WPF Job Trends in Manchester

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring WPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 151 140
Rank change year-on-year +21 -11 +86
Permanent jobs citing WPF 1 6 13
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.034% 0.23% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 1.03% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 13
10th Percentile - £45,000 £45,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £47,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -23.08% -7.14%
75th Percentile £73,750 £53,438 £70,000
90th Percentile - £54,375 £75,000
North West median annual salary £72,500 £50,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +45.00% -20.00% -10.71%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Manchester

WPF falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 368 580 800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.68% 21.86% 31.40%
Number of salaries quoted 316 350 642
10th Percentile £29,875 £41,500 £38,800
25th Percentile £48,750 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £74,750
90th Percentile £85,625 £87,500 £86,125
North West median annual salary £60,000 £57,000 £59,526
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.24% +3.52%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WPF relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

WPF job vacancy trend in Manchester

WPF
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing WPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing WPF

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
General
1 1 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Games Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript