WinForms Job Trends in the South West

Windows Forms (WinForms)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring WinForms skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 181 212
Rank change year-on-year -3 +31 +66
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 1 12 3
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.020% 0.28% 0.069%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.21% 1.47% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 1 7 3
10th Percentile - - £34,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £47,500 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +25.00% -25.23%
75th Percentile £53,750 £54,375 £45,000
90th Percentile - £56,750 -
England median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
South 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 467 815 1,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 9.31% 18.89% 26.26%
Number of salaries quoted 356 473 935
10th Percentile £33,250 £41,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +4.77%
75th Percentile £66,250 £76,250 £72,433
90th Percentile £79,625 £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 South West

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

WinForms job vacancy trend in the South West

WinForms
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing WinForms

WinForms
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the South West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Gloucestershire +16 1 £52,500 +5.00%
WinForms
England

WinForms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Blazor
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft