WinForms Contracts

Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for WinForms skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited WinForms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 681 713
Rank change year-on-year +119 +32 -120
Contract jobs citing WinForms 36 38 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.064% 0.15%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.41% 0.27% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 35 101
10th Percentile - £391 £394
25th Percentile £363 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £500 £713
90th Percentile - £625 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -15.79% +5.56% +8.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £47.75
Median hourly rate - - £48.50
75th Percentile - - £49.38
90th Percentile - - £49.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.38%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WinForms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing WinForms.

Daily rate trend for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WinForms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing WinForms.

Hourly rate trend for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +141 34 £550 +14.58% 38
London +120 29 £575 -4.17% 5
Work from Home +128 9 £538 +26.47% 37
UK excluding London +49 5 £400 -15.79% 39
East of England +18 2 £550 -8.33%
West Midlands +30 1 £325 -16.67% 7
North of England +28 1 £400 -4.76% 13
Midlands +23 1 £325 -16.67% 11
Yorkshire +19 1 £400 -25.58% 11
South East - 1 £400 - 7

WinForms
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 9 (25.00%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) Internet
2 1 (2.78%) MQTT
2 1 (2.78%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (52.78%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.00%) Oracle Database
3 8 (22.22%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) MS Access
4 1 (2.78%) Power BI
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 19 (52.78%) TeamCity
2 2 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (13.89%) Banking
1 5 (13.89%) Investment Banking
2 2 (5.56%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Local Government
3 1 (2.78%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 20 (55.56%) DevOps Engineer
2 14 (38.89%) Developer
3 9 (25.00%) C# Developer
3 9 (25.00%) WPF Developer
4 8 (22.22%) C# WCF Developer
4 8 (22.22%) C# WPF Developer
4 8 (22.22%) WCF Developer
5 5 (13.89%) Senior
5 5 (13.89%) Senior DevOps
5 5 (13.89%) Senior DevOps Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) .NET Developer
6 3 (8.33%) WinForms Developer
7 2 (5.56%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Software Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Windows DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Software Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) DevOps Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (77.78%) WCF
3 14 (38.89%) WPF
4 10 (27.78%) .NET Framework
5 8 (22.22%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (5.56%) MFC
7 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (61.11%) DevOps
2 19 (52.78%) Migration
3 10 (27.78%) Data Analysis
4 9 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 8 (22.22%) Configuration Management
5 8 (22.22%) SDLC
6 5 (13.89%) Agile
7 2 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (5.56%) Software Engineering
7 2 (5.56%) UML
8 1 (2.78%) Change Management
8 1 (2.78%) CRM
8 1 (2.78%) Data Integration
8 1 (2.78%) Data Modelling
8 1 (2.78%) Embedded Software Development
8 1 (2.78%) OO
8 1 (2.78%) OOP
8 1 (2.78%) Strategic Planning
8 1 (2.78%) Unit Testing
8 1 (2.78%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 33 (91.67%) C#
1 33 (91.67%) SQL
2 10 (27.78%) VBA
3 9 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 9 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 9 (25.00%) VB
4 8 (22.22%) PowerShell
5 3 (8.33%) C++
5 3 (8.33%) VB.NET
6 2 (5.56%) C++/CLI
6 2 (5.56%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Oracle
2 9 (25.00%) Citrix
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 3 (8.33%) SAP