WCF Contracts in London

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 337 447 498
Rank change year-on-year +110 +51 -99
Contract jobs citing WCF 53 46 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.30% 0.18% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 0.66% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 42 81
10th Percentile £363 £406 £438
25th Percentile £474 £505 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £613 £692
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -11.43% +7.43%
75th Percentile £625 £800 £800
90th Percentile £650 - -
England median daily rate £600 £520 £650
% change year-on-year +15.38% -20.00% +8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London 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 4,463 7,009 11,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.57% 27.09% 31.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,336 5,249 9,292
10th Percentile £377 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £704
90th Percentile £825 £810 £794
England median daily rate £550 £560 £568
% change year-on-year -1.79% -1.32% +13.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 39 68
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.60 £32.13
25th Percentile £23.80 £41.63 £35.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £67.50 £49.28
Median % change year-on-year -40.74% +36.97% -1.09%
75th Percentile £63.13 £75.00 £67.81
90th Percentile £72.60 £82.40 £78.98
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

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 16 May 2024.

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 16 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
Central London +34 6 £638 +5.37% 2
East London - 1 £375 -
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 9 (16.98%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (16.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (9.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.89%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) Azure
2 5 (9.43%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (7.55%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.77%) GitHub
6 1 (1.89%) PaaS
6 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.98%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (58.49%) SQL Server
2 12 (22.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 9 (16.98%) Oracle Database
4 8 (15.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 7 (13.21%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (45.28%) TeamCity
2 5 (9.43%) NUnit
2 5 (9.43%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (5.66%) Selenium
4 1 (1.89%) Git
4 1 (1.89%) InstallShield
4 1 (1.89%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (24.53%) Banking
2 12 (22.64%) Finance
3 8 (15.09%) Investment Banking
4 6 (11.32%) Social Skills
5 2 (3.77%) Back Office
5 2 (3.77%) Front Office
6 1 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (58.49%) Developer
2 23 (43.40%) C# Developer
3 18 (33.96%) DevOps Engineer
4 12 (22.64%) C# WCF Developer
4 12 (22.64%) WCF Developer
5 11 (20.75%) Senior
5 11 (20.75%) WPF Developer
6 9 (16.98%) C# WPF Developer
7 8 (15.09%) .NET Developer
8 6 (11.32%) Senior Developer
9 5 (9.43%) Architect
9 5 (9.43%) Senior DevOps
9 5 (9.43%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 4 (7.55%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 4 (7.55%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
10 4 (7.55%) Senior .NET Developer
10 4 (7.55%) Solutions Architect
11 3 (5.66%) SSIS Developer
11 3 (5.66%) SSRS Developer
12 2 (3.77%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (94.34%) .NET
2 27 (50.94%) WinForms
3 22 (41.51%) .NET Framework
4 14 (26.42%) WPF
5 11 (20.75%) Entity Framework
6 9 (16.98%) AngularJS
6 9 (16.98%) ASP.NET
7 7 (13.21%) RabbitMQ
8 5 (9.43%) .NET Core
8 5 (9.43%) ASP.NET Web API
8 5 (9.43%) jQuery
8 5 (9.43%) JSON
8 5 (9.43%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
9 3 (5.66%) KnockoutJS
9 3 (5.66%) Web Services
9 3 (5.66%) XML
10 2 (3.77%) Ajax
10 2 (3.77%) CSS
10 2 (3.77%) HTML
10 2 (3.77%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.77%) Fixed Income
1 2 (3.77%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 17 (32.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (52.83%) DevOps
2 23 (43.40%) Migration
3 16 (30.19%) MVC
4 10 (18.87%) Unit Testing
5 9 (16.98%) Data Analysis
5 9 (16.98%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (13.21%) Configuration Management
6 7 (13.21%) SDLC
7 5 (9.43%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (9.43%) CRM
7 5 (9.43%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (9.43%) Data Integration
7 5 (9.43%) Data Migration
7 5 (9.43%) Performance Tuning
8 4 (7.55%) Front End Development
9 3 (5.66%) Customer Service
9 3 (5.66%) Line Management
9 3 (5.66%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (3.77%) CI/CD
10 2 (3.77%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 52 (98.11%) C#
2 47 (88.68%) SQL
3 14 (26.42%) PL/SQL
3 14 (26.42%) T-SQL
4 12 (22.64%) JavaScript
5 9 (16.98%) PowerShell
5 9 (16.98%) VB
5 9 (16.98%) VBA
6 3 (5.66%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (18.87%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) ISO 15022
2 1 (1.89%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 7 (13.21%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.89%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.89%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.89%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 16 (30.19%) Oracle
2 10 (18.87%) Microsoft
3 9 (16.98%) Citrix
4 2 (3.77%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.77%) SAP