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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 640 757
Rank change year-on-year +116 +117 -102
Contract jobs citing WinForms 48 37 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.068% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.55% 0.30% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 31 67
10th Percentile - £363 £376
25th Percentile £363 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -6.98% +16.22%
75th Percentile £604 £694 £713
90th Percentile £625 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £463 £450
% change year-on-year -2.70% +2.78% +5.88%

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 8,687 12,195 23,976
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.63% 22.44% 26.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,934 8,797 17,534
10th Percentile £350 £375 £405
25th Percentile £428 £456 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £664 £675 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +13.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 155 224
10th Percentile £22.70 £32.45 £20.78
25th Percentile £43.00 £46.22 £35.07
Median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £67.36
90th Percentile £74.44 £78.75 £75.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.30 £58.59 £57.18
% change year-on-year -0.49% +2.47% +36.14%

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 26 July 2024.

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 11 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 26 July 2024. 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 +90 42 £530 -8.62% 23
London +102 36 £543 -16.54% 3
Work from Home +112 13 £530 +11.58% 11
UK excluding London +39 10 £450 -2.70% 22
Scotland +46 4 £475 - 2
South East +28 2 £413 - 8
East of England +13 2 £550 -8.33%
North of England +22 1 - - 3
Midlands +16 1 £325 -13.33% 3
West Midlands +15 1 £325 -13.33% 1
North East - 1 - -

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 17 (35.42%) IIS
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 16 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.92%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.08%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.08%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 15 (31.25%) Internet
2 1 (2.08%) MQTT
2 1 (2.08%) Reverse Proxy
2 1 (2.08%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (54.17%) SQL Server
2 16 (33.33%) Oracle Database
3 8 (16.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.08%) Informix
4 1 (2.08%) MS Access
4 1 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (2.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.08%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 14 (29.17%) TeamCity
2 11 (22.92%) Git
3 7 (14.58%) Visual Studio
4 3 (6.25%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.08%) Appium
5 1 (2.08%) JIRA
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.08%) Selenium
5 1 (2.08%) SoapUI
5 1 (2.08%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.08%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 7 (14.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.25%) Banking
2 3 (6.25%) Front Office
3 2 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (2.08%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.08%) French Language
4 1 (2.08%) German Language
4 1 (2.08%) Local Government
4 1 (2.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 25 (52.08%) Developer
2 20 (41.67%) C# Developer
3 16 (33.33%) WPF Developer
4 15 (31.25%) C# WCF Developer
4 15 (31.25%) C# WPF Developer
4 15 (31.25%) DevOps Engineer
4 15 (31.25%) WCF Developer
5 7 (14.58%) .NET Developer
6 5 (10.42%) Test Automation Engineer
6 5 (10.42%) Test Engineer
7 4 (8.33%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior
8 3 (6.25%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior C# .NET Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior C# Developer
8 3 (6.25%) Senior Developer
8 3 (6.25%) WinForms Developer
9 2 (4.17%) C++ Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Software Engineer
9 2 (4.17%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (97.92%) .NET
2 33 (68.75%) WCF
3 30 (62.50%) WPF
4 21 (43.75%) .NET Framework
5 7 (14.58%) RabbitMQ
6 6 (12.50%) REST
7 5 (10.42%) Playwright
7 5 (10.42%) SOAP
8 3 (6.25%) .NET Core
8 3 (6.25%) Entity Framework
8 3 (6.25%) Kafka
8 3 (6.25%) SignalR
9 2 (4.17%) ASP.NET
9 2 (4.17%) MFC
10 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Core
10 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET Web API
10 1 (2.08%) KnockoutJS
10 1 (2.08%) Swagger
10 1 (2.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
10 1 (2.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.42%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (60.42%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.08%) Android
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (47.92%) DevOps
2 17 (35.42%) Data Analysis
3 16 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 15 (31.25%) Agile
5 14 (29.17%) Migration
6 8 (16.67%) Configuration Management
6 8 (16.67%) SDLC
7 5 (10.42%) API Testing
7 5 (10.42%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (10.42%) Full Stack Development
7 5 (10.42%) Test Automation
7 5 (10.42%) Test Scripting
8 3 (6.25%) Scrum
9 2 (4.17%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (4.17%) MVC
9 2 (4.17%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (4.17%) Software Engineering
9 2 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (4.17%) UML
9 2 (4.17%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 46 (95.83%) C#
2 41 (85.42%) SQL
3 21 (43.75%) VB
4 18 (37.50%) T-SQL
5 17 (35.42%) PL/SQL
5 17 (35.42%) VBA
6 5 (10.42%) VB6
7 4 (8.33%) C++
8 3 (6.25%) PowerShell
9 2 (4.17%) C++/CLI
9 2 (4.17%) Python
10 1 (2.08%) VB.NET
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (43.75%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.25%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 25 (52.08%) Oracle
2 16 (33.33%) Citrix
3 8 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.42%) Infragistics
5 3 (6.25%) Salesforce
5 3 (6.25%) SAP
6 1 (2.08%) Telerik
6 1 (2.08%) Xamarin