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 18 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 687 573 661
Rank change year-on-year -114 +88 -2
Permanent jobs citing WPF 47 340 239
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.48% 1.70% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 42 292 215
10th Percentile £27,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £39,063 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,375 £52,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.90% -8.70% -
75th Percentile £103,125 £60,000 £76,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £81,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.52% +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 9,889 20,004 23,466
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.45% 20.01% 27.82%
Number of salaries quoted 6,001 14,661 16,639
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £60,000 £67,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -10.45% +3.08%
75th Percentile £86,250 £80,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £112,500 £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 18 July 2025.

Salary histogram for WPF in the UK

WPF
Top 13 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 18 July 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 -103 46 £62,500 +19.05% 81
UK excluding London -78 38 £47,500 -9.52% 63
Work from Home -25 13 £60,000 +14.29% 39
North of England -31 11 £62,500 +31.58% 17
South East -31 11 £85,000 +54.55% 17
London +54 9 £112,500 +25.00% 30
West Midlands +43 9 £45,000 -14.29% 3
Midlands +42 9 £45,000 -14.29% 4
North West -18 7 £73,750 +47.50% 13
South West +66 6 £28,000 -41.05% 7
Yorkshire -1 3 £60,000 +33.33% 3
North East +34 1 £40,000 -15.79% 1
Wales +23 1 £32,500 -35.00% 7

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 (2.13%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.26%) S-PLUS
3 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Eikon
1 2 (4.26%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 10 (21.28%) Azure
2 5 (10.64%) AWS
2 5 (10.64%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (8.51%) Azure Functions
3 4 (8.51%) SaaS
3 4 (8.51%) Serverless
4 3 (6.38%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (4.26%) Azure Storage
5 2 (4.26%) Azure WebJobs
6 1 (2.13%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.13%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (36.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.77%) MongoDB
3 4 (8.51%) MS Access
4 3 (6.38%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.26%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (4.26%) Data Mining
6 1 (2.13%) MySQL
6 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
6 1 (2.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
1 6 (12.77%) Visual Studio
2 4 (8.51%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.38%) MSTest
3 3 (6.38%) NUnit
3 3 (6.38%) SpecFlow
3 3 (6.38%) TeamCity
4 2 (4.26%) JetBrains Rider
4 2 (4.26%) JIRA
4 2 (4.26%) Postman
5 1 (2.13%) CMake
5 1 (2.13%) GitLab
5 1 (2.13%) Plastic SCM
5 1 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.13%) TestRail
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Law
3 7 (14.89%) Finance
3 7 (14.89%) Front Office
4 5 (10.64%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.26%) Automotive
5 2 (4.26%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Back Office
6 1 (2.13%) Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Electronics
6 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.13%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.13%) iGaming
6 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.13%) Legal
6 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.13%) Publishing
6 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 27 (57.45%) Developer
2 15 (31.91%) C# Developer
3 10 (21.28%) Software Developer
4 9 (19.15%) .NET Developer
4 9 (19.15%) Lead
5 8 (17.02%) Senior
5 8 (17.02%) Senior Developer
5 8 (17.02%) Software Engineer
6 7 (14.89%) C# Software Developer
7 6 (12.77%) Analyst
7 6 (12.77%) Lead Developer
7 6 (12.77%) Software Analyst
7 6 (12.77%) Software Support Analyst
7 6 (12.77%) Support Analyst
8 5 (10.64%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (8.51%) C++ Software Engineer
9 4 (8.51%) Senior C# Developer
9 4 (8.51%) Senior Software Developer
10 3 (6.38%) Delphi Developer
10 3 (6.38%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (85.11%) .NET
2 15 (31.91%) .NET Framework
2 15 (31.91%) ASP.NET
3 13 (27.66%) Blazor
4 11 (23.40%) .NET Core
5 10 (21.28%) HTML
5 10 (21.28%) WinForms
6 9 (19.15%) AngularJS
7 8 (17.02%) CSS
8 7 (14.89%) HTML5
8 7 (14.89%) REST
9 5 (10.64%) Qt
10 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET Core
10 4 (8.51%) ASP.NET Web API
10 4 (8.51%) Entity Framework
10 4 (8.51%) ODBC
11 3 (6.38%) Electron
11 3 (6.38%) LESS
11 3 (6.38%) NgRx
11 3 (6.38%) RxJS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.64%) 3D Graphics
1 5 (10.64%) Derivative
1 5 (10.64%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (8.51%) Algorithms
3 3 (6.38%) Cloud Native
3 3 (6.38%) Credit Derivative
3 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (6.38%) Equities
3 3 (6.38%) Fixed Income
3 3 (6.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (6.38%) Virtual Team
4 2 (4.26%) Clustering
4 2 (4.26%) CUDA
4 2 (4.26%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) Agile
2 11 (23.40%) Software Engineering
3 10 (21.28%) DevOps
4 9 (19.15%) Artificial Intelligence
4 9 (19.15%) MVVM
5 8 (17.02%) Computer Science
5 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
5 8 (17.02%) Mathematics
5 8 (17.02%) Microservices
5 8 (17.02%) Multithreading
5 8 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.89%) CI/CD
7 6 (12.77%) Design Patterns
7 6 (12.77%) OOP
7 6 (12.77%) Roadmaps
8 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Development
8 5 (10.64%) Mentoring
8 5 (10.64%) MVC
8 5 (10.64%) User Experience
8 5 (10.64%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (97.87%) C#
2 13 (27.66%) JavaScript
3 9 (19.15%) SQL
4 7 (14.89%) C++
5 6 (12.77%) TypeScript
6 5 (10.64%) XAML
7 4 (8.51%) Delphi
8 3 (6.38%) C
9 2 (4.26%) Fortran
9 2 (4.26%) Java
10 1 (2.13%) Bash
10 1 (2.13%) C-shell
10 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
10 1 (2.13%) Python
10 1 (2.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (38.30%) Degree
2 6 (12.77%) MCP
2 6 (12.77%) MCSE
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (10.64%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.51%) PhD
5 2 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.13%) ISO 13485
2 1 (2.13%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.64%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) Bloomberg
4 2 (4.26%) Reuters
5 1 (2.13%) Murex
5 1 (2.13%) Trayport