WinForms Job Trends in the North of England

Windows Forms (WinForms)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring WinForms skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 257 261 275
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +119
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 2 18 16
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.019% 0.20% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.19% 1.15% 0.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2 17 15
10th Percentile £52,125 - £49,250
25th Percentile £55,313 £32,500 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £47,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.95% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,813 £53,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £71,375 £59,750 £65,750
England median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

WinForms falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,075 1,559 2,083
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 10.11% 17.09% 24.38%
Number of salaries quoted 883 923 1,698
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £39,125 £43,750 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,433
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WinForms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

WinForms job vacancy trend in the North of England

WinForms
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing WinForms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing WinForms

WinForms
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing WinForms in the North of England over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WinForms in the North of England

WinForms
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the North of England region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West +16 2 £61,250 +75.00% 3
WinForms
England

WinForms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Games Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) WPF
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Clean Code
2 1 (50.00%) API Design
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Low Latency
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript