WPF Contracts

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring WPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WPF over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 461 485 552
Rank change year-on-year +24 +67 +61
Contract jobs citing WPF 69 102 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.98% 1.10% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 89 106
10th Percentile - £363 £400
25th Percentile £385 £513 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £700 £638
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +9.80% -15.00%
75th Percentile £603 £775 £800
90th Percentile £750 £806 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £420
% change year-on-year -15.79% +13.10% -2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £39.02
25th Percentile - - £40.85
Median hourly rate - - £45.30
75th Percentile - - £48.35
90th Percentile - - £49.34
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.30
% change year-on-year - - -7.56%

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 7,043 9,312 12,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 21.46% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,772 6,381 9,221
10th Percentile £352 £350 £388
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% -2.27% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £765 £788 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 279 155
10th Percentile £27.97 £22.70 £28.50
25th Percentile £37.10 £43.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -15.38% +23.81%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £80.71 £74.44 £80.70
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £58.30 £62.50
% change year-on-year +7.20% -6.72% +13.64%

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 2 July 2025.

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 9 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 2 July 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 +35 67 £400 -42.86% 204
London +15 63 £390 -44.29% 76
Work from Home +18 8 £463 -26.00% 94
UK excluding London +40 4 £400 -15.79% 149
Midlands - 2 £393 - 13
South East +53 1 £500 +25.00% 37
North of England +9 1 £400 - 36
Yorkshire - 1 £400 - 6
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 4

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 14 (20.29%) IIS
2 1 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 32 (46.38%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Eikon
1 1 (1.45%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.84%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.35%) npm
3 3 (4.35%) Yarn
4 2 (2.90%) GitHub
5 1 (1.45%) AWS
5 1 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.45%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.45%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.39%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (46.38%) Oracle Database
2 24 (34.78%) SQL Server
3 5 (7.25%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.45%) MySQL
6 1 (1.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (7.25%) Git
1 5 (7.25%) Visual Studio
2 4 (5.80%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.80%) JIRA
2 4 (5.80%) TeamCity
3 3 (4.35%) Ant
3 3 (4.35%) Babel
3 3 (4.35%) webpack
4 1 (1.45%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.45%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.45%) NUnit
4 1 (1.45%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (1.45%) ReSharper
General
1 39 (56.52%) Finance
2 15 (21.74%) Banking
3 11 (15.94%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.14%) Front Office
5 4 (5.80%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.80%) Investment Banking
6 3 (4.35%) Publishing
7 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 66 (95.65%) Developer
2 53 (76.81%) C# Developer
3 41 (59.42%) WPF Developer
4 40 (57.97%) C# WPF Developer
5 33 (47.83%) .NET Developer
6 29 (42.03%) C# .NET Developer
7 12 (17.39%) C# WCF Developer
7 12 (17.39%) WCF Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Applications Developer
8 4 (5.80%) Automation Developer
8 4 (5.80%) React Developer
9 3 (4.35%) C# Developer - Commodities
9 3 (4.35%) C# Software Engineer
9 3 (4.35%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 3 (4.35%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior
9 3 (4.35%) Software Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) C# GUI Developer
10 2 (2.90%) GUI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (94.20%) .NET
2 39 (56.52%) .NET Framework
3 17 (24.64%) WCF
4 14 (20.29%) WinForms
5 6 (8.70%) React
6 5 (7.25%) Web Services
7 4 (5.80%) .NET Core
7 4 (5.80%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.80%) Blazor
7 4 (5.80%) HTML
7 4 (5.80%) HTML5
7 4 (5.80%) RESTful
8 3 (4.35%) CSS
8 3 (4.35%) CSS3
8 3 (4.35%) Entity Framework
8 3 (4.35%) Material-UI
8 3 (4.35%) Redux
8 3 (4.35%) Semantic UI
9 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
9 2 (2.90%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Derivative
1 4 (5.80%) Market Risk
2 2 (2.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.45%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 44 (63.77%) Windows
2 3 (4.35%) Linux
3 1 (1.45%) Android
3 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (24.64%) Data Analysis
2 16 (23.19%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (20.29%) DevOps
4 12 (17.39%) Agile
5 10 (14.49%) Unit Testing
6 9 (13.04%) Computer Science
7 8 (11.59%) Mathematics
7 8 (11.59%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (11.59%) TDD
8 7 (10.14%) CI/CD
8 7 (10.14%) Microservices
8 7 (10.14%) Software Engineering
9 6 (8.70%) BDD
10 5 (7.25%) Continuous Integration
11 4 (5.80%) Economics
11 4 (5.80%) MVC
11 4 (5.80%) MVVM
11 4 (5.80%) Physics
11 4 (5.80%) Risk Analysis
11 4 (5.80%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 68 (98.55%) C#
2 47 (68.12%) SQL
3 33 (47.83%) PL/SQL
3 33 (47.83%) VBA
4 32 (46.38%) VB
5 19 (27.54%) VB.NET
6 17 (24.64%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.70%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.80%) Haskell
9 3 (4.35%) Python
9 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
10 2 (2.90%) Java
11 1 (1.45%) PHP
11 1 (1.45%) XAML
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Degree
2 4 (5.80%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.90%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.90%) PhD
4 1 (1.45%) MCAD
4 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.09%) QA
2 1 (1.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.45%) HL7
Vendors
1 37 (53.62%) Oracle
2 15 (21.74%) Citrix
3 4 (5.80%) UiPath
4 3 (4.35%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.45%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.45%) Murex
5 1 (1.45%) Reuters