WPF Contract Job Trends in London

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring WPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 299 321
Rank change year-on-year -25 +22 -13
Contract jobs citing WPF 48 96 115
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.36% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.35% 2.17% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 80 92
10th Percentile - £363 £400
25th Percentile £385 £385 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £404 £599 £625
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% -4.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £411 £781 £750
90th Percentile £688 £850 £800
England median daily rate £408 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -30.64% -2.08% -20.00%

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 3,558 4,431 5,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.38% 27.33% 25.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 2,985 4,129
10th Percentile £363 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £675 £725 £713
90th Percentile £813 £850 £810
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 22 42
10th Percentile £31.77 £23.84 £35.03
25th Percentile £34.17 £36.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £51.97 £42.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% -33.59% +10.82%
75th Percentile £61.56 £62.23 £75.75
90th Percentile £85.95 £74.60 £90.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +12.07% -10.77%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

WPF job vacancy trend in London

WPF
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WPF

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WPF in London over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WPF in London

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing WPF

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 3 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
Central London -1 4 £408 -45.67% 7
East London - 1 £400 -
WPF
England

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 9 (18.75%) IIS
Applications
1 27 (56.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Eikon
1 1 (2.08%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.33%) Azure
2 3 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.08%) AWS
3 1 (2.08%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (2.08%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (58.33%) Oracle Database
2 16 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.08%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (4.17%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.08%) JetBrains Rider
2 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
General
1 27 (56.25%) Finance
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Banking
3 7 (14.58%) Front Office
4 2 (4.17%) Publishing
5 1 (2.08%) Back Office
5 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 47 (97.92%) Developer
2 42 (87.50%) C# Developer
3 30 (62.50%) C# WPF Developer
3 30 (62.50%) WPF Developer
4 27 (56.25%) .NET Developer
5 25 (52.08%) C# .NET Developer
6 9 (18.75%) C# WCF Developer
6 9 (18.75%) WCF Developer
7 7 (14.58%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 6 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
8 6 (12.50%) Front Office Developer
8 6 (12.50%) Software Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Applications Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Automation Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 1 (2.08%) C# Application Developer
10 1 (2.08%) C# Software Engineer
10 1 (2.08%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
10 1 (2.08%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 1 (2.08%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (62.50%) .NET Framework
3 11 (22.92%) WinForms
4 10 (20.83%) WCF
5 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.17%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (4.17%) Entity Framework
7 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET
7 1 (2.08%) Blazor
7 1 (2.08%) jQuery
7 1 (2.08%) Kafka
7 1 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.08%) Derivative
1 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (2.08%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 36 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) Data Analysis
1 12 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 9 (18.75%) Microservices
3 7 (14.58%) DevOps
4 6 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 6 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (8.33%) Agile
5 4 (8.33%) CI/CD
6 3 (6.25%) OO
6 3 (6.25%) OOP
6 3 (6.25%) Unit Testing
7 2 (4.17%) MVVM
7 2 (4.17%) Robotic Process Automation
7 2 (4.17%) Test Automation
8 1 (2.08%) Architectural Patterns
8 1 (2.08%) Fintech
8 1 (2.08%) Full-Stack Development
8 1 (2.08%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (2.08%) Problem-Solving
8 1 (2.08%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) C#
2 36 (75.00%) SQL
3 29 (60.42%) PL/SQL
4 28 (58.33%) VBA
5 27 (56.25%) VB
6 18 (37.50%) VB.NET
7 11 (22.92%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (2.08%) Degree
1 1 (2.08%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.08%) Docker
Vendors
1 32 (66.67%) Oracle
2 11 (22.92%) Citrix
3 3 (6.25%) UiPath
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.08%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.08%) Reuters