WPF Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring WPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing WPF 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.28% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 7.35% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £406 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £444 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 68 12 18
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 17.39% 7.10% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 10 14
10th Percentile £268 £406 £384
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £548 £450
Median % change year-on-year -17.81% +21.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £565 £649 £484
90th Percentile £600 £668 £525
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £525
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - £42.50
Median hourly rate £35.00 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +33.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £37.50 - £47.50
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £65.00 £67.50 £68.75
% change year-on-year -3.70% -1.82% +5.77%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

WPF job vacancy trend in Somerset

WPF
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing WPF

WPF
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 23 June 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
Taunton - 5 £444 - 5
WPF
South West

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 5 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
1 5 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) JIRA
1 5 (100.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 2 (40.00%) Lead Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) ATL
1 5 (100.00%) COM
1 5 (100.00%) CSS
1 5 (100.00%) CSS3
1 5 (100.00%) GeoJSON
1 5 (100.00%) HTML
1 5 (100.00%) HTML5
1 5 (100.00%) MFC
1 5 (100.00%) REST
1 5 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 5 (100.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (60.00%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) API Design
1 5 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 5 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 5 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 5 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 5 (100.00%) DevOps
1 5 (100.00%) DevSecOps
1 5 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 5 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 5 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (100.00%) Microservices
1 5 (100.00%) SOLID
1 5 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 5 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 5 (100.00%) Virtual Environments
2 3 (60.00%) Data Pipeline
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Bicep
1 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 5 (100.00%) Python
1 5 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 5 (100.00%) NCSC
1 5 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft