WCF Contracts in England

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WCF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCF over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 427 482 578
Rank change year-on-year +55 +96 +76
Contract jobs citing WCF 58 60 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.16% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.06% 0.80% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 54 66
10th Percentile £385 £363 £359
25th Percentile £463 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £600 £533
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +12.68% -18.70%
75th Percentile £825 £625 £741
90th Percentile - £650 £800
UK median daily rate £594 £600 £511
% change year-on-year -1.00% +17.36% -20.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WCF in England

WCF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WCF in England

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCF in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCF in England

WCF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WCF in England

WCF
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 WCF within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +38 53 £600 - 9
South East +47 5 £500 +25.00% 6
WCF
UK

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (22.41%) IIS
2 2 (3.45%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (18.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (36.21%) Azure
2 11 (18.97%) Dynamics 365
2 11 (18.97%) Power Platform
3 10 (17.24%) Azure Logic Apps
3 10 (17.24%) PowerApps
4 9 (15.52%) Power Automate
5 8 (13.79%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (13.79%) Serverless
6 7 (12.07%) Azure Functions
7 6 (10.34%) Azure Data Factory
8 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
8 3 (5.17%) SaaS
9 2 (3.45%) AWS
9 2 (3.45%) Azure API Management
9 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (1.72%) Azure AKS
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Event Grid
10 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.72%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (18.97%) Internet
2 2 (3.45%) HTTP
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) FTP
3 1 (1.72%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (55.17%) SQL Server
2 12 (20.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (18.97%) Oracle Database
4 5 (8.62%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (1.72%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.72%) JIRA
3 1 (1.72%) NUnit
General
1 22 (37.93%) Social Skills
2 20 (34.48%) Finance
3 19 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Banking
4 3 (5.17%) Front Office
5 2 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.72%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 44 (75.86%) Developer
2 33 (56.90%) C# Developer
3 20 (34.48%) C++ Developer
3 20 (34.48%) C++/C# Developer
4 11 (18.97%) C# WCF Developer
4 11 (18.97%) C# WPF Developer
4 11 (18.97%) WCF Developer
4 11 (18.97%) WPF Developer
5 9 (15.52%) Architect
6 8 (13.79%) Senior
7 7 (12.07%) .NET Developer
7 7 (12.07%) CRM Architect
8 5 (8.62%) Data Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Senior Data Engineer
8 5 (8.62%) Senior Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (6.90%) Agile Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Azure Engineer
9 4 (6.90%) DevOps Developer
9 4 (6.90%) Dynamics CRM Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (100.00%) .NET
2 33 (56.90%) .NET Framework
3 28 (48.28%) .NET Core
3 28 (48.28%) ASP.NET
3 28 (48.28%) Web Services
4 22 (37.93%) Kafka
5 21 (36.21%) ASP.NET Web API
6 16 (27.59%) HTML
7 15 (25.86%) CSS
7 15 (25.86%) WPF
8 14 (24.14%) JSON
8 14 (24.14%) XML
9 13 (22.41%) WinForms
10 10 (17.24%) REST
11 9 (15.52%) Entity Framework
11 9 (15.52%) HTML5 Canvas
12 6 (10.34%) ASP.NET MVC
13 5 (8.62%) Autofac
13 5 (8.62%) Dapper ORM
13 5 (8.62%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 20 (34.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 18 (31.03%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (8.62%) N-Tier
4 4 (6.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.45%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.45%) Wiki
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 13 (22.41%) Windows
2 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (50.00%) Agile
2 23 (39.66%) DevOps
3 20 (34.48%) Analytics
4 17 (29.31%) Web Development
5 16 (27.59%) CRM
6 11 (18.97%) Data Analysis
6 11 (18.97%) Disaster Recovery
6 11 (18.97%) MVC
7 9 (15.52%) TDD
8 8 (13.79%) OOP
8 8 (13.79%) Unit Testing
9 6 (10.34%) Design Patterns
9 6 (10.34%) Performance Tuning
10 5 (8.62%) BDD
10 5 (8.62%) Data Design
10 5 (8.62%) Inversion of Control
10 5 (8.62%) Scrum
11 4 (6.90%) Batch Processing
11 4 (6.90%) Change Data Capture
11 4 (6.90%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 56 (96.55%) C#
2 32 (55.17%) SQL
3 20 (34.48%) C++
4 17 (29.31%) JavaScript
5 16 (27.59%) T-SQL
6 12 (20.69%) TypeScript
7 11 (18.97%) PL/SQL
7 11 (18.97%) VB
7 11 (18.97%) VBA
8 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.72%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.72%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (1.72%) Bicep
9 1 (1.72%) Java
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) Degree
1 6 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (8.62%) MCPD
2 5 (8.62%) MCSD
3 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.72%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.97%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.72%) SCOM
1 1 (1.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (55.17%) Oracle
2 17 (29.31%) Microsoft
3 11 (18.97%) Citrix
4 2 (3.45%) IBM
4 2 (3.45%) SAP
5 1 (1.72%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.72%) Databricks
5 1 (1.72%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.72%) Splunk