Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring WPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 626 602 551
Rank change year-on-year -24 -51 +92
Permanent jobs citing WPF 105 54 392
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.12% 0.36%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 0.62% 1.81%
Number of salaries quoted 103 47 348
10th Percentile £45,000 £27,000 £38,125
25th Percentile £48,750 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £70,000 £97,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £115,000 £76,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £45,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +33.33% -14.29% +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,532 8,731 21,637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 10.19% 19.59% 19.96%
Number of salaries quoted 7,115 5,717 16,403
10th Percentile £40,000 £38,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £50,000 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £66,254 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +10.42% -11.11%
75th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,200 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -4.35%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WPF job vacancy trend in the UK

WPF
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing WPF

WPF
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WPF over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for WPF in the UK

WPF
Top 14 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 17 June 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
England -23 99 £60,000 - 115
UK excluding London -22 85 £60,000 +33.33% 133
Work from Home +31 36 £51,250 -8.89% 124
South West -25 34 £60,000 +114.29% 17
South East +1 24 £60,000 -17.24% 28
London -36 15 £82,500 -25.00% 15
Midlands -21 10 £52,500 +16.67% 11
North of England -37 8 £50,000 -20.00% 26
East of England - 8 £62,500 - 22
East Midlands -23 7 £70,000 +64.71% 4
North West -4 5 £50,000 -32.20% 13
West Midlands -24 3 £52,500 +16.67% 7
Yorkshire -43 3 £57,500 -4.17% 10
Scotland - 1 £57,500 - 10

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (2.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 27 (25.71%) Azure
2 10 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.67%) AWS
3 7 (6.67%) Serverless
4 6 (5.71%) Azure Event Grid
4 6 (5.71%) Azure Functions
4 6 (5.71%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (5.71%) Azure Storage
5 3 (2.86%) iPaaS
6 2 (1.90%) GitHub
6 2 (1.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.95%) Diameter Protocol
1 1 (0.95%) FTP
1 1 (0.95%) HTTP
1 1 (0.95%) RTP
1 1 (0.95%) RTSP
1 1 (0.95%) SCTP
1 1 (0.95%) Software-Defined Radio
1 1 (0.95%) SS7
1 1 (0.95%) VoIP
1 1 (0.95%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
2 14 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 9 (8.57%) MongoDB
4 5 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
5 3 (2.86%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.90%) MySQL
6 2 (1.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.95%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (6.67%) JIRA
2 4 (3.81%) GitLab
3 3 (2.86%) Git
3 3 (2.86%) MSI
3 3 (2.86%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.90%) MSTest
4 2 (1.90%) NUnit
5 1 (0.95%) LabVIEW
General
1 19 (18.10%) Finance
2 17 (16.19%) Manufacturing
3 11 (10.48%) Social Skills
4 9 (8.57%) Law
5 7 (6.67%) Electronics
6 4 (3.81%) Banking
6 4 (3.81%) Games
7 3 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Automotive
9 1 (0.95%) Front Office
9 1 (0.95%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 63 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 43 (40.95%) Senior
3 40 (38.10%) Senior Software Engineer
4 31 (29.52%) Developer
5 20 (19.05%) C# Software Engineer
6 18 (17.14%) .NET Developer
7 15 (14.29%) Senior C# Software Engineer
8 12 (11.43%) Lead
9 7 (6.67%) C# Developer
9 7 (6.67%) Desktop Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Applications Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Applications Support
10 6 (5.71%) Applications Support Engineer
10 6 (5.71%) Lead Developer
10 6 (5.71%) Support Engineer
11 5 (4.76%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
11 5 (4.76%) SQL Developer
12 4 (3.81%) C# .NET Developer
12 4 (3.81%) Senior Desktop Engineer
13 3 (2.86%) WinForms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (51.43%) .NET
2 22 (20.95%) .NET Core
3 20 (19.05%) Vue
4 16 (15.24%) .NET Framework
5 11 (10.48%) ASP.NET
5 11 (10.48%) Entity Framework
5 11 (10.48%) WinForms
6 10 (9.52%) AngularJS
6 10 (9.52%) RESTful
7 7 (6.67%) React
8 6 (5.71%) REST
9 5 (4.76%) ASP.NET Core
9 5 (4.76%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (4.76%) HTML
9 5 (4.76%) Node.js
10 4 (3.81%) CSS
10 4 (3.81%) WinUI
11 3 (2.86%) Avalonia
11 3 (2.86%) CSS3
11 3 (2.86%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (18.10%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.81%) Client/Server
2 4 (3.81%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.81%) Credit Risk
2 4 (3.81%) Market Risk
3 3 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
3 3 (2.86%) Legacy Code
3 3 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.86%) Photography
4 2 (1.90%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.90%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (1.90%) Social Network
5 1 (0.95%) CUDA
5 1 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.95%) IoT
5 1 (0.95%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.95%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.48%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (63.81%) Software Engineering
2 36 (34.29%) Agile
3 30 (28.57%) Microservices
4 23 (21.90%) CI/CD
4 23 (21.90%) Mentoring
5 17 (16.19%) Software Architecture
5 17 (16.19%) SOLID
6 15 (14.29%) DevOps
6 15 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
6 15 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (12.38%) MVVM
8 10 (9.52%) Test Automation
9 9 (8.57%) Design Patterns
9 9 (8.57%) Migration
10 8 (7.62%) SDLC
10 8 (7.62%) TDD
11 7 (6.67%) Clean Code
11 7 (6.67%) Kanban
11 7 (6.67%) Multithreading
11 7 (6.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 96 (91.43%) C#
2 27 (25.71%) SQL
3 13 (12.38%) TypeScript
4 10 (9.52%) JavaScript
5 6 (5.71%) C++
6 5 (4.76%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.81%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.81%) Python
8 3 (2.86%) Bicep
9 2 (1.90%) C
10 1 (0.95%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.95%) VB
10 1 (0.95%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.95%) VB6
Qualifications
1 6 (5.71%) Degree
2 4 (3.81%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
1 3 (2.86%) NCSC
1 3 (2.86%) WCAG
2 1 (0.95%) QA
System Software
1 5 (4.76%) Firmware
2 3 (2.86%) Docker
3 2 (1.90%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (5.71%) Grafana
1 6 (5.71%) Kibana
2 3 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (16.19%) Microsoft
2 2 (1.90%) Facebook
3 1 (0.95%) Xamarin