WPF Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring WPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WPF 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.39% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - £485 £400
% change year-on-year - +21.25% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
East of England median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bedfordshire

WPF 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 in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 38 12 22
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 14.84% 8.33% 7.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 10 13
10th Percentile £406 £304 £315
25th Percentile £444 £434 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +40.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile £638 £700 £538
90th Percentile - £790 £550
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +22.22% -9.09% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.97 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.61 - £52.50
75th Percentile £76.50 - £53.75
90th Percentile £79.20 - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £55.53
% change year-on-year -3.70% +21.56% -15.22%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WPF relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

WPF job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

WPF
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing WPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing WPF

WPF
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 2 February 2026. 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
Luton - 1 - - 3
WPF
East of England

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared