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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 567 663 596
Rank change year-on-year +96 -67 -14
Permanent jobs citing WPF 352 324 810
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.36% 0.32% 0.52%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.67% 1.06% 1.27%
Number of salaries quoted 331 286 347
10th Percentile £38,125 £38,750 £35,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,313 £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 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £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 21,062 30,550 63,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.25% 30.15% 40.74%
Number of salaries quoted 15,764 18,827 29,914
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
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 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 9 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 +108 299 £52,500 -16.00% 73
UK excluding London +95 291 £52,500 - 65
Work from Home +60 174 £52,500 -16.00% 72
South East +38 89 £54,500 -5.22% 13
North of England +97 84 £50,000 -23.08% 22
London +45 54 £80,000 -3.03% 15
Yorkshire +116 49 £47,500 -26.92% 11
Midlands +3 40 £52,500 +23.53% 11
West Midlands +36 33 £52,500 +23.53% 8
North West +29 33 £52,500 -8.70% 8
Scotland -46 29 £61,500 -2.38% 5
South West -22 21 £50,000 - 5
Wales +10 18 £50,000 +11.11% 3
East of England +16 10 £44,000 -12.00% 8
East Midlands -27 7 £52,500 +23.53% 3
North East - 2 £47,500 - 3

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%) CMS
4 2 (0.57%) Liferay
4 2 (0.57%) Magnolia
4 2 (0.57%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (0.57%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.57%) Sketch
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.14%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 98 (27.84%) Azure
2 35 (9.94%) Azure DevOps
3 33 (9.38%) 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%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.85%) GCP
11 2 (0.57%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.57%) AWS Lambda
11 2 (0.57%) Figma
11 2 (0.57%) npm
11 2 (0.57%) PaaS
12 1 (0.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 33 (9.38%) TCP/IP
2 19 (5.40%) DNS
2 19 (5.40%) Firewall
2 19 (5.40%) SSL
3 14 (3.98%) Broadband
3 14 (3.98%) Mobile Broadband
4 13 (3.69%) 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
1 141 (40.06%) SQL Server
2 21 (5.97%) Elasticsearch
2 21 (5.97%) MongoDB
3 14 (3.98%) MySQL
4 10 (2.84%) SQLite
5 8 (2.27%) Relational Database
6 5 (1.42%) Big Data
6 5 (1.42%) Crystal Reports
7 4 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.57%) DB2
9 2 (0.57%) DTS
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 58 (16.48%) Visual Studio
2 44 (12.50%) Git
3 39 (11.08%) JIRA
4 16 (4.55%) NUnit
4 16 (4.55%) Team Foundation Server
5 14 (3.98%) GitLab
6 10 (2.84%) TestRail
7 7 (1.99%) CMake
7 7 (1.99%) Jenkins
8 4 (1.14%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.14%) MSTest
8 4 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.85%) Cucumber
9 3 (0.85%) SpecFlow
10 2 (0.57%) Bower
10 2 (0.57%) gulp
10 2 (0.57%) Moq
10 2 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.57%) Subversion
10 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
General
1 50 (14.20%) Social Skills
2 25 (7.10%) Analytical Skills
2 25 (7.10%) Manufacturing
3 23 (6.53%) Finance
4 17 (4.83%) Telecoms
5 13 (3.69%) Marketing
6 10 (2.84%) Electronics
6 10 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (1.70%) Automotive
7 6 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (1.70%) Legal
7 6 (1.70%) Publishing
7 6 (1.70%) Tech for Good
8 3 (0.85%) Games
8 3 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.57%) Front Office
9 2 (0.57%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.28%) Back Office
10 1 (0.28%) Military
10 1 (0.28%) Police
Job Titles
1 210 (59.66%) Developer
2 104 (29.55%) Software Engineer
3 92 (26.14%) .NET Developer
4 87 (24.72%) C# Developer
5 83 (23.58%) Senior
6 65 (18.47%) C# .NET Developer
7 63 (17.90%) Software Developer
8 43 (12.22%) Senior Developer
9 41 (11.65%) WPF Developer
10 30 (8.52%) Applications Developer
10 30 (8.52%) Lead
11 27 (7.67%) Lead Developer
11 27 (7.67%) Senior Software Developer
12 26 (7.39%) C# WPF Developer
12 26 (7.39%) Senior Software Engineer
13 19 (5.40%) Applications Engineer
13 19 (5.40%) C# Software Developer
14 17 (4.83%) C# Software Engineer
15 16 (4.55%) .NET Software Developer
16 12 (3.41%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (69.60%) .NET
2 101 (28.69%) WinForms
3 100 (28.41%) .NET Framework
4 91 (25.85%) HTML
5 89 (25.28%) ASP.NET
6 72 (20.45%) CSS
7 68 (19.32%) ASP.NET MVC
8 62 (17.61%) AngularJS
9 59 (16.76%) Entity Framework
10 55 (15.63%) React
11 51 (14.49%) .NET Core
12 44 (12.50%) Vue
13 43 (12.22%) ASP.NET Web API
14 31 (8.81%) HTML5
15 29 (8.24%) REST
16 28 (7.95%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 26 (7.39%) Node.js
18 25 (7.10%) jQuery
19 22 (6.25%) LINQ
19 22 (6.25%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.94%) Greenfield Project
2 27 (7.67%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 11 (3.13%) 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 3 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
10 1 (0.28%) Analogue Electronics
10 1 (0.28%) Digital Media
10 1 (0.28%) Fixed Income
10 1 (0.28%) Hedge funds
10 1 (0.28%) Legacy Applications
10 1 (0.28%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 142 (40.34%) Windows
2 29 (8.24%) Linux
3 13 (3.69%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (0.85%) Android
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (33.52%) Software Engineering
2 106 (30.11%) Agile
3 101 (28.69%) MVC
4 95 (26.99%) MVVM
5 74 (21.02%) Scrum
6 65 (18.47%) Multithreading
6 65 (18.47%) TDD
7 56 (15.91%) Kanban
8 49 (13.92%) Computer Science
9 41 (11.65%) Microservices
10 40 (11.36%) DevOps
10 40 (11.36%) Multithreaded Programming
11 37 (10.51%) Collaborative Working
11 37 (10.51%) Problem-Solving
12 34 (9.66%) Full Stack Development
13 28 (7.95%) Continuous Integration
14 25 (7.10%) SOLID
14 25 (7.10%) Web Development
15 24 (6.82%) BDD
16 22 (6.25%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 330 (93.75%) C#
2 117 (33.24%) SQL
3 73 (20.74%) C++
4 70 (19.89%) JavaScript
5 66 (18.75%) XAML
6 62 (17.61%) C
7 32 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 30 (8.52%) Java
9 17 (4.83%) T-SQL
10 12 (3.41%) PowerShell
11 8 (2.27%) Python
12 7 (1.99%) Bash
12 7 (1.99%) C-shell
12 7 (1.99%) Fortran
12 7 (1.99%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.42%) Embedded C
13 5 (1.42%) VB.NET
14 4 (1.14%) F#
15 3 (0.85%) PHP
15 3 (0.85%) VB
Qualifications
1 68 (19.32%) 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 19 (5.40%) QA
2 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.28%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 15 (4.26%) Docker
2 5 (1.42%) Firmware
3 4 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (1.99%) 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%) Telerik
4 4 (1.14%) Twitter
4 4 (1.14%) VMware
4 4 (1.14%) Xamarin
5 2 (0.57%) Adobe
5 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.57%) OpenText
5 2 (0.57%) Pega
5 2 (0.57%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.28%) Citrix
6 1 (0.28%) Oracle
6 1 (0.28%) QNX
6 1 (0.28%) ServiceNow