WinForms Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WinForms skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 337 398
Rank change year-on-year -82 +61 +58
Contract jobs citing WinForms 5 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.045% 0.014%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.13% 0.24% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £406 £505 £401
25th Percentile £442 £550 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £650 £410
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +58.54% -13.68%
75th Percentile £500 £675 £458
90th Percentile - - £483
UK median daily rate £408 £390 £600
% change year-on-year +4.49% -35.00% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,735 2,501 3,444
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.03% 18.85% 16.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,516 1,630 2,259
10th Percentile £350 £350 £324
25th Percentile £412 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.44%
75th Percentile £580 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -1.95% -1.69% -6.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 62 184
10th Percentile £41.32 £26.28 £20.95
25th Percentile £55.00 £61.25 £43.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.72
Median % change year-on-year - +33.42% -25.05%
75th Percentile £74.06 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £80.76 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.72
% change year-on-year +4.00% +28.28% -25.05%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

WinForms job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WinForms
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WinForms.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WinForms

WinForms
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WinForms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for WinForms in the UK excluding London

WinForms
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WinForms.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WinForms

WinForms
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 March 2026. 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
South East -33 3 £500 - 8
Scotland - 1 £388 - 1
East of England - 1 - - 2
WinForms
UK

WinForms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (60.00%) Git
3 1 (20.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 2 (40.00%) WPF
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analytics
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Verification and Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C++
2 3 (60.00%) C
3 2 (40.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP