WCF Job Trends in the West Midlands

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring WCF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 171 196 169
Rank change year-on-year +25 -27 +111
Permanent jobs citing WCF 1 6 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.019% 0.14% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.85% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £37,500 £46,875
25th Percentile - £40,625 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -25.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile - £49,375 £62,500
90th Percentile - £69,375 £71,875
England median annual salary £66,250 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.00% +4.17% +6.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 415 705 586
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.90% 16.20% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 360 382 525
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,575 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,228 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,813 £72,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

WCF job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

WCF
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WCF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WCF

WCF
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
Solihull - 1 - -
WCF
England

WCF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Functions
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Key Vault
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Applications Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Applications Support
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) KnockoutJS
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes