WCF Job Trends in the South East

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring WCF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 283 267
Rank change year-on-year +11 -16 +116
Permanent jobs citing WCF 2 16 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.019% 0.18% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 0.78% 0.91%
Number of salaries quoted 2 14 15
10th Percentile £62,750 £60,000 £50,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £60,313 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +12.24%
75th Percentile £66,875 £66,563 £60,000
90th Percentile £67,250 £67,500 £62,750
England median annual salary £66,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% +4.17% +7.14%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South East

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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 956 2,044 1,757
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 9.19% 22.39% 20.90%
Number of salaries quoted 760 1,171 1,412
10th Percentile £34,675 £36,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £46,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - +4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

WCF job vacancy trend in the South East

WCF
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WCF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing WCF

WCF
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the South East region over the 6 months to 8 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
Hampshire +25 1 £65,000 +4.00%
Kent - 1 £65,000 -
WCF
England

WCF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Fabric
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) C# WCF Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (50.00%) OpenID
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Delphi
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) VB
1 1 (50.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft