WinForms Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring WinForms skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 483 474 483
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +179
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 32 93 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.076% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.83% 1.29% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 27 60 52
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £51,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +1.45% -1.43% +0.48%
75th Percentile £63,750 £64,063 £64,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £76,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,850 7,219 7,303
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 9.18% 19.29% 23.84%
Number of salaries quoted 2,948 4,080 5,701
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing WinForms relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

WinForms job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

WinForms
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WinForms.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing WinForms

WinForms
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing WinForms in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for WinForms in the UK excluding London

WinForms
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. 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
South East +22 21 £35,000 -41.67% 4
Midlands +14 7 £55,000 +15.79% 12
East Midlands -5 5 - - 7
North West +16 2 £61,250 +75.00% 5
West Midlands +15 2 £55,000 +15.79% 5
North of England -5 2 £61,250 +44.12% 6
South West +5 1 £52,500 +5.00% 2
Wales - 1 £55,000 -
WinForms
UK

WinForms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (37.50%) IIS
2 1 (3.13%) ArcGIS
Cloud Services
1 15 (46.88%) Azure
2 13 (40.63%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (15.63%) GCP
3 5 (15.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (3.13%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (37.50%) SQL Server
1 12 (37.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (15.63%) Power BI
2 5 (15.63%) Relational Database
3 2 (6.25%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.13%) MySQL
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Banking
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Games
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 15 (46.88%) Developer
3 12 (37.50%) IT Engineer
3 12 (37.50%) IT Support
3 12 (37.50%) IT Support Engineer
3 12 (37.50%) Software Support Engineer
3 12 (37.50%) Support Engineer
4 8 (25.00%) C# Developer
5 6 (18.75%) .NET Developer
6 4 (12.50%) Software Developer
7 3 (9.38%) Blazor Developer
7 3 (9.38%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (6.25%) C# Software Developer
8 2 (6.25%) C# Software Engineer
8 2 (6.25%) Games Developer
9 1 (3.13%) .NET Software Developer
9 1 (3.13%) .NET Software Engineer
9 1 (3.13%) C Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Lead .NET Developer
9 1 (3.13%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (81.25%) .NET
2 17 (53.13%) .NET Framework
3 12 (37.50%) Entity Framework
3 12 (37.50%) WPF
4 9 (28.13%) Blazor
4 9 (28.13%) REST
5 7 (21.88%) ASP.NET
6 5 (15.63%) XML
7 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
7 3 (9.38%) React
7 3 (9.38%) Vue
8 1 (3.13%) .NET Core
8 1 (3.13%) CSS
8 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
8 1 (3.13%) HTML
8 1 (3.13%) WCF
8 1 (3.13%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.38%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (43.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (65.63%) DevOps
1 21 (65.63%) Software Engineering
2 19 (59.38%) Computer Science
3 17 (53.13%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (34.38%) SDLC
5 9 (28.13%) Agile
5 9 (28.13%) Microservices
6 8 (25.00%) AI
6 8 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 8 (25.00%) Machine Learning
7 7 (21.88%) Decision-Making
7 7 (21.88%) Mathematics
8 5 (15.63%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (15.63%) CAD
8 5 (15.63%) Data Management
9 4 (12.50%) Clean Code
9 4 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
10 2 (6.25%) Code Quality
10 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (6.25%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 29 (90.63%) C#
2 15 (46.88%) SQL
3 12 (37.50%) T-SQL
4 5 (15.63%) Delphi
5 2 (6.25%) Go
5 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.25%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.13%) C
6 1 (3.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (62.50%) Degree
2 19 (59.38%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 7 (21.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (21.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (37.50%) Sage
1 12 (37.50%) Xamarin
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft
3 5 (15.63%) Google
3 5 (15.63%) Oracle
3 5 (15.63%) Zoho