WinForms Contracts in England

Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring WinForms skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited WinForms over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 507 632
Rank change year-on-year +39 +125 +50
Contract jobs citing WinForms 17 35 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.070% 0.094% 0.042%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.31% 0.47% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 30 18
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile £385 £363 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -29.09% +14.58% -28.89%
75th Percentile £423 £625 £619
90th Percentile £480 - £764
UK median daily rate £399 £550 £465
% change year-on-year -27.50% +18.28% -7.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for WinForms in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for WinForms in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WinForms in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WinForms in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for WinForms in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +24 15 £390 -32.17% 9
South East +46 2 £458 +10.91% 7
WinForms
UK

WinForms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 11 (64.71%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) Internet
2 1 (5.88%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) HTTP
2 1 (5.88%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (64.71%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.88%) Redis
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Git
2 2 (11.76%) GitLab
2 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 1 (5.88%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (17.65%) Banking
1 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Developer
2 14 (82.35%) C# Developer
3 11 (64.71%) C# WCF Developer
3 11 (64.71%) C# WPF Developer
3 11 (64.71%) WCF Developer
3 11 (64.71%) WPF Developer
4 5 (29.41%) .NET Developer
5 3 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (11.76%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (11.76%) VB Software Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (5.88%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.88%) C# Application Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (5.88%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.88%) VB Developer
7 1 (5.88%) VB.NET Developer
7 1 (5.88%) VB6 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (82.35%) .NET Framework
2 14 (82.35%) WPF
3 13 (76.47%) WCF
4 3 (17.65%) .NET Core
4 3 (17.65%) Entity Framework
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 2 (11.76%) Dapper ORM
5 2 (11.76%) React
5 2 (11.76%) REST
6 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web Forms
6 1 (5.88%) CSS
6 1 (5.88%) HTML
6 1 (5.88%) Kafka
6 1 (5.88%) Node.js
6 1 (5.88%) OAuth
6 1 (5.88%) OpenID
6 1 (5.88%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (5.88%) RESTful
6 1 (5.88%) SignalR
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Data Analysis
1 12 (70.59%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (23.53%) Unit Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Agile
3 2 (11.76%) Backlog Management
3 2 (11.76%) Code Quality
3 2 (11.76%) Software Engineering
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.88%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.88%) CI/CD
4 1 (5.88%) Creative Thinking
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps
4 1 (5.88%) Front End Development
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (5.88%) MVC
4 1 (5.88%) Performance Engineering
4 1 (5.88%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (5.88%) Secure Coding
4 1 (5.88%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C#
2 14 (82.35%) SQL
3 13 (76.47%) VB
4 11 (64.71%) PL/SQL
4 11 (64.71%) T-SQL
4 11 (64.71%) VBA
5 2 (11.76%) VB6
6 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.88%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (82.35%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Docker
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) Oracle
2 11 (64.71%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft