WPF Job Trends in the North West

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West 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 178 198 182
Rank change year-on-year +20 -16 +111
Permanent jobs citing WPF 1 9 15
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.016% 0.18% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 1.04% 1.34%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 15
10th Percentile - £43,375 £45,000
25th Percentile £71,250 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £50,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +45.00% -20.00% -10.71%
75th Percentile £73,750 £52,813 £70,000
90th Percentile - £54,125 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.64% - -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 the North West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 537 869 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.46% 17.25% 24.92%
Number of salaries quoted 463 541 908
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -4.24% +3.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,250 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.38% +0.39% -3.70%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

WPF job vacancy trend in the North West

WPF
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WPF

WPF
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the North West region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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
Manchester +21 1 £72,500 +45.00% 5
WPF
England

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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