WPF Developer Contracts

Windows Presentation Foundation Developer (WPF Developer)
UK

The median Windows Presentation Foundation Developer (WPF Developer) daily rate in the UK is £390, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 556 692
Rank change year-on-year +72 +136 +124
Contract jobs requiring a WPF Developer 36 26 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.060% 0.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.064% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 25 21
10th Percentile - - £381
25th Percentile £385 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £575 £875
Median % change year-on-year -32.17% -34.29% +20.69%
75th Percentile £395 £775 £925
90th Percentile £522 - £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £400
% change year-on-year - - -13.51%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

WPF Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured WPF Developer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WPF Developer in the UK

WPF Developer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WPF Developer in the UK

WPF Developer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for WPF Developer in the UK

WPF Developer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WPF Developer in the UK

WPF Developer
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WPF Developer within the UK 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
England +69 35 £390 -22.00% 2
London +50 35 £390 -22.00% 1
Work from Home +36 1 £563 -6.25%

WPF Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, WPF Developer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring WPF Developer in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) C#
1 36 (100.00%) WPF
2 34 (94.44%) .NET
3 31 (86.11%) Windows
3 31 (86.11%) SQL
3 31 (86.11%) .NET Framework
4 29 (80.56%) PL/SQL
4 29 (80.56%) VBA
4 29 (80.56%) Oracle
4 29 (80.56%) Oracle Database
5 28 (77.78%) VB
5 28 (77.78%) Microsoft Excel
6 21 (58.33%) Finance
7 17 (47.22%) VB.NET
8 14 (38.89%) QA
9 13 (36.11%) T-SQL
9 13 (36.11%) SQL Server
10 12 (33.33%) IIS
10 12 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
10 12 (33.33%) WCF
10 12 (33.33%) Data Analysis
11 11 (30.56%) WinForms
11 11 (30.56%) Citrix
11 11 (30.56%) Internet
12 4 (11.11%) Unit Testing
13 3 (8.33%) Agile
13 3 (8.33%) Degree
13 3 (8.33%) Mathematics
13 3 (8.33%) Physics
13 3 (8.33%) Computer Science

WPF Developer Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (33.33%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (77.78%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.56%) Azure
1 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (30.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (80.56%) Oracle Database
2 13 (36.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Git
1 1 (2.78%) TeamCity
1 1 (2.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 21 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (8.33%) Banking
2 3 (8.33%) Front Office
3 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (100.00%) WPF
2 34 (94.44%) .NET
3 31 (86.11%) .NET Framework
4 12 (33.33%) WCF
5 11 (30.56%) WinForms
6 1 (2.78%) .NET Core
6 1 (2.78%) Avalonia
6 1 (2.78%) Entity Framework
6 1 (2.78%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 1 (2.78%) RESTful
6 1 (2.78%) Silverlight
6 1 (2.78%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (86.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 12 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (11.11%) Unit Testing
3 3 (8.33%) Agile
3 3 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 3 (8.33%) Mathematics
3 3 (8.33%) Physics
4 2 (5.56%) DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) Low Latency
4 2 (5.56%) OO
4 2 (5.56%) OOP
4 2 (5.56%) Software Delivery
4 2 (5.56%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (5.56%) TDD
4 2 (5.56%) Workflow
5 1 (2.78%) CI/CD
5 1 (2.78%) Code Quality
5 1 (2.78%) Design Patterns
5 1 (2.78%) Front End Development
5 1 (2.78%) UML
Programming Languages
1 36 (100.00%) C#
2 31 (86.11%) SQL
3 29 (80.56%) PL/SQL
3 29 (80.56%) VBA
4 28 (77.78%) VB
5 17 (47.22%) VB.NET
6 13 (36.11%) T-SQL
7 2 (5.56%) Java
8 1 (2.78%) XAML
Qualifications
1 3 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.78%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (38.89%) QA
Vendors
1 29 (80.56%) Oracle
2 11 (30.56%) Citrix