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

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 537 439 448
Rank change year-on-year -98 +9 +72
Contract jobs citing WPF 47 88 142
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.28% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.57% 1.26% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 70 111
10th Percentile £385 £383 £385
25th Percentile £404 £385 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £493 £625
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% -21.20% -7.41%
75th Percentile £538 £700 £750
90th Percentile £675 £826 £801
UK excluding London median daily rate £634 £485 £560
% change year-on-year +30.67% -13.39% +24.44%
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 - - -6.64%

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 8,260 6,962 9,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.34% 22.03% 21.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,479 4,427 6,488
10th Percentile £356 £353 £357
25th Percentile £413 £425 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.12% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £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 195 83 168
10th Percentile £33.00 £21.40 £28.28
25th Percentile £45.50 £34.13 £46.18
Median hourly rate £60.00 £62.50 £54.53
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +14.62% -16.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £76.75 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £54.53
% change year-on-year - +14.62% -16.11%

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 14 January 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 6 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 January 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 -104 43 £408 -15.98% 51
London -64 38 £408 -16.41% 12
Work from Home -17 4 £525 -14.29% 31
UK excluding London -64 4 £634 +30.67% 54
South East -19 2 £718 +59.44% 13
South West -21 2 £550 -10.93% 6

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 10 (21.28%) IIS
Applications
1 18 (38.30%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) AWS
1 9 (19.15%) Azure
2 3 (6.38%) Serverless
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 2 (4.26%) Amazon S3
3 2 (4.26%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (4.26%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.13%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 11 (23.40%) Internet
2 3 (6.38%) DHCP
2 3 (6.38%) DNS
2 3 (6.38%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.26%) Software-Defined Radio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (48.94%) SQL Server
2 19 (40.43%) Oracle Database
3 4 (8.51%) Amazon Aurora
3 4 (8.51%) MySQL
4 2 (4.26%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) JIRA
General
1 20 (42.55%) Finance
2 13 (27.66%) Social Skills
3 9 (19.15%) Banking
4 6 (12.77%) Front Office
5 5 (10.64%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.38%) Financial Institution
6 3 (6.38%) Publishing
7 2 (4.26%) Back Office
8 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Military
Job Titles
1 41 (87.23%) Developer
2 23 (48.94%) C# Developer
3 21 (44.68%) .NET Developer
4 15 (31.91%) C# WPF Developer
4 15 (31.91%) WPF Developer
5 10 (21.28%) C# .NET Developer
6 7 (14.89%) C# WCF Developer
6 7 (14.89%) WCF Developer
7 6 (12.77%) Applications Developer
8 5 (10.64%) Senior
9 4 (8.51%) Automation Developer
9 4 (8.51%) C# Developer - Commodities
9 4 (8.51%) Front Office Developer
9 4 (8.51%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
9 4 (8.51%) Senior Developer
9 4 (8.51%) Software Developer
10 3 (6.38%) C# Application Developer
10 3 (6.38%) C# Software Developer
10 3 (6.38%) Senior .NET Developer
11 2 (4.26%) GUI Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (95.74%) .NET
2 27 (57.45%) .NET Framework
3 15 (31.91%) WinForms
4 11 (23.40%) .NET Core
4 11 (23.40%) WCF
5 7 (14.89%) AngularJS
6 6 (12.77%) ASP.NET Web API
7 5 (10.64%) RESTful
8 3 (6.38%) ASP.NET
8 3 (6.38%) Bootstrap
8 3 (6.38%) Express.js
8 3 (6.38%) Middleware
8 3 (6.38%) React
8 3 (6.38%) REST
8 3 (6.38%) SOAP
8 3 (6.38%) Web Services
9 2 (4.26%) AWS CDK
9 2 (4.26%) CSS
9 2 (4.26%) OAuth
9 2 (4.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) Credit Risk
1 5 (10.64%) Market Risk
2 4 (8.51%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (4.26%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.13%) Derivative
5 1 (2.13%) Mobile App
5 1 (2.13%) N-Tier
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 33 (70.21%) Windows
2 3 (6.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.91%) DevOps
2 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
3 10 (21.28%) Data Analysis
3 10 (21.28%) Disaster Recovery
4 9 (19.15%) Agile
4 9 (19.15%) MVC
5 6 (12.77%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (12.77%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (12.77%) Microservices
5 6 (12.77%) OOP
5 6 (12.77%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.64%) Deployment Automation
6 5 (10.64%) Design Patterns
7 4 (8.51%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (8.51%) MVVM
7 4 (8.51%) OO
7 4 (8.51%) Risk Management
7 4 (8.51%) Robotic Process Automation
7 4 (8.51%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 47 (100.00%) C#
2 32 (68.09%) SQL
3 20 (42.55%) PL/SQL
4 18 (38.30%) VB
4 18 (38.30%) VBA
5 15 (31.91%) T-SQL
6 8 (17.02%) VB.NET
7 2 (4.26%) C++
7 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
7 2 (4.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.51%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.26%) Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.28%) QA
2 1 (2.13%) EMIR
2 1 (2.13%) MiFID
2 1 (2.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (10.64%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.51%) Terraform
2 2 (4.26%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (44.68%) Oracle
2 14 (29.79%) Citrix
3 7 (14.89%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.51%) UiPath
5 3 (6.38%) Atlassian
5 3 (6.38%) VMware