WCF Contracts in London

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 344 425
Rank change year-on-year -5 +81 +89
Contract jobs citing WCF 35 51 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.26% 0.31% 0.20%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 1.15% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 43 41
10th Percentile £385 - £406
25th Percentile £404 £363 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -16.67% -12.19%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £650
90th Percentile £825 £625 £813
England median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -12.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,579 4,439 6,247
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.08% 27.29% 25.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,508 3,209 4,699
10th Percentile £371 £375 £401
25th Percentile £425 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £700 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 39
10th Percentile £31.75 £16.25 £30.60
25th Percentile £33.25 £23.80 £41.63
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -44.03% +30.73%
75th Percentile £62.50 £50.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £70.70 £71.80 £83.71
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% +4.35%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WCF in London

WCF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WCF in London

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCF in London over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCF in London

WCF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for WCF in London

WCF
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
West London - 3 £550 - 2
East London +12 2 £525 +40.00%
WCF
England

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (31.43%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (31.43%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (45.71%) Azure
2 11 (31.43%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 10 (28.57%) PowerApps
4 9 (25.71%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (25.71%) Power Automate
5 7 (20.00%) Azure Functions
5 7 (20.00%) Serverless
6 6 (17.14%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (17.14%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.86%) AWS
7 1 (2.86%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.86%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.86%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (31.43%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (34.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 11 (31.43%) Oracle Database
4 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.86%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 6 (17.14%) Finance
1 6 (17.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (5.71%) Banking
3 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Back Office
4 1 (2.86%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 24 (68.57%) Developer
2 16 (45.71%) C# Developer
3 11 (31.43%) C# WCF Developer
3 11 (31.43%) C# WPF Developer
3 11 (31.43%) WCF Developer
3 11 (31.43%) WPF Developer
4 8 (22.86%) Architect
5 7 (20.00%) CRM Architect
6 5 (14.29%) C++ Developer
6 5 (14.29%) C++/C# Developer
6 5 (14.29%) Data Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Senior
6 5 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (11.43%) CRM Solutions Architect
7 4 (11.43%) Dynamics CRM Architect
8 3 (8.57%) .NET Developer
8 3 (8.57%) Azure Engineer
8 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365 Architect
8 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (85.71%) .NET Framework
3 17 (48.57%) ASP.NET Web API
4 12 (34.29%) .NET Core
4 12 (34.29%) CSS
4 12 (34.29%) HTML
4 12 (34.29%) JSON
4 12 (34.29%) WPF
4 12 (34.29%) XML
5 11 (31.43%) ASP.NET
5 11 (31.43%) WinForms
6 10 (28.57%) Web Services
7 9 (25.71%) HTML5 Canvas
8 8 (22.86%) Entity Framework
9 6 (17.14%) ASP.NET MVC
9 6 (17.14%) Kafka
10 5 (14.29%) Autofac
10 5 (14.29%) Dapper ORM
10 5 (14.29%) REST
10 5 (14.29%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 5 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
1 5 (14.29%) N-Tier
2 4 (11.43%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 11 (31.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (45.71%) CRM
1 16 (45.71%) Web Development
2 12 (34.29%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) Data Analysis
3 11 (31.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (22.86%) DevOps
4 8 (22.86%) TDD
5 7 (20.00%) MVC
6 6 (17.14%) Unit Testing
7 5 (14.29%) Analytics
7 5 (14.29%) BDD
7 5 (14.29%) Data Design
7 5 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 5 (14.29%) Inversion of Control
7 5 (14.29%) OOP
7 5 (14.29%) Performance Tuning
7 5 (14.29%) Scrum
8 4 (11.43%) Batch Processing
8 4 (11.43%) Change Data Capture
8 4 (11.43%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 34 (97.14%) C#
2 29 (82.86%) SQL
3 16 (45.71%) T-SQL
4 12 (34.29%) JavaScript
5 11 (31.43%) PL/SQL
5 11 (31.43%) TypeScript
5 11 (31.43%) VB
5 11 (31.43%) VBA
6 5 (14.29%) C++
7 1 (2.86%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Degree
1 5 (14.29%) MCPD
1 5 (14.29%) MCSD
1 5 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (31.43%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (45.71%) Oracle
2 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
3 11 (31.43%) Citrix
4 1 (2.86%) Cognizant
4 1 (2.86%) Databricks
4 1 (2.86%) IBM
4 1 (2.86%) Splunk