WPF Contracts in England

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WPF over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 420 456 532
Rank change year-on-year +36 +76 -30
Contract jobs citing WPF 65 86 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.23% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.19% 1.14% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 81 95
10th Percentile - £363 £400
25th Percentile £385 £550 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +3.70% -6.90%
75th Percentile £713 £775 £800
90th Percentile £750 £825 £888
UK median daily rate £400 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -42.86% +3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £40.24
25th Percentile - - £43.90
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £62.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing WPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for WPF in England

WPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WPF in England

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WPF in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WPF in England

WPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WPF in England

WPF
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +12 56 £390 -44.29% 23
North of England - 4 £456 - 14
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 4
Midlands - 3 £350 - 9
South East +46 1 £500 +25.00% 16
South West +46 1 £610 +103.33% 10
North West - 1 £413 - 9
WPF
UK

WPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (20.00%) IIS
2 2 (3.08%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 29 (44.62%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 15 (23.08%) Azure
2 10 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.15%) GitHub
4 3 (4.62%) npm
4 3 (4.62%) Yarn
5 2 (3.08%) Prefect
6 1 (1.54%) AWS
6 1 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.92%) Internet
2 1 (1.54%) Firewall
2 1 (1.54%) HTTP
2 1 (1.54%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (44.62%) Oracle Database
2 22 (33.85%) SQL Server
3 4 (6.15%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.62%) MySQL
4 3 (4.62%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.54%) Redis
6 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.69%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) TeamCity
2 4 (6.15%) Visual Studio
3 3 (4.62%) Ant
3 3 (4.62%) Babel
3 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 3 (4.62%) webpack
4 2 (3.08%) JIRA
4 2 (3.08%) NUnit
5 1 (1.54%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.54%) Postman
5 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 34 (52.31%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Banking
3 11 (16.92%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.77%) Front Office
5 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.15%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.08%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.54%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 60 (92.31%) Developer
2 45 (69.23%) C# Developer
3 35 (53.85%) WPF Developer
4 34 (52.31%) C# WPF Developer
5 28 (43.08%) .NET Developer
6 23 (35.38%) C# .NET Developer
7 11 (16.92%) C# WCF Developer
7 11 (16.92%) WCF Developer
8 7 (10.77%) Senior
9 6 (9.23%) React Developer
10 4 (6.15%) C# Software Engineer
10 4 (6.15%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.62%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (4.62%) Senior C# Software Engineer
11 3 (4.62%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.62%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (3.08%) GUI Developer
12 2 (3.08%) Python Developer
12 2 (3.08%) Senior C# .NET Developer
12 2 (3.08%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (87.69%) .NET
2 34 (52.31%) .NET Framework
3 15 (23.08%) WCF
4 14 (21.54%) WinForms
5 8 (12.31%) React
6 7 (10.77%) Blazor
7 6 (9.23%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.69%) HTML
9 4 (6.15%) CSS
9 4 (6.15%) HTML5
9 4 (6.15%) RESTful
9 4 (6.15%) Web Services
10 3 (4.62%) .NET Core
10 3 (4.62%) ASP.NET
10 3 (4.62%) CSS3
10 3 (4.62%) Laravel
10 3 (4.62%) React Native
10 3 (4.62%) Redux
10 3 (4.62%) Semantic UI
10 3 (4.62%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) Derivative
1 4 (6.15%) Market Risk
2 2 (3.08%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 34 (52.31%) Windows
2 4 (6.15%) Linux
3 3 (4.62%) Android
3 3 (4.62%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (21.54%) Data Analysis
2 13 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 11 (16.92%) TDD
4 10 (15.38%) DevOps
5 9 (13.85%) Agile
5 9 (13.85%) BDD
5 9 (13.85%) Software Engineering
6 8 (12.31%) Microservices
7 7 (10.77%) CI/CD
7 7 (10.77%) Computer Science
8 6 (9.23%) Continuous Delivery
8 6 (9.23%) Mathematics
8 6 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (9.23%) Unit Testing
9 5 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (6.15%) Economics
10 4 (6.15%) Kanban
10 4 (6.15%) Risk Analysis
10 4 (6.15%) Risk Management
10 4 (6.15%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 61 (93.85%) C#
2 41 (63.08%) SQL
3 29 (44.62%) PL/SQL
3 29 (44.62%) VBA
4 28 (43.08%) VB
5 17 (26.15%) VB.NET
6 16 (24.62%) T-SQL
7 5 (7.69%) JavaScript
8 4 (6.15%) Haskell
8 4 (6.15%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.62%) PHP
9 3 (4.62%) Python
10 2 (3.08%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) Degree
2 4 (6.15%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.54%) MCAD
3 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (1.54%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.54%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
Vendors
1 31 (47.69%) Oracle
2 12 (18.46%) Citrix
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.54%) Murex
4 1 (1.54%) UiPath