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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 451 492
Rank change year-on-year -48 +41 +14
Contract jobs citing WPF 58 111 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.29% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.77% 1.29% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 89 109
10th Percentile - £363 £400
25th Percentile £385 £385 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -29.13% -4.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £541 £750 £750
90th Percentile £688 £850 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £468 £450 £400
% change year-on-year +3.89% +12.50% -14.44%
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 - - +4.48%

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 7,545 8,634 11,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.90% 22.41% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,010 5,617 7,893
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £788 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.24% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 188 180
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £36.19
25th Percentile £41.82 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.85 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.96% +2.67% -4.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £72.41
90th Percentile £72.25 £74.61 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -11.54% +10.11% -6.67%

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
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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -44 54 £404 -31.28% 68
London -44 51 £400 -33.05% 24
Work from Home +12 6 £400 -20.00% 44
UK excluding London +3 2 £468 +3.89% 57
East Midlands - 1 £385 - 2
Midlands - 1 £385 - 5
South West - 1 £550 - 6

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 (15.52%) IIS
Applications
1 28 (48.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Eikon
1 1 (1.72%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (17.24%) Azure
2 7 (12.07%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (5.17%) AWS
4 2 (3.45%) Serverless
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (1.72%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.52%) Internet
2 1 (1.72%) DHCP
2 1 (1.72%) DNS
2 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 18 (31.03%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Visual Studio
2 3 (5.17%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) JIRA
4 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) JetBrains Rider
4 1 (1.72%) ReSharper
4 1 (1.72%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (51.72%) Finance
2 12 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 10 (17.24%) Banking
4 7 (12.07%) Front Office
5 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.45%) Publishing
6 1 (1.72%) Back Office
6 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 55 (94.83%) Developer
2 47 (81.03%) C# Developer
3 33 (56.90%) C# WPF Developer
3 33 (56.90%) WPF Developer
4 32 (55.17%) .NET Developer
5 27 (46.55%) C# .NET Developer
6 9 (15.52%) C# WCF Developer
6 9 (15.52%) WCF Developer
7 6 (10.34%) C# Developer - Commodities
8 5 (8.62%) C# Software Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Front Office Developer
8 5 (8.62%) Software Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Applications Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Automation Developer
9 3 (5.17%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
10 2 (3.45%) C# Software Engineer
10 2 (3.45%) Software Engineer
11 1 (1.72%) .NET Applications Developer
11 1 (1.72%) .NET Software Engineer
11 1 (1.72%) C# Application Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (100.00%) .NET
2 33 (56.90%) .NET Framework
3 13 (22.41%) WCF
4 11 (18.97%) WinForms
5 6 (10.34%) .NET Core
6 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
7 3 (5.17%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (5.17%) Blazor
7 3 (5.17%) Entity Framework
8 2 (3.45%) React
8 2 (3.45%) Web Services
9 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.72%) AWS CDK
9 1 (1.72%) Bootstrap
9 1 (1.72%) Express.js
9 1 (1.72%) Kafka
9 1 (1.72%) Managed Extensibility Framework
9 1 (1.72%) Middleware
9 1 (1.72%) SOAP
9 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.17%) Derivative
2 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (3.45%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.72%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 39 (67.24%) Windows
2 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (22.41%) DevOps
2 12 (20.69%) Data Analysis
2 12 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
3 8 (13.79%) Agile
3 8 (13.79%) Microservices
4 6 (10.34%) CI/CD
5 5 (8.62%) Business Analysis
5 5 (8.62%) Computer Science
5 5 (8.62%) MVVM
5 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (8.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (8.62%) TDD
5 5 (8.62%) Unit Testing
6 4 (6.90%) Mathematics
6 4 (6.90%) Software Engineering
7 3 (5.17%) BDD
7 3 (5.17%) MVC
7 3 (5.17%) OOP
7 3 (5.17%) Scrum
7 3 (5.17%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 58 (100.00%) C#
2 39 (67.24%) SQL
3 30 (51.72%) PL/SQL
4 29 (50.00%) VB
4 29 (50.00%) VBA
5 19 (32.76%) VB.NET
6 13 (22.41%) T-SQL
7 4 (6.90%) Python
8 2 (3.45%) Haskell
8 2 (3.45%) JavaScript
9 1 (1.72%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (8.62%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) Master's Degree
3 2 (3.45%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (3.45%) PhD
4 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.72%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.72%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Ansible
Vendors
1 33 (56.90%) Oracle
2 11 (18.97%) Citrix
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.17%) UiPath
5 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.72%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.72%) Reuters
5 1 (1.72%) VMware