FoxPro (VFP) Contract Job Trends

Microsoft Visual FoxPro (VFP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring FoxPro (VFP) skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 555 - 652
Rank change year-on-year - - +198
Contract jobs citing FoxPro (VFP) 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% - 0.004%
As % of the Programming Languages category 0.056% - 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £326
25th Percentile £400 - £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £388
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.82%
75th Percentile £438 - £422
90th Percentile - - £439
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £325

All Programming Languages
UK

FoxPro (VFP) falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring coding skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 10,710 12,156 16,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.75% 31.72% 32.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,108 8,354 11,665
10th Percentile £340 £350 £369
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £526 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.89% -4.32% -0.59%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £675
90th Percentile £748 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 295 349 452
10th Percentile £29.00 £29.55 £32.30
25th Percentile £37.23 £46.25 £48.32
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £67.50 £70.00 £70.26
90th Percentile £80.00 £78.75 £82.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £64.19
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.27% +12.61%

FoxPro (VFP)
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing FoxPro (VFP) as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for FoxPro (VFP) in the UK

FoxPro (VFP)
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FoxPro (VFP).

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FoxPro (VFP)

FoxPro (VFP)
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FoxPro (VFP).

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing FoxPro (VFP)

FoxPro (VFP)
Top 6 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing FoxPro (VFP) within the UK over the 6 months to 6 September 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
Work from Home - 6 £413 - 1
England - 4 £425 - 2
UK excluding London - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - -
London - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -

FoxPro (VFP)
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
1 6 (100.00%) FoxPro Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Data Structures
2 4 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 4 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Clean Code
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared