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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 453 489 581
Rank change year-on-year +36 +92 -29
Contract jobs citing WPF 67 93 137
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.01% 1.04% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 85 106
10th Percentile - £372 £400
25th Percentile £385 £550 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £700 £675
Median % change year-on-year -42.86% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £713 £775 £800
90th Percentile £750 £815 £888
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 £400 £420
% change year-on-year +3.13% -4.76% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £40.24
25th Percentile - - £43.90
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £62.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.04%

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 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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 1 May 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 10 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 1 May 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 +36 65 £400 -42.86% 71
London +12 56 £390 -44.29% 25
Work from Home +22 10 £598 -4.40% 39
UK excluding London +66 9 £413 +3.13% 55
North of England - 4 £456 - 16
Midlands - 3 £350 - 9
Yorkshire - 3 £500 - 4
South East +46 1 £500 +25.00% 17
South West +46 1 £610 +103.33% 11
North West - 1 £413 - 11

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 13 (19.40%) IIS
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 29 (43.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (25.37%) Azure
2 12 (17.91%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.97%) GitHub
4 3 (4.48%) npm
4 3 (4.48%) Yarn
5 2 (2.99%) Prefect
6 1 (1.49%) AWS
6 1 (1.49%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.49%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.42%) Internet
2 1 (1.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.49%) HTTP
2 1 (1.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (43.28%) Oracle Database
2 22 (32.84%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.97%) MongoDB
4 3 (4.48%) MySQL
4 3 (4.48%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (1.49%) Redis
6 1 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (10.45%) Git
2 6 (8.96%) Visual Studio
3 4 (5.97%) TeamCity
4 3 (4.48%) Ant
4 3 (4.48%) Babel
4 3 (4.48%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.48%) Jenkins
4 3 (4.48%) webpack
5 2 (2.99%) JIRA
5 2 (2.99%) NUnit
6 1 (1.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.49%) Postman
6 1 (1.49%) ReSharper
6 1 (1.49%) Selenium
General
1 34 (50.75%) Finance
2 14 (20.90%) Banking
3 11 (16.42%) Social Skills
4 7 (10.45%) Front Office
5 4 (5.97%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (5.97%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.99%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.49%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 61 (91.04%) Developer
2 46 (68.66%) C# Developer
3 36 (53.73%) WPF Developer
4 35 (52.24%) C# WPF Developer
5 29 (43.28%) .NET Developer
6 24 (35.82%) C# .NET Developer
7 11 (16.42%) C# WCF Developer
7 11 (16.42%) WCF Developer
8 7 (10.45%) Senior
9 6 (8.96%) React Developer
10 5 (7.46%) C# Software Engineer
10 5 (7.46%) Software Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
11 3 (4.48%) Senior C# Software Engineer
11 3 (4.48%) Senior Developer
11 3 (4.48%) Senior Software Engineer
12 2 (2.99%) Applications Developer
12 2 (2.99%) Front Office Developer
12 2 (2.99%) Python Developer
12 2 (2.99%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (88.06%) .NET
2 36 (53.73%) .NET Framework
3 17 (25.37%) WCF
4 14 (20.90%) WinForms
5 9 (13.43%) React
6 7 (10.45%) Blazor
7 6 (8.96%) AngularJS
8 5 (7.46%) .NET Core
8 5 (7.46%) HTML
8 5 (7.46%) RESTful
8 5 (7.46%) Web Services
9 4 (5.97%) CSS
9 4 (5.97%) HTML5
10 3 (4.48%) ASP.NET
10 3 (4.48%) Entity Framework
10 3 (4.48%) Laravel
10 3 (4.48%) React Native
10 3 (4.48%) Redux
10 3 (4.48%) Semantic UI
10 3 (4.48%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Derivative
1 4 (5.97%) Market Risk
2 2 (2.99%) Fixed Income
2 2 (2.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 35 (52.24%) Windows
2 4 (5.97%) Linux
3 3 (4.48%) Android
3 3 (4.48%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.90%) Data Analysis
2 13 (19.40%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (17.91%) DevOps
4 11 (16.42%) Software Engineering
4 11 (16.42%) TDD
5 10 (14.93%) Agile
6 9 (13.43%) BDD
6 9 (13.43%) Computer Science
7 8 (11.94%) Mathematics
7 8 (11.94%) Microservices
7 8 (11.94%) Unit Testing
8 7 (10.45%) CI/CD
9 6 (8.96%) Continuous Delivery
9 6 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.46%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (7.46%) Scrum
11 4 (5.97%) Kanban
11 4 (5.97%) MVC
11 4 (5.97%) Risk Management
11 4 (5.97%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 63 (94.03%) C#
2 41 (61.19%) SQL
3 29 (43.28%) PL/SQL
3 29 (43.28%) VBA
4 28 (41.79%) VB
5 17 (25.37%) VB.NET
6 16 (23.88%) T-SQL
7 6 (8.96%) JavaScript
8 4 (5.97%) Haskell
8 4 (5.97%) TypeScript
9 3 (4.48%) PHP
9 3 (4.48%) Python
10 2 (2.99%) Java
11 1 (1.49%) XAML
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Degree
2 4 (5.97%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (2.99%) Master's Degree
3 2 (2.99%) PhD
4 1 (1.49%) MCAD
4 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.49%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.49%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (22.39%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.49%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (1.49%) Docker
Vendors
1 31 (46.27%) Oracle
2 12 (17.91%) Citrix
3 2 (2.99%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.49%) Murex
4 1 (1.49%) UiPath