Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WCF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WCF over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 750 729 844
Rank change year-on-year -21 +115 -265
Permanent jobs citing WCF 92 158 448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.10% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.52% 0.71% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 79 139 289
10th Percentile £46,250 £42,750 £42,516
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +21.74% +15.00%
75th Percentile £85,000 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile - £100,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £61,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.36% - +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 17,601 22,313 69,061
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.48% 27.65% 39.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,656 16,103 29,822
10th Percentile £36,750 £41,250 £38,000
25th Percentile £46,250 £51,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +13.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,875 £83,000
90th Percentile £105,000 £106,289 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WCF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WCF in the UK

WCF
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WCF.

Salary trend for WCF in the UK

WCF
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCF over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for WCF in the UK

WCF
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 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
England -27 79 £62,500 -10.71% 8
UK excluding London -8 78 £61,250 +11.36% 5
Work from Home +5 30 £60,000 -14.29% 3
North of England +13 28 £60,000 +4.35% 2
South East +24 27 £63,750 -8.93% 2
North West -11 14 £75,000 +7.14% 1
Yorkshire +63 12 £60,000 +33.33% 1
West Midlands 0 8 £60,000 +9.09%
London -9 8 £92,500 +27.59% 3
Midlands -17 8 £60,000 +9.09%
Scotland -39 6 £85,000 +61.90%
South West -3 5 £70,000 +47.37% 1
East of England -3 3 £66,500 +15.65%
North East - 2 £60,000 -
Northern Ireland +12 1 £42,500 -15.00%

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (5.43%) BizTalk Server
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) NServiceBus
2 3 (3.26%) Umbraco
3 1 (1.09%) IIS
3 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 28 (30.43%) Azure
2 12 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.61%) AWS
4 6 (6.52%) SaaS
5 2 (2.17%) PaaS
6 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.09%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.35%) Ethernet
1 4 (4.35%) RS-232
1 4 (4.35%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.09%) CTI
2 1 (1.09%) Internet
2 1 (1.09%) VoIP
2 1 (1.09%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (38.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.61%) MySQL
3 6 (6.52%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 38 (41.30%) Git
2 18 (19.57%) Visual Studio
3 11 (11.96%) JIRA
4 4 (4.35%) Subversion
5 3 (3.26%) NUnit
6 2 (2.17%) Postman
6 2 (2.17%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.17%) TeamCity
7 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.09%) FitNesse
7 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
7 1 (1.09%) Selenium
7 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.09%) Vite
7 1 (1.09%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 45 (48.91%) Social Skills
2 36 (39.13%) Finance
3 12 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (9.78%) Law
5 8 (8.70%) Manufacturing
6 7 (7.61%) Telecoms
7 6 (6.52%) Electronics
7 6 (6.52%) Marketing
7 6 (6.52%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.43%) Back Office
9 4 (4.35%) Advertising
9 4 (4.35%) Multimedia
9 4 (4.35%) Retail
10 3 (3.26%) Games
10 3 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (3.26%) Publishing
11 1 (1.09%) Banking
11 1 (1.09%) Investment Banking
11 1 (1.09%) Legal
11 1 (1.09%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 60 (65.22%) Developer
2 49 (53.26%) Senior
3 28 (30.43%) .NET Developer
4 22 (23.91%) Senior Developer
5 20 (21.74%) C# Developer
6 18 (19.57%) C# .NET Developer
7 16 (17.39%) Software Developer
8 15 (16.30%) Senior Software Developer
8 15 (16.30%) Software Engineer
9 14 (15.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 9 (9.78%) Applications Developer
11 8 (8.70%) .NET Applications Developer
11 8 (8.70%) C# Application Developer
11 8 (8.70%) C# Software Developer
11 8 (8.70%) Senior .NET Developer
11 8 (8.70%) Senior C# Developer
12 7 (7.61%) Senior C# Software Developer
13 6 (6.52%) .NET Software Developer
13 6 (6.52%) Senior C# .NET Developer
14 5 (5.43%) BizTalk Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (96.74%) .NET
2 54 (58.70%) .NET Framework
3 36 (39.13%) Web Services
4 33 (35.87%) ASP.NET Web API
5 32 (34.78%) .NET Core
6 30 (32.61%) ASP.NET
7 22 (23.91%) AngularJS
7 22 (23.91%) Entity Framework
8 17 (18.48%) SignalR
8 17 (18.48%) WF
9 16 (17.39%) React
10 15 (16.30%) WinForms
11 14 (15.22%) HTML
12 12 (13.04%) SOAP
12 12 (13.04%) XML
13 11 (11.96%) CSS
13 11 (11.96%) JSON
14 10 (10.87%) ASP.NET MVC
14 10 (10.87%) Node.js
14 10 (10.87%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Cloud Native
1 5 (5.43%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.35%) Derivative
3 3 (3.26%) Distributed Applications
3 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.26%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (2.17%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.17%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.17%) FMCG
5 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.09%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.09%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 21 (22.83%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (38.04%) Agile
2 33 (35.87%) MVC
3 31 (33.70%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (32.61%) TDD
5 29 (31.52%) Software Engineering
6 25 (27.17%) SOLID
7 24 (26.09%) Collaborative Working
8 23 (25.00%) DevOps
9 21 (22.83%) User Experience
10 17 (18.48%) Client Onboarding
11 16 (17.39%) Design Patterns
11 16 (17.39%) Process Improvement
12 15 (16.30%) Wealth Management
13 14 (15.22%) Computer Science
14 12 (13.04%) Unit Testing
15 10 (10.87%) Issue Tracking
15 10 (10.87%) Software Testing
16 9 (9.78%) Software Architecture
17 8 (8.70%) Continuous Integration
17 8 (8.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 87 (94.57%) C#
2 53 (57.61%) SQL
3 34 (36.96%) JavaScript
4 5 (5.43%) C++
4 5 (5.43%) PowerShell
5 4 (4.35%) T-SQL
5 4 (4.35%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.26%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.17%) Java
7 2 (2.17%) Python
7 2 (2.17%) VBA
8 1 (1.09%) C
8 1 (1.09%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.09%) PHP
8 1 (1.09%) XAML
Qualifications
1 22 (23.91%) Degree
2 10 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (4.35%) Chartered Engineer
3 4 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.17%) HNC
5 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.04%) QA
2 4 (4.35%) EMIR
2 4 (4.35%) MiFID
2 4 (4.35%) PMO
3 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) ISO 15022
4 1 (1.09%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.09%) Control-M
2 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 18 (19.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.52%) SAP
3 1 (1.09%) Infragistics
3 1 (1.09%) Xamarin