Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WPF skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WPF over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 591 558 661
Rank change year-on-year -33 +103 -72
Permanent jobs citing WPF 93 352 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.36% 0.33%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.10% 1.67% 1.09%
Number of salaries quoted 83 331 303
10th Percentile £35,000 £38,125 £38,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.48% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £79,375 £63,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £81,250 £94,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year - +0.96% -0.95%

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 8,493 21,046 31,450
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.28% 21.40% 30.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6,474 15,738 19,371
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £50,509 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £79,900 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for WPF in the UK

WPF
Top 15 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 30 April 2025. 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 -13 84 £60,000 +14.29% 66
UK excluding London +2 71 £52,500 - 51
Work from Home +40 28 £61,250 +16.67% 37
North of England +27 23 £60,000 +20.00% 15
London +70 22 £102,500 +28.13% 24
Midlands +39 19 £45,000 -14.29% 8
South East +41 16 £70,000 +28.44% 16
Yorkshire +37 14 £60,000 +26.32% 4
West Midlands +27 10 £45,000 -14.29% 6
East Midlands +51 9 £42,500 -19.05% 2
Scotland +107 8 £40,000 -34.96%
North West +10 8 £62,500 +25.00% 10
South West +98 4 £28,000 -44.00% 11
North East +51 1 £40,000 -15.79% 1
Wales +23 1 £32,500 -35.00%

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 1 (1.08%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.08%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.08%) Revit
2 1 (1.08%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (2.15%) Eikon
1 2 (2.15%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 30 (32.26%) Azure
2 10 (10.75%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.68%) GitHub
4 7 (7.53%) AWS
5 6 (6.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 5 (5.38%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.38%) Serverless
7 4 (4.30%) Azure Functions
8 3 (3.23%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.23%) SaaS
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 2 (2.15%) Azure Storage
9 2 (2.15%) Azure WebJobs
9 2 (2.15%) npm
9 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.15%) Yarn
10 1 (1.08%) Azure API Management
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (53.76%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.53%) MongoDB
2 7 (7.53%) SQLite
3 6 (6.45%) MySQL
4 5 (5.38%) MS Access
5 4 (4.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 4 (4.30%) NoSQL
6 2 (2.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (13.98%) Visual Studio
2 10 (10.75%) Git
3 7 (7.53%) Jenkins
4 5 (5.38%) SpecFlow
4 5 (5.38%) TeamCity
5 4 (4.30%) NUnit
5 4 (4.30%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (3.23%) MSTest
7 2 (2.15%) Ant
7 2 (2.15%) Appium
7 2 (2.15%) Babel
7 2 (2.15%) CMake
7 2 (2.15%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.15%) JetBrains Rider
7 2 (2.15%) JIRA
7 2 (2.15%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (2.15%) Selenium
7 2 (2.15%) TestRail
7 2 (2.15%) webpack
8 1 (1.08%) Plastic SCM
General
1 35 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.28%) Law
3 15 (16.13%) Manufacturing
4 12 (12.90%) Finance
5 7 (7.53%) Front Office
6 6 (6.45%) Automotive
6 6 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
8 4 (4.30%) Electronics
9 3 (3.23%) Aerospace
9 3 (3.23%) Banking
10 2 (2.15%) Agriculture
10 2 (2.15%) Back Office
10 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.08%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.08%) Marketing
11 1 (1.08%) Publishing
11 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 48 (51.61%) Developer
2 35 (37.63%) Senior
3 32 (34.41%) Software Engineer
4 24 (25.81%) Senior Developer
5 21 (22.58%) Software Developer
6 20 (21.51%) C# Developer
7 12 (12.90%) C# Software Engineer
8 10 (10.75%) .NET Developer
8 10 (10.75%) Senior Software Developer
9 9 (9.68%) Senior C# Developer
10 8 (8.60%) C# Software Developer
11 6 (6.45%) C# .NET Developer
11 6 (6.45%) Lead
11 6 (6.45%) Senior Software Engineer
12 5 (5.38%) Senior .NET Developer
13 4 (4.30%) Azure Developer
13 4 (4.30%) Senior C# .NET Developer
13 4 (4.30%) Software Analyst
13 4 (4.30%) Software Support Analyst
13 4 (4.30%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (78.49%) .NET
2 22 (23.66%) AngularJS
2 22 (23.66%) HTML
3 20 (21.51%) Blazor
4 18 (19.35%) ASP.NET
5 17 (18.28%) WinForms
6 16 (17.20%) CSS
6 16 (17.20%) HTML5
7 13 (13.98%) .NET Core
8 12 (12.90%) React
9 11 (11.83%) .NET Framework
9 11 (11.83%) REST
10 10 (10.75%) Entity Framework
11 9 (9.68%) RESTful
12 8 (8.60%) ASP.NET Web API
13 7 (7.53%) JSON
13 7 (7.53%) Vue
13 7 (7.53%) Web Services
14 6 (6.45%) React Native
14 6 (6.45%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.53%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (5.38%) 3D Graphics
2 5 (5.38%) CUDA
2 5 (5.38%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.30%) Derivative
3 4 (4.30%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.23%) Credit Derivative
4 3 (3.23%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.23%) Equities
4 3 (3.23%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.23%) Legacy Applications
4 3 (3.23%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.15%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.15%) Clustering
5 2 (2.15%) Legacy Code
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.08%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.66%) Windows
2 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.78%) Software Engineering
2 26 (27.96%) Agile
3 24 (25.81%) Mathematics
4 21 (22.58%) Computer Science
5 16 (17.20%) DevOps
6 14 (15.05%) Multithreading
7 13 (13.98%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (11.83%) OO
8 11 (11.83%) OOP
9 10 (10.75%) CI/CD
9 10 (10.75%) Microservices
10 9 (9.68%) Artificial Intelligence
10 9 (9.68%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.68%) Full-Stack Development
10 9 (9.68%) Multithreaded Programming
10 9 (9.68%) MVVM
10 9 (9.68%) Physics
10 9 (9.68%) Roadmaps
11 8 (8.60%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (8.60%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (94.62%) C#
2 32 (34.41%) JavaScript
3 20 (21.51%) SQL
4 13 (13.98%) TypeScript
5 12 (12.90%) C++
6 9 (9.68%) XAML
7 6 (6.45%) C
7 6 (6.45%) PHP
7 6 (6.45%) PowerShell
7 6 (6.45%) Python
7 6 (6.45%) T-SQL
7 6 (6.45%) VB.NET
8 5 (5.38%) Fortran
9 4 (4.30%) Delphi
10 3 (3.23%) Java
10 3 (3.23%) VB
11 2 (2.15%) Bash
11 2 (2.15%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 31 (33.33%) Degree
2 7 (7.53%) Master's Degree
3 4 (4.30%) MCP
3 4 (4.30%) MCSE
3 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.23%) HND
5 2 (2.15%) PhD
6 1 (1.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.08%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.60%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.15%) QA
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 13485
3 1 (1.08%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (2.15%) Docker
2 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 16 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 11 (11.83%) Oracle
3 3 (3.23%) EMC
4 2 (2.15%) Bloomberg
4 2 (2.15%) Reuters
5 1 (1.08%) Murex
5 1 (1.08%) Trayport