WCF Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 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 502 538 514
Rank change year-on-year +36 -24 +124
Permanent jobs citing WCF 7 28 59
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.078% 0.17%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.18% 0.40% 0.73%
Number of salaries quoted 4 25 56
10th Percentile £62,875 £42,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,438 £47,500 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.42% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile - £75,000 £68,125
UK median annual salary £66,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% +4.17% +9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,886 7,008 8,028
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.16% 19.51% 23.26%
Number of salaries quoted 2,980 3,898 6,314
10th Percentile £28,250 £36,250 £36,270
25th Percentile £43,497 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £73,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

WCF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WCF
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WCF

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 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 of England +4 4 £67,500 +35.00%
South East +24 2 £65,000 +4.00% 2
North West +15 2 £67,500 +35.00%
Yorkshire -11 2 - -
Midlands +17 1 - -
West Midlands +16 1 - -
WCF
UK

WCF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 3 (42.86%) IIS
2 2 (28.57%) HCL Notes
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon EC2
2 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (28.57%) Power Platform
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Fabric
3 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
3 2 (28.57%) MySQL
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Developer
1 5 (71.43%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Software Developer
3 3 (42.86%) Senior Developer
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Senior DevOps Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Senior Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
5 1 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) C# Software Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) C# WCF Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Applications Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Senior Applications Support
5 1 (14.29%) WCF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (42.86%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET Web API
3 2 (28.57%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
4 1 (14.29%) Ajax
4 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
4 1 (14.29%) CSS
4 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
4 1 (14.29%) HTML
4 1 (14.29%) jQuery
4 1 (14.29%) KnockoutJS
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth
4 1 (14.29%) OAuth2
4 1 (14.29%) OpenID
4 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
4 1 (14.29%) REST
4 1 (14.29%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) VMS
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps
1 3 (42.86%) Microservices
1 3 (42.86%) MVC
1 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (42.86%) SDLC
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
2 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
2 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
2 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Mentoring
2 2 (28.57%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Quality Management
2 2 (28.57%) Release Management
2 2 (28.57%) Scrum
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Delphi
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) VB
4 1 (14.29%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
1 2 (28.57%) VMware NSX
1 2 (28.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
2 2 (28.57%) Ansible
2 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Lotus
2 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) VMware