WCF Jobs in the UK excluding London

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WCF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WCF over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 645 662 550
Rank change year-on-year +17 -112 -124
Permanent jobs citing WCF 104 101 306
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.15% 0.16% 0.43%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.73% 0.59% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 94 93 191
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,900 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,625 £40,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £52,500 £52,106
Median % change year-on-year +11.90% +0.76% +15.79%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,500 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +11.11%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

WCF is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 14,278 17,153 22,935
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.38% 27.76% 32.49%
Number of salaries quoted 10,244 9,453 14,553
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,356 £33,940
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £80,001 £86,250 £81,900
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WCF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WCF in the UK excluding London

WCF
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WCF in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WCF in the UK excluding London

WCF
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WCF in the UK excluding London

WCF
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +39 38 £60,000 +14.29% 6
South East +33 26 £55,000 -18.52% 2
North West +6 20 £60,000 +4.35%
Yorkshire +85 16 £60,000 +33.33% 5
West Midlands +38 16 £60,000 +9.59% 3
Midlands +20 16 £60,000 +9.59% 3
South West +3 8 £57,000 +6.05%
Northern Ireland +26 6 £42,500 +21.43%
East of England +12 5 £50,500 +22.42%
Scotland -59 5 £85,000 +61.90% 2
North East - 2 £60,000 - 1
WCF
UK

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 5 (4.81%) BizTalk Server
1 5 (4.81%) IIS
1 5 (4.81%) NServiceBus
2 3 (2.88%) Confluence
2 3 (2.88%) Umbraco
3 2 (1.92%) CMS
3 2 (1.92%) Liferay
3 2 (1.92%) Magnolia
3 2 (1.92%) nginx
3 2 (1.92%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 23 (22.12%) Azure
2 12 (11.54%) AWS
3 11 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (9.62%) PaaS
5 9 (8.65%) SaaS
6 3 (2.88%) GitHub
6 3 (2.88%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.92%) npm
8 1 (0.96%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.85%) Ethernet
1 4 (3.85%) RS-232
1 4 (3.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.96%) CTI
2 1 (0.96%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (50.96%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.73%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (5.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (4.81%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.88%) MySQL
5 3 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.88%) Power BI
6 2 (1.92%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.92%) DB2
6 2 (1.92%) DTS
Development Applications
1 39 (37.50%) Git
2 31 (29.81%) Visual Studio
3 16 (15.38%) JIRA
4 13 (12.50%) NUnit
5 6 (5.77%) Postman
5 6 (5.77%) SoapUI
6 4 (3.85%) Subversion
7 3 (2.88%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.92%) Bower
8 2 (1.92%) gulp
8 2 (1.92%) Moq
9 1 (0.96%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 48 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.12%) Finance
3 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.62%) Retail
4 9 (8.65%) Publishing
5 5 (4.81%) Law
6 4 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.88%) Automotive
7 3 (2.88%) Games
7 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.96%) Electronics
9 1 (0.96%) Marketing
9 1 (0.96%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 69 (66.35%) Developer
2 40 (38.46%) .NET Developer
3 29 (27.88%) Senior
4 24 (23.08%) C# Developer
5 23 (22.12%) C# .NET Developer
6 15 (14.42%) Applications Developer
7 13 (12.50%) .NET Applications Developer
7 13 (12.50%) C# Application Developer
8 9 (8.65%) Senior Developer
8 9 (8.65%) Software Engineer
9 8 (7.69%) Software Developer
10 5 (4.81%) .NET Software Developer
10 5 (4.81%) BizTalk Developer
10 5 (4.81%) C# Software Developer
10 5 (4.81%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Applications Architect
11 4 (3.85%) Architect
11 4 (3.85%) C# Software Engineer
11 4 (3.85%) Lead .NET Developer
11 4 (3.85%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 101 (97.12%) .NET
2 60 (57.69%) .NET Framework
3 53 (50.96%) Web Services
4 39 (37.50%) ASP.NET Web API
5 34 (32.69%) .NET Core
6 29 (27.88%) ASP.NET
7 25 (24.04%) AngularJS
7 25 (24.04%) Entity Framework
8 23 (22.12%) CSS
9 22 (21.15%) WPF
10 21 (20.19%) HTML
10 21 (20.19%) WinForms
11 20 (19.23%) JSON
11 20 (19.23%) XML
12 17 (16.35%) SOAP
13 16 (15.38%) React
13 16 (15.38%) SignalR
13 16 (15.38%) WF
14 15 (14.42%) Node.js
14 15 (14.42%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 9 (8.65%) Video\Live Streaming
2 6 (5.77%) Data Structures
2 6 (5.77%) Distributed Applications
2 6 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.85%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.88%) FMCG
5 3 (2.88%) Robotics
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.96%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.96%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.77%) Windows
2 2 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (42.31%) MVC
2 37 (35.58%) Agile
3 36 (34.62%) TDD
4 34 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
5 25 (24.04%) Software Engineering
6 23 (22.12%) Collaborative Working
7 20 (19.23%) SOLID
7 20 (19.23%) User Experience
8 19 (18.27%) DevOps
9 17 (16.35%) Computer Science
10 16 (15.38%) Client Onboarding
11 15 (14.42%) Process Improvement
11 15 (14.42%) Wealth Management
12 14 (13.46%) Design Patterns
13 13 (12.50%) Issue Tracking
13 13 (12.50%) SDLC
14 12 (11.54%) Software Testing
15 11 (10.58%) Functional Testing
15 11 (10.58%) OOP
15 11 (10.58%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 96 (92.31%) C#
2 54 (51.92%) SQL
3 37 (35.58%) JavaScript
4 12 (11.54%) T-SQL
5 8 (7.69%) Python
6 6 (5.77%) VB.NET
7 5 (4.81%) C
7 5 (4.81%) Java
7 5 (4.81%) PHP
7 5 (4.81%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.85%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.88%) C++
9 3 (2.88%) Objective-C
10 2 (1.92%) Go
10 2 (1.92%) Kotlin
10 2 (1.92%) VB
10 2 (1.92%) XAML
10 2 (1.92%) XPath
11 1 (0.96%) VBA
Qualifications
1 22 (21.15%) Degree
2 13 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.77%) HNC
4 4 (3.85%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.35%) QA
2 4 (3.85%) PMO
3 3 (2.88%) GDPR
3 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 36 (34.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.92%) MuleSoft
2 2 (1.92%) OpenText
2 2 (1.92%) Pega
2 2 (1.92%) Sitecore
2 2 (1.92%) VMware
3 1 (0.96%) Citrix
3 1 (0.96%) SAP