WinForms Contract Job Trends

Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WinForms skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 511 602
Rank change year-on-year -34 +91 +147
Contract jobs citing WinForms 14 62 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.16% 0.075%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 0.72% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 46 30
10th Percentile - - £356
25th Percentile £404 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £411 £600 £697
90th Percentile £515 £628 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £463 £463
% change year-on-year +4.32% - +2.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,486 8,575 11,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.73% 22.42% 22.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,975 5,593 7,918
10th Percentile £350 £350 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £795 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £470 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.00% - -4.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 181 186 176
10th Percentile £31.25 £25.60 £35.94
25th Percentile £41.25 £43.00 £46.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.34% +2.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £73.67
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.68 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year -15.38% +10.11% -5.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

WinForms
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing WinForms over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

WinForms
Top 7 Contract Job 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 17 September 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
England -10 14 £408 -22.38% 40
London -5 12 £408 -23.11% 8
UK excluding London -14 2 £483 +4.32% 33
South East +22 1 £415 +0.61% 17
Work from Home -9 1 £525 -0.94% 26
North of England -15 1 £550 - 8
North West -17 1 £550 - 3

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 (64.29%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Bus
1 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) Internet
2 1 (7.14%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (78.57%) SQL Server
2 9 (64.29%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Ant
1 1 (7.14%) Eclipse
1 1 (7.14%) IntelliJ
1 1 (7.14%) JUnit
1 1 (7.14%) NUnit
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Banking
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
2 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (71.43%) C# Developer
3 9 (64.29%) C# WCF Developer
3 9 (64.29%) C# WPF Developer
3 9 (64.29%) WCF Developer
3 9 (64.29%) WPF Developer
4 3 (21.43%) .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) .NET Applications Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Applications Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (7.14%) C# Application Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) React Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) VB.NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) .NET
2 11 (78.57%) WPF
3 9 (64.29%) .NET Framework
3 9 (64.29%) WCF
4 1 (7.14%) ADO.NET
4 1 (7.14%) Ajax
4 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
4 1 (7.14%) EJB
4 1 (7.14%) Hibernate
4 1 (7.14%) HTML
4 1 (7.14%) J2EE
4 1 (7.14%) JavaBeans
4 1 (7.14%) JDBC
4 1 (7.14%) JMS
4 1 (7.14%) JSON
4 1 (7.14%) JSP
4 1 (7.14%) JSTL
4 1 (7.14%) RESTful
4 1 (7.14%) Spring
4 1 (7.14%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 11 (78.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Data Analysis
1 10 (71.43%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science
2 2 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Change Management
3 1 (7.14%) CI/CD
3 1 (7.14%) Coaching
3 1 (7.14%) DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) Fintech
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
3 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 1 (7.14%) Microservices
3 1 (7.14%) OO
3 1 (7.14%) OOD
3 1 (7.14%) Open Source
3 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (7.14%) Secure Coding
3 1 (7.14%) SOA
3 1 (7.14%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
2 13 (92.86%) SQL
3 9 (64.29%) PL/SQL
3 9 (64.29%) T-SQL
3 9 (64.29%) VB
3 9 (64.29%) VBA
4 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (7.14%) Java
5 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
5 1 (7.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (71.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Docker
Vendors
1 11 (78.57%) Oracle
2 9 (64.29%) Citrix