WCF Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WCF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WCF over the 3 months to 22 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) UK
Location	3 months to 22 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	233	260	172
Rank change year-on-year	+27	-88
Contract jobs citing WCF	487	513	793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.04%	0.95%	1.41%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category	3.23%	3.35%	5.14%
Number of daily rates quoted	366	373	573
Median daily rate	£413	£400	£385
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.12%	+3.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£310	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£573	£575
UK excluding London median daily rate	£350	£350	£350
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	4	10
Median hourly rate	£46.63	£42.50	£23.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+9.70%	+78.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£37.50	£26.05	£22.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£44.25	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£43.25	£42.50	£23.75
% change year-on-year	+1.76%	+78.94%

WCF is in the industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills.

Contract Software Library & Framework Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for industry standards, technical specifications and software library and framework skills	15082	15298	15416
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	32.18%	28.37%	27.42%
Number of daily rates quoted	10422	10796	10312
Median daily rate	£430	£420	£388
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.38%	+8.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£315	£300	£285
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£580	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£350
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted	204	179	206
Median hourly rate	£41.50	£36.00	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+15.27%	+2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£16.08	£16.00	£17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£50.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£42.50	£36.00	£38.89
% change year-on-year	+18.05%	-7.41%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing WCF as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category.

WCF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing WCF.

Contractor daily rate trend for WCF in the UK

WCF
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing WCF over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for WCF in the UK

WCF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCF.

Contractor hourly rate trend for WCF in the UK

WCF
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing WCF over the 3 months to 22 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for WCF in the UK

WCF
Top 30 Contract Locations

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 over the 3 months to 22 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+13	435	£425	+6.25%	262
London	+23	210	£475	+5.55%	80
South East	+28	83	£388	-0.32%	52
City of London	+25	51	£513	+9.33%	14
South West	+29	50	£325	-7.14%	17
East of England	-2	32	£320	-28.88%	25
Wiltshire	+21	26	£303	-24.37%	3
Kent	+21	25	£350	-15.15%	4
Belfast	-18	24	£316	-
County Antrim	-22	24	£316	-
Northern Ireland	-24	24	£316	-
East Midlands	-29	24	£338	-8.16%	22
South Wales	+11	22	£375	-3.22%	2
Wales	+8	22	£375	-3.22%	3
Cardiff	+9	19	£375	-3.22%	2
Hampshire	+9	18	£325	-13.33%	16
Nottinghamshire	-12	15	£350	-17.64%	8
Surrey	-5	14	£400	-16.66%	10
Hertfordshire	+10	13	£348	-0.71%	12
West Midlands	+4	12	£344	-17.10%	12
North West	+3	12	£356	+9.61%	35
Nottingham	-10	12	£353	-17.05%	8
Berkshire	+19	11	£475	+48.43%	3
Bristol	0	11	£350	+3.70%	4
Tunbridge Wells	+12	10	£350	-15.15%	2
Cambridgeshire	+6	10	£300	-31.42%	7
Yorkshire	-8	10	£350	+2.94%	16
Swindon	+11	9	£340	-16.04%	3
Leicester	+7	8	£300	-	3
Portsmouth	+5	8	£325	-	6

WCF
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing WCF also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for WCF.

1	812 (87.41%)	.NET
2	776 (83.53%)	C#
3	520 (55.97%)	SQL Server
4	418 (44.99%)	Agile Software Development
5	409 (44.03%)	SQL
6	400 (43.06%)	MVC
7	381 (41.01%)	Microsoft
8	355 (38.21%)	JavaScript
9	352 (37.89%)	ASP.NET
10	336 (36.17%)	.NET Framework
11	300 (32.29%)	TDD
12	285 (30.68%)	WPF
13	280 (30.14%)	HTML
14	271 (29.17%)	ASP.NET Web API
15	264 (28.42%)	CSS

15	264 (28.42%)	Web Services
16	217 (23.36%)	Team Foundation Server
17	212 (22.82%)	Finance
18	198 (21.31%)	Visual Studio
19	187 (20.13%)	Scrum
20	186 (20.02%)	AngularJS
21	182 (19.59%)	ASP.NET MVC
22	178 (19.16%)	Entity Framework
23	165 (17.76%)	Windows
23	165 (17.76%)	CRM
24	143 (15.39%)	XML
24	143 (15.39%)	Unit Testing
25	142 (15.29%)	jQuery
26	134 (14.42%)	Microsoft Azure
27	131 (14.10%)	Dynamics CRM

WCF
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	98 (10.55%)	SharePoint
2	66 (7.10%)	IIS
3	44 (4.74%)	BizTalk Server
4	30 (3.23%)	CMS
5	23 (2.48%)	NServiceBus
6	14 (1.51%)	SharePoint 2013
6	14 (1.51%)	Sitecore CMS
7	13 (1.40%)	Oracle SOA Suite
8	8 (0.86%)	SharePoint 2010
9	7 (0.75%)	Umbraco
10	5 (0.54%)	Confluence
11	4 (0.43%)	MS Project Server
11	4 (0.43%)	Oracle Coherence
11	4 (0.43%)	SharePoint Server
12	3 (0.32%)	Elasticsearch
12	3 (0.32%)	Skype for Business
12	3 (0.32%)	ThingWorx
12	3 (0.32%)	Tomcat
12	3 (0.32%)	WebSphere
13	2 (0.22%)	JBoss

Applications
1	19 (2.05%)	Microsoft Excel
2	8 (0.86%)	Microsoft Office
3	3 (0.32%)	Microsoft Project
3	3 (0.32%)	MS Visio
3	3 (0.32%)	Spreadsheet
4	2 (0.22%)	InfoPath

Business Applications
1	131 (14.10%)	Dynamics CRM
2	21 (2.26%)	Dynamics AX
3	2 (0.22%)	Dynamics NAV
3	2 (0.22%)	SimCorp Dimension
4	1 (0.11%)	Endur
4	1 (0.11%)	Markit EDM
4	1 (0.11%)	SAP Oil and Gas
4	1 (0.11%)	Unit4 Business World

Cloud Services
1	134 (14.42%)	Microsoft Azure
2	36 (3.88%)	PaaS
3	34 (3.66%)	IaaS
4	20 (2.15%)	Amazon AWS
5	13 (1.40%)	SaaS
6	6 (0.65%)	Dynamics 365
7	4 (0.43%)	Cloud Computing
7	4 (0.43%)	Office 365
8	1 (0.11%)	GitHub
8	1 (0.11%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	11 (1.18%)	TCP/IP
2	9 (0.97%)	Internet
3	7 (0.75%)	DNS
4	4 (0.43%)	HTTP
4	4 (0.43%)	HTTPS
4	4 (0.43%)	Multicast
4	4 (0.43%)	SMTP
4	4 (0.43%)	SSL
4	4 (0.43%)	Wireshark
4	4 (0.43%)	X.509
5	3 (0.32%)	AMQP
5	3 (0.32%)	IMAP
5	3 (0.32%)	Kerberos
5	3 (0.32%)	LAN
5	3 (0.32%)	VoIP
6	2 (0.22%)	Extranet
6	2 (0.22%)	Intranet
6	2 (0.22%)	LDAP
6	2 (0.22%)	NetScaler
6	2 (0.22%)	Wi-Fi

Database & Business Intelligence
1	520 (55.97%)	SQL Server
2	118 (12.70%)	SQL Server 2008
3	109 (11.73%)	SQL Server Integration Services
4	80 (8.61%)	SQL Server 2012
5	65 (7.00%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	63 (6.78%)	Relational Database
7	39 (4.20%)	Oracle Database
8	35 (3.77%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
9	33 (3.55%)	Oracle Database 11g
10	29 (3.12%)	RDBMS
11	28 (3.01%)	NoSQL
11	28 (3.01%)	SQL Server 2005
12	21 (2.26%)	SQL Server 2014
13	16 (1.72%)	Oracle9i Database
14	13 (1.40%)	MongoDB
15	11 (1.18%)	SQL Server 2016
16	9 (0.97%)	Oracle Database 10g
17	8 (0.86%)	Big Data
17	8 (0.86%)	Data Warehouse
18	7 (0.75%)	Azure SQL Database

Development Applications
1	217 (23.36%)	Team Foundation Server
2	198 (21.31%)	Visual Studio
3	96 (10.33%)	NUnit
4	81 (8.72%)	JIRA
5	71 (7.64%)	Visual Studio Team System
6	67 (7.21%)	MSTest
7	58 (6.24%)	Moq
8	47 (5.06%)	Git (software)
9	37 (3.98%)	MSBuild
10	27 (2.91%)	TeamCity
11	22 (2.37%)	Jenkins
11	22 (2.37%)	ReSharper
12	20 (2.15%)	Subversion
13	19 (2.05%)	SpecFlow
14	18 (1.94%)	Oracle Forms
15	15 (1.61%)	Selenium
16	14 (1.51%)	JSUnit
17	10 (1.08%)	Rhino Mocks
17	10 (1.08%)	WiX
18	9 (0.97%)	NuGet

General
1	212 (22.82%)	Finance
2	114 (12.27%)	Banking
3	76 (8.18%)	Front Office
4	42 (4.52%)	Investment Banking
5	13 (1.40%)	Back Office
6	12 (1.29%)	Marketing
7	11 (1.18%)	Retail
8	7 (0.75%)	Automotive
8	7 (0.75%)	Manufacturing
9	6 (0.65%)	Legal
9	6 (0.65%)	Publishing
10	5 (0.54%)	Financial Institution
10	5 (0.54%)	Telecoms
11	4 (0.43%)	Electronics
12	2 (0.22%)	Advertising
12	2 (0.22%)	Interactive Media
12	2 (0.22%)	Local Government
12	2 (0.22%)	Private Banking
12	2 (0.22%)	Retail Banking
13	1 (0.11%)	Billing

Job Titles
1	826 (88.91%)	Developer
2	433 (46.61%)	.NET Developer
3	389 (41.87%)	C# Developer
4	199 (21.42%)	C# .NET Developer
5	105 (11.30%)	WPF Developer
6	103 (11.09%)	Senior Developer
6	103 (11.09%)	WCF Developer
7	100 (10.76%)	SQL Developer
8	85 (9.15%)	C# WCF Developer
9	75 (8.07%)	ASP.NET Developer
10	74 (7.97%)	CRM Developer
11	67 (7.21%)	C# WPF Developer
12	66 (7.10%)	Dynamics CRM Developer
12	66 (7.10%)	Senior C# Developer
13	64 (6.89%)	Software Developer
14	63 (6.78%)	Microsoft Developer
15	62 (6.67%)	ASP.NET MVC Developer
16	58 (6.24%)	C# ASP.NET Developer
17	54 (5.81%)	Full Stack Developer
18	46 (4.95%)	Angular Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	812 (87.41%)	.NET
2	352 (37.89%)	ASP.NET
3	336 (36.17%)	.NET Framework
4	285 (30.68%)	WPF
5	280 (30.14%)	HTML
6	271 (29.17%)	ASP.NET Web API
7	264 (28.42%)	CSS
7	264 (28.42%)	Web Services
8	186 (20.02%)	AngularJS
9	182 (19.59%)	ASP.NET MVC
10	178 (19.16%)	Entity Framework
11	143 (15.39%)	XML
12	142 (15.29%)	jQuery
13	105 (11.30%)	LINQ
14	98 (10.55%)	REST
15	94 (10.12%)	HTML5
16	85 (9.15%)	WinForms
17	79 (8.50%)	JSON
18	74 (7.97%)	RESTful
19	60 (6.46%)	SOAP

Miscellaneous
1	49 (5.27%)	Greenfield Project
2	40 (4.31%)	Analytical Skills
3	37 (3.98%)	Computer Science
3	37 (3.98%)	User Experience
4	30 (3.23%)	Fixed Income
5	28 (3.01%)	Derivative
6	24 (2.58%)	Client/Server
7	21 (2.26%)	Mobile App
8	18 (1.94%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
8	18 (1.94%)	Hedge funds
9	16 (1.72%)	N-Tier
10	15 (1.61%)	Algorithms
10	15 (1.61%)	Market Risk
11	14 (1.51%)	Virtual Team
12	11 (1.18%)	Equities
13	10 (1.08%)	Data Structures
13	10 (1.08%)	Enterprise Software
13	10 (1.08%)	Management Information System
14	8 (0.86%)	Grid Computing
14	8 (0.86%)	NHS

Operating Systems
1	165 (17.76%)	Windows
2	16 (1.72%)	Windows Server
3	10 (1.08%)	Linux
4	8 (0.86%)	Unix
5	6 (0.65%)	Android
6	5 (0.54%)	Windows Server 2008
7	3 (0.32%)	Apple iOS
7	3 (0.32%)	Windows Server 2003
7	3 (0.32%)	Windows Server 2012
8	2 (0.22%)	Windows Mobile
9	1 (0.11%)	Embedded Linux
9	1 (0.11%)	ThreadX
9	1 (0.11%)	Windows Phone

Processes & Methodologies
1	418 (44.99%)	Agile Software Development
2	400 (43.06%)	MVC
3	300 (32.29%)	TDD
4	187 (20.13%)	Scrum
5	165 (17.76%)	CRM
6	143 (15.39%)	Unit Testing
7	119 (12.81%)	OO
8	118 (12.70%)	MVVM
9	99 (10.66%)	Continuous Integration
10	96 (10.33%)	Test Automation
11	87 (9.36%)	Multithreading
12	83 (8.93%)	Web Development
13	74 (7.97%)	SOA
13	74 (7.97%)	Software Engineering
14	69 (7.43%)	Dependency Injection
14	69 (7.43%)	SOLID
15	65 (7.00%)	BDD
16	64 (6.89%)	OOP
17	51 (5.49%)	Business Intelligence
18	50 (5.38%)	SDLC

Programming Languages
1	776 (83.53%)	C#
2	409 (44.03%)	SQL
3	355 (38.21%)	JavaScript
4	127 (13.67%)	T-SQL
5	56 (6.03%)	PL/SQL
6	42 (4.52%)	C++
7	37 (3.98%)	VB.NET
8	36 (3.88%)	PowerShell
9	30 (3.23%)	TypeScript
10	20 (2.15%)	VBA
11	18 (1.94%)	VB
12	17 (1.83%)	Java
13	15 (1.61%)	C
14	12 (1.29%)	Python
15	9 (0.97%)	Shell Script
16	8 (0.86%)	F#
17	7 (0.75%)	C++/CLI
17	7 (0.75%)	ES6
17	7 (0.75%)	XAML
18	6 (0.65%)	PHP

Qualifications
1	59 (6.35%)	Degree
2	45 (4.84%)	Security Cleared
3	33 (3.55%)	SC Cleared
4	17 (1.83%)	DV Cleared
5	12 (1.29%)	Microsoft Certification
6	11 (1.18%)	Computer Science Degree
7	7 (0.75%)	MCITP
8	6 (0.65%)	MCTS
9	4 (0.43%)	HNC
10	3 (0.32%)	CFA
10	3 (0.32%)	Master's Degree
10	3 (0.32%)	MCPD
10	3 (0.32%)	MCSE
11	2 (0.22%)	BPSS Clearance
11	2 (0.22%)	ISTQB
11	2 (0.22%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
11	2 (0.22%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
11	2 (0.22%)	MCDBA
11	2 (0.22%)	MCDST
11	2 (0.22%)	MCSA

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	29 (3.12%)	QA
2	3 (0.32%)	MiFID
3	2 (0.22%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	2 (0.22%)	ISO 8583
3	2 (0.22%)	PCI DSS
4	1 (0.11%)	Data Quality
4	1 (0.11%)	Dodd-Frank
4	1 (0.11%)	EMIR
4	1 (0.11%)	GDPR
4	1 (0.11%)	HL7

System Software
1	15 (1.61%)	Active Directory
2	5 (0.54%)	Docker
3	3 (0.32%)	Hyper-V
3	3 (0.32%)	Platform Symphony
4	1 (0.11%)	Firmware

Systems Management
1	2 (0.22%)	HP Fortify
2	1 (0.11%)	CA Single Sign-On
2	1 (0.11%)	Data Guard
2	1 (0.11%)	Opscode Chef
2	1 (0.11%)	Puppet
2	1 (0.11%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)

Vendors
1	381 (41.01%)	Microsoft
2	127 (13.67%)	Oracle
3	22 (2.37%)	Telerik
4	16 (1.72%)	Sitecore
5	14 (1.51%)	Siebel
5	14 (1.51%)	Sybase
6	12 (1.29%)	Infragistics
7	11 (1.18%)	DevExpress
8	10 (1.08%)	Google
9	9 (0.97%)	SAP
10	8 (0.86%)	Salesforce.com
11	7 (0.75%)	Perforce
12	6 (0.65%)	Atlassian
12	6 (0.65%)	RedGate
13	5 (0.54%)	Bloomberg
13	5 (0.54%)	Kofax
13	5 (0.54%)	Sencha
14	4 (0.43%)	IBM
14	4 (0.43%)	Twitter
15	3 (0.32%)	HP