WCF Job Trends in the North of England

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring WCF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 273 273
Rank change year-on-year +4 0 +101
Permanent jobs citing WCF 4 8 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.037% 0.088% 0.21%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.36% 0.51% 0.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2 7 17
10th Percentile - £46,000 £42,250
25th Percentile £63,750 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +35.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £55,000 £65,000
90th Percentile - £68,500 -
England median annual salary £66,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of 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 the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,097 1,566 2,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.18% 17.22% 24.26%
Number of salaries quoted 900 929 1,684
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £66,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -1.52% +1.54% -3.70%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

WCF job vacancy trend in the North of England

WCF
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing WCF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing WCF

WCF
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 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 West +15 2 £67,500 +35.00%
Yorkshire -11 2 - -
WCF
England

WCF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (50.00%) HCL Notes
1 2 (50.00%) IIS
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Legal
1 2 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Software Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) VMS
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Change Control
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Coaching
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (50.00%) GitOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
1 2 (50.00%) SDLC
1 2 (50.00%) Security Hardening
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Debt
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) C++
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
1 2 (50.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (50.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Lotus
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) VMware