WPF Job Trends in the West Midlands

Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring WPF skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 210 170
Rank change year-on-year +51 -40 +132
Permanent jobs citing WPF 7 13 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.19% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.64% 1.51% 1.63%
Number of salaries quoted 7 4 10
10th Percentile £42,500 - £36,550
25th Percentile £43,125 £42,500 £40,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% - -28.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £47,813 £49,375
90th Percentile £57,150 £48,375 £55,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.33%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 428 863 614
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 11.65% 15.49% 18.19%
Number of salaries quoted 356 470 520
10th Percentile £32,125 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,895 £43,000 £42,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -4.46%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £78,750 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +0.75%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

WPF job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

WPF
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WPF.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WPF

WPF
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing WPF in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 23 November 2025.

Salary histogram for WPF in the West Midlands

WPF
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WPF within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 23 November 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
Staffordshire +9 2 £55,000 +22.22% 3
Warwickshire +45 1 £60,250 -
Coventry - 1 £47,500 -
Tipton - 1 £47,500 -
WPF
England

WPF
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Figma
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (71.43%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) MS Access
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Law
3 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
3 2 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Automotive
4 1 (14.29%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Developer
1 6 (85.71%) Software Developer
2 4 (57.14%) C# Developer
2 4 (57.14%) C# Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Delphi Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Engineering Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) .NET Framework
3 3 (42.86%) Blazor
4 2 (28.57%) ADO
4 2 (28.57%) ODBC
4 2 (28.57%) WinForms
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (14.29%) DOM
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) Material Design
5 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (14.29%) REST
5 1 (14.29%) XML
5 1 (14.29%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) MVVM
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (14.29%) MVC
4 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (14.29%) Scrum
4 1 (14.29%) SDLC
4 1 (14.29%) User Experience
4 1 (14.29%) UX Design
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
2 3 (42.86%) XAML
3 2 (28.57%) Delphi
3 2 (28.57%) Go
3 2 (28.57%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft