WF Contracts

Windows Workflow Foundation (WF, WWF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WF over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 565 563 669
Rank change year-on-year -2 +106 +172
Contract jobs citing WF 2 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.008% 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.027% 0.035% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 2
10th Percentile - £393 £468
25th Percentile £265 £419 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -41.16% -13.64% -22.07%
75th Percentile £294 £519 £619
90th Percentile - £538 £653
UK excluding London median daily rate - £513 £450
% change year-on-year - +13.89% -67.86%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WF 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 7,410 8,581 11,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.47% 22.04% 22.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,983 5,799 8,462
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £412 £428 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.65%
75th Percentile £630 £663 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 241 158
10th Percentile £30.00 £22.50 £30.53
25th Percentile £41.00 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £67.00 £70.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £81.01 £74.44 £78.23
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £58.91 £58.81
% change year-on-year -2.39% +0.16% -1.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WF in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WF in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WF in the UK

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Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WF within the UK over the 6 months to 11 August 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 +27 1 £280 -34.24% 7
Work from Home +22 1 - - 2
London +16 1 £280 -25.47% 5

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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 1 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) IT Risk Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Manager
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Argo
1 1 (50.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (50.00%) VMware