WinForms Contracts

Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 502 545 680
Rank change year-on-year +43 +135 +42
Contract jobs citing WinForms 18 37 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.085% 0.064%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.27% 0.41% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 32 35
10th Percentile - - £391
25th Percentile £385 £363 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £550 £465
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +18.28% -7.00%
75th Percentile £428 £625 £500
90th Percentile £473 - £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £458 £400 £475
% change year-on-year +14.38% -15.79% +2.70%

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 6,644 8,946 13,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 22.70% 20.54% 23.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,558 6,207 10,141
10th Percentile £363 £338 £400
25th Percentile £425 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £780 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 233 153
10th Percentile £27.14 £21.25 £31.60
25th Percentile £48.25 £40.00 £48.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.75 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.87 £74.89 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £47.50 £64.00
% change year-on-year +36.84% -25.78% +30.61%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Top 5 Contract 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 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
England +39 17 £390 -29.09% 37
London +24 15 £390 -32.17% 10
UK excluding London +59 2 £458 +14.38% 30
South East +46 2 £458 +10.91% 8
Work from Home +34 2 £514 -4.42% 24

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 11 (61.11%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 11 (61.11%) Internet
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
2 1 (5.56%) HTTP
2 1 (5.56%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (94.44%) SQL Server
2 11 (61.11%) Oracle Database
3 1 (5.56%) Informix
3 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (5.56%) Redis
Development Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 2 (11.11%) GitLab
3 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 3 (16.67%) Banking
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) French Language
3 1 (5.56%) Front Office
3 1 (5.56%) German Language
3 1 (5.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 17 (94.44%) Developer
2 14 (77.78%) C# Developer
3 11 (61.11%) C# WCF Developer
3 11 (61.11%) C# WPF Developer
3 11 (61.11%) WCF Developer
3 11 (61.11%) WPF Developer
4 6 (33.33%) .NET Developer
5 3 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (11.11%) C# Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) Software Engineer
6 2 (11.11%) VB Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) .NET Applications Developer
7 1 (5.56%) .NET Software Engineer
7 1 (5.56%) Applications Developer
7 1 (5.56%) C# Application Developer
7 1 (5.56%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior C# .NET Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (5.56%) Senior Developer
7 1 (5.56%) VB6 Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (100.00%) .NET
2 15 (83.33%) .NET Framework
3 14 (77.78%) WPF
4 13 (72.22%) WCF
5 3 (16.67%) .NET Core
5 3 (16.67%) Entity Framework
6 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
6 2 (11.11%) Dapper ORM
6 2 (11.11%) React
6 2 (11.11%) REST
6 2 (11.11%) RESTful
7 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (5.56%) CSS
7 1 (5.56%) HTML
7 1 (5.56%) Node.js
7 1 (5.56%) OAuth
7 1 (5.56%) OpenID
7 1 (5.56%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (5.56%) SignalR
7 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 13 (72.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (66.67%) Data Analysis
1 12 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (22.22%) Unit Testing
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (11.11%) Backlog Management
4 2 (11.11%) Code Quality
4 2 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.56%) Asset Management
5 1 (5.56%) CI/CD
5 1 (5.56%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) CQRS
5 1 (5.56%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps
5 1 (5.56%) Front End Development
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.56%) Secure Coding
5 1 (5.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 18 (100.00%) C#
2 15 (83.33%) SQL
3 13 (72.22%) VB
4 12 (66.67%) T-SQL
5 11 (61.11%) PL/SQL
5 11 (61.11%) VBA
6 2 (11.11%) VB6
7 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.56%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (77.78%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
Vendors
1 13 (72.22%) Oracle
2 11 (61.11%) Citrix
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.56%) Telerik