Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 780 750 714
Rank change year-on-year -30 -36 -178
Permanent jobs citing WCF 116 221 577
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.21% 0.37%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.70% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 101 195 344
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,125 £46,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +9.09% +11.11%
75th Percentile £81,250 £74,375 £66,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £58,750 £52,500 £52,106
% change year-on-year +11.90% +0.76% +15.79%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £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 27 April 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 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
UK excluding London +17 104 £58,750 +11.90% 13
England +9 100 £60,000 - 17
Work from Home +42 53 £52,500 -16.00% 8
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%
London +24 7 £100,000 +42.86% 6
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
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 10 (8.62%) IIS
2 5 (4.31%) BizTalk Server
2 5 (4.31%) NServiceBus
3 3 (2.59%) Confluence
3 3 (2.59%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.72%) CMS
4 2 (1.72%) Liferay
4 2 (1.72%) Magnolia
4 2 (1.72%) nginx
4 2 (1.72%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (21.55%) Azure
2 12 (10.34%) AWS
3 11 (9.48%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.62%) PaaS
5 9 (7.76%) SaaS
6 3 (2.59%) GitHub
6 3 (2.59%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.72%) npm
8 1 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.31%) Internet
2 4 (3.45%) Ethernet
2 4 (3.45%) RS-232
2 4 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.86%) CTI
3 1 (0.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (50.86%) SQL Server
2 8 (6.90%) MongoDB
3 7 (6.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 6 (5.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (4.31%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.59%) MySQL
6 3 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.59%) Power BI
7 2 (1.72%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (1.72%) DB2
7 2 (1.72%) DTS
Development Applications
1 40 (34.48%) Git
2 37 (31.90%) Visual Studio
3 16 (13.79%) JIRA
4 14 (12.07%) NUnit
5 6 (5.17%) Postman
5 6 (5.17%) SoapUI
6 5 (4.31%) FitNesse
6 5 (4.31%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (4.31%) Selenium
6 5 (4.31%) SonarQube
6 5 (4.31%) TeamCity
6 5 (4.31%) WebDriver
7 4 (3.45%) Subversion
8 3 (2.59%) Bitbucket
9 2 (1.72%) Bower
9 2 (1.72%) gulp
9 2 (1.72%) Moq
10 1 (0.86%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 54 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 35 (30.17%) Finance
3 15 (12.93%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.62%) Retail
5 9 (7.76%) Publishing
6 8 (6.90%) Manufacturing
7 7 (6.03%) Telecoms
8 6 (5.17%) Electronics
8 6 (5.17%) Marketing
8 6 (5.17%) Public Sector
9 5 (4.31%) Banking
9 5 (4.31%) Investment Banking
9 5 (4.31%) Law
9 5 (4.31%) Legal
10 4 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.59%) Automotive
11 3 (2.59%) Games
12 2 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (68.97%) Developer
2 51 (43.97%) .NET Developer
3 31 (26.72%) Senior
4 30 (25.86%) C# Developer
5 29 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 20 (17.24%) Applications Developer
7 18 (15.52%) .NET Applications Developer
7 18 (15.52%) C# Application Developer
8 10 (8.62%) Senior Developer
9 9 (7.76%) Software Engineer
10 8 (6.90%) Software Developer
11 7 (6.03%) Full Stack Developer
12 6 (5.17%) Full Stack .NET Developer
13 5 (4.31%) .NET Software Developer
13 5 (4.31%) BizTalk Developer
13 5 (4.31%) C# Software Developer
13 5 (4.31%) Senior Software Engineer
14 4 (3.45%) Applications Architect
14 4 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
14 4 (3.45%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (97.41%) .NET
2 71 (61.21%) .NET Framework
3 58 (50.00%) Web Services
4 44 (37.93%) ASP.NET Web API
5 35 (30.17%) .NET Core
5 35 (30.17%) AngularJS
6 34 (29.31%) ASP.NET
7 31 (26.72%) Entity Framework
8 25 (21.55%) XML
9 23 (19.83%) CSS
9 23 (19.83%) WPF
10 22 (18.97%) WinForms
11 21 (18.10%) HTML
12 20 (17.24%) JSON
12 20 (17.24%) LINQ
13 17 (14.66%) ASP.NET MVC
13 17 (14.66%) SignalR
13 17 (14.66%) SOAP
13 17 (14.66%) WF
14 16 (13.79%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.48%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.76%) Video\Live Streaming
3 6 (5.17%) Data Structures
3 6 (5.17%) Distributed Applications
4 5 (4.31%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.45%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.59%) FMCG
6 3 (2.59%) Robotics
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.72%) N-Tier
8 1 (0.86%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.48%) Windows
2 2 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (42.24%) MVC
2 44 (37.93%) Agile
3 42 (36.21%) TDD
4 40 (34.48%) Problem-Solving
5 26 (22.41%) SOLID
6 25 (21.55%) Software Engineering
7 24 (20.69%) Collaborative Working
8 21 (18.10%) User Experience
9 19 (16.38%) DevOps
9 19 (16.38%) SDLC
10 17 (14.66%) Client Onboarding
10 17 (14.66%) Computer Science
11 16 (13.79%) Process Improvement
12 15 (12.93%) Wealth Management
13 14 (12.07%) Design Patterns
14 13 (11.21%) Issue Tracking
14 13 (11.21%) Software Testing
15 12 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
15 12 (10.34%) OOP
15 12 (10.34%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 108 (93.10%) C#
2 55 (47.41%) SQL
3 43 (37.07%) JavaScript
4 12 (10.34%) T-SQL
5 9 (7.76%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.90%) Python
7 7 (6.03%) XAML
8 6 (5.17%) Java
8 6 (5.17%) VB.NET
9 5 (4.31%) C
9 5 (4.31%) PHP
9 5 (4.31%) TypeScript
10 3 (2.59%) C++
10 3 (2.59%) Objective-C
10 3 (2.59%) VB
10 3 (2.59%) VBA
11 2 (1.72%) Go
11 2 (1.72%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.72%) XPath
12 1 (0.86%) F#
Qualifications
1 27 (23.28%) Degree
2 13 (11.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (5.17%) HNC
4 4 (3.45%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (3.45%) Master's Degree
4 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (19.83%) QA
2 4 (3.45%) PMO
3 3 (2.59%) GDPR
3 3 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (4.31%) Control-M
Vendors
1 37 (31.90%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.17%) SAP
3 2 (1.72%) MuleSoft
3 2 (1.72%) OpenText
3 2 (1.72%) Pega
3 2 (1.72%) Sitecore
3 2 (1.72%) VMware
4 1 (0.86%) Citrix
4 1 (0.86%) Telerik