WCF Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 416 475
Rank change year-on-year +27 +59 -75
Contract jobs citing WCF 7 31 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.034% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.72% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 22
10th Percentile - £350 £367
25th Percentile £350 £360 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £453
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -8.84% +10.37%
75th Percentile - £427 £536
90th Percentile - £455 £573
UK median daily rate £575 £505 £634
% change year-on-year +13.86% -20.32% +7.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £47.83
25th Percentile - - £47.94
Median hourly rate - - £48.75
75th Percentile - - £49.44
90th Percentile - - £49.48
UK median hourly rate - - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +39.29%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding 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 3,239 4,303 6,078
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.81% 18.34% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,217 4,324
10th Percentile £324 £359 £363
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £689 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 209 92 136
10th Percentile £21.63 £22.26 £20.25
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.95 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +31.63% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.95
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.07 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.65% +10.56%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WCF in the UK excluding London

WCF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for WCF in the UK excluding London

WCF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for WCF in the UK excluding London

WCF
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +20 4 £400 -3.03% 2
East of England +9 3 £350 - 1
WCF
UK

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) .NET Developer
3 2 (28.57%) Software Developer
4 1 (14.29%) Applications Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
4 1 (14.29%) C# WPF Developer
4 1 (14.29%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
2 4 (57.14%) Entity Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Blazor
3 3 (42.86%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (28.57%) JSON
4 2 (28.57%) RESTful
4 2 (28.57%) WPF
4 2 (28.57%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 1 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) Silverlight
5 1 (14.29%) SOAP
5 1 (14.29%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Design Patterns
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 3 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 3 (42.86%) UML
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) ERD
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
4 1 (14.29%) MVVM
4 1 (14.29%) OO
4 1 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
4 1 (14.29%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) T-SQL
3 1 (14.29%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Master's Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA