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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 166 206 186
Rank change year-on-year +40 -20 +89
Permanent jobs citing WPF 6 12 12
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.18% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.34% 1.35% 1.79%
Number of salaries quoted 6 4 12
10th Percentile £41,250 £36,875 £37,175
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,688 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% +13.89% +125.00%
75th Percentile £51,250 £57,500 £49,375
90th Percentile £55,813 - £56,125
England median annual salary £57,500 £54,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +5.50% -5.22% -4.17%

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 449 892 669
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 13.79% 14.74% 17.29%
Number of salaries quoted 337 532 551
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,418
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
75th Percentile £69,000 £65,000 £68,125
90th Percentile £77,500 £74,914 £78,750
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year +3.85% -3.70% +3.85%

WPF
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing WPF as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for WPF 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 18 September 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 18 September 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
Warwickshire +40 1 £60,250 -
Staffordshire +13 1 £45,000 -5.26% 1
Coventry - 1 £47,500 -
Tipton - 1 £47,500 -
WPF
England

WPF
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) MS Access
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (66.67%) Law
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Automotive
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) C# Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) C# Software Developer
2 4 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Developer
4 1 (16.67%) C# VB.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Delphi Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Engineering Manager
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Framework
3 3 (50.00%) Blazor
4 2 (33.33%) ADO
4 2 (33.33%) ODBC
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (16.67%) DOM
5 1 (16.67%) HTML
5 1 (16.67%) Material Design
5 1 (16.67%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (16.67%) REST
5 1 (16.67%) WinForms
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) XSL
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) MVVM
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Agile
2 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (16.67%) MVC
3 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) SDLC
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) UX Design
3 1 (16.67%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) XAML
3 2 (33.33%) Delphi
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft