MFC Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Foundation Class Library (MFC)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring MFC skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 632 - 576
Rank change year-on-year - - +104
Contract jobs citing MFC 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.002% - 0.007%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.010% - 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 - £550

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

MFC 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,583 6,581 9,063
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.62% 22.87% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,302 4,512 6,285
10th Percentile £363 £360 £350
25th Percentile £423 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £538
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -3.26% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 280 117 257
10th Percentile £30.98 £29.18 £21.89
25th Percentile £52.38 £39.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.11 £68.75 £66.25
90th Percentile £81.03 £81.15 £74.46
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

MFC
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing MFC relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

MFC job vacancy trend in the UK

MFC
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MFC.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MFC

MFC
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MFC.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing MFC

MFC
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing MFC within the UK over the 6 months to 3 June 2026. 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 West - 1 £525 - 6
England - 1 £525 - 8
Work from Home - 1 £525 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £525 - 8

MFC
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) InDesign
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Figma
1 1 (100.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) GIS
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
1 1 (100.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (100.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C++ Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ATL
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SignalR
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Security
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bicep
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle