WPF Contracts in the UK excluding London

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 327 393 432
Rank change year-on-year +66 +39 +12
Contract jobs citing WPF 9 6 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.029% 0.12%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.38% 0.18% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 19
10th Percentile £350 £320 £378
25th Percentile £385 £350 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £400 £420
Median % change year-on-year +3.13% -4.76% -4.00%
75th Percentile £550 £475 £600
90th Percentile £563 £520 £688
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,378 3,296 4,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.63% 15.87% 18.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,644 2,154 3,299
10th Percentile £350 £324 £357
25th Percentile £406 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 198 91
10th Percentile £30.98 £21.59 £22.50
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £74.13
90th Percentile £81.95 £75.00 £78.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for WPF in the UK excluding London

WPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for WPF in the UK excluding London

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for WPF in the UK excluding London

WPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for WPF in the UK excluding London

WPF
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
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 the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (77.78%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Visual Studio
2 1 (11.11%) Git
2 1 (11.11%) NUnit
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) C# Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) React Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior C# Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (55.56%) Blazor
3 4 (44.44%) AngularJS
3 4 (44.44%) React
4 3 (33.33%) Laravel
4 3 (33.33%) React Native
4 3 (33.33%) Vue
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Core
5 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
5 1 (11.11%) GraphQL
5 1 (11.11%) Playwright
5 1 (11.11%) WCF
5 1 (11.11%) WinForms
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Android
1 3 (33.33%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (44.44%) BDD
2 4 (44.44%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (44.44%) Kanban
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
3 3 (33.33%) Data Development
3 3 (33.33%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Load Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
4 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) PHP
2 3 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker