Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WPF skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WPF over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 573 669 610
Rank change year-on-year +96 -59 -34
Permanent jobs citing WPF 358 301 842
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.31% 0.51%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 1.03% 1.22%
Number of salaries quoted 334 266 315
10th Percentile £38,688 £38,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +20.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £81,250 £72,647
90th Percentile £76,250 £93,750 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year - - +5.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WPF is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,396 29,097 68,823
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.72% 29.95% 41.31%
Number of salaries quoted 15,919 18,040 29,839
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,810 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 +84 305 £52,500 -16.00% 76
UK excluding London +98 296 £52,500 - 63
Work from Home +59 177 £52,500 -16.00% 71
South East +44 91 £54,500 -5.22% 12
North of England +78 87 £50,000 -13.04% 29
London +45 54 £80,000 -3.03% 17
Yorkshire +106 48 £47,500 -25.49% 13
Midlands +4 42 £52,500 +20.00% 11
North West +16 37 £52,500 -8.70% 14
West Midlands +25 35 £52,500 +23.53% 5
Scotland -44 27 £61,500 -2.38% 2
South West -17 21 £50,000 - 6
Wales +15 18 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East of England -6 10 £44,000 -12.00% 5
East Midlands -31 7 £52,500 +16.67% 6
North East - 2 £47,500 - 5

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 22 (6.15%) IIS
2 9 (2.51%) Confluence
3 5 (1.40%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.56%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.56%) CMS
4 2 (0.56%) Liferay
4 2 (0.56%) Magnolia
4 2 (0.56%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.56%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.56%) Sketch
2 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.12%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 98 (27.37%) Azure
2 35 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (9.22%) AWS
4 9 (2.51%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (2.51%) Serverless
5 8 (2.23%) Azure Functions
6 7 (1.96%) Azure API Management
6 7 (1.96%) Azure Event Grid
7 5 (1.40%) SaaS
8 4 (1.12%) GCP
8 4 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.56%) Figma
9 2 (0.56%) GitHub
9 2 (0.56%) npm
9 2 (0.56%) PaaS
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.28%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.94%) TCP/IP
2 19 (5.31%) DNS
2 19 (5.31%) Firewall
2 19 (5.31%) SSL
3 15 (4.19%) Broadband
3 15 (4.19%) Mobile Broadband
4 12 (3.35%) Modbus
5 5 (1.40%) Internet
5 5 (1.40%) RFID
6 3 (0.84%) Wireless
7 2 (0.56%) RS-232
8 1 (0.28%) CTI
8 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (39.66%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.87%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (5.87%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.91%) MySQL
4 9 (2.51%) SQLite
5 8 (2.23%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.40%) Big Data
6 5 (1.40%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.56%) DB2
9 2 (0.56%) DTS
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 55 (15.36%) Visual Studio
2 46 (12.85%) Git
3 39 (10.89%) JIRA
4 17 (4.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 15 (4.19%) NUnit
6 13 (3.63%) GitLab
7 11 (3.07%) TestRail
8 8 (2.23%) CMake
8 8 (2.23%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.12%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.12%) MSTest
9 4 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.84%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.84%) SpecFlow
11 2 (0.56%) Bower
11 2 (0.56%) Moq
11 2 (0.56%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.56%) Sourcetree
11 2 (0.56%) Subversion
11 2 (0.56%) TeamCity
General
1 49 (13.69%) Social Skills
2 27 (7.54%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (6.70%) Manufacturing
4 21 (5.87%) Finance
5 19 (5.31%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.35%) Marketing
7 11 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.79%) Electronics
9 7 (1.96%) Automotive
10 6 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.68%) Legal
10 6 (1.68%) Publishing
10 6 (1.68%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.12%) Games
12 3 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.56%) Front Office
14 1 (0.28%) Back Office
14 1 (0.28%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.28%) iGaming
14 1 (0.28%) Military
Job Titles
1 214 (59.78%) Developer
2 107 (29.89%) Software Engineer
3 94 (26.26%) .NET Developer
4 90 (25.14%) C# Developer
5 79 (22.07%) Senior
6 68 (18.99%) C# .NET Developer
7 65 (18.16%) Software Developer
8 44 (12.29%) WPF Developer
9 39 (10.89%) Senior Developer
10 32 (8.94%) Lead
11 30 (8.38%) Applications Developer
12 29 (8.10%) C# WPF Developer
12 29 (8.10%) Lead Developer
13 27 (7.54%) Senior Software Developer
14 26 (7.26%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (5.31%) Applications Engineer
15 19 (5.31%) C# Software Developer
16 18 (5.03%) C# Software Engineer
17 16 (4.47%) .NET Software Developer
18 12 (3.35%) Telecoms Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 251 (70.11%) .NET
2 103 (28.77%) WinForms
3 99 (27.65%) .NET Framework
4 91 (25.42%) HTML
5 90 (25.14%) ASP.NET
6 71 (19.83%) CSS
7 69 (19.27%) ASP.NET MVC
8 62 (17.32%) AngularJS
9 57 (15.92%) Entity Framework
10 56 (15.64%) .NET Core
11 55 (15.36%) React
12 44 (12.29%) ASP.NET Web API
12 44 (12.29%) Vue
13 32 (8.94%) HTML5
14 28 (7.82%) REST
14 28 (7.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 26 (7.26%) Node.js
16 25 (6.98%) jQuery
17 24 (6.70%) LINQ
18 22 (6.15%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.34%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (7.54%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.63%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.23%) CUDA
6 6 (1.68%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.68%) IoT
7 5 (1.40%) GNSS
7 5 (1.40%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.40%) NHS
8 4 (1.12%) Social Network
8 4 (1.12%) Tandem
9 2 (0.56%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.28%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.28%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.28%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.28%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.28%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 142 (39.66%) Windows
2 29 (8.10%) Linux
3 13 (3.63%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.84%) Android
5 2 (0.56%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (33.80%) Software Engineering
2 106 (29.61%) Agile
3 105 (29.33%) MVC
4 101 (28.21%) MVVM
5 74 (20.67%) Scrum
6 69 (19.27%) TDD
7 66 (18.44%) Multithreading
8 58 (16.20%) Kanban
9 50 (13.97%) Computer Science
10 42 (11.73%) Multithreaded Programming
11 40 (11.17%) DevOps
12 39 (10.89%) Microservices
13 38 (10.61%) Problem-Solving
14 37 (10.34%) Collaborative Working
15 34 (9.50%) Full Stack Development
16 29 (8.10%) Continuous Integration
17 27 (7.54%) SOLID
18 25 (6.98%) Web Development
19 24 (6.70%) BDD
19 24 (6.70%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 336 (93.85%) C#
2 120 (33.52%) SQL
3 74 (20.67%) C++
4 69 (19.27%) JavaScript
5 68 (18.99%) XAML
6 64 (17.88%) C
7 32 (8.94%) TypeScript
8 28 (7.82%) Java
9 17 (4.75%) T-SQL
10 13 (3.63%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.23%) Bash
11 8 (2.23%) C-shell
11 8 (2.23%) Fortran
11 8 (2.23%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.96%) Python
13 5 (1.40%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.40%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.84%) PHP
15 2 (0.56%) F#
15 2 (0.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (18.99%) Degree
2 15 (4.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.12%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.84%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.84%) MCSD
4 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.84%) PhD
5 2 (0.56%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.75%) QA
System Software
1 17 (4.75%) Docker
2 5 (1.40%) Firmware
3 4 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (2.51%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 74 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.79%) DevExpress
3 5 (1.40%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.12%) Facebook
4 4 (1.12%) Twitter
4 4 (1.12%) VMware
4 4 (1.12%) Xamarin
5 3 (0.84%) Telerik
6 2 (0.56%) Adobe
6 2 (0.56%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.56%) OpenText
6 2 (0.56%) Pega
6 2 (0.56%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.28%) Citrix
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle
7 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow