WPF Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 294 316 417
Rank change year-on-year +22 +101 +85
Contract jobs citing WPF 10 29 60
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.10% 0.19% 0.23%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% 0.79% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 25 48
10th Percentile £470 £483 £400
25th Percentile £534 £550 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £625 £663
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -5.66% +3.92%
75th Percentile £683 £750 £800
90th Percentile £810 £800 -
UK median daily rate £400 £700 £675
% change year-on-year -42.86% +3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - +2.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

WPF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WPF trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WPF.

WPF daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WPF
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing WPF over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

WPF daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WPF
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WPF.

WPF hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Prefect
4 1 (10.00%) AWS
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 1 (10.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Redis
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Git
2 3 (30.00%) Bitbucket
3 2 (20.00%) NUnit
3 2 (20.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (10.00%) JIRA
4 1 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (10.00%) Postman
4 1 (10.00%) ReSharper
4 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (30.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Front Office
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Developer
2 5 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Front Office Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior C# Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (70.00%) .NET
2 5 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 4 (40.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (40.00%) WCF
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (20.00%) Entity Framework
4 2 (20.00%) HTML
4 2 (20.00%) jQuery
4 2 (20.00%) React
5 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (10.00%) CSS
5 1 (10.00%) JSON
5 1 (10.00%) MSMQ
5 1 (10.00%) OAuth
5 1 (10.00%) SignalR
5 1 (10.00%) Web Services
5 1 (10.00%) WinForms
5 1 (10.00%) XML
5 1 (10.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Analytics
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Design Patterns
2 2 (20.00%) MVC
2 2 (20.00%) MVVM
2 2 (20.00%) Platform Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (20.00%) TDD
2 2 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (10.00%) Kanban
3 1 (10.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (10.00%) OWASP
3 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (20.00%) Python
5 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (10.00%) MCAD
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (10.00%) PhD
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft