WPF Contracts with Work from Home Options

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for WPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WPF over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 312 405 490
Rank change year-on-year +93 +85 -49
Contract jobs citing WPF 33 54 132
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.22% 0.22% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.91% 0.86% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 43 109
10th Percentile £463 £400 £400
25th Percentile £542 £403 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £557 £700
Median % change year-on-year +9.96% -20.43% +47.37%
75th Percentile £750 £800 £800
90th Percentile £800 - £888
UK median daily rate £700 £650 £700
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £48.13
25th Percentile - - £48.50
Median hourly rate - £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile - - £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

WPF is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,634 6,255 13,090
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.67% 25.24% 29.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,549 4,664 9,672
10th Percentile £343 £400 £400
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -1.82% +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £660 £650
90th Percentile £800 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 75 121
10th Percentile £24.23 £22.35 £21.00
25th Percentile - £41.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £60.00 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.33% +20.60% +10.56%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £65.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.15 £75.84
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%

WPF
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing WPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WPF trend for jobs with a WFH option

WPF
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing WPF over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

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 a work from home option citing WPF.

WPF hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

WPF
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 1 (3.03%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Azure
2 3 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.03%) AWS
3 1 (3.03%) npm
3 1 (3.03%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) MQTT
1 1 (3.03%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Relational Database
1 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.03%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.03%) MySQL
2 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle Database
2 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Git
2 4 (12.12%) Visual Studio
3 1 (3.03%) Ant
3 1 (3.03%) Babel
3 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.03%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.03%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.03%) webpack
General
1 22 (66.67%) Finance
2 18 (54.55%) Banking
3 17 (51.52%) Front Office
4 6 (18.18%) Investment Banking
5 5 (15.15%) Social Skills
6 1 (3.03%) French Language
Job Titles
1 28 (84.85%) Developer
2 19 (57.58%) C# Developer
3 10 (30.30%) Front Office Developer
4 7 (21.21%) WPF Developer
5 6 (18.18%) .NET Developer
6 4 (12.12%) C# WPF Developer
6 4 (12.12%) React Developer
7 3 (9.09%) Software Engineer
7 3 (9.09%) WinForms Developer
8 2 (6.06%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (6.06%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
8 2 (6.06%) Full Stack Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Full-Stack C# Developer
8 2 (6.06%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (6.06%) Test Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) DevOps Engineer
9 1 (3.03%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
9 1 (3.03%) Senior
9 1 (3.03%) Senior React Developer
9 1 (3.03%) UI Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (51.52%) .NET
2 7 (21.21%) React
2 7 (21.21%) WinForms
3 4 (12.12%) .NET Framework
4 2 (6.06%) CSS
4 2 (6.06%) CSS3
4 2 (6.06%) Electron
4 2 (6.06%) Entity Framework
4 2 (6.06%) HTML
4 2 (6.06%) HTML5
4 2 (6.06%) Playwright
4 2 (6.06%) REST
4 2 (6.06%) SOAP
5 1 (3.03%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 1 (3.03%) Material-UI
5 1 (3.03%) MobX
5 1 (3.03%) RESTful
5 1 (3.03%) Silverlight
5 1 (3.03%) Universal Windows Platform
5 1 (3.03%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Fixed Income
2 5 (15.15%) Equities
3 4 (12.12%) Derivative
3 4 (12.12%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (6.06%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (18.18%) Windows
2 2 (6.06%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Front End Development
2 6 (18.18%) Agile
2 6 (18.18%) Software Engineering
3 4 (12.12%) DevOps
3 4 (12.12%) Electronic Trading
3 4 (12.12%) Fintech
4 3 (9.09%) Computer Science
4 3 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (9.09%) Low Latency
4 3 (9.09%) SDLC
4 3 (9.09%) Unit Testing
5 2 (6.06%) API Testing
5 2 (6.06%) Configuration Management
5 2 (6.06%) Mathematics
5 2 (6.06%) Migration
5 2 (6.06%) OO
5 2 (6.06%) Performance Optimisation
5 2 (6.06%) Test Automation
5 2 (6.06%) Test Scripting
5 2 (6.06%) UML
Programming Languages
1 30 (90.91%) C#
2 21 (63.64%) SQL
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 3 (9.09%) Python
4 3 (9.09%) VB
5 2 (6.06%) C++
5 2 (6.06%) VB.NET
5 2 (6.06%) VB6
6 1 (3.03%) C
6 1 (3.03%) C++/CLI
6 1 (3.03%) Java
6 1 (3.03%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.03%) T-SQL
6 1 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.03%) VBA
6 1 (3.03%) XAML
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
2 1 (3.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (6.06%) Infragistics
3 1 (3.03%) Citrix
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft