WinForms Job Trends in the North West

Windows Forms (WinForms)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring WinForms skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 199 188
Rank change year-on-year +25 -11 +104
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 2 11 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.032% 0.22% 0.16%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.38% 1.26% 0.62%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 6
10th Percentile £52,125 - -
25th Percentile £55,313 £32,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,250 £35,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -32.69% -9.57%
75th Percentile £67,813 £48,074 £62,688
90th Percentile £71,375 £52,500 £68,125
England median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 525 870 1,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 8.33% 17.24% 24.93%
Number of salaries quoted 451 542 906
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £36,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,063 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,000 £59,013
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.41% +2.63%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £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 West

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

WinForms job vacancy trend in the North West

WinForms
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WinForms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing WinForms

WinForms
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing WinForms in the North West over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for WinForms in the North West

WinForms
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the North West region over the 6 months to 12 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
Manchester +21 2 £61,250 +22.50% 3
WinForms
England

WinForms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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