WCF Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WCF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 345 407
Rank change year-on-year -28 +62 +78
Contract jobs citing WCF 5 20 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.12% 0.056%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% 0.67% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 12
10th Percentile £466 £357 £401
25th Percentile £472 £422 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £567 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +26.00% -5.26%
75th Percentile £525 £573 -
90th Percentile £570 £587 -
UK median daily rate £408 £570 £590
% change year-on-year -28.51% -3.39% -9.23%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,095 2,992 3,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.33% 17.37% 17.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,021 1,813 2,706
10th Percentile £319 £325 £325
25th Percentile £400 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £507 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -6.97% -0.91% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 137 133 153
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £45.90
25th Percentile £43.00 £43.00 £46.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.56
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +16.99% -14.52%
75th Percentile £66.50 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.30 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £51.97 £65.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.05% +13.04% -11.54%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WCF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

WCF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WCF
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCF

WCF
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCF

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 17 October 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
East of England -5 2 £488 - 1
North of England -30 2 £475 -16.23% 4
Yorkshire -31 2 £475 -16.23%
South West - 1 £550 -
WCF
UK

WCF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Serverless
2 2 (40.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) Kerberos
2 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (40.00%) AngularJS
3 2 (40.00%) Express.js
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (20.00%) Bootstrap
4 1 (20.00%) CSS
4 1 (20.00%) CSS3
4 1 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 1 (20.00%) HTML5
4 1 (20.00%) jQuery
4 1 (20.00%) LDAP
4 1 (20.00%) Middleware
4 1 (20.00%) React
4 1 (20.00%) RESTful
4 1 (20.00%) RxJS
4 1 (20.00%) SOAP
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (20.00%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (40.00%) DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (40.00%) Scrum
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Change Control
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Information Assurance
2 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (20.00%) MVVM
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) SDLC
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (20.00%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Nagios
1 1 (20.00%) Progress Chef
1 1 (20.00%) Puppet
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SaltStack
1 1 (20.00%) VMware