Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WPF over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 582 551
Rank change year-on-year +80 -31 -31
Contract jobs citing WPF 96 137 314
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.23% 0.35%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.08% 0.98% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 106 247
10th Percentile £376 £400 £400
25th Percentile £550 £410 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +12.00%
75th Percentile £781 £800 £775
90th Percentile £838 £888 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £420 £438
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.00% +20.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 15
10th Percentile - £40.24 £47.75
25th Percentile - £43.90 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £49.50
90th Percentile - £62.00 £53.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WPF is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WPF in the UK

WPF
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WPF in the UK

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WPF over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WPF in the UK

WPF
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WPF in the UK

WPF
Top 10 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +96 89 £700 +3.70% 68
London +93 84 £700 -3.45% 14
Work from Home +100 29 £625 -5.66% 64
UK excluding London +42 7 £400 -4.76% 64
East of England +16 2 £550 - 5
Wales - 2 - - 4
North of England +27 1 - - 20
South West +20 1 £300 -17.81% 2
South East +14 1 £400 -33.33% 17
North East - 1 - - 5

WPF
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 9 (9.38%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (11.46%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.42%) Azure
2 2 (2.08%) AWS
2 2 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (2.08%) npm
2 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
2 2 (2.08%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.38%) Internet
2 1 (1.04%) CTI
2 1 (1.04%) MQTT
2 1 (1.04%) RS-232
2 1 (1.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.79%) Relational Database
2 16 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 11 (11.46%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.17%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) Big Data
5 1 (1.04%) MySQL
5 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (15.63%) TeamCity
2 11 (11.46%) JIRA
3 4 (4.17%) Git
3 4 (4.17%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 2 (2.08%) Ant
5 2 (2.08%) Babel
5 2 (2.08%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.08%) webpack
6 1 (1.04%) GitLab
General
1 42 (43.75%) Banking
2 37 (38.54%) Front Office
3 32 (33.33%) Finance
4 24 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 22 (22.92%) Investment Banking
6 13 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.13%) Back Office
8 1 (1.04%) French Language
8 1 (1.04%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.04%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 83 (86.46%) Developer
2 55 (57.29%) C# Developer
3 28 (29.17%) WPF Developer
4 22 (22.92%) C# WPF Developer
5 19 (19.79%) React Developer
6 15 (15.63%) .NET Developer
7 11 (11.46%) Senior
8 10 (10.42%) Front Office Developer
8 10 (10.42%) Senior Developer
9 8 (8.33%) C# WCF Developer
9 8 (8.33%) UI Developer
9 8 (8.33%) WCF Developer
10 7 (7.29%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (7.29%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 7 (7.29%) Software Engineer
11 6 (6.25%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 6 (6.25%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
12 5 (5.21%) C# .NET Developer
12 5 (5.21%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
12 5 (5.21%) Senior React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (39.58%) .NET
2 27 (28.13%) React
3 15 (15.63%) .NET Framework
3 15 (15.63%) CSS
3 15 (15.63%) WCF
4 14 (14.58%) WinForms
5 13 (13.54%) Redux
6 11 (11.46%) Reactive Extensions
7 6 (6.25%) .NET Core
7 6 (6.25%) ASP.NET
8 4 (4.17%) Electron
8 4 (4.17%) HTML
8 4 (4.17%) Web Services
9 3 (3.13%) Blazor
9 3 (3.13%) CSS3
9 3 (3.13%) HTML5
10 2 (2.08%) Material-UI
10 2 (2.08%) MobX
10 2 (2.08%) RESTful
10 2 (2.08%) Semantic UI
Miscellaneous
1 22 (22.92%) Fixed Income
2 12 (12.50%) Equities
3 6 (6.25%) Derivative
4 4 (4.17%) Equity Derivative
4 4 (4.17%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.08%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.04%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.04%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.04%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.04%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (3.13%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.92%) Electronic Trading
2 21 (21.88%) Agile
3 18 (18.75%) Full Stack Development
4 16 (16.67%) Front End Development
5 15 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (14.58%) Microservices
7 13 (13.54%) TDD
8 12 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (12.50%) Design Patterns
9 11 (11.46%) Economics
10 10 (10.42%) Software Engineering
11 9 (9.38%) Business Analysis
11 9 (9.38%) Data Analysis
11 9 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (9.38%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (8.33%) Investment Management
13 7 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
13 7 (7.29%) User Experience
14 6 (6.25%) CI/CD
15 5 (5.21%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 90 (93.75%) C#
2 59 (61.46%) SQL
3 14 (14.58%) T-SQL
4 13 (13.54%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.50%) PL/SQL
6 11 (11.46%) Java
6 11 (11.46%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.46%) VB
6 11 (11.46%) VBA
7 10 (10.42%) Python
8 7 (7.29%) C++
9 6 (6.25%) Kotlin
10 4 (4.17%) VB.NET
11 2 (2.08%) C++/CLI
11 2 (2.08%) PowerShell
12 1 (1.04%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (4.17%) Degree
2 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.38%) QA
2 1 (1.04%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (2.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (14.58%) Oracle
2 9 (9.38%) Citrix
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft