WPF Contract Job Trends

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WPF skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 452 458
Rank change year-on-year -62 +6 +40
Contract jobs citing WPF 52 103 170
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.15% 0.28% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.66% 1.29% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 79 134
10th Percentile - £363 £400
25th Percentile £385 £385 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.13% -4.17% -17.24%
75th Percentile £538 £788 £750
90th Percentile £688 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £480 £525
% change year-on-year -2.60% -8.57% +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £45.59
25th Percentile - - £47.07
Median hourly rate - - £51.20
75th Percentile - - £53.67
90th Percentile - - £54.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £51.20
% change year-on-year - - +14.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,889 8,010 10,618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 23.00% 21.86% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,227 5,070 7,613
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.34% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £664
90th Percentile £725 £775 £762
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 124 190
10th Percentile £29.60 £24.19 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.25 £41.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £65.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +17.05% -14.57%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £76.25 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £61.25 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -5.77% +18.18% -15.38%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WPF job vacancy trend in the UK

WPF
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WPF.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WPF

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WPF over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WPF in the UK

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WPF.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WPF

WPF
Top 7 Contract Job 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 31 October 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 -62 48 £400 -30.43% 62
London -23 43 £395 -31.30% 18
Work from Home -3 6 £400 -33.05% 25
UK excluding London -35 3 £468 -2.60% 57
South West +7 2 £550 -12.00% 9
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 3
Midlands - 1 £385 - 7

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 8 (15.38%) IIS
Applications
1 24 (46.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Eikon
1 1 (1.92%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 7 (13.46%) Azure
2 5 (9.62%) AWS
3 3 (5.77%) Serverless
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.85%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.92%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) Internet
2 2 (3.85%) DHCP
2 2 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (48.08%) Oracle Database
2 19 (36.54%) SQL Server
3 4 (7.69%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (7.69%) MySQL
4 2 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (3.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (3.85%) Git
1 2 (3.85%) JIRA
1 2 (3.85%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.92%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) JetBrains Rider
General
1 24 (46.15%) Finance
2 12 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 7 (13.46%) Front Office
4 6 (11.54%) Banking
5 3 (5.77%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.85%) Publishing
7 1 (1.92%) Back Office
7 1 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.92%) Law
7 1 (1.92%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (94.23%) Developer
2 38 (73.08%) C# Developer
3 27 (51.92%) .NET Developer
4 26 (50.00%) C# WPF Developer
4 26 (50.00%) WPF Developer
5 21 (40.38%) C# .NET Developer
6 8 (15.38%) C# WCF Developer
6 8 (15.38%) WCF Developer
7 7 (13.46%) C# Developer - Commodities
7 7 (13.46%) Software Developer
8 6 (11.54%) C# Software Developer
8 6 (11.54%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Automation Developer
9 3 (5.77%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Applications Developer
10 2 (3.85%) AWS Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (3.85%) Full-Stack Developer
10 2 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 1 (1.92%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (100.00%) .NET
2 29 (55.77%) .NET Framework
3 11 (21.15%) WCF
4 9 (17.31%) WinForms
5 7 (13.46%) .NET Core
5 7 (13.46%) AngularJS
6 5 (9.62%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (5.77%) ASP.NET
7 3 (5.77%) Blazor
7 3 (5.77%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.85%) AWS CDK
8 2 (3.85%) Bootstrap
8 2 (3.85%) CSS
8 2 (3.85%) Express.js
8 2 (3.85%) HTML
8 2 (3.85%) Middleware
8 2 (3.85%) OAuth
8 2 (3.85%) React
8 2 (3.85%) SOAP
8 2 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.85%) Cloud Native
1 2 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.92%) Derivative
2 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.92%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 35 (67.31%) Windows
2 2 (3.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (19.23%) Data Analysis
1 10 (19.23%) DevOps
1 10 (19.23%) Disaster Recovery
1 10 (19.23%) Microservices
2 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
3 7 (13.46%) Agile
4 6 (11.54%) Business Analysis
4 6 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (7.69%) Customer Service
6 4 (7.69%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (7.69%) Knowledge Transfer
6 4 (7.69%) MVC
6 4 (7.69%) MVVM
6 4 (7.69%) Test Automation
7 3 (5.77%) OO
7 3 (5.77%) OOP
7 3 (5.77%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 52 (100.00%) C#
2 35 (67.31%) SQL
3 27 (51.92%) PL/SQL
4 25 (48.08%) VB
4 25 (48.08%) VBA
5 16 (30.77%) VB.NET
6 14 (26.92%) T-SQL
7 4 (7.69%) Python
8 3 (5.77%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (5.77%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.85%) Degree
2 2 (3.85%) DV Cleared
3 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.92%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.23%) QA
2 1 (1.92%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.85%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (7.69%) Terraform
2 2 (3.85%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (55.77%) Oracle
2 10 (19.23%) Citrix
3 7 (13.46%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.77%) UiPath
5 2 (3.85%) Atlassian
5 2 (3.85%) VMware
6 1 (1.92%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.92%) Reuters