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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 646 597
Rank change year-on-year +80 -49 -33
Permanent jobs citing WPF 350 347 810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.33% 0.53%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 1.09% 1.31%
Number of salaries quoted 330 306 364
10th Percentile £38,125 £38,750 £37,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,250 £53,750
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.79% +13.16%

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 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +97 297 £52,500 -16.00% 72
UK excluding London +90 286 £52,500 +0.48% 66
Work from Home +64 176 £52,500 -16.00% 68
South East +64 87 £54,500 -5.22% 17
North of England +87 80 £50,000 -23.08% 22
London +67 56 £80,000 -3.03% 16
Yorkshire +115 47 £47,500 -26.92% 6
Midlands +20 41 £52,500 +23.53% 11
West Midlands +52 34 £52,500 +16.67% 6
North West +24 31 £50,000 -13.04% 10
Scotland -43 29 £61,500 -2.38% 7
South West -7 21 £50,000 - 2
Wales +17 17 £50,000 +11.11% 4
East of England +9 11 £44,000 -12.00% 5
East Midlands -28 7 £52,500 +23.53% 5
North East - 2 £47,500 - 6

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 (6.29%) IIS
2 9 (2.57%) Confluence
3 2 (0.57%) CMS
3 2 (0.57%) Kinematics
3 2 (0.57%) Liferay
3 2 (0.57%) Magnolia
3 2 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.57%) Sketch
2 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 100 (28.57%) Azure
2 39 (11.14%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (8.86%) AWS
4 10 (2.86%) Serverless
5 9 (2.57%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (2.29%) Azure Functions
7 7 (2.00%) Azure API Management
7 7 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
8 4 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.57%) Figma
9 2 (0.57%) GCP
9 2 (0.57%) npm
9 2 (0.57%) PaaS
9 2 (0.57%) SaaS
10 1 (0.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.43%) TCP/IP
2 19 (5.43%) DNS
2 19 (5.43%) Firewall
2 19 (5.43%) SSL
3 13 (3.71%) Broadband
3 13 (3.71%) Mobile Broadband
3 13 (3.71%) Modbus
4 3 (0.86%) Wireless
5 2 (0.57%) Internet
5 2 (0.57%) RFID
5 2 (0.57%) RS-232
6 1 (0.29%) CTI
6 1 (0.29%) MQTT
6 1 (0.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 143 (40.86%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.71%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (5.71%) MongoDB
3 14 (4.00%) MySQL
4 10 (2.86%) SQLite
5 8 (2.29%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.43%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.57%) Big Data
9 2 (0.57%) DB2
9 2 (0.57%) DTS
10 1 (0.29%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 59 (16.86%) Visual Studio
2 45 (12.86%) Git
3 41 (11.71%) JIRA
4 17 (4.86%) NUnit
5 16 (4.57%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (4.00%) GitLab
7 10 (2.86%) TestRail
8 8 (2.29%) Jenkins
9 7 (2.00%) CMake
10 5 (1.43%) Bitbucket
11 4 (1.14%) MSTest
11 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 3 (0.86%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.86%) SpecFlow
12 3 (0.86%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.57%) Bower
13 2 (0.57%) gulp
13 2 (0.57%) Moq
13 2 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
13 2 (0.57%) Subversion
General
1 54 (15.43%) Social Skills
2 26 (7.43%) Finance
2 26 (7.43%) Manufacturing
3 24 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (4.57%) Telecoms
5 13 (3.71%) Marketing
6 10 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.57%) Electronics
8 6 (1.71%) Automotive
8 6 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.71%) Legal
8 6 (1.71%) Publishing
8 6 (1.71%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.86%) Games
9 3 (0.86%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.57%) Front Office
10 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.29%) Back Office
11 1 (0.29%) Military
11 1 (0.29%) Police
Job Titles
1 214 (61.14%) Developer
2 101 (28.86%) Software Engineer
3 95 (27.14%) .NET Developer
4 91 (26.00%) C# Developer
5 87 (24.86%) Senior
6 68 (19.43%) C# .NET Developer
7 63 (18.00%) Software Developer
8 45 (12.86%) Senior Developer
9 42 (12.00%) WPF Developer
10 31 (8.86%) Applications Developer
11 30 (8.57%) Lead
12 28 (8.00%) Senior Software Developer
12 28 (8.00%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (7.43%) C# WPF Developer
13 26 (7.43%) Lead Developer
14 20 (5.71%) C# Software Developer
15 18 (5.14%) .NET Software Developer
15 18 (5.14%) Applications Engineer
16 16 (4.57%) C# Software Engineer
17 13 (3.71%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 247 (70.57%) .NET
2 102 (29.14%) WinForms
3 101 (28.86%) .NET Framework
4 91 (26.00%) HTML
5 88 (25.14%) ASP.NET
6 72 (20.57%) CSS
7 67 (19.14%) ASP.NET MVC
8 61 (17.43%) AngularJS
9 59 (16.86%) Entity Framework
10 53 (15.14%) React
11 49 (14.00%) .NET Core
12 43 (12.29%) Vue
13 42 (12.00%) ASP.NET Web API
14 31 (8.86%) HTML5
14 31 (8.86%) REST
15 28 (8.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
16 26 (7.43%) jQuery
17 25 (7.14%) Node.js
18 23 (6.57%) LINQ
18 23 (6.57%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.71%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (7.71%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.71%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (2.00%) CUDA
6 5 (1.43%) Algorithms
6 5 (1.43%) Mobile App
6 5 (1.43%) NHS
7 4 (1.14%) Social Network
7 4 (1.14%) Tandem
8 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (0.86%) IoT
9 2 (0.57%) GNSS
10 1 (0.29%) Analogue Electronics
10 1 (0.29%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.29%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.29%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.29%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.29%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 140 (40.00%) Windows
2 30 (8.57%) Linux
3 12 (3.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.86%) Android
4 3 (0.86%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (32.86%) Software Engineering
2 107 (30.57%) Agile
3 100 (28.57%) MVC
4 91 (26.00%) MVVM
5 75 (21.43%) Scrum
6 65 (18.57%) TDD
7 64 (18.29%) Multithreading
8 54 (15.43%) Kanban
9 50 (14.29%) Computer Science
10 44 (12.57%) DevOps
11 41 (11.71%) Microservices
12 39 (11.14%) Multithreaded Programming
13 38 (10.86%) Problem-Solving
14 34 (9.71%) Collaborative Working
15 32 (9.14%) Full Stack Development
16 27 (7.71%) Continuous Integration
17 26 (7.43%) Web Development
18 24 (6.86%) SOLID
19 23 (6.57%) BDD
20 21 (6.00%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 327 (93.43%) C#
2 119 (34.00%) SQL
3 72 (20.57%) C++
4 70 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 63 (18.00%) XAML
6 58 (16.57%) C
7 32 (9.14%) TypeScript
8 31 (8.86%) Java
9 18 (5.14%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.43%) PowerShell
11 10 (2.86%) Python
12 7 (2.00%) Bash
12 7 (2.00%) C-shell
12 7 (2.00%) Fortran
13 6 (1.71%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.43%) Embedded C
14 5 (1.43%) VB.NET
15 4 (1.14%) F#
15 4 (1.14%) VB
16 3 (0.86%) PHP
Qualifications
1 65 (18.57%) Degree
2 15 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.86%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.86%) MCSD
4 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.86%) PhD
5 2 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.29%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (4.57%) QA
2 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (4.00%) Docker
2 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (0.86%) Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (1.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 74 (21.14%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.14%) DevExpress
3 5 (1.43%) Atlassian
3 5 (1.43%) Telerik
4 4 (1.14%) Facebook
4 4 (1.14%) Twitter
4 4 (1.14%) VMware
4 4 (1.14%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.57%) Adobe
5 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.57%) OpenText
5 2 (0.57%) Pega
5 2 (0.57%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.29%) Axosoft
6 1 (0.29%) Citrix
6 1 (0.29%) Oracle
6 1 (0.29%) QNX
6 1 (0.29%) ServiceNow