WCF Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 273 323 433
Rank change year-on-year +50 +110 +132
Contract jobs citing WCF 31 22 44
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.31% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.21% 0.60% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 20 41
10th Percentile £528 £418 £350
25th Percentile £600 £482 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £800 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% - +1.85%
75th Percentile £825 £631 £800
90th Percentile - £650 -
UK median daily rate £594 £600 £511
% change year-on-year -1.00% +17.36% -20.58%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

WCF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WCF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WCF trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WCF.

WCF daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WCF over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

WCF daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WCF
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WCF.

WCF hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (6.45%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (6.45%) IIS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (9.68%) Azure Logic Apps
2 3 (9.68%) Azure Service Bus
2 3 (9.68%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.45%) Azure API Management
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (6.45%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.45%) Power Platform
3 2 (6.45%) SaaS
3 2 (6.45%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) AWS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure AKS
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.23%) GitHub
4 1 (3.23%) NuGet
4 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
4 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) FTP
2 1 (3.23%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (25.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (6.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.23%) Redis
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) Git
2 3 (9.68%) NUnit
2 3 (9.68%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.45%) MSTest
3 2 (6.45%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (6.45%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
4 1 (3.23%) JIRA
4 1 (3.23%) ReSharper
General
1 21 (67.74%) Social Skills
2 20 (64.52%) Finance
3 18 (58.06%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Banking
4 2 (6.45%) Front Office
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 26 (83.87%) Developer
2 20 (64.52%) C# Developer
3 18 (58.06%) C++ Developer
3 18 (58.06%) C++/C# Developer
4 7 (22.58%) .NET Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Agile C# Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Agile Developer
5 4 (12.90%) DevOps Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Senior
6 3 (9.68%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (9.68%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (6.45%) Software Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM Architect
8 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
8 1 (3.23%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (100.00%) .NET
2 24 (77.42%) Web Services
3 23 (74.19%) .NET Core
4 21 (67.74%) ASP.NET
5 20 (64.52%) Kafka
6 7 (22.58%) .NET Framework
6 7 (22.58%) REST
7 6 (19.35%) ASP.NET Web API
7 6 (19.35%) HTML
8 5 (16.13%) CSS
9 4 (12.90%) Entity Framework
9 4 (12.90%) JSON
9 4 (12.90%) WPF
9 4 (12.90%) XML
10 3 (9.68%) HTML5
10 3 (9.68%) OAuth
10 3 (9.68%) XSLT
11 2 (6.45%) ADO
11 2 (6.45%) EDI
11 2 (6.45%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (58.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 18 (58.06%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (6.45%) Wiki
3 1 (3.23%) NHS
3 1 (3.23%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
1 2 (6.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (80.65%) Agile
2 22 (70.97%) DevOps
3 18 (58.06%) Analytics
4 5 (16.13%) MVC
4 5 (16.13%) Unit Testing
5 3 (9.68%) CI/CD
5 3 (9.68%) Design Patterns
5 3 (9.68%) OO
5 3 (9.68%) OOP
5 3 (9.68%) Software Engineering
5 3 (9.68%) Web Development
6 2 (6.45%) API Integration
6 2 (6.45%) Code Quality
6 2 (6.45%) Computer Science
6 2 (6.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Development
6 2 (6.45%) High Availability
6 2 (6.45%) SDLC
6 2 (6.45%) Software Architecture
6 2 (6.45%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 30 (96.77%) C#
2 18 (58.06%) C++
3 6 (19.35%) JavaScript
4 5 (16.13%) SQL
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.23%) ActionScript
6 1 (3.23%) ActionScript 2.0
6 1 (3.23%) Bicep
6 1 (3.23%) Java
6 1 (3.23%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Azure Certification
3 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.23%) MCAD
3 1 (3.23%) MCPD
3 1 (3.23%) MCSD
3 1 (3.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.23%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.23%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (61.29%) Oracle
2 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.45%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) Splunk