WPF Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 377 453
Rank change year-on-year -93 +76 +106
Permanent jobs citing WPF 32 193 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.077% 0.53% 0.32%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.83% 2.72% 1.35%
Number of salaries quoted 31 106 97
10th Percentile £46,250 £40,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £40,125 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £48,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -7.14% -8.70%
75th Percentile £83,750 £56,250 £64,750
90th Percentile £106,250 £75,000 £70,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £52,250 £55,000
% change year-on-year +14.83% -5.00% -15.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,838 7,099 7,560
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.18% 19.34% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 2,937 3,976 5,897
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

WPF job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WPF
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WPF

WPF
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WPF in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WPF in the UK excluding London

WPF
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South East -9 12 £77,500 +29.17% 8
South West -30 12 £57,500 +22.34% 4
West Midlands +20 4 £50,000 +11.11% 2
Midlands -12 4 £50,000 +11.11% 2
North West +21 1 £72,500 +45.00% 7
East of England +18 1 £57,500 - 2
Wales +4 1 £55,000 -
North of England -4 1 £72,500 +38.10% 8
Scotland -22 1 £57,500 +43.75% 5
WPF
UK

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) S-PLUS
Cloud Services
1 10 (31.25%) Azure
2 5 (15.63%) AWS
2 5 (15.63%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (15.63%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) Pulumi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 3 (9.38%) NoSQL
3 2 (6.25%) MS Access
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
1 2 (6.25%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (28.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Finance
3 3 (9.38%) Banking
4 2 (6.25%) Law
4 2 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 2 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.13%) Games
5 1 (3.13%) Police
5 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (59.38%) Developer
2 12 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 11 (34.38%) Software Engineer
4 7 (21.88%) C# Developer
5 6 (18.75%) .NET Developer
5 6 (18.75%) C# Software Engineer
6 5 (15.63%) Applications Developer
6 5 (15.63%) Blazor Developer
6 5 (15.63%) C# Software Developer
6 5 (15.63%) Desktop Engineer
7 4 (12.50%) Senior
8 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Senior Developer
8 3 (9.38%) Senior Software Developer
9 2 (6.25%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Scientific Software Engineer
9 2 (6.25%) Senior Applications Developer
9 2 (6.25%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (78.13%) .NET
2 15 (46.88%) .NET Framework
3 12 (37.50%) Blazor
3 12 (37.50%) WinForms
4 9 (28.13%) REST
5 6 (18.75%) React
6 5 (15.63%) .NET Core
6 5 (15.63%) AngularJS
6 5 (15.63%) Universal Windows Platform
6 5 (15.63%) Vue
6 5 (15.63%) WinUI
7 2 (6.25%) ADO
7 2 (6.25%) Avalonia
7 2 (6.25%) Entity Framework
7 2 (6.25%) ODBC
7 2 (6.25%) Qt
8 1 (3.13%) CSS
8 1 (3.13%) HTML
8 1 (3.13%) Middleware
8 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (6.25%) 3D Graphics
2 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
2 2 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.13%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Software Engineering
2 15 (46.88%) DevOps
3 14 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 13 (40.63%) MVVM
5 12 (37.50%) Agile
5 12 (37.50%) AI
5 12 (37.50%) Computer Science
5 12 (37.50%) Machine Learning
6 10 (31.25%) Clean Code
7 9 (28.13%) Mathematics
7 9 (28.13%) Microservices
8 8 (25.00%) Design Patterns
9 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
9 7 (21.88%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
10 5 (15.63%) Full-Stack Development
11 4 (12.50%) Migration
12 2 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
12 2 (6.25%) Integration Testing
12 2 (6.25%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 26 (81.25%) C#
2 6 (18.75%) JavaScript
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) XAML
5 2 (6.25%) C++
5 2 (6.25%) Delphi
5 2 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) Java
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.13%) VB
6 1 (3.13%) VB.NET
6 1 (3.13%) VB6
Qualifications
1 17 (53.13%) Degree
2 12 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.25%) PhD
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.25%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Syncfusion
1 5 (15.63%) Telerik
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.13%) Xamarin