WCF Contract Job Trends in the South West

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring WCF skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 - 152
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WCF 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.051% - 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.37% - 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £450
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £408 £556 £575
% change year-on-year -26.68% -3.35% -17.36%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 273 439 536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 13.94% 16.50% 16.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 253 405
10th Percentile £312 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £438 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £603 £625 £645
90th Percentile £669 £690 £721
England median daily rate £510 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 51 34
10th Percentile £62.25 £65.00 £48.32
25th Percentile - - £63.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% -
75th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.38
90th Percentile £72.00 £85.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £54.00 £62.93 £60.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +4.88% -4.00%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing WCF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for WCF in the South West

WCF
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing WCF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing WCF

WCF
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing WCF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing WCF

WCF
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 September 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
Somerset - 1 £550 -
WCF
England

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) Bootstrap
1 1 (100.00%) Express.js
1 1 (100.00%) Middleware
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Information Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware