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

6 months to
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 496 460
Rank change year-on-year -114 -36 +50
Contract jobs citing WPF 73 57 107
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.17% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.61% 0.67% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 52 83
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 £556 £550 £765
90th Percentile £688 £688 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £444 £468 £450
% change year-on-year -5.08% +3.89% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £37.25 - -
25th Percentile £46.80 - -
Median hourly rate £75.50 - -
75th Percentile £78.75 - -
90th Percentile £79.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.50 - -

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 11,912 8,557 9,312
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.70% 26.06% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,841 5,694 6,057
10th Percentile £375 £354 £356
25th Percentile £438 £413 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £638 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £725 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -3.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 188 187
10th Percentile £28.75 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £50.19 £41.25 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £54.35 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.60% -13.04% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £70.60 £74.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £67.47 £58.75 £65.00
% change year-on-year +14.84% -9.62% +10.11%

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 30 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 30 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for WPF in the UK

WPF
Top 12 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 30 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 -109 69 £445 +9.20% 76
UK excluding London -65 38 £444 -5.08% 53
London -100 34 £445 +9.20% 23
South West -29 11 £413 -25.00% 3
East of England - 11 £77 - 11
Work from Home -69 9 £408 +2.00% 34
North West - 6 £498 - 9
South East - 6 £675 - 16
North of England - 6 £498 - 13
Scotland - 3 £324 -
East Midlands -17 1 £550 +42.86% 5
Midlands -39 1 £550 +42.86% 8

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 11 (15.07%) Confluence
1 11 (15.07%) IIS
2 2 (2.74%) nginx
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (15.07%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (43.84%) Azure
2 29 (39.73%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.22%) AWS
4 5 (6.85%) GitHub
5 3 (4.11%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.37%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (15.07%) Internet
2 1 (1.37%) OpenVPN
2 1 (1.37%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (36.99%) SQL Server
2 15 (20.55%) Oracle Database
3 11 (15.07%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (5.48%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.11%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.74%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.37%) MySQL
7 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (34.25%) Git
2 13 (17.81%) Visual Studio
3 11 (15.07%) JIRA
3 11 (15.07%) MSI
4 9 (12.33%) GitLab
5 7 (9.59%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (6.85%) Jenkins
7 4 (5.48%) ClearCase
7 4 (5.48%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.11%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (2.74%) MSTest
9 2 (2.74%) NUnit
9 2 (2.74%) Rational Robot
9 2 (2.74%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.74%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 15 (20.55%) Banking
2 11 (15.07%) Public Sector
3 8 (10.96%) Finance
4 7 (9.59%) Social Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.85%) Front Office
6 4 (5.48%) Financial Institution
7 3 (4.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (4.11%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.37%) Back Office
8 1 (1.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (78.08%) Developer
2 28 (38.36%) .NET Developer
2 28 (38.36%) C# Developer
3 12 (16.44%) C# .NET Developer
3 12 (16.44%) Senior
4 11 (15.07%) Senior Developer
5 10 (13.70%) Software Engineer
6 6 (8.22%) WPF Developer
7 5 (6.85%) C# WPF Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Software Developer
8 4 (5.48%) Principal Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Principal Software Engineer
9 3 (4.11%) Full-Stack Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior .NET Developer
9 3 (4.11%) Senior C# Developer
9 3 (4.11%) WinForms Developer
10 2 (2.74%) .NET Software Developer
10 2 (2.74%) .NET Software Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 2 (2.74%) Senior C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (90.41%) .NET
2 45 (61.64%) WinForms
3 37 (50.68%) .NET Framework
4 23 (31.51%) .NET Core
5 19 (26.03%) RESTful
6 15 (20.55%) REST
7 14 (19.18%) Terraform
8 13 (17.81%) COM
9 11 (15.07%) ATL
9 11 (15.07%) CSS
9 11 (15.07%) CSS3
9 11 (15.07%) GeoJSON
9 11 (15.07%) HTML
9 11 (15.07%) HTML5
9 11 (15.07%) MFC
10 10 (13.70%) Entity Framework
11 8 (10.96%) React
11 8 (10.96%) Web Services
12 5 (6.85%) ASP.NET
12 5 (6.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.18%) Cloud Native
1 14 (19.18%) Onboarding
2 11 (15.07%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.85%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 41 (56.16%) Windows
2 3 (4.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (43.84%) DevOps
2 28 (38.36%) Agile
3 24 (32.88%) CI/CD
3 24 (32.88%) Microservices
4 22 (30.14%) Test Automation
5 21 (28.77%) Software Engineering
6 19 (26.03%) SOLID
7 18 (24.66%) Design Patterns
8 16 (21.92%) Infrastructure as Code
9 14 (19.18%) Full-Stack Development
9 14 (19.18%) OO
9 14 (19.18%) OOP
10 13 (17.81%) Containerisation
10 13 (17.81%) Integration Testing
10 13 (17.81%) Scrum
10 13 (17.81%) Unit Testing
11 12 (16.44%) Deployment Automation
12 11 (15.07%) API Development
12 11 (15.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
12 11 (15.07%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 70 (95.89%) C#
2 29 (39.73%) JavaScript
3 27 (36.99%) SQL
4 19 (26.03%) PL/SQL
5 16 (21.92%) TypeScript
6 15 (20.55%) VB
7 14 (19.18%) Python
8 12 (16.44%) T-SQL
9 11 (15.07%) Bicep
9 11 (15.07%) VBA
10 8 (10.96%) C++
11 5 (6.85%) XAML
12 4 (5.48%) VB6
13 2 (2.74%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (31.51%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.77%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.70%) Degree
4 4 (5.48%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.48%) PhD
5 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.81%) QA
2 11 (15.07%) Accessibility
2 11 (15.07%) NCSC
2 11 (15.07%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (23.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.44%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 23 (31.51%) Oracle
2 16 (21.92%) Citrix
3 13 (17.81%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.74%) WSO2
5 1 (1.37%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.37%) Snow
5 1 (1.37%) UiPath