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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 648 572 683
Rank change year-on-year -76 +111 -76
Permanent jobs citing WPF 54 360 294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.35% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.56% 1.68% 1.04%
Number of salaries quoted 47 335 262
10th Percentile £27,000 £38,875 £38,750
25th Percentile £39,375 £43,750 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -16.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £97,500 £63,750 £81,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £76,250 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.29% - -

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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 31 May 2025.

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 31 May 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 -66 53 £60,000 +14.29% 77
UK excluding London -59 37 £45,000 -14.29% 49
London +68 17 £110,000 +37.50% 29
Work from Home -38 14 £56,250 +7.14% 37
North of England -35 13 £61,250 +22.50% 13
Midlands +33 10 £45,000 -14.29% 14
West Midlands +30 9 £45,000 -14.29% 13
South East -8 7 £75,000 +37.61% 9
North West -28 7 £73,750 +40.48% 12
South West +96 6 £28,000 -44.00% 6
Yorkshire +14 5 £60,000 +26.32% 1
North East +49 1 £40,000 -15.79%
East Midlands +37 1 £42,500 -19.05% 1
Wales +24 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 (1.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) AutoCAD
2 1 (1.85%) Revit
2 1 (1.85%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Eikon
1 2 (3.70%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) Azure
2 6 (11.11%) Azure Service Bus
3 5 (9.26%) Serverless
4 4 (7.41%) AWS
4 4 (7.41%) Azure Functions
5 3 (5.56%) OpenShift
5 3 (5.56%) SaaS
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (3.70%) Azure Storage
6 2 (3.70%) Azure WebJobs
7 1 (1.85%) Azure API Management
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.85%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 6 (11.11%) MongoDB
3 5 (9.26%) MS Access
4 3 (5.56%) Azure SQL Database
4 3 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.85%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.85%) MySQL
5 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Git
2 5 (9.26%) Visual Studio
3 4 (7.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (7.41%) NUnit
4 3 (5.56%) MSTest
4 3 (5.56%) SpecFlow
4 3 (5.56%) Team Foundation Server
4 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
5 2 (3.70%) JetBrains Rider
5 2 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (1.85%) CMake
6 1 (1.85%) GitLab
6 1 (1.85%) JIRA
6 1 (1.85%) MSBuild
6 1 (1.85%) Plastic SCM
6 1 (1.85%) Postman
6 1 (1.85%) TestRail
General
1 19 (35.19%) Social Skills
2 10 (18.52%) Law
3 9 (16.67%) Finance
4 7 (12.96%) Front Office
5 6 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Back Office
7 1 (1.85%) Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Electronics
7 1 (1.85%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.85%) Games
7 1 (1.85%) iGaming
7 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Publishing
7 1 (1.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 31 (57.41%) Developer
2 17 (31.48%) Senior
3 15 (27.78%) Software Developer
4 14 (25.93%) C# Developer
5 12 (22.22%) Senior Developer
6 9 (16.67%) Lead
6 9 (16.67%) Software Engineer
7 8 (14.81%) .NET Developer
7 8 (14.81%) Senior Software Developer
8 7 (12.96%) C# Software Developer
9 6 (11.11%) Analyst
9 6 (11.11%) Lead Developer
9 6 (11.11%) Software Analyst
9 6 (11.11%) Software Support Analyst
9 6 (11.11%) Support Analyst
10 4 (7.41%) C# .NET Developer
10 4 (7.41%) Senior C# Developer
11 3 (5.56%) C# Software Engineer
11 3 (5.56%) Lead .NET Developer
11 3 (5.56%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (83.33%) .NET
2 17 (31.48%) ASP.NET
3 15 (27.78%) .NET Framework
4 14 (25.93%) HTML
5 13 (24.07%) CSS
5 13 (24.07%) WinForms
6 12 (22.22%) AngularJS
7 11 (20.37%) .NET Core
7 11 (20.37%) Blazor
7 11 (20.37%) HTML5
8 8 (14.81%) REST
9 5 (9.26%) ASP.NET Web API
9 5 (9.26%) Entity Framework
10 4 (7.41%) JSON
10 4 (7.41%) ODBC
11 3 (5.56%) ADO
11 3 (5.56%) CSS3
11 3 (5.56%) Highcharts JS
11 3 (5.56%) LESS
11 3 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (9.26%) Derivative
3 3 (5.56%) 3D Graphics
3 3 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 3 (5.56%) Credit Derivative
3 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.56%) Equities
3 3 (5.56%) Fixed Income
3 3 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (5.56%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.70%) Clustering
4 2 (3.70%) CUDA
5 1 (1.85%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.85%) Legacy Code
5 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (29.63%) Agile
2 14 (25.93%) Software Engineering
3 12 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 10 (18.52%) Mathematics
4 10 (18.52%) Multithreading
5 9 (16.67%) DevOps
5 9 (16.67%) Microservices
6 7 (12.96%) Mentoring
6 7 (12.96%) Multithreaded Programming
6 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (11.11%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 6 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (11.11%) Design Patterns
7 6 (11.11%) MVVM
7 6 (11.11%) OOP
7 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
8 5 (9.26%) Machine Learning
8 5 (9.26%) MVC
8 5 (9.26%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 53 (98.15%) C#
2 17 (31.48%) JavaScript
3 10 (18.52%) TypeScript
4 8 (14.81%) SQL
5 5 (9.26%) C++
5 5 (9.26%) PowerShell
6 4 (7.41%) Delphi
6 4 (7.41%) XAML
7 3 (5.56%) C
7 3 (5.56%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.70%) Fortran
8 2 (3.70%) Java
9 1 (1.85%) Bash
9 1 (1.85%) C-shell
9 1 (1.85%) Python
9 1 (1.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (35.19%) Degree
2 6 (11.11%) MCP
2 6 (11.11%) MCSE
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) ISO 13485
2 1 (1.85%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
1 10 (18.52%) Oracle
2 3 (5.56%) Bloomberg
3 2 (3.70%) Reuters
4 1 (1.85%) Murex
4 1 (1.85%) Trayport