WCF Jobs in the UK excluding London

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 678 649 594
Rank change year-on-year -29 -55 -134
Permanent jobs citing WCF 92 84 287
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.15% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.56% 1.18%
Number of salaries quoted 82 75 186
10th Percentile £41,250 - £40,000
25th Percentile £49,063 £40,000 £42,640
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £62,750
90th Percentile £85,000 - £76,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year - +4.35% +15.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 14,706 14,890 24,289
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.30% 26.34% 32.80%
Number of salaries quoted 10,579 8,766 14,378
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £34,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%

WCF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing WCF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for WCF in the UK excluding London

WCF
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WCF in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for WCF in the UK excluding London

WCF
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WCF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for WCF in the UK excluding London

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 2 June 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
North of England +18 30 £60,000 +14.29% 2
South East -1 24 £55,000 -21.43% 3
West Midlands +1 15 £60,000 +5.73%
Midlands 0 15 £60,000 +5.73%
North West -22 15 £65,000 +13.04% 1
Yorkshire +54 13 £60,000 +33.33% 1
South West -23 8 £57,000 +11.22% 1
Northern Ireland +13 6 £42,500 -15.00%
Scotland -62 6 £85,000 +61.90% 1
East of England -5 3 £66,500 +33.00%
North East - 2 £60,000 -
WCF
UK

WCF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 5 (5.43%) IIS
1 5 (5.43%) NServiceBus
2 3 (3.26%) Confluence
2 3 (3.26%) Umbraco
3 2 (2.17%) CMS
3 2 (2.17%) Liferay
3 2 (2.17%) Magnolia
3 2 (2.17%) nginx
3 2 (2.17%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 23 (25.00%) Azure
2 12 (13.04%) AWS
3 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (8.70%) PaaS
5 7 (7.61%) SaaS
6 3 (3.26%) GitHub
7 2 (2.17%) npm
8 1 (1.09%) Azure Service Bus
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%) VoIP
2 1 (1.09%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (51.09%) SQL Server
2 6 (6.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.26%) MySQL
4 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.17%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (2.17%) DB2
5 2 (2.17%) DTS
Development Applications
1 37 (40.22%) Git
2 31 (33.70%) Visual Studio
3 13 (14.13%) JIRA
4 12 (13.04%) NUnit
5 5 (5.43%) Postman
5 5 (5.43%) SoapUI
6 4 (4.35%) Subversion
7 3 (3.26%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.17%) Bower
8 2 (2.17%) gulp
8 2 (2.17%) Moq
9 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (1.09%) Vite
9 1 (1.09%) webpack
General
1 45 (48.91%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.09%) Finance
3 8 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.70%) Retail
4 6 (6.52%) Publishing
5 5 (5.43%) Law
6 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Games
7 3 (3.26%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.09%) Automotive
9 1 (1.09%) Electronics
9 1 (1.09%) Marketing
9 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 60 (65.22%) Developer
2 32 (34.78%) .NET Developer
3 30 (32.61%) Senior
4 22 (23.91%) C# .NET Developer
4 22 (23.91%) C# Developer
5 14 (15.22%) Applications Developer
6 12 (13.04%) .NET Applications Developer
6 12 (13.04%) C# Application Developer
7 11 (11.96%) Software Developer
8 10 (10.87%) Senior Developer
9 8 (8.70%) Software Engineer
10 7 (7.61%) .NET Software Developer
10 7 (7.61%) C# Software Developer
11 5 (5.43%) BizTalk Developer
11 5 (5.43%) Senior Software Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) Applications Architect
12 4 (4.35%) Architect
12 4 (4.35%) C# Software Engineer
12 4 (4.35%) Senior .NET Developer
12 4 (4.35%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (96.74%) .NET
2 58 (63.04%) .NET Framework
3 43 (46.74%) Web Services
4 33 (35.87%) .NET Core
4 33 (35.87%) ASP.NET Web API
5 27 (29.35%) ASP.NET
6 25 (27.17%) Entity Framework
7 22 (23.91%) AngularJS
8 21 (22.83%) CSS
8 21 (22.83%) WPF
9 20 (21.74%) JSON
9 20 (21.74%) WinForms
10 19 (20.65%) HTML
11 18 (19.57%) XML
12 17 (18.48%) SOAP
13 16 (17.39%) SignalR
13 16 (17.39%) WF
14 15 (16.30%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 14 (15.22%) LINQ
15 14 (15.22%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Data Structures
1 5 (5.43%) Distributed Applications
1 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (3.26%) Robotics
4 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.09%) FMCG
5 1 (1.09%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.35%) Windows
2 2 (2.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (41.30%) MVC
2 34 (36.96%) Agile
3 33 (35.87%) TDD
4 29 (31.52%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 21 (22.83%) Software Engineering
7 20 (21.74%) SOLID
7 20 (21.74%) User Experience
8 19 (20.65%) DevOps
9 16 (17.39%) Client Onboarding
10 15 (16.30%) Process Improvement
10 15 (16.30%) Wealth Management
11 14 (15.22%) Computer Science
12 12 (13.04%) SDLC
13 11 (11.96%) Design Patterns
14 10 (10.87%) Issue Tracking
14 10 (10.87%) Project Management
15 8 (8.70%) Responsive Web Design
15 8 (8.70%) UML
16 7 (7.61%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (91.30%) C#
2 47 (51.09%) SQL
3 34 (36.96%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.87%) T-SQL
5 7 (7.61%) Python
6 6 (6.52%) TypeScript
7 5 (5.43%) C
7 5 (5.43%) Java
7 5 (5.43%) PHP
8 4 (4.35%) PowerShell
8 4 (4.35%) VB.NET
9 3 (3.26%) C++
9 3 (3.26%) Objective-C
10 2 (2.17%) Go
10 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
10 2 (2.17%) VB
10 2 (2.17%) XAML
11 1 (1.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (20.65%) Degree
2 10 (10.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (5.43%) HNC
4 4 (4.35%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (4.35%) Master's Degree
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (16.30%) QA
2 4 (4.35%) PMO
3 3 (3.26%) GDPR
3 3 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (34.78%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.17%) MuleSoft
2 2 (2.17%) OpenText
2 2 (2.17%) Pega
2 2 (2.17%) Sitecore
2 2 (2.17%) VMware
3 1 (1.09%) Citrix
3 1 (1.09%) SAP