WinForms Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Windows Forms (WinForms)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring WinForms skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 118 132
Rank change year-on-year -6 +14 +52
Contract jobs citing WinForms 1 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.055% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.24% 0.76% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £563 £543
25th Percentile - £564 £606
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £725
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% -20.00% +26.09%
75th Percentile - £609 £756
90th Percentile - £618 £768
Central London median daily rate £500 £580 £725
% change year-on-year -13.79% -20.00% +26.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of London

WinForms falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 422 529 579
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 23.03% 25.58% 23.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 321 402
10th Percentile £361 £413 £400
25th Percentile £436 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £593
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% - -1.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £710
90th Percentile £750 £825 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -6.50% +2.30% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £44.38 - -
25th Percentile £47.19 £36.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%
75th Percentile £59.69 £40.25 £48.75
90th Percentile £62.13 - -
Central London median hourly rate £53.75 £38.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +39.61% -18.95% -20.17%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing WinForms relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

WinForms job vacancy trend in the City of London

WinForms
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WinForms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WinForms

WinForms
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WinForms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing WinForms

WinForms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Financial Institution
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Development
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL