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 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 557 438 465
Rank change year-on-year -119 +27 +79
Contract jobs citing WPF 48 91 135
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.54% 1.30% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 73 104
10th Percentile £385 - £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £450 £688
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -34.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £525 £638 £778
90th Percentile £675 £737 £834
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £468 £575
% change year-on-year +17.65% -18.70% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £66.00 - £45.59
25th Percentile £67.50 - £47.07
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £51.20
75th Percentile £72.50 - £53.67
90th Percentile £74.00 - £54.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £70.00 - £51.20
% change year-on-year - - +2.40%

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 8,936 6,984 9,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.27% 22.56% 20.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,978 4,502 6,552
10th Percentile £358 £360 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £535 £534
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +0.19% -7.13%
75th Percentile £623 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 84 190
10th Percentile £35.00 £25.55 £22.75
25th Percentile £51.19 £39.06 £44.70
Median hourly rate £64.25 £62.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.19 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £78.08 £76.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +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 14 February 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
Top 9 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 14 February 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 -122 42 £411 -4.64% 41
London -76 34 £408 +3.16% 11
UK excluding London -75 8 £550 +17.65% 38
Work from Home -31 4 £440 -28.06% 23
South West -16 2 £550 -10.93% 1
East of England -23 2 - - 7
South East -25 2 £718 +51.05% 16
Scotland - 1 £388 - 6
Northern Ireland - 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 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 16 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.75%) AWS
1 9 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (6.25%) Serverless
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.17%) Entra ID
3 2 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 13 (27.08%) Internet
2 3 (6.25%) DHCP
2 3 (6.25%) DNS
2 3 (6.25%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.17%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (52.08%) SQL Server
2 17 (35.42%) Oracle Database
3 5 (10.42%) MySQL
4 4 (8.33%) Amazon Aurora
5 3 (6.25%) Relational Database
6 2 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (4.17%) Power BI
7 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.50%) Git
2 5 (10.42%) JIRA
3 2 (4.17%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.08%) Rational DOORS
General
1 16 (33.33%) Finance
2 10 (20.83%) Banking
2 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.42%) Front Office
3 5 (10.42%) Public Sector
4 3 (6.25%) Publishing
5 2 (4.17%) Back Office
5 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 40 (83.33%) Developer
2 24 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 17 (35.42%) .NET Developer
4 10 (20.83%) Applications Developer
4 10 (20.83%) C# WPF Developer
4 10 (20.83%) WPF Developer
5 8 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (12.50%) C# Application Developer
6 6 (12.50%) C# WCF Developer
6 6 (12.50%) WCF Developer
7 5 (10.42%) Senior
8 4 (8.33%) Automation Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Senior Developer
8 4 (8.33%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.25%) C# Developer - Commodities
9 3 (6.25%) Front Office Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Full-Stack C# Developer
9 3 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (93.75%) .NET
2 26 (54.17%) .NET Framework
3 20 (41.67%) WinForms
4 12 (25.00%) WCF
5 11 (22.92%) .NET Core
6 7 (14.58%) AngularJS
7 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (10.42%) React
7 5 (10.42%) RESTful
8 4 (8.33%) REST
9 3 (6.25%) Bootstrap
9 3 (6.25%) Express.js
9 3 (6.25%) Middleware
9 3 (6.25%) SOAP
9 3 (6.25%) Web Services
10 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
10 2 (4.17%) CSS
10 2 (4.17%) HTML
10 2 (4.17%) OAuth
10 2 (4.17%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Credit Risk
1 5 (10.42%) Market Risk
2 4 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.08%) Derivative
5 1 (2.08%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (2.08%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing Execution System
5 1 (2.08%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.08%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (68.75%) Windows
2 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (33.33%) DevOps
2 13 (27.08%) CI/CD
3 12 (25.00%) Agile
3 12 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 12 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 8 (16.67%) MVC
5 7 (14.58%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (14.58%) SDLC
6 6 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
6 6 (12.50%) Microservices
6 6 (12.50%) Software Engineering
6 6 (12.50%) TDD
7 5 (10.42%) Deployment Automation
7 5 (10.42%) Design Patterns
7 5 (10.42%) OOP
7 5 (10.42%) Scrum
7 5 (10.42%) Test Automation
8 4 (8.33%) Robotic Process Automation
Programming Languages
1 48 (100.00%) C#
2 32 (66.67%) SQL
3 18 (37.50%) PL/SQL
4 17 (35.42%) T-SQL
5 16 (33.33%) VB
5 16 (33.33%) VBA
6 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 4 (8.33%) Python
6 4 (8.33%) VB.NET
7 3 (6.25%) C++
8 2 (4.17%) Java
9 1 (2.08%) C
9 1 (2.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.25%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.08%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (29.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) EMIR
2 1 (2.08%) MiFID
2 1 (2.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (10.42%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Terraform
2 2 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Oracle
2 16 (33.33%) Citrix
3 6 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.33%) UiPath
5 3 (6.25%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.25%) VMware
6 2 (4.17%) SAP
7 1 (2.08%) OpenText
7 1 (2.08%) Serena