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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 568 673 619
Rank change year-on-year +105 -54 -35
Permanent jobs citing WPF 381 278 849
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.74% 1.03% 1.20%
Number of salaries quoted 342 248 304
10th Percentile £38,125 £38,750 £33,975
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £81,250 £72,647
90th Percentile £76,125 £91,275 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +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 21,837 27,028 70,934
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.14% 29.03% 41.27%
Number of salaries quoted 16,149 17,617 29,960
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,448 £37,750
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £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 9 June 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 9 June 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 +100 327 £52,500 -16.00% 75
UK excluding London +86 317 £52,500 +5.00% 65
Work from Home +74 184 £52,500 -14.29% 46
South East +52 99 £54,500 +0.46% 18
North of England +87 97 £50,000 -13.04% 28
Yorkshire +103 55 £47,500 -13.64% 13
London +19 55 £80,000 -3.03% 11
Midlands -9 43 £52,500 +23.53% 6
North West +13 40 £52,500 -8.70% 13
West Midlands +15 35 £52,500 +23.53% 2
Scotland -46 27 £61,500 +11.82% 1
South West -22 23 £50,000 - 8
Wales +24 18 £50,000 +11.11% 1
East of England -14 10 £44,000 -12.00% 3
East Midlands -36 8 £52,500 +13.51% 4
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 (5.77%) IIS
2 9 (2.36%) Confluence
3 5 (1.31%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.52%) CMS
4 2 (0.52%) Liferay
4 2 (0.52%) Magnolia
4 2 (0.52%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.52%) Sketch
2 1 (0.26%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.05%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 101 (26.51%) Azure
2 36 (9.45%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (8.92%) AWS
4 9 (2.36%) Azure Service Bus
4 9 (2.36%) Serverless
5 8 (2.10%) Azure Functions
6 7 (1.84%) Azure API Management
6 7 (1.84%) Azure Event Grid
7 5 (1.31%) SaaS
8 4 (1.05%) GCP
8 4 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.52%) Figma
9 2 (0.52%) GitHub
9 2 (0.52%) npm
9 2 (0.52%) PaaS
10 1 (0.26%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.26%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 32 (8.40%) TCP/IP
2 19 (4.99%) DNS
2 19 (4.99%) Firewall
2 19 (4.99%) SSL
3 15 (3.94%) Broadband
3 15 (3.94%) Mobile Broadband
4 12 (3.15%) Modbus
5 5 (1.31%) Internet
5 5 (1.31%) RFID
6 3 (0.79%) Wireless
7 2 (0.52%) RS-232
8 1 (0.26%) CTI
8 1 (0.26%) VoIP
8 1 (0.26%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 145 (38.06%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.51%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (5.51%) MongoDB
3 16 (4.20%) MySQL
4 9 (2.36%) Relational Database
4 9 (2.36%) SQLite
5 5 (1.31%) Big Data
5 5 (1.31%) Crystal Reports
5 5 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 3 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (0.52%) DB2
8 2 (0.52%) DTS
9 1 (0.26%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.26%) GIS
Development Applications
1 54 (14.17%) Visual Studio
2 49 (12.86%) Git
3 39 (10.24%) JIRA
4 17 (4.46%) Team Foundation Server
5 14 (3.67%) NUnit
6 13 (3.41%) GitLab
7 11 (2.89%) TestRail
8 9 (2.36%) Jenkins
9 8 (2.10%) CMake
10 4 (1.05%) Bitbucket
10 4 (1.05%) MSTest
10 4 (1.05%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.79%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.79%) SpecFlow
11 3 (0.79%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.52%) Bower
12 2 (0.52%) gulp
12 2 (0.52%) Moq
12 2 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 55 (14.44%) Social Skills
2 29 (7.61%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (6.82%) Manufacturing
4 21 (5.51%) Finance
5 19 (4.99%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.15%) Marketing
7 11 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.62%) Electronics
9 8 (2.10%) Automotive
10 6 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.57%) Legal
10 6 (1.57%) Publishing
10 6 (1.57%) Tech for Good
11 4 (1.05%) Games
12 3 (0.79%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (0.52%) Front Office
14 1 (0.26%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.26%) Back Office
14 1 (0.26%) Military
14 1 (0.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 228 (59.84%) Developer
2 116 (30.45%) Software Engineer
3 103 (27.03%) .NET Developer
4 93 (24.41%) C# Developer
5 84 (22.05%) Senior
6 70 (18.37%) C# .NET Developer
7 68 (17.85%) Software Developer
8 45 (11.81%) WPF Developer
9 44 (11.55%) Senior Developer
10 33 (8.66%) Lead
11 30 (7.87%) C# WPF Developer
11 30 (7.87%) Lead Developer
12 29 (7.61%) Applications Developer
13 26 (6.82%) Senior Software Developer
13 26 (6.82%) Senior Software Engineer
14 21 (5.51%) C# Software Developer
14 21 (5.51%) C# Software Engineer
15 19 (4.99%) Applications Engineer
16 18 (4.72%) .NET Software Developer
17 15 (3.94%) Senior .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 267 (70.08%) .NET
2 110 (28.87%) WinForms
3 100 (26.25%) .NET Framework
4 93 (24.41%) ASP.NET
5 91 (23.88%) HTML
6 70 (18.37%) CSS
7 69 (18.11%) AngularJS
7 69 (18.11%) ASP.NET MVC
8 63 (16.54%) React
9 58 (15.22%) .NET Core
9 58 (15.22%) Entity Framework
10 50 (13.12%) Vue
11 46 (12.07%) ASP.NET Web API
12 32 (8.40%) Node.js
13 31 (8.14%) HTML5
14 28 (7.35%) REST
14 28 (7.35%) Twitter Bootstrap
15 25 (6.56%) jQuery
16 24 (6.30%) LINQ
17 21 (5.51%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.45%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (7.09%) Self-Motivation
3 15 (3.94%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (2.10%) CUDA
6 6 (1.57%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.57%) IoT
6 6 (1.57%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.31%) GNSS
7 5 (1.31%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.31%) NHS
8 4 (1.05%) Social Network
8 4 (1.05%) Tandem
9 2 (0.52%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.26%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.26%) Distributed Applications
10 1 (0.26%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.26%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.26%) N-Tier
10 1 (0.26%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 148 (38.85%) Windows
2 32 (8.40%) Linux
3 13 (3.41%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.79%) Android
5 2 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (34.12%) Software Engineering
2 115 (30.18%) MVC
3 113 (29.66%) Agile
4 108 (28.35%) MVVM
5 76 (19.95%) Scrum
6 70 (18.37%) Multithreading
7 69 (18.11%) TDD
8 59 (15.49%) Kanban
9 50 (13.12%) Computer Science
10 47 (12.34%) Problem-Solving
11 44 (11.55%) Multithreaded Programming
12 41 (10.76%) DevOps
13 40 (10.50%) Microservices
14 37 (9.71%) Collaborative Working
14 37 (9.71%) Full Stack Development
15 36 (9.45%) SOLID
16 30 (7.87%) Continuous Integration
17 25 (6.56%) Unit Testing
17 25 (6.56%) Web Development
18 24 (6.30%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 358 (93.96%) C#
2 130 (34.12%) SQL
3 76 (19.95%) C++
4 75 (19.69%) JavaScript
5 73 (19.16%) XAML
6 67 (17.59%) C
7 32 (8.40%) TypeScript
8 28 (7.35%) Java
9 17 (4.46%) T-SQL
10 13 (3.41%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.10%) Bash
11 8 (2.10%) C-shell
11 8 (2.10%) Fortran
11 8 (2.10%) Kotlin
11 8 (2.10%) Python
12 7 (1.84%) VB.NET
13 5 (1.31%) Embedded C
14 3 (0.79%) PHP
15 2 (0.52%) F#
15 2 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 71 (18.64%) Degree
2 16 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.05%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.79%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.79%) MCSD
4 3 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.79%) PhD
5 2 (0.52%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.26%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (4.46%) QA
System Software
1 19 (4.99%) Docker
2 6 (1.57%) Firmware
3 4 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (2.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 73 (19.16%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.62%) DevExpress
3 5 (1.31%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.05%) Facebook
4 4 (1.05%) Twitter
4 4 (1.05%) VMware
4 4 (1.05%) Xamarin
5 3 (0.79%) Telerik
6 2 (0.52%) Adobe
6 2 (0.52%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.52%) OpenText
6 2 (0.52%) Pega
6 2 (0.52%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.26%) Citrix
7 1 (0.26%) Oracle
7 1 (0.26%) ServiceNow