WCF Contracts

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WCF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WCF over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 511 623 709
Rank change year-on-year +112 +86 -118
Contract jobs citing WCF 73 74 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.13% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.79% 0.58% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 66 100
10th Percentile £363 £360 £424
25th Percentile £400 £406 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 £493 £613
Median % change year-on-year +16.24% -19.59% +7.93%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £800
90th Percentile £638 £800 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £410 £413 £491
% change year-on-year -0.61% -15.90% +22.63%

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 contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
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 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WCF in the UK

WCF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WCF over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WCF in the UK

WCF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WCF in the UK

WCF
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WCF within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +84 66 £575 +11.65% 16
London +92 56 £600 - 8
Work from Home +109 26 £550 +11.11% 13
UK excluding London +16 12 £410 -0.61% 10
South East +12 7 £488 +18.18% 3
East of England - 3 £350 -
Scotland +50 2 £427 +0.35% 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 13 (17.81%) IIS
Applications
1 13 (17.81%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (13.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.66%) Azure
2 10 (13.70%) Dynamics 365
3 8 (10.96%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (9.59%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.48%) GitHub
6 3 (4.11%) PaaS
6 3 (4.11%) PowerApps
6 3 (4.11%) Serverless
7 2 (2.74%) AWS
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Functions
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Key Vault
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (2.74%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 13 (17.81%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (63.01%) SQL Server
2 13 (17.81%) Oracle Database
3 12 (16.44%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 11 (15.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (10.96%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 26 (35.62%) TeamCity
2 6 (8.22%) Git
3 5 (6.85%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (5.48%) NUnit
4 4 (5.48%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (4.11%) Selenium
6 2 (2.74%) GitLab
6 2 (2.74%) JIRA
7 1 (1.37%) InstallShield
7 1 (1.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (19.18%) Banking
1 14 (19.18%) Finance
2 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 8 (10.96%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.74%) Back Office
4 2 (2.74%) Front Office
4 2 (2.74%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.37%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 47 (64.38%) Developer
2 27 (36.99%) C# Developer
3 19 (26.03%) DevOps Engineer
4 16 (21.92%) C# WCF Developer
4 16 (21.92%) WCF Developer
4 16 (21.92%) WPF Developer
5 15 (20.55%) .NET Developer
6 14 (19.18%) C# WPF Developer
7 11 (15.07%) Senior
8 10 (13.70%) Architect
9 8 (10.96%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 7 (9.59%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
10 7 (9.59%) Solutions Architect
11 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
12 5 (6.85%) Senior DevOps
12 5 (6.85%) Senior DevOps Engineer
13 4 (5.48%) Senior .NET Developer
14 3 (4.11%) SSIS Developer
14 3 (4.11%) SSRS Developer
15 2 (2.74%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (95.89%) .NET
2 39 (53.42%) .NET Framework
3 33 (45.21%) WinForms
4 22 (30.14%) Entity Framework
5 20 (27.40%) WPF
6 15 (20.55%) ASP.NET
7 11 (15.07%) ASP.NET Web API
8 10 (13.70%) AngularJS
9 9 (12.33%) CSS
9 9 (12.33%) JSON
9 9 (12.33%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
10 8 (10.96%) jQuery
10 8 (10.96%) RabbitMQ
10 8 (10.96%) Web Services
10 8 (10.96%) XML
11 7 (9.59%) HTML
12 6 (8.22%) .NET Core
13 5 (6.85%) ASP.NET MVC
14 4 (5.48%) RESTful
14 4 (5.48%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.74%) Fixed Income
1 2 (2.74%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (2.74%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 23 (31.51%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (49.32%) DevOps
2 31 (42.47%) Migration
3 27 (36.99%) MVC
4 13 (17.81%) Data Analysis
4 13 (17.81%) Disaster Recovery
5 12 (16.44%) Data Migration
6 11 (15.07%) Agile
6 11 (15.07%) SDLC
6 11 (15.07%) Unit Testing
7 10 (13.70%) CRM
7 10 (13.70%) Data Integration
8 9 (12.33%) Performance Tuning
9 8 (10.96%) Configuration Management
10 7 (9.59%) Customer Requirements
11 5 (6.85%) Customer Service
11 5 (6.85%) Web Development
12 4 (5.48%) CI/CD
12 4 (5.48%) Front End Development
12 4 (5.48%) Problem-Solving
12 4 (5.48%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 70 (95.89%) C#
2 59 (80.82%) SQL
3 21 (28.77%) JavaScript
3 21 (28.77%) T-SQL
4 17 (23.29%) PL/SQL
5 15 (20.55%) PowerShell
6 13 (17.81%) VB
6 13 (17.81%) VBA
7 3 (4.11%) Java
8 1 (1.37%) C++
8 1 (1.37%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (5.48%) Degree
2 3 (4.11%) TOGAF Certification
3 1 (1.37%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.37%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (21.92%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.37%) ISO 15022
2 1 (1.37%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (13.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.37%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 20 (27.40%) Oracle
2 16 (21.92%) Microsoft
3 13 (17.81%) Citrix
4 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.11%) SAP