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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 664 600
Rank change year-on-year +86 -64 -24
Permanent jobs citing WPF 354 333 808
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.32% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.68% 1.07% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 333 293 353
10th Percentile £38,125 £38,750 £36,250
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 £79,250 £94,500 £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 21,107 31,145 63,760
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.37% 30.12% 40.51%
Number of salaries quoted 15,794 19,194 30,333
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,880 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +7.14% +14.55%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £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 6 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 6 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 +109 301 £52,500 -16.00% 70
UK excluding London +81 293 £52,500 - 61
Work from Home +63 174 £52,500 -16.00% 68
South East +58 92 £54,500 -5.22% 12
North of England +94 81 £50,000 -23.08% 17
London +62 54 £80,000 -3.03% 17
Yorkshire +119 47 £47,500 -26.92% 6
Midlands +28 41 £52,500 +23.53% 12
West Midlands +51 34 £52,500 +23.53% 8
North West +32 32 £51,250 -10.87% 8
Scotland -43 29 £61,500 -2.38% 6
South West -34 21 £50,000 - 5
Wales +19 18 £50,000 +11.11% 3
East of England +14 11 £44,000 -12.00% 7
East Midlands -25 7 £52,500 +23.53% 4
North East - 2 £47,500 - 3

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 (6.21%) IIS
2 9 (2.54%) Confluence
3 5 (1.41%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.56%) CMS
4 2 (0.56%) Liferay
4 2 (0.56%) Magnolia
4 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.56%) Sketch
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.13%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 98 (27.68%) Azure
2 37 (10.45%) Azure DevOps
3 31 (8.76%) AWS
4 10 (2.82%) Serverless
5 9 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (2.26%) Azure Functions
7 7 (1.98%) Azure API Management
7 7 (1.98%) Azure Event Grid
8 5 (1.41%) SaaS
9 4 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.56%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.56%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.56%) Figma
10 2 (0.56%) GCP
10 2 (0.56%) npm
10 2 (0.56%) PaaS
11 1 (0.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.32%) TCP/IP
2 19 (5.37%) DNS
2 19 (5.37%) Firewall
2 19 (5.37%) SSL
3 13 (3.67%) Broadband
3 13 (3.67%) Mobile Broadband
3 13 (3.67%) Modbus
4 5 (1.41%) Internet
4 5 (1.41%) RFID
5 3 (0.85%) Wireless
6 2 (0.56%) RS-232
7 1 (0.28%) CTI
7 1 (0.28%) MQTT
7 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (40.11%) SQL Server
2 20 (5.65%) Elasticsearch
2 20 (5.65%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.95%) MySQL
4 10 (2.82%) SQLite
5 8 (2.26%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.41%) Big Data
6 5 (1.41%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.13%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.56%) DB2
9 2 (0.56%) DTS
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.28%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 59 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 45 (12.71%) Git
3 40 (11.30%) JIRA
4 17 (4.80%) NUnit
5 16 (4.52%) Team Foundation Server
6 14 (3.95%) GitLab
7 10 (2.82%) TestRail
8 7 (1.98%) CMake
8 7 (1.98%) Jenkins
9 5 (1.41%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.13%) MSTest
10 4 (1.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.85%) SpecFlow
12 2 (0.56%) Bower
12 2 (0.56%) gulp
12 2 (0.56%) Moq
12 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.56%) Subversion
12 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 52 (14.69%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.06%) Manufacturing
3 24 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (6.78%) Finance
4 16 (4.52%) Telecoms
5 13 (3.67%) Marketing
6 11 (3.11%) Electronics
7 10 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (1.69%) Automotive
8 6 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.69%) Legal
8 6 (1.69%) Publishing
8 6 (1.69%) Tech for Good
9 3 (0.85%) Games
9 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (0.56%) Front Office
10 2 (0.56%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.28%) Back Office
11 1 (0.28%) Military
11 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 212 (59.89%) Developer
2 104 (29.38%) Software Engineer
3 93 (26.27%) .NET Developer
4 89 (25.14%) C# Developer
5 85 (24.01%) Senior
6 66 (18.64%) C# .NET Developer
7 64 (18.08%) Software Developer
8 44 (12.43%) Senior Developer
9 42 (11.86%) WPF Developer
10 31 (8.76%) Applications Developer
10 31 (8.76%) Lead
11 28 (7.91%) Senior Software Developer
12 27 (7.63%) Lead Developer
12 27 (7.63%) Senior Software Engineer
13 26 (7.34%) C# WPF Developer
14 20 (5.65%) C# Software Developer
15 19 (5.37%) Applications Engineer
16 18 (5.08%) .NET Software Developer
17 16 (4.52%) C# Software Engineer
18 13 (3.67%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (69.21%) .NET
2 101 (28.53%) WinForms
3 99 (27.97%) .NET Framework
4 91 (25.71%) HTML
5 88 (24.86%) ASP.NET
6 72 (20.34%) CSS
7 67 (18.93%) ASP.NET MVC
8 60 (16.95%) AngularJS
9 58 (16.38%) Entity Framework
10 53 (14.97%) React
11 50 (14.12%) .NET Core
12 43 (12.15%) Vue
13 41 (11.58%) ASP.NET Web API
14 31 (8.76%) HTML5
15 30 (8.47%) REST
16 28 (7.91%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 25 (7.06%) jQuery
17 25 (7.06%) Node.js
18 23 (6.50%) LINQ
18 23 (6.50%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.60%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (7.63%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.67%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.98%) CUDA
6 6 (1.69%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.69%) IoT
7 5 (1.41%) GNSS
7 5 (1.41%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.41%) NHS
8 4 (1.13%) Social Network
8 4 (1.13%) Tandem
9 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.28%) Analogue Electronics
10 1 (0.28%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.28%) Embedded Systems
10 1 (0.28%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.28%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.28%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.28%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 142 (40.11%) Windows
2 29 (8.19%) Linux
3 12 (3.39%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.85%) Android
4 3 (0.85%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 105 (29.66%) Agile
3 101 (28.53%) MVC
4 94 (26.55%) MVVM
5 73 (20.62%) Scrum
6 65 (18.36%) Multithreading
6 65 (18.36%) TDD
7 54 (15.25%) Kanban
8 50 (14.12%) Computer Science
9 42 (11.86%) DevOps
10 40 (11.30%) Multithreaded Programming
11 39 (11.02%) Microservices
12 38 (10.73%) Problem-Solving
13 37 (10.45%) Collaborative Working
14 32 (9.04%) Full Stack Development
15 27 (7.63%) Continuous Integration
16 25 (7.06%) SOLID
16 25 (7.06%) Web Development
17 23 (6.50%) BDD
18 21 (5.93%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 332 (93.79%) C#
2 119 (33.62%) SQL
3 74 (20.90%) C++
4 69 (19.49%) JavaScript
5 67 (18.93%) XAML
6 62 (17.51%) C
7 32 (9.04%) TypeScript
8 30 (8.47%) Java
9 17 (4.80%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.39%) PowerShell
11 9 (2.54%) Python
12 7 (1.98%) Bash
12 7 (1.98%) C-shell
12 7 (1.98%) Fortran
13 6 (1.69%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.41%) Embedded C
14 5 (1.41%) VB.NET
15 4 (1.13%) F#
16 3 (0.85%) PHP
16 3 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (19.21%) Degree
2 15 (4.24%) 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 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.37%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 14 (3.95%) Docker
2 6 (1.69%) Firmware
3 4 (1.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (1.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 74 (20.90%) Microsoft
2 11 (3.11%) DevExpress
3 5 (1.41%) Atlassian
3 5 (1.41%) Telerik
4 4 (1.13%) Facebook
4 4 (1.13%) Twitter
4 4 (1.13%) VMware
4 4 (1.13%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.56%) Adobe
5 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.56%) OpenText
5 2 (0.56%) Pega
5 2 (0.56%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.28%) Citrix
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle
6 1 (0.28%) QNX
6 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow