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

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 610 500 453
Rank change year-on-year -110 -47 +43
Contract jobs citing WPF 75 57 109
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.14% 0.17% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.63% 0.66% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 52 85
10th Percentile £404 - £363
25th Percentile £404 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £408 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.21% -29.13% -4.17%
75th Percentile £553 £550 £755
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 11,905 8,624 9,384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.68% 26.09% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,826 5,738 6,104
10th Percentile £375 £355 £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% -4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 283 188 187
10th Percentile £29.07 £31.25 £25.60
25th Percentile £49.50 £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 £76.50 £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% +10.94%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 -87 70 £445 +9.20% 82
UK excluding London -62 38 £444 -5.08% 57
London -100 35 £427 +4.66% 27
South West -25 11 £413 -25.00% 3
East of England - 11 £77 - 11
Work from Home -63 10 £408 +2.00% 35
North West - 6 £498 - 10
South East - 6 £675 - 18
North of England - 6 £498 - 13
Scotland - 3 £324 - 3
East Midlands -15 1 £550 +42.86% 5
Midlands -49 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 (14.67%) Confluence
1 11 (14.67%) IIS
2 2 (2.67%) nginx
3 1 (1.33%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 11 (14.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 34 (45.33%) Azure
2 29 (38.67%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (8.00%) AWS
4 5 (6.67%) GitHub
5 3 (4.00%) Amazon SageMaker
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (2.67%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.33%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 11 (14.67%) Internet
2 1 (1.33%) OpenVPN
2 1 (1.33%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (1.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (36.00%) SQL Server
2 15 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 11 (14.67%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (2.67%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (1.33%) MySQL
7 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
7 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 25 (33.33%) Git
2 13 (17.33%) Visual Studio
3 11 (14.67%) JIRA
3 11 (14.67%) MSI
4 9 (12.00%) GitLab
5 7 (9.33%) Rational DOORS
6 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
7 4 (5.33%) ClearCase
7 4 (5.33%) REST Assured
8 3 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (2.67%) MSTest
9 2 (2.67%) NUnit
9 2 (2.67%) Rational Robot
9 2 (2.67%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 16 (21.33%) Banking
2 11 (14.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (13.33%) Finance
4 7 (9.33%) Social Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.67%) Front Office
7 4 (5.33%) Financial Institution
7 4 (5.33%) Investment Banking
8 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.33%) Back Office
9 1 (1.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 58 (77.33%) Developer
2 29 (38.67%) C# Developer
3 28 (37.33%) .NET Developer
4 13 (17.33%) Senior
5 12 (16.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 12 (16.00%) Senior Developer
6 10 (13.33%) Software Engineer
7 6 (8.00%) WPF Developer
8 5 (6.67%) C# WPF Developer
8 5 (6.67%) Software Developer
9 4 (5.33%) Principal Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Principal Software Engineer
9 4 (5.33%) Senior C# Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
10 3 (4.00%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (4.00%) WinForms Developer
11 2 (2.67%) .NET Software Developer
11 2 (2.67%) .NET Software Engineer
11 2 (2.67%) C# Software Developer
11 2 (2.67%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (90.67%) .NET
2 46 (61.33%) WinForms
3 37 (49.33%) .NET Framework
4 24 (32.00%) .NET Core
5 19 (25.33%) RESTful
6 15 (20.00%) REST
7 14 (18.67%) Terraform
8 13 (17.33%) COM
9 11 (14.67%) ATL
9 11 (14.67%) CSS
9 11 (14.67%) CSS3
9 11 (14.67%) GeoJSON
9 11 (14.67%) HTML
9 11 (14.67%) HTML5
9 11 (14.67%) MFC
10 10 (13.33%) Entity Framework
11 8 (10.67%) React
11 8 (10.67%) Web Services
12 6 (8.00%) ASP.NET
13 5 (6.67%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.67%) Cloud Native
1 14 (18.67%) Onboarding
2 12 (16.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) Derivative
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.33%) Equities
6 1 (1.33%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.33%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 41 (54.67%) Windows
2 3 (4.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.67%) DevOps
2 28 (37.33%) Agile
3 25 (33.33%) Microservices
4 24 (32.00%) CI/CD
5 22 (29.33%) Test Automation
6 21 (28.00%) Software Engineering
7 19 (25.33%) SOLID
8 18 (24.00%) Design Patterns
9 16 (21.33%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (18.67%) Full-Stack Development
10 14 (18.67%) OO
10 14 (18.67%) OOP
11 13 (17.33%) Containerisation
11 13 (17.33%) Integration Testing
11 13 (17.33%) Scrum
11 13 (17.33%) Unit Testing
12 12 (16.00%) Deployment Automation
13 11 (14.67%) API Development
13 11 (14.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
13 11 (14.67%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 72 (96.00%) C#
2 30 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 28 (37.33%) SQL
4 19 (25.33%) PL/SQL
5 16 (21.33%) TypeScript
6 15 (20.00%) VB
7 14 (18.67%) Python
8 12 (16.00%) T-SQL
9 11 (14.67%) Bicep
9 11 (14.67%) VBA
10 9 (12.00%) C++
11 5 (6.67%) XAML
12 4 (5.33%) VB6
13 2 (2.67%) Go
Qualifications
1 23 (30.67%) Security Cleared
2 21 (28.00%) SC Cleared
3 10 (13.33%) Degree
4 4 (5.33%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.33%) PhD
5 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (17.33%) QA
2 11 (14.67%) Accessibility
2 11 (14.67%) NCSC
2 11 (14.67%) WCAG
System Software
1 17 (22.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 24 (32.00%) Oracle
2 16 (21.33%) Citrix
3 13 (17.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.67%) WSO2
5 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.33%) Snow
5 1 (1.33%) UiPath