WPF Contract Job Trends in England

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring WPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 479 433 426
Rank change year-on-year -46 -7 +26
Contract jobs citing WPF 49 99 158
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.17% 0.31% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.76% 1.41% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 77 128
10th Percentile - £363 £400
25th Percentile £385 £385 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.78% -4.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £446 £800 £741
90th Percentile £688 £850 £793
UK median daily rate £408 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -29.13% -4.17% -20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.59
25th Percentile - - £47.07
Median hourly rate - - £51.20
75th Percentile - - £53.67
90th Percentile - - £54.17
UK median hourly rate - - £51.20
% change year-on-year - - +14.59%

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 6,485 7,014 8,980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.83% 22.09% 22.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,355 4,487 6,633
10th Percentile £350 £356 £375
25th Percentile £413 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £675
90th Percentile £738 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £505 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -8.18% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 139 186
10th Percentile £31.25 £27.00 £38.80
25th Percentile £41.82 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.78
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +16.53% -14.18%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £71.95 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £51.44 £65.00 £56.03
% change year-on-year -20.86% +16.01% -13.80%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

WPF job vacancy trend in England

WPF
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WPF

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WPF in England over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WPF in England

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing WPF

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 22 October 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 -32 44 £400 -31.91% 24
South West +13 2 £550 - 9
East Midlands - 1 £385 -
Midlands - 1 £385 - 3
WPF
UK

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (16.33%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (48.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Eikon
1 1 (2.04%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.20%) Azure
2 2 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.04%) AWS
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.04%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.37%) Internet
2 2 (4.08%) DHCP
2 2 (4.08%) DNS
2 2 (4.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (51.02%) Oracle Database
2 19 (38.78%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Git
1 2 (4.08%) JIRA
1 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.04%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 24 (48.98%) Finance
2 10 (20.41%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Front Office
4 6 (12.24%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.08%) Publishing
7 1 (2.04%) Back Office
7 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Military
Job Titles
1 48 (97.96%) Developer
2 38 (77.55%) C# Developer
3 26 (53.06%) .NET Developer
3 26 (53.06%) C# WPF Developer
3 26 (53.06%) WPF Developer
4 21 (42.86%) C# .NET Developer
5 8 (16.33%) C# WCF Developer
5 8 (16.33%) WCF Developer
6 7 (14.29%) C# Developer - Commodities
6 7 (14.29%) Software Developer
7 6 (12.24%) C# Software Developer
7 6 (12.24%) Front Office Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Automation Developer
8 3 (6.12%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Applications Developer
9 2 (4.08%) Full-Stack Developer
10 1 (2.04%) C# Software Engineer
10 1 (2.04%) Senior Developer
10 1 (2.04%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
10 1 (2.04%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (59.18%) .NET Framework
3 11 (22.45%) WCF
4 9 (18.37%) WinForms
5 8 (16.33%) AngularJS
6 5 (10.20%) ASP.NET Web API
7 4 (8.16%) Blazor
8 3 (6.12%) .NET Core
8 3 (6.12%) ASP.NET
8 3 (6.12%) Entity Framework
9 2 (4.08%) Bootstrap
9 2 (4.08%) CSS
9 2 (4.08%) Express.js
9 2 (4.08%) HTML
9 2 (4.08%) Middleware
9 2 (4.08%) React
9 2 (4.08%) SOAP
9 2 (4.08%) Web Services
10 1 (2.04%) CSS3
10 1 (2.04%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.08%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.04%) Derivative
2 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.04%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.04%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 35 (71.43%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.41%) Data Analysis
1 10 (20.41%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (20.41%) Microservices
2 7 (14.29%) Agile
3 6 (12.24%) Business Analysis
3 6 (12.24%) DevOps
3 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (10.20%) Full-Stack Development
5 4 (8.16%) CI/CD
5 4 (8.16%) MVC
5 4 (8.16%) MVVM
5 4 (8.16%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.16%) Test Automation
6 3 (6.12%) OO
6 3 (6.12%) OOP
6 3 (6.12%) Scrum
6 3 (6.12%) Software Engineering
6 3 (6.12%) TDD
7 2 (4.08%) Project Management
7 2 (4.08%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) C#
2 36 (73.47%) SQL
3 27 (55.10%) PL/SQL
4 25 (51.02%) VB
4 25 (51.02%) VBA
5 16 (32.65%) VB.NET
6 14 (28.57%) T-SQL
7 3 (6.12%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.12%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (6.12%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.08%) Degree
2 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.04%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.04%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (20.41%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.04%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.08%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
Vendors
1 29 (59.18%) Oracle
2 10 (20.41%) Citrix
3 5 (10.20%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.12%) UiPath
5 2 (4.08%) Atlassian
5 2 (4.08%) VMware
6 1 (2.04%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.04%) Reuters