WinForms Contract Job Trends in the North West

Windows Forms (WinForms)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring WinForms skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 118 135
Rank change year-on-year -22 +17 +34
Contract jobs citing WinForms 1 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.041% 0.14% 0.076%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.85% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £409
25th Percentile - - £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £436
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.90%
75th Percentile - - £465
90th Percentile - - £475
England median daily rate £408 £575 £469
% change year-on-year -29.13% +22.67% -33.04%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 510 354 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 20.76% 16.33% 21.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 228 450
10th Percentile £325 £354 £367
25th Percentile £380 £402 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £550 £550 £619
90th Percentile £664 £638 £675
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 6 31
10th Percentile £50.25 £41.09 £45.88
25th Percentile £53.44 £46.18 -
Median hourly rate £62.75 £55.84 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% +20.92% +3.36%
75th Percentile £74.26 £65.75 £64.38
90th Percentile £74.98 £76.63 £73.75
England median hourly rate £61.00 £65.00 £51.89
% change year-on-year -6.15% +25.26% -20.17%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

WinForms job vacancy trend in the North West

WinForms
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WinForms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WinForms

WinForms
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WinForms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WinForms

WinForms
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Manchester - 1 £550 - 1
WinForms
England

WinForms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Ant
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) EJB
1 1 (100.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JavaBeans
1 1 (100.00%) JDBC
1 1 (100.00%) JMS
1 1 (100.00%) JSP
1 1 (100.00%) JSTL
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Struts
1 1 (100.00%) Swing
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOD
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree