WCF Contracts

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WCF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCF over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 513 616
Rank change year-on-year +33 +103 +108
Contract jobs citing WCF 56 78 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.18% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.80% 0.84% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 62 57
10th Percentile £385 £363 £359
25th Percentile £410 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £560 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +9.80% -15.00%
75th Percentile £656 £625 £650
90th Percentile £825 £636 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £410 £400
% change year-on-year +21.95% +2.50% -18.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,001 9,253 12,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.72% 21.44% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,746 6,337 9,221
10th Percentile £352 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £763 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 282 155
10th Percentile £27.81 £22.53 £28.50
25th Percentile £36.40 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +25.30%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.81 £74.40 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WCF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WCF in the UK

WCF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WCF.

Daily rate trend for WCF in the UK

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCF over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WCF in the UK

WCF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WCF.

Hourly rate trend for WCF in the UK

WCF
Top 6 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 6 months to 1 July 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
England +43 50 £525 -8.30% 58
London +34 44 £552 -4.00% 27
Work from Home +38 23 £800 +45.45% 22
UK excluding London +33 6 £500 +21.95% 29
South East +51 5 £500 +2.56% 12
East of England +21 1 £500 +42.86% 1

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (1.79%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (19.64%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (46.43%) Azure
2 11 (19.64%) Dynamics 365
3 10 (17.86%) Power Platform
3 10 (17.86%) PowerApps
4 9 (16.07%) Azure Logic Apps
4 9 (16.07%) Power Automate
5 8 (14.29%) Serverless
6 7 (12.50%) Azure Functions
6 7 (12.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 6 (10.71%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (5.36%) SaaS
10 2 (3.57%) AWS
11 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
11 1 (1.79%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.79%) Azure API Management
11 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
11 1 (1.79%) GitHub
11 1 (1.79%) NuGet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.43%) Internet
2 1 (1.79%) FTP
2 1 (1.79%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (64.29%) SQL Server
2 12 (21.43%) Oracle Database
2 12 (21.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (8.93%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 5 (8.93%) NUnit
3 4 (7.14%) Git
3 4 (7.14%) MSTest
3 4 (7.14%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.57%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.79%) JIRA
5 1 (1.79%) ReSharper
General
1 19 (33.93%) Social Skills
2 16 (28.57%) Finance
3 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Banking
4 2 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.79%) Back Office
5 1 (1.79%) Front Office
5 1 (1.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 42 (75.00%) Developer
2 26 (46.43%) C# Developer
3 13 (23.21%) C# WPF Developer
3 13 (23.21%) WPF Developer
4 12 (21.43%) C# WCF Developer
4 12 (21.43%) C++ Developer
4 12 (21.43%) C++/C# Developer
4 12 (21.43%) WCF Developer
5 11 (19.64%) .NET Developer
5 11 (19.64%) Senior
6 9 (16.07%) Architect
7 8 (14.29%) Senior Developer
8 7 (12.50%) CRM Architect
9 6 (10.71%) Azure Developer
10 5 (8.93%) Data Engineer
10 5 (8.93%) Senior Data Engineer
10 5 (8.93%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (7.14%) CRM Solutions Architect
11 4 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM Architect
11 4 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (100.00%) .NET
2 36 (64.29%) .NET Framework
3 25 (44.64%) Web Services
4 22 (39.29%) ASP.NET Web API
5 21 (37.50%) .NET Core
6 20 (35.71%) ASP.NET
7 17 (30.36%) WPF
8 16 (28.57%) HTML
9 15 (26.79%) CSS
10 13 (23.21%) JSON
10 13 (23.21%) Kafka
10 13 (23.21%) REST
10 13 (23.21%) WinForms
10 13 (23.21%) XML
11 10 (17.86%) Entity Framework
12 9 (16.07%) HTML5 Canvas
13 6 (10.71%) ASP.NET MVC
14 5 (8.93%) Autofac
14 5 (8.93%) Dapper ORM
14 5 (8.93%) StructureMap
Miscellaneous
1 12 (21.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (17.86%) Legacy Applications
3 5 (8.93%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (8.93%) N-Tier
4 4 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.57%) Algorithms
5 2 (3.57%) Wiki
6 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.79%) NHS
6 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (26.79%) Windows
2 2 (3.57%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (48.21%) Agile
2 17 (30.36%) DevOps
3 16 (28.57%) CRM
3 16 (28.57%) Web Development
4 12 (21.43%) Analytics
4 12 (21.43%) Data Analysis
4 12 (21.43%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (21.43%) MVC
5 9 (16.07%) TDD
5 9 (16.07%) Unit Testing
6 8 (14.29%) Design Patterns
7 7 (12.50%) OOP
7 7 (12.50%) Scrum
8 6 (10.71%) Inversion of Control
8 6 (10.71%) Performance Tuning
8 6 (10.71%) SDLC
9 5 (8.93%) BDD
9 5 (8.93%) Code Quality
9 5 (8.93%) Data Design
9 5 (8.93%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 54 (96.43%) C#
2 33 (58.93%) SQL
3 17 (30.36%) T-SQL
4 16 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 12 (21.43%) C++
5 12 (21.43%) PL/SQL
5 12 (21.43%) TypeScript
5 12 (21.43%) VB
5 12 (21.43%) VBA
6 2 (3.57%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.79%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.79%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.79%) Java
7 1 (1.79%) XAML
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Degree
2 6 (10.71%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (8.93%) MCPD
3 5 (8.93%) MCSD
4 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.57%) PhD
5 1 (1.79%) MCAD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (21.43%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) HL7
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) SCOM
1 1 (1.79%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (42.86%) Oracle
2 15 (26.79%) Microsoft
3 12 (21.43%) Citrix
4 2 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.79%) SAP
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk