WPF Contracts in London

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 297 309 401
Rank change year-on-year +12 +92 -12
Contract jobs citing WPF 56 82 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.45% 0.46% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.71% 1.84% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 78 79
10th Percentile - £378 £400
25th Percentile £385 £550 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £700 £725
Median % change year-on-year -44.29% -3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £725 £784 £800
90th Percentile £750 £829 £888
England median daily rate £400 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -42.86% +3.70% -6.90%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,271 4,464 7,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.07% 25.04% 27.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,298 3,349 5,511
10th Percentile £385 £375 £413
25th Percentile £450 £459 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -
75th Percentile £725 £700 £730
90th Percentile £838 £825 £813
England median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 26 40
10th Percentile £33.25 £16.25 £30.68
25th Percentile £36.06 £23.90 £37.84
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.17 £66.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.24% -43.68% +35.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £68.50 £76.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for WPF in London

WPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for WPF in London

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for WPF in London

WPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for WPF in London

WPF
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +13 10 £738 -1.67% 4
WPF
England

WPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 13 (23.21%) IIS
2 2 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 29 (51.79%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.29%) Azure
2 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.36%) npm
3 3 (5.36%) Yarn
4 2 (3.57%) Prefect
5 1 (1.79%) AWS
5 1 (1.79%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.79%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.64%) Internet
2 1 (1.79%) Firewall
2 1 (1.79%) HTTP
2 1 (1.79%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (51.79%) Oracle Database
2 17 (30.36%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.14%) MongoDB
4 3 (5.36%) NoSQL
5 2 (3.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.79%) Redis
6 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Git
1 4 (7.14%) TeamCity
2 3 (5.36%) Ant
2 3 (5.36%) Babel
2 3 (5.36%) Bitbucket
2 3 (5.36%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.36%) webpack
3 2 (3.57%) JIRA
4 1 (1.79%) NUnit
4 1 (1.79%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 31 (55.36%) Finance
2 14 (25.00%) Banking
3 11 (19.64%) Social Skills
4 7 (12.50%) Front Office
5 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.57%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.79%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 55 (98.21%) Developer
2 45 (80.36%) C# Developer
3 35 (62.50%) WPF Developer
4 34 (60.71%) C# WPF Developer
5 26 (46.43%) .NET Developer
6 23 (41.07%) C# .NET Developer
7 11 (19.64%) C# WCF Developer
7 11 (19.64%) WCF Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
8 3 (5.36%) React Developer
8 3 (5.36%) Senior
8 3 (5.36%) Senior Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Front Office Developer
9 2 (3.57%) GUI Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Python Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior C# .NET Developer
9 2 (3.57%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (3.57%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (85.71%) .NET
2 33 (58.93%) .NET Framework
3 14 (25.00%) WCF
4 13 (23.21%) WinForms
5 5 (8.93%) HTML
6 4 (7.14%) CSS
6 4 (7.14%) HTML5
6 4 (7.14%) React
6 4 (7.14%) RESTful
6 4 (7.14%) Web Services
7 3 (5.36%) CSS3
7 3 (5.36%) Material-UI
7 3 (5.36%) Redux
7 3 (5.36%) Semantic UI
8 2 (3.57%) AngularJS
8 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET
8 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (3.57%) Blazor
8 2 (3.57%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.57%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) Derivative
1 4 (7.14%) Market Risk
2 2 (3.57%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.79%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (58.93%) Windows
2 4 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (1.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (25.00%) Data Analysis
2 13 (23.21%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (16.07%) DevOps
4 8 (14.29%) Agile
4 8 (14.29%) Microservices
5 7 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 7 (12.50%) TDD
6 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 6 (10.71%) Mathematics
6 6 (10.71%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (10.71%) Unit Testing
7 5 (8.93%) BDD
7 5 (8.93%) Continuous Integration
8 4 (7.14%) Architectural Design
8 4 (7.14%) Economics
8 4 (7.14%) Front End Development
8 4 (7.14%) Risk Analysis
8 4 (7.14%) Risk Management
8 4 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (5.36%) Continuous Delivery
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) C#
2 40 (71.43%) SQL
3 29 (51.79%) PL/SQL
3 29 (51.79%) VBA
4 28 (50.00%) VB
5 17 (30.36%) VB.NET
6 13 (23.21%) T-SQL
7 5 (8.93%) JavaScript
8 4 (7.14%) Haskell
9 3 (5.36%) Python
9 3 (5.36%) TypeScript
10 2 (3.57%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (12.50%) Degree
2 4 (7.14%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (1.79%) MCAD
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (26.79%) QA
2 1 (1.79%) HL7
Vendors
1 31 (55.36%) Oracle
2 12 (21.43%) Citrix
3 2 (3.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.79%) Murex
4 1 (1.79%) UiPath