WinForms Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 302 336 465
Rank change year-on-year +34 +129 +121
Contract jobs citing WinForms 2 9 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.059% 0.046%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.078% 0.25% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 12
10th Percentile £446 £374 -
25th Percentile £469 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £538 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +26.47% -5.56%
75th Percentile £564 £555 £483
90th Percentile £591 £575 £616
UK median daily rate £399 £550 £465
% change year-on-year -27.50% +18.28% -7.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,564 3,665 6,520
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.89% 23.88% 25.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,870 2,555 4,857
10th Percentile £365 £331 £395
25th Percentile £425 £428 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -0.46%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £825 £775 £753
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 93 80
10th Percentile £52.50 £28.00 £22.50
25th Percentile £61.25 - £42.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £43.00 £63.25
Median % change year-on-year +51.16% -32.02% +29.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 £62.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £93.75 £72.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

WinForms
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing WinForms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

WinForms trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

WinForms
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WinForms.

WinForms daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

WinForms
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

WinForms daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

WinForms
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing WinForms.

WinForms hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

WinForms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Informix
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) French Language
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) German Language
1 1 (50.00%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Senior .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) OAuth
2 1 (50.00%) OpenID
2 1 (50.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) SignalR
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) CQRS
2 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Telerik