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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 509 619 677
Rank change year-on-year +110 +58 -65
Permanent jobs citing WPF 283 145 551
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.37% 0.24% 0.39%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.97% 0.91% 1.11%
Number of salaries quoted 168 131 319
10th Percentile £40,000 £36,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,688 £41,250 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +11.63%
75th Percentile £65,625 £68,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £118,000 £95,436 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £47,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +6.38% -18.26% +16.16%

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 14,339 15,963 49,536
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.95% 26.85% 35.25%
Number of salaries quoted 8,546 12,331 25,735
10th Percentile £39,070 £41,250 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,603 £50,750 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,351 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.54% +0.54% +8.33%
75th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £105,000 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,750
% change year-on-year -4.35% +3.14% +11.50%

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 23 October 2024.

Salary histogram for WPF in the UK

WPF
Top 16 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 23 October 2024. 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 +81 254 £55,000 - 65
UK excluding London +82 222 £50,000 +6.38% 56
Work from Home +33 71 £52,000 -0.95% 43
South East +23 70 £60,000 +60.00% 8
South West +47 61 £45,000 - 9
London +16 52 £77,500 -4.62% 17
North of England -6 39 £50,000 -9.09% 17
Midlands -19 26 £45,000 - 10
Yorkshire +39 20 £46,250 -15.91% 8
North West -12 17 £55,000 +17.02% 9
East Midlands -15 15 £45,000 -5.26% 4
Scotland -6 14 £40,000 -23.81% 7
West Midlands -34 11 £46,250 +2.78% 6
East of England -41 6 - - 5
Wales - 6 - - 2
North East - 2 - -

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 33 (11.66%) WinCC
2 5 (1.77%) Kinematics
3 3 (1.06%) ArcGIS
3 3 (1.06%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.71%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.71%) CMS
4 2 (0.71%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (0.35%) Revit
Cloud Services
1 23 (8.13%) Azure
2 12 (4.24%) AWS
3 6 (2.12%) Power Platform
4 5 (1.77%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (1.77%) GitHub
4 5 (1.77%) SaaS
5 4 (1.41%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.06%) Azure Machine Learning
6 3 (1.06%) npm
6 3 (1.06%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.06%) Yarn
7 2 (0.71%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.71%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.12%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.77%) Internet
2 5 (1.77%) RFID
3 3 (1.06%) Broadband
3 3 (1.06%) Mobile Broadband
4 2 (0.71%) HTTP
4 2 (0.71%) Network Security
4 2 (0.71%) SNMP
5 1 (0.35%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (0.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (23.32%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.36%) SQLite
3 9 (3.18%) MongoDB
4 6 (2.12%) MySQL
4 6 (2.12%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (1.77%) Big Data
5 5 (1.77%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
7 3 (1.06%) Crystal Reports
7 3 (1.06%) GIS
7 3 (1.06%) Power BI
8 2 (0.71%) RDBMS
9 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (8.13%) Git
2 13 (4.59%) Visual Studio
3 8 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.12%) Plastic SCM
4 6 (2.12%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.41%) JIRA
5 4 (1.41%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (1.06%) Ant
6 3 (1.06%) Babel
6 3 (1.06%) Subversion
6 3 (1.06%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (1.06%) webpack
7 2 (0.71%) CMake
7 2 (0.71%) TestRail
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.35%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.35%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 66 (23.32%) Social Skills
2 28 (9.89%) Finance
3 21 (7.42%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (5.65%) Manufacturing
5 11 (3.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (3.53%) Automotive
7 9 (3.18%) Aerospace
7 9 (3.18%) Law
8 7 (2.47%) Electronics
9 6 (2.12%) Games
10 5 (1.77%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.41%) Banking
12 3 (1.06%) Agriculture
12 3 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Front Office
13 2 (0.71%) Back Office
13 2 (0.71%) Legal
13 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.71%) Retail
14 1 (0.35%) iGaming
Job Titles
1 165 (58.30%) Software Engineer
2 108 (38.16%) Developer
3 58 (20.49%) C# Software Engineer
4 48 (16.96%) Software Developer
5 45 (15.90%) C# Developer
6 41 (14.49%) Senior
7 37 (13.07%) .NET Developer
8 24 (8.48%) Senior Developer
9 18 (6.36%) C# .NET Developer
10 17 (6.01%) .NET Software Engineer
10 17 (6.01%) Senior Software Developer
11 14 (4.95%) C# Software Developer
11 14 (4.95%) Senior Software Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) C Software Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) Embedded C Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) Embedded C Software Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) Embedded Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) Embedded Software Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) Lead
12 8 (2.83%) Senior C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (69.96%) .NET
2 78 (27.56%) ASP.NET
3 75 (26.50%) HTML
4 73 (25.80%) WinForms
5 62 (21.91%) CSS
6 55 (19.43%) .NET Framework
7 41 (14.49%) AngularJS
8 37 (13.07%) Blazor
9 29 (10.25%) Entity Framework
10 28 (9.89%) HTML5
10 28 (9.89%) React
11 26 (9.19%) .NET Core
12 16 (5.65%) Vue
13 15 (5.30%) Web Services
14 13 (4.59%) ASP.NET Web API
14 13 (4.59%) RESTful
15 11 (3.89%) Node.js
16 10 (3.53%) JSON
16 10 (3.53%) LINQ
16 10 (3.53%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 40 (14.13%) Robotics
2 14 (4.95%) Algorithms
3 11 (3.89%) Arduino
3 11 (3.89%) ARM Cortex
4 8 (2.83%) CUDA
4 8 (2.83%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.47%) 3D Graphics
5 7 (2.47%) Legacy Applications
6 6 (2.12%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.77%) GNSS
7 5 (1.77%) IoT
8 4 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (1.41%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.06%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.06%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.06%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.06%) Legacy Code
9 3 (1.06%) Sports Betting
9 3 (1.06%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 87 (30.74%) Windows
2 11 (3.89%) Linux
3 2 (0.71%) Windows 10
3 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (0.35%) Android
4 1 (0.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (59.01%) Software Engineering
2 77 (27.21%) Mathematics
3 60 (21.20%) Computer Science
4 55 (19.43%) Multithreading
5 47 (16.61%) MVVM
6 43 (15.19%) Agile
7 42 (14.84%) Multithreaded Programming
8 40 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
9 37 (13.07%) Mathematical Modelling
10 36 (12.72%) MVC
11 28 (9.89%) Analytics
12 27 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
13 26 (9.19%) Machine Learning
13 26 (9.19%) Physics
14 24 (8.48%) Artificial Intelligence
15 23 (8.13%) OO
16 22 (7.77%) Software Testing
16 22 (7.77%) SOLID
17 21 (7.42%) Collaborative Working
18 20 (7.07%) Customer Requirements
Programming Languages
1 278 (98.23%) C#
2 91 (32.16%) C++
3 82 (28.98%) JavaScript
4 70 (24.73%) C
5 64 (22.61%) SQL
6 28 (9.89%) XAML
7 19 (6.71%) TypeScript
8 12 (4.24%) Java
9 11 (3.89%) T-SQL
10 10 (3.53%) Embedded C
10 10 (3.53%) Embedded C++
11 8 (2.83%) Fortran
12 7 (2.47%) VB.NET
13 6 (2.12%) Assembly Language
13 6 (2.12%) PowerShell
13 6 (2.12%) Python
14 5 (1.77%) VB
14 5 (1.77%) VB6
15 4 (1.41%) Perl
16 2 (0.71%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 109 (38.52%) Degree
2 16 (5.65%) Security Cleared
3 12 (4.24%) DV Cleared
4 9 (3.18%) Master's Degree
5 7 (2.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.41%) HND
7 3 (1.06%) PhD
8 2 (0.71%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.35%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.01%) IEC 61131
2 10 (3.53%) QA
3 6 (2.12%) Accessibility
System Software
1 9 (3.18%) Docker
2 7 (2.47%) Firmware
3 2 (0.71%) Hyper-V
3 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 7 (2.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.06%) MOM
Vendors
1 33 (11.66%) Siemens
2 23 (8.13%) Microsoft
3 17 (6.01%) Oracle
4 6 (2.12%) Intel
4 6 (2.12%) Motorola
5 4 (1.41%) EMC
6 2 (0.71%) Axosoft
6 2 (0.71%) Parasoft
7 1 (0.35%) Facebook
7 1 (0.35%) Twitter
7 1 (0.35%) UiPath
7 1 (0.35%) Xamarin