140
Rank change year-on-year +16 +19 -28
Contract jobs citing WCF 3 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.16% 0.10% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.73% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
England median daily rate £600 £523 £650
% change year-on-year +14.83% -19.62% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £47.83
25th Percentile - - £47.94
Median hourly rate - - £48.75
75th Percentile - - £49.44
90th Percentile - - £49.48
England median hourly rate - - £48.75

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 East of England 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 284 273 395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 15.03% 13.65% 15.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 166 254
10th Percentile £325 £328 £366
25th Percentile £393 £425 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £579 £641 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £684
England median daily rate £550 £560 £570
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.75% +14.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 22 21
10th Percentile - £21.00 -
25th Percentile - £21.38 £48.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.25 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.10% +13.48% +27.78%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.31 £75.25
90th Percentile £66.25 £75.85 £77.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.50
% change year-on-year -26.92% +28.71% +12.22%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for WCF in the East of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for WCF in the East of England

WCF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for WCF in the East of England

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 10 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
Hertfordshire - 2 £350 - 1
Cambridgeshire 0 1 - -
WCF
England

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (33.33%) C# WPF Developer
3 1 (33.33%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Silverlight
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) MVVM
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOA/OOD
2 1 (33.33%) Physics
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) PhD