WCF Job Trends in England

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring WCF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 639 578
Rank change year-on-year +46 -61 +133
Permanent jobs citing WCF 9 40 91
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.017% 0.082% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.15% 0.38% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6 31 82
10th Percentile £61,250 £42,500 £43,750
25th Percentile £62,813 £47,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £71,250 £67,500 £84,375
90th Percentile £75,625 £102,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £66,250 £61,250 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.16% +2.08% +7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

WCF falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 6,191 10,469 11,550
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 11.89% 21.49% 24.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,762 6,157 9,653
10th Percentile £35,854 £40,013 £41,250
25th Percentile £49,563 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.70%
75th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £110,000 £110,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WCF relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

WCF job vacancy trend in England

WCF
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WCF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing WCF

WCF
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCF in England over the 6 months to 5 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WCF in England

WCF
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the England region over the 6 months to 5 January 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +20 4 £67,500 +35.00%
North West +16 2 £67,500 +35.00%
South East +4 2 £65,000 +4.00%
Yorkshire -7 2 - -
London +47 1 £80,000 -23.81% 1
West Midlands +20 1 - -
Midlands +18 1 - -
WCF
UK

WCF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 4 (44.44%) IIS
2 2 (22.22%) HCL Notes
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (22.22%) Amazon S3
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (22.22%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Batch
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) GitHub
4 1 (11.11%) OpenShift
4 1 (11.11%) PaaS
4 1 (11.11%) SaaS
4 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
3 2 (22.22%) MySQL
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (22.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (11.11%) Power BI
4 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
4 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Git
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 1 (11.11%) CA Release Automation
2 1 (11.11%) MSTest
2 1 (11.11%) NUnit
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Software Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Developer
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
5 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# WCF Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Applications Support
5 1 (11.11%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) ASP.NET
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET MVC
3 4 (44.44%) ASP.NET Web API
3 4 (44.44%) Web Services
4 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
4 3 (33.33%) Entity Framework
5 2 (22.22%) .NET Core
5 2 (22.22%) Ajax
5 2 (22.22%) CSS
5 2 (22.22%) HTML
5 2 (22.22%) jQuery
5 2 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (22.22%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (22.22%) REST
6 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (11.11%) Dapper ORM
6 1 (11.11%) KnockoutJS
6 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
6 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Native
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) VMS
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) DevOps
1 5 (55.56%) MVC
2 4 (44.44%) CI/CD
2 4 (44.44%) Microservices
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Business Continuity
4 2 (22.22%) Change Control
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
4 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
4 2 (22.22%) Mobile Application Development
4 2 (22.22%) Quality Management
4 2 (22.22%) Release Management
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Security Hardening
4 2 (22.22%) SOA
4 2 (22.22%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 2 (22.22%) C++
4 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) Delphi
5 1 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 1 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
5 1 (11.11%) VB
5 1 (11.11%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
1 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
1 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
1 2 (22.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (22.22%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) Lotus
2 2 (22.22%) Oracle
2 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (11.11%) IBM