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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 556 674 611
Rank change year-on-year +118 -63 -21
Permanent jobs citing WPF 352 311 820
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.35% 0.31% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 1.03% 1.23%
Number of salaries quoted 331 275 317
10th Percentile £38,125 £38,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,625 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +4.17% +17.07%
75th Percentile £63,750 £81,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £95,000 £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 21,099 30,098 66,714
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.12% 30.26% 40.98%
Number of salaries quoted 15,738 18,568 30,087
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,853 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,939 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,750
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +5.88% +15.91%
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 20 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 20 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 +109 300 £52,500 -16.00% 104
UK excluding London +94 291 £52,500 - 89
Work from Home +75 175 £52,500 -16.00% 88
South East +57 89 £54,500 -5.22% 23
North of England +82 86 £50,000 -16.67% 34
London +50 53 £80,000 -3.03% 21
Yorkshire +109 49 £47,500 -26.92% 15
Midlands +9 40 £52,500 +23.53% 15
North West +16 35 £52,500 -8.70% 14
West Midlands +37 33 £52,500 +23.53% 8
Scotland -47 27 £61,500 -2.38% 2
South West -22 21 £50,000 - 8
Wales +18 18 £50,000 +11.11% 3
East of England +1 10 £44,000 -12.00% 7
East Midlands -26 7 £52,500 +23.53% 7
North East - 2 £47,500 - 7

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 (6.25%) IIS
2 9 (2.56%) Confluence
3 5 (1.42%) Kinematics
4 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.57%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) Liferay
4 2 (0.57%) Magnolia
4 2 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.57%) Sketch
2 1 (0.28%) Revit
Business Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 99 (28.13%) Azure
2 35 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
3 34 (9.66%) AWS
4 10 (2.84%) Serverless
5 9 (2.56%) Azure Service Bus
6 8 (2.27%) Azure Functions
7 7 (1.99%) Azure API Management
7 7 (1.99%) Azure Event Grid
8 5 (1.42%) SaaS
9 4 (1.14%) GCP
9 4 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.57%) Figma
10 2 (0.57%) GitHub
10 2 (0.57%) npm
10 2 (0.57%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (9.09%) TCP/IP
2 19 (5.40%) DNS
2 19 (5.40%) Firewall
2 19 (5.40%) SSL
3 15 (4.26%) Broadband
3 15 (4.26%) Mobile Broadband
4 12 (3.41%) Modbus
5 5 (1.42%) Internet
5 5 (1.42%) RFID
6 3 (0.85%) Wireless
7 2 (0.57%) RS-232
8 1 (0.28%) CTI
8 1 (0.28%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 142 (40.34%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (5.97%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.98%) MySQL
4 9 (2.56%) SQLite
5 8 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.42%) Big Data
6 5 (1.42%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 2 (0.57%) DB2
9 2 (0.57%) DTS
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 56 (15.91%) Visual Studio
2 45 (12.78%) Git
3 38 (10.80%) JIRA
4 16 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
5 15 (4.26%) NUnit
6 13 (3.69%) GitLab
7 10 (2.84%) TestRail
8 7 (1.99%) CMake
8 7 (1.99%) Jenkins
9 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.14%) MSTest
9 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
10 3 (0.85%) SpecFlow
10 3 (0.85%) Subversion
11 2 (0.57%) Bower
11 2 (0.57%) Moq
11 2 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
11 2 (0.57%) Sourcetree
11 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (14.20%) Social Skills
2 26 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (7.10%) Manufacturing
4 21 (5.97%) Finance
5 18 (5.11%) Telecoms
6 13 (3.69%) Marketing
7 10 (2.84%) Electronics
7 10 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (1.99%) Tech for Good
9 6 (1.70%) Automotive
9 6 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (1.70%) Legal
9 6 (1.70%) Publishing
10 3 (0.85%) Games
10 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (0.57%) Front Office
11 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.28%) Back Office
12 1 (0.28%) Police
12 1 (0.28%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 212 (60.23%) Developer
2 103 (29.26%) Software Engineer
3 94 (26.70%) .NET Developer
4 88 (25.00%) C# Developer
5 80 (22.73%) Senior
6 66 (18.75%) C# .NET Developer
7 64 (18.18%) Software Developer
8 43 (12.22%) WPF Developer
9 41 (11.65%) Senior Developer
10 31 (8.81%) Lead
11 30 (8.52%) Applications Developer
12 28 (7.95%) C# WPF Developer
12 28 (7.95%) Lead Developer
13 27 (7.67%) Senior Software Developer
14 25 (7.10%) Senior Software Engineer
15 19 (5.40%) Applications Engineer
15 19 (5.40%) C# Software Developer
16 18 (5.11%) C# Software Engineer
17 16 (4.55%) .NET Software Developer
18 12 (3.41%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 248 (70.45%) .NET
2 99 (28.13%) WinForms
3 98 (27.84%) .NET Framework
4 90 (25.57%) ASP.NET
4 90 (25.57%) HTML
5 71 (20.17%) CSS
6 69 (19.60%) ASP.NET MVC
7 62 (17.61%) AngularJS
8 57 (16.19%) Entity Framework
9 55 (15.63%) React
10 54 (15.34%) .NET Core
11 44 (12.50%) ASP.NET Web API
11 44 (12.50%) Vue
12 31 (8.81%) HTML5
13 28 (7.95%) REST
13 28 (7.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 26 (7.39%) Node.js
15 25 (7.10%) jQuery
16 22 (6.25%) LINQ
16 22 (6.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 37 (10.51%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (7.67%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 12 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (1.99%) CUDA
6 6 (1.70%) Algorithms
6 6 (1.70%) IoT
7 5 (1.42%) GNSS
7 5 (1.42%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.42%) NHS
8 4 (1.14%) Social Network
8 4 (1.14%) Tandem
9 2 (0.57%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.28%) Analogue Electronics
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
1 140 (39.77%) Windows
2 28 (7.95%) Linux
3 13 (3.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.85%) Android
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (33.24%) Software Engineering
2 103 (29.26%) Agile
2 103 (29.26%) MVC
3 96 (27.27%) MVVM
4 73 (20.74%) Scrum
5 66 (18.75%) TDD
6 64 (18.18%) Multithreading
7 57 (16.19%) Kanban
8 49 (13.92%) Computer Science
9 40 (11.36%) DevOps
9 40 (11.36%) Multithreaded Programming
10 39 (11.08%) Microservices
11 37 (10.51%) Collaborative Working
11 37 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (9.66%) Full Stack Development
13 29 (8.24%) Continuous Integration
14 25 (7.10%) SOLID
14 25 (7.10%) Web Development
15 24 (6.82%) BDD
16 23 (6.53%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 330 (93.75%) C#
2 118 (33.52%) SQL
3 72 (20.45%) C++
4 69 (19.60%) JavaScript
5 67 (19.03%) XAML
6 62 (17.61%) C
7 32 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 28 (7.95%) Java
9 17 (4.83%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.41%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.27%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.99%) Bash
12 7 (1.99%) C-shell
12 7 (1.99%) Fortran
12 7 (1.99%) Python
13 5 (1.42%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.42%) VB.NET
14 3 (0.85%) F#
14 3 (0.85%) PHP
15 2 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 67 (19.03%) Degree
2 15 (4.26%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.14%) DBS Check
4 3 (0.85%) Master's Degree
4 3 (0.85%) MCSD
4 3 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (0.85%) PhD
5 2 (0.57%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (0.28%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.28%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.11%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 16 (4.55%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Firmware
3 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (2.27%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 75 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 10 (2.84%) DevExpress
3 5 (1.42%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.14%) Facebook
4 4 (1.14%) Twitter
4 4 (1.14%) VMware
4 4 (1.14%) Xamarin
5 3 (0.85%) Telerik
6 2 (0.57%) Adobe
6 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.57%) OpenText
6 2 (0.57%) Pega
6 2 (0.57%) Sitecore
7 1 (0.28%) Citrix
7 1 (0.28%) Oracle
7 1 (0.28%) QNX
7 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow