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 17 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 501 463
Rank change year-on-year -115 -38 +37
Contract jobs citing WPF 65 58 110
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.68% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 53 88
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £408 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -29.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £683 £538 £751
90th Percentile £688 £688 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £468 £463
% change year-on-year +2.67% +1.08% +15.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £37.25 - -
25th Percentile £42.03 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.50 - -
90th Percentile £79.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - -

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 11,858 8,473 9,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.70% 25.72% 24.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,793 5,672 6,318
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £437 £413 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £631 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £504 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.00% -5.00% -2.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 182 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.25 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £66.83 £53.25 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +25.50% -13.56% -2.99%
75th Percentile £76.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £72.45 £74.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.00 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +23.64% -15.38% +4.00%

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 17 September 2026.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing WPF over the 6 months to 17 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for WPF in the UK

WPF
Top 13 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 17 September 2026. 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 -118 63 £445 +11.25% 99
UK excluding London -80 34 £480 +2.67% 51
London -113 31 £427 +7.97% 51
South West -33 11 £413 -25.00% 2
South East - 9 £675 - 15
East of England - 7 £77 - 13
Work from Home -56 5 £380 -5.13% 44
North West - 4 £485 - 6
North of England - 4 £485 - 9
East Midlands -7 1 £550 +42.86% 5
Midlands -48 1 £550 +42.86% 7
Scotland - 1 - - 6
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 1

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 12 (18.46%) IIS
2 11 (16.92%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) nginx
3 1 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 12 (18.46%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 25 (38.46%) Azure
2 22 (33.85%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.15%) AWS
4 3 (4.62%) GitHub
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECR
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.54%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (18.46%) Internet
2 1 (1.54%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (23.08%) Oracle Database
3 11 (16.92%) Geospatial Data
4 3 (4.62%) DynamoDB
5 2 (3.08%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (3.08%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.54%) MySQL
6 1 (1.54%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (29.23%) Git
2 11 (16.92%) JIRA
2 11 (16.92%) MSI
3 9 (13.85%) GitLab
4 8 (12.31%) Visual Studio
5 5 (7.69%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (6.15%) REST Assured
7 3 (4.62%) ClearCase
8 2 (3.08%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (1.54%) Rational Robot
9 1 (1.54%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 13 (20.00%) Banking
2 11 (16.92%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.31%) Finance
4 6 (9.23%) Social Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Front Office
6 4 (6.15%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.62%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.54%) Back Office
9 1 (1.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (76.92%) Developer
2 26 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 22 (33.85%) .NET Developer
4 11 (16.92%) Software Engineer
5 10 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
5 10 (15.38%) Senior
6 9 (13.85%) Senior Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Software Developer
7 4 (6.15%) WPF Developer
8 3 (4.62%) C# WPF Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Principal Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Principal Software Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) WinForms Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Applications Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Lead Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Senior C# Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (3.08%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (83.08%) .NET
2 44 (67.69%) WinForms
3 30 (46.15%) .NET Framework
4 19 (29.23%) .NET Core
5 17 (26.15%) RESTful
6 13 (20.00%) Terraform
7 12 (18.46%) COM
7 12 (18.46%) REST
8 11 (16.92%) ATL
8 11 (16.92%) CSS
8 11 (16.92%) CSS3
8 11 (16.92%) GeoJSON
8 11 (16.92%) HTML
8 11 (16.92%) HTML5
8 11 (16.92%) MFC
9 6 (9.23%) Web Services
10 5 (7.69%) ASP.NET
10 5 (7.69%) React
11 4 (6.15%) Entity Framework
12 3 (4.62%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 13 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 10 (15.38%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (3.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 34 (52.31%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (36.92%) DevOps
2 22 (33.85%) Agile
3 19 (29.23%) Software Engineering
4 18 (27.69%) CI/CD
4 18 (27.69%) Microservices
5 17 (26.15%) Test Automation
6 15 (23.08%) Design Patterns
6 15 (23.08%) SOLID
7 14 (21.54%) OOP
8 13 (20.00%) Containerisation
8 13 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
9 12 (18.46%) Data Analysis
9 12 (18.46%) Deployment Automation
9 12 (18.46%) Disaster Recovery
9 12 (18.46%) Unit Testing
10 11 (16.92%) API Design
10 11 (16.92%) Full-Stack Development
10 11 (16.92%) Knowledge Transfer
10 11 (16.92%) Static Application Security Testing
10 11 (16.92%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 62 (95.38%) C#
2 25 (38.46%) JavaScript
3 24 (36.92%) SQL
4 19 (29.23%) PL/SQL
5 16 (24.62%) TypeScript
6 15 (23.08%) VB
7 13 (20.00%) Python
7 13 (20.00%) T-SQL
8 12 (18.46%) VBA
9 11 (16.92%) Bicep
10 6 (9.23%) C++
11 3 (4.62%) VB6
11 3 (4.62%) XAML
12 1 (1.54%) Go
12 1 (1.54%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) Security Cleared
2 18 (27.69%) SC Cleared
3 8 (12.31%) Degree
4 3 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (3.08%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (18.46%) QA
2 11 (16.92%) Accessibility
2 11 (16.92%) NCSC
2 11 (16.92%) WCAG
System Software
1 15 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (33.85%) Oracle
2 17 (26.15%) Citrix
3 12 (18.46%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.08%) WSO2
5 1 (1.54%) UiPath