Windows Workflow Foundation (WF, WWF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WF over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 692 831
Rank change year-on-year +114 +139 -144
Contract jobs citing WF 1 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.002% 0.016% 0.021%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.011% 0.068% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 11
10th Percentile - £378 £463
25th Percentile - £419 £601
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £638
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -21.57% +2.82%
75th Percentile - £594 £753
90th Percentile - £643 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £631
% change year-on-year - - +1.77%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,924 13,155 23,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.95% 23.13% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,198 9,602 17,316
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 146 238
10th Percentile £21.25 £25.75 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.01 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.71
90th Percentile £74.47 £80.25 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

WF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for WF in the UK

WF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WF.

Daily rate trend for WF in the UK

WF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WF.

Hourly rate trend for WF in the UK

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Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WF within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +103 1 £375 -42.31% 6
London +85 1 £375 -42.31% 3

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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:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (100.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 15022
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 20022
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft