WCF Contracts

Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WCF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WCF over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 507 606 700
Rank change year-on-year +99 +94 -104
Contract jobs citing WCF 68 76 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.14% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.75% 0.59% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 68 98
10th Percentile £363 £360 £413
25th Percentile £400 £406 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £493 £625
Median % change year-on-year +11.68% -21.20% +6.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £800
90th Percentile £640 £800 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £413 £490
% change year-on-year -3.03% -15.82% +19.51%

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 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 9,058 12,870 23,572
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.04% 22.96% 26.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,281 9,398 17,328
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 257 147 222
10th Percentile £21.89 £30.45 £25.05
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £66.25 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.46 £80.55 £76.96
UK excluding London median hourly rate £48.43 £65.00 £55.25
% change year-on-year -25.49% +17.65% +22.78%

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 1 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 1 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 +77 61 £575 +11.65% 14
London +101 54 £600 - 9
Work from Home +104 24 £550 +11.11% 9
UK excluding London +21 9 £400 -3.03% 7
South East +5 4 £400 -3.03% 3
East of England - 3 £350 -
Scotland +38 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 11 (16.18%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (16.18%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (10.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.47%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 15 (22.06%) Azure
2 8 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.29%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.88%) GitHub
4 4 (5.88%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.41%) PaaS
5 3 (4.41%) Serverless
6 2 (2.94%) AWS
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Functions
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Key Vault
6 2 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (60.29%) SQL Server
2 12 (17.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 11 (16.18%) Oracle Database
4 8 (11.76%) Relational Database
4 8 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 26 (38.24%) TeamCity
2 6 (8.82%) Git
3 5 (7.35%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (5.88%) NUnit
4 4 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (4.41%) Selenium
6 2 (2.94%) GitLab
6 2 (2.94%) JIRA
7 1 (1.47%) InstallShield
7 1 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (20.59%) Banking
1 14 (20.59%) Finance
2 10 (14.71%) Social Skills
3 8 (11.76%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.94%) Back Office
4 2 (2.94%) Front Office
4 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (66.18%) Developer
2 25 (36.76%) C# Developer
3 19 (27.94%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (22.06%) .NET Developer
5 14 (20.59%) C# WCF Developer
5 14 (20.59%) WCF Developer
5 14 (20.59%) WPF Developer
6 12 (17.65%) C# WPF Developer
7 11 (16.18%) Senior
8 7 (10.29%) Architect
9 6 (8.82%) Senior Developer
10 5 (7.35%) Dynamics 365 Architect
10 5 (7.35%) Senior DevOps
10 5 (7.35%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 4 (5.88%) Dynamics 365 Solution Architect
11 4 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
11 4 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
12 3 (4.41%) SSIS Developer
12 3 (4.41%) SSRS Developer
13 2 (2.94%) Windows DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (95.59%) .NET
2 34 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 31 (45.59%) WinForms
4 20 (29.41%) Entity Framework
5 18 (26.47%) WPF
6 15 (22.06%) ASP.NET
7 10 (14.71%) AngularJS
8 8 (11.76%) ASP.NET Web API
8 8 (11.76%) jQuery
8 8 (11.76%) RabbitMQ
8 8 (11.76%) Web Services
9 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Enterprise Library
10 6 (8.82%) .NET Core
10 6 (8.82%) CSS
10 6 (8.82%) JSON
11 5 (7.35%) ASP.NET MVC
11 5 (7.35%) XML
12 4 (5.88%) HTML
12 4 (5.88%) RESTful
12 4 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.94%) Fixed Income
1 2 (2.94%) Legacy Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (1.47%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 21 (30.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (52.94%) DevOps
2 28 (41.18%) Migration
3 25 (36.76%) MVC
4 11 (16.18%) Data Analysis
4 11 (16.18%) Disaster Recovery
4 11 (16.18%) SDLC
4 11 (16.18%) Unit Testing
5 9 (13.24%) Agile
5 9 (13.24%) Data Migration
5 9 (13.24%) Performance Tuning
6 8 (11.76%) Configuration Management
7 7 (10.29%) CRM
7 7 (10.29%) Customer Requirements
7 7 (10.29%) Data Integration
8 4 (5.88%) CI/CD
8 4 (5.88%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (5.88%) Front End Development
8 4 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (5.88%) Scrum
9 3 (4.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 65 (95.59%) C#
2 54 (79.41%) SQL
3 19 (27.94%) T-SQL
4 18 (26.47%) JavaScript
5 15 (22.06%) PL/SQL
5 15 (22.06%) PowerShell
6 11 (16.18%) VB
6 11 (16.18%) VBA
7 3 (4.41%) Java
8 1 (1.47%) C++
8 1 (1.47%) XAML
Qualifications
1 1 (1.47%) Degree
1 1 (1.47%) Master's Degree
1 1 (1.47%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (20.59%) QA
2 1 (1.47%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.47%) ISO 15022
2 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 10 (14.71%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.47%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 18 (26.47%) Oracle
2 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
3 11 (16.18%) Citrix
4 3 (4.41%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.41%) SAP