Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WPF over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 654 591
Rank change year-on-year +92 -63 -13
Permanent jobs citing WPF 353 308 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 1.03% 1.25%
Number of salaries quoted 333 272 320
10th Percentile £38,500 £38,750 £36,125
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £81,250 £72,537
90th Percentile £76,250 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,177 29,778 67,445
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.98% 30.23% 41.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,813 18,285 29,893
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,535 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £51,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.30% +15.45%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WPF.

Salary trend for WPF in the UK

WPF
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WPF over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for WPF in the UK

WPF
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +114 301 £52,500 -16.00% 88
UK excluding London +111 292 £52,500 - 75
Work from Home +51 176 £52,500 -16.00% 78
South East +58 90 £54,500 -5.22% 18
North of England +85 86 £50,000 -16.67% 30
London +58 53 £80,000 -3.03% 18
Yorkshire +107 48 £47,500 -26.92% 14
Midlands +7 40 £52,500 +23.53% 12
North West +19 36 £52,500 -8.70% 12
West Midlands +31 33 £52,500 +23.53% 5
Scotland -40 27 £61,500 -2.38% 2
South West -15 21 £50,000 - 6
Wales +18 18 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East of England +3 10 £44,000 -12.00% 8
East Midlands -13 7 £52,500 +23.53% 7
North East - 2 £47,500 - 7

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 22 (6.23%) IIS
2 9 (2.55%) Confluence
3 5 (1.42%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) Liferay
4 2 (0.57%) Magnolia
4 2 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.57%) Sketch
2 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 99 (28.05%) Azure
2 35 (9.92%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (9.63%) AWS
4 10 (2.83%) Serverless
5 9 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (2.27%) Azure Functions
7 7 (1.98%) Azure API Management
7 7 (1.98%) Azure Event Grid
8 5 (1.42%) SaaS
9 4 (1.13%) GCP
9 4 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.57%) Figma
10 2 (0.57%) GitHub
10 2 (0.57%) npm
10 2 (0.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.07%) TCP/IP
2 19 (5.38%) DNS
2 19 (5.38%) Firewall
2 19 (5.38%) SSL
3 15 (4.25%) Broadband
3 15 (4.25%) Mobile Broadband
4 12 (3.40%) Modbus
5 5 (1.42%) Internet
5 5 (1.42%) RFID
6 3 (0.85%) Wireless
7 2 (0.57%) RS-232
8 1 (0.28%) CTI
8 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (40.23%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.95%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (5.95%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.97%) MySQL
4 9 (2.55%) SQLite
5 8 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.42%) Big Data
6 5 (1.42%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.57%) DB2
9 2 (0.57%) DTS
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 55 (15.58%) Visual Studio
2 45 (12.75%) Git
3 38 (10.76%) JIRA
4 16 (4.53%) Team Foundation Server
5 15 (4.25%) NUnit
6 13 (3.68%) GitLab
7 10 (2.83%) TestRail
8 7 (1.98%) CMake
8 7 (1.98%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.13%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.13%) MSTest
9 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.85%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.57%) Bower
11 2 (0.57%) Moq
11 2 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.57%) Sourcetree
11 2 (0.57%) Subversion
11 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (13.88%) Social Skills
2 26 (7.37%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (6.80%) Manufacturing
4 21 (5.95%) Finance
5 18 (5.10%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.40%) Marketing
7 10 (2.83%) Electronics
7 10 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.98%) Tech for Good
9 6 (1.70%) Automotive
9 6 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.70%) Legal
9 6 (1.70%) Publishing
10 3 (0.85%) Games
10 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.57%) Front Office
11 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.28%) Military
12 1 (0.28%) Police
12 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 212 (60.06%) Developer
2 104 (29.46%) Software Engineer
3 94 (26.63%) .NET Developer
4 87 (24.65%) C# Developer
5 81 (22.95%) Senior
6 66 (18.70%) C# .NET Developer
7 65 (18.41%) Software Developer
8 43 (12.18%) WPF Developer
9 41 (11.61%) Senior Developer
10 32 (9.07%) Lead
11 30 (8.50%) Applications Developer
12 29 (8.22%) Lead Developer
13 28 (7.93%) C# WPF Developer
14 27 (7.65%) Senior Software Developer
15 26 (7.37%) Senior Software Engineer
16 19 (5.38%) Applications Engineer
16 19 (5.38%) C# Software Developer
17 17 (4.82%) C# Software Engineer
18 16 (4.53%) .NET Software Developer
19 12 (3.40%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 249 (70.54%) .NET
2 100 (28.33%) WinForms
3 98 (27.76%) .NET Framework
4 90 (25.50%) ASP.NET
4 90 (25.50%) HTML
5 71 (20.11%) CSS
6 69 (19.55%) ASP.NET MVC
7 62 (17.56%) AngularJS
8 57 (16.15%) Entity Framework
9 55 (15.58%) .NET Core
9 55 (15.58%) React
10 44 (12.46%) ASP.NET Web API
10 44 (12.46%) Vue
11 31 (8.78%) HTML5
12 28 (7.93%) REST
12 28 (7.93%) Twitter Bootstrap
13 26 (7.37%) Node.js
14 25 (7.08%) jQuery
15 23 (6.52%) LINQ
16 22 (6.23%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.48%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (7.65%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.68%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.98%) CUDA
6 6 (1.70%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.70%) IoT
7 5 (1.42%) GNSS
7 5 (1.42%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.42%) NHS
8 4 (1.13%) Social Network
8 4 (1.13%) Tandem
9 2 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.28%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.28%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.28%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.28%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.28%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 140 (39.66%) Windows
2 29 (8.22%) Linux
3 13 (3.68%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.85%) Android
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (33.43%) Software Engineering
2 105 (29.75%) MVC
3 103 (29.18%) Agile
4 97 (27.48%) MVVM
5 73 (20.68%) Scrum
6 66 (18.70%) TDD
7 65 (18.41%) Multithreading
8 57 (16.15%) Kanban
9 49 (13.88%) Computer Science
10 42 (11.90%) Multithreaded Programming
11 40 (11.33%) DevOps
12 39 (11.05%) Microservices
13 37 (10.48%) Collaborative Working
13 37 (10.48%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (9.63%) Full Stack Development
15 29 (8.22%) Continuous Integration
16 27 (7.65%) SOLID
17 25 (7.08%) Web Development
18 24 (6.80%) BDD
19 23 (6.52%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 331 (93.77%) C#
2 119 (33.71%) SQL
3 73 (20.68%) C++
4 69 (19.55%) JavaScript
5 68 (19.26%) XAML
6 63 (17.85%) C
7 32 (9.07%) TypeScript
8 28 (7.93%) Java
9 17 (4.82%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.40%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.98%) Bash
12 7 (1.98%) C-shell
12 7 (1.98%) Fortran
12 7 (1.98%) Python
13 5 (1.42%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.42%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.85%) F#
14 3 (0.85%) PHP
15 2 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 67 (18.98%) Degree
2 15 (4.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.13%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.85%) MCSD
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.85%) PhD
5 2 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.82%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (4.53%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Firmware
3 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 74 (20.96%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.83%) DevExpress
3 5 (1.42%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.13%) Facebook
4 4 (1.13%) Twitter
4 4 (1.13%) VMware
4 4 (1.13%) Xamarin
5 3 (0.85%) Telerik
6 2 (0.57%) Adobe
6 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.57%) OpenText
6 2 (0.57%) Pega
6 2 (0.57%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.28%) Citrix
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle
7 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow