WPF Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for WPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WPF over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 425 438
Rank change year-on-year +50 +13 -49
Contract jobs citing WPF 10 31 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.049% 0.13% 0.22%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.72% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 19 45
10th Percentile £410 £363 £385
25th Percentile £425 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £438
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -4.00% +19.86%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £488
90th Percentile £545 £648 £545
UK median daily rate £700 £675 £725
% change year-on-year +3.70% -6.90% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 9
10th Percentile - £40.24 £46.45
25th Percentile - £43.90 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £49.50
90th Percentile - £62.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

WPF 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 advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3,250 4,294 6,126
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.84% 18.27% 19.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,122 3,209 4,365
10th Percentile £324 £356 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £690 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.91% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 91 138
10th Percentile £21.73 £22.50 £20.18
25th Percentile £43.00 £50.65 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £64.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.78% +30.61% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.50 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.19 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.65
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.93% +10.32%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WPF in the UK excluding London

WPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WPF in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for WPF in the UK excluding London

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WPF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WPF in the UK excluding London

WPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WPF in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for WPF in the UK excluding London

WPF
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Scotland +44 4 £475 +11.76% 5
East of England +4 3 £550 - 7
Wales - 2 - - 3
South East -1 1 £400 -33.33% 12
WPF
UK

WPF
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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Azure
1 6 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) MQTT
1 1 (10.00%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Git
2 7 (70.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (10.00%) Appium
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Test Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C# WPF Developer
3 1 (10.00%) C++ Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Hardware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (80.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) WinForms
3 4 (40.00%) Playwright
3 4 (40.00%) REST
3 4 (40.00%) SOAP
4 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (20.00%) MFC
4 2 (20.00%) WCF
5 1 (10.00%) Entity Framework
5 1 (10.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 1 (10.00%) Silverlight
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
2 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) SDLC
4 4 (40.00%) API Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 4 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (30.00%) UML
6 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (10.00%) Design Patterns
7 1 (10.00%) Embedded Software Development
7 1 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
7 1 (10.00%) Mathematical Modelling
7 1 (10.00%) OO
7 1 (10.00%) OOA/OOD
7 1 (10.00%) Statistical Modelling
7 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (50.00%) C++
2 5 (50.00%) SQL
3 4 (40.00%) VB
3 4 (40.00%) VB6
4 3 (30.00%) Python
5 2 (20.00%) C++/CLI
6 1 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (10.00%) XAML
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (10.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Infragistics
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle