MFC Contract Job Trends in England

Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring MFC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 - 539
Rank change year-on-year - - +96
Contract jobs citing MFC 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.002% - 0.008%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.012% - 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £525 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +22.22%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

MFC 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,009 5,390 7,673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 19.21% 22.51% 20.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,292 3,735 5,418
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £419 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £636 £660 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £538
% change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 260 106 242
10th Percentile £30.98 £31.28 £22.53
25th Percentile £51.81 £43.70 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.00 £66.94
90th Percentile £79.10 £81.01 £74.95
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

MFC
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

MFC job vacancy trend in England

MFC
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MFC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MFC

MFC
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MFC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing MFC

MFC
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MFC within the England region over the 6 months to 3 June 2026. 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
South West - 1 £525 - 6
MFC
UK

MFC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
1 1 (100.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ATL
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle