Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 479 552 565
Rank change year-on-year +73 +13 -70
Contract jobs citing WPF 97 132 298
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.23% 0.34%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.09% 1.00% 1.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 102 241
10th Percentile £385 £400 £400
25th Percentile £550 £407 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £675 £700
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -3.57% +7.69%
75th Percentile £775 £800 £775
90th Percentile £800 £888 £814
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £420 £438
% change year-on-year +13.10% -4.00% +18.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 10
10th Percentile - £40.24 £48.43
25th Percentile - £43.90 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £49.50
90th Percentile - £62.00 £50.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £50.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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 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 8,897 13,217 23,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.91% 23.20% 26.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,169 9,648 17,304
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £663
90th Percentile £775 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 149 241
10th Percentile £21.25 £29.15 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.92% +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.76
90th Percentile £74.70 £81.25 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £50.25
% change year-on-year -26.92% +29.35% +11.67%

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 16 May 2024.

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 8 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 16 May 2024. 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 +83 85 £700 +3.70% 89
London +96 81 £700 -3.45% 18
Work from Home +97 33 £613 +2.08% 84
UK excluding London +35 10 £475 +13.10% 76
Scotland +37 4 £475 +11.76% 2
East of England +9 3 £550 - 5
Wales - 2 - - 3
South East +3 1 £400 -33.33% 18

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 10 (10.31%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (16.49%) Azure
2 7 (7.22%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.06%) AWS
3 2 (2.06%) npm
3 2 (2.06%) OpenShift
3 2 (2.06%) Yarn
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.31%) Internet
2 1 (1.03%) MQTT
2 1 (1.03%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (19.59%) Relational Database
2 18 (18.56%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.31%) Oracle Database
4 4 (4.12%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.12%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.03%) Big Data
5 1 (1.03%) MySQL
5 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (10.31%) Git
1 10 (10.31%) TeamCity
2 8 (8.25%) Visual Studio
3 6 (6.19%) JIRA
4 4 (4.12%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.09%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.06%) Ant
6 2 (2.06%) Babel
6 2 (2.06%) webpack
7 1 (1.03%) Appium
7 1 (1.03%) GitLab
7 1 (1.03%) Selenium
7 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 40 (41.24%) Banking
2 32 (32.99%) Front Office
3 30 (30.93%) Finance
4 22 (22.68%) Social Skills
5 20 (20.62%) Investment Banking
6 8 (8.25%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (3.09%) Back Office
8 1 (1.03%) French Language
8 1 (1.03%) Health Technology
8 1 (1.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 82 (84.54%) Developer
2 55 (56.70%) C# Developer
3 27 (27.84%) WPF Developer
4 21 (21.65%) C# WPF Developer
5 16 (16.49%) React Developer
6 13 (13.40%) .NET Developer
7 11 (11.34%) Senior
8 10 (10.31%) Front Office Developer
8 10 (10.31%) Senior Developer
9 9 (9.28%) C# WCF Developer
9 9 (9.28%) WCF Developer
10 7 (7.22%) Full Stack Developer
10 7 (7.22%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 6 (6.19%) Software Engineer
12 5 (5.15%) Senior React Developer
12 5 (5.15%) Test Automation Engineer
12 5 (5.15%) Test Engineer
12 5 (5.15%) UI Developer
13 4 (4.12%) C# Developer - Investment Banking
13 4 (4.12%) Electronic Trading Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (43.30%) .NET
2 22 (22.68%) React
3 21 (21.65%) WinForms
4 16 (16.49%) WCF
5 15 (15.46%) .NET Framework
6 10 (10.31%) CSS
7 8 (8.25%) Redux
8 7 (7.22%) ASP.NET
9 6 (6.19%) Reactive Extensions
10 5 (5.15%) .NET Core
10 5 (5.15%) Playwright
10 5 (5.15%) REST
10 5 (5.15%) SOAP
11 4 (4.12%) Electron
11 4 (4.12%) HTML
11 4 (4.12%) Web Services
12 3 (3.09%) CSS3
12 3 (3.09%) HTML5
13 2 (2.06%) Entity Framework
13 2 (2.06%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.62%) Fixed Income
2 12 (12.37%) Equities
3 9 (9.28%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (6.19%) Derivative
5 4 (4.12%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (2.06%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.03%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (1.03%) Synthetic Equity
Operating Systems
1 23 (23.71%) Windows
2 3 (3.09%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.03%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (21.65%) Agile
2 18 (18.56%) Electronic Trading
3 15 (15.46%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (15.46%) Full Stack Development
4 14 (14.43%) Microservices
5 13 (13.40%) Front End Development
6 10 (10.31%) Data Analysis
6 10 (10.31%) DevOps
6 10 (10.31%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (10.31%) Software Engineering
7 9 (9.28%) Business Analysis
7 9 (9.28%) SDLC
7 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (8.25%) Design Patterns
8 8 (8.25%) Investment Management
8 8 (8.25%) TDD
9 7 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (7.22%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (7.22%) Test Automation
10 6 (6.19%) Economics
Programming Languages
1 91 (93.81%) C#
2 60 (61.86%) SQL
3 16 (16.49%) T-SQL
4 15 (15.46%) VB
5 11 (11.34%) PL/SQL
6 10 (10.31%) JavaScript
6 10 (10.31%) Python
6 10 (10.31%) VBA
7 8 (8.25%) Java
7 8 (8.25%) TypeScript
8 6 (6.19%) C++
8 6 (6.19%) Kotlin
9 5 (5.15%) VB6
10 2 (2.06%) C++/CLI
10 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.06%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.03%) C
11 1 (1.03%) XAML
Qualifications
1 5 (5.15%) Degree
2 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (15.46%) QA
2 1 (1.03%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) Oracle
2 10 (10.31%) Citrix
3 5 (5.15%) Infragistics
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft