WinForms Contract Job Trends

Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring WinForms skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 560 524 585
Rank change year-on-year -36 +61 +133
Contract jobs citing WinForms 19 40 33
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.053% 0.11% 0.071%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.51% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 24 23
10th Percentile - £363 £313
25th Percentile £404 £379 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.13% +15.00% -15.25%
75th Percentile £492 £613 £681
90th Percentile £515 £675 £773
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £650 £436
% change year-on-year -15.38% +49.00% -8.16%

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 8,185 7,916 10,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.82% 21.70% 22.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,431 5,001 7,327
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 114 190
10th Percentile £29.70 £22.00 £36.19
25th Percentile £42.50 £35.25 £46.18
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £55.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +13.12% -14.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £74.00 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £54.78
% change year-on-year -3.85% +18.66% -15.72%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend

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

WinForms job vacancy trend 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 21 November 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 6 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 21 November 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 -36 18 £408 -29.13% 36
London -21 17 £408 -29.13% 9
Work from Home -3 3 £513 -15.29% 20
North West -17 1 £550 - 2
UK excluding London -43 1 £550 -15.38% 27
North of England -45 1 £550 - 4

WinForms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (57.89%) IIS
Applications
1 10 (52.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (5.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) Internet
2 2 (10.53%) HTTP
3 1 (5.26%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) SQL Server
2 11 (57.89%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Git
2 1 (5.26%) Ant
2 1 (5.26%) Eclipse
2 1 (5.26%) IntelliJ
2 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.26%) JUnit
2 1 (5.26%) NUnit
General
1 6 (31.58%) Finance
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Banking
2 3 (15.79%) Financial Institution
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Developer
2 11 (57.89%) C# Developer
3 10 (52.63%) C# WCF Developer
3 10 (52.63%) C# WPF Developer
3 10 (52.63%) WCF Developer
3 10 (52.63%) WPF Developer
4 6 (31.58%) .NET Developer
5 3 (15.79%) Senior
5 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
6 2 (10.53%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (5.26%) C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Consultant
7 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
7 1 (5.26%) LDAP Consultant
7 1 (5.26%) React Developer
7 1 (5.26%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (89.47%) .NET
2 15 (78.95%) .NET Framework
2 15 (78.95%) WPF
3 10 (52.63%) WCF
4 5 (26.32%) .NET Core
4 5 (26.32%) RESTful
5 1 (5.26%) ADO.NET
5 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
5 1 (5.26%) EJB
5 1 (5.26%) Electron
5 1 (5.26%) HTML
5 1 (5.26%) J2EE
5 1 (5.26%) JSON
5 1 (5.26%) JSTL
5 1 (5.26%) Kafka
5 1 (5.26%) React
5 1 (5.26%) Redux
5 1 (5.26%) REST
5 1 (5.26%) RxJS
5 1 (5.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Credit Risk
1 4 (21.05%) Market Risk
2 3 (15.79%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.26%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Data Analysis
1 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
2 6 (31.58%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) OOP
4 4 (21.05%) Design Patterns
4 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 4 (21.05%) MVC
4 4 (21.05%) OO
4 4 (21.05%) Risk Management
4 4 (21.05%) SDLC
5 3 (15.79%) API Development
6 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
7 1 (5.26%) Agile
7 1 (5.26%) Integration Testing
7 1 (5.26%) OOD
7 1 (5.26%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 18 (94.74%) C#
2 15 (78.95%) SQL
3 11 (57.89%) PL/SQL
3 11 (57.89%) T-SQL
4 10 (52.63%) VB
4 10 (52.63%) VBA
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.26%) Java
6 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (57.89%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (57.89%) Citrix
1 11 (57.89%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft