Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for WinForms skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited WinForms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 714 828 837
Rank change year-on-year +114 +9 -96
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 182 142 413
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 0.45% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 154 111 192
10th Percentile £34,125 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £61,250 £61,563
90th Percentile £64,750 £66,250 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,750 £40,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +26.88% -9.09%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

WinForms is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,974 31,729 61,916
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.39% 30.32% 40.17%
Number of salaries quoted 15,673 19,469 30,328
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,117 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £79,600 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing WinForms as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing WinForms.

Salary trend for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing WinForms over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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
UK excluding London +83 166 £52,500 +3.45% 39
England +122 137 £52,500 - 38
Work from Home +120 115 £52,500 -4.55% 36
Midlands +42 45 £47,500 +5.56% 12
South East +45 35 £55,000 +5.77% 7
North of England +43 31 £52,500 +5.00% 12
West Midlands +52 30 £52,500 +23.53% 8
Wales +36 24 £50,000 - 4
North West +6 16 £42,500 -26.09% 2
Yorkshire +91 15 £52,500 +16.67% 10
East Midlands -6 15 £37,500 -21.05% 4
Scotland -52 14 £61,500 +20.00% 2
London +108 9 £50,000 -8.72% 5
East of England +9 9 £42,500 -20.93%
South West 0 8 £62,500 +13.64% 2

WinForms
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.65%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.10%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.10%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.10%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 46 (25.27%) Azure
2 27 (14.84%) AWS
3 15 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.14%) Power Platform
5 12 (6.59%) Azure Service Bus
6 7 (3.85%) Azure API Management
6 7 (3.85%) Azure Event Grid
6 7 (3.85%) Azure Functions
6 7 (3.85%) Serverless
7 5 (2.75%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.10%) Figma
8 2 (1.10%) GCP
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.89%) TCP/IP
2 13 (7.14%) Modbus
3 4 (2.20%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.20%) RS-232
4 3 (1.65%) Bluetooth
4 3 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 85 (46.70%) SQL Server
2 24 (13.19%) Elasticsearch
3 20 (10.99%) MongoDB
4 12 (6.59%) Oracle Database
4 12 (6.59%) Power BI
5 10 (5.49%) Relational Database
6 7 (3.85%) MySQL
6 7 (3.85%) SQLite
7 6 (3.30%) Crystal Reports
8 4 (2.20%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (24.18%) Visual Studio
2 26 (14.29%) Git
3 24 (13.19%) JIRA
4 19 (10.44%) Team Foundation Server
5 13 (7.14%) GitLab
5 13 (7.14%) NUnit
6 12 (6.59%) Jenkins
7 7 (3.85%) CMake
7 7 (3.85%) TestRail
8 4 (2.20%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (2.20%) Subversion
9 2 (1.10%) Android Studio
9 2 (1.10%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
General
1 28 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.14%) Finance
3 12 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (4.40%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.75%) Automotive
6 4 (2.20%) Games
7 3 (1.65%) Banking
7 3 (1.65%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.65%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.10%) Retail
9 1 (0.55%) Electronics
9 1 (0.55%) Legal
9 1 (0.55%) Military
9 1 (0.55%) Police
9 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 118 (64.84%) Developer
2 57 (31.32%) .NET Developer
3 56 (30.77%) C# Developer
4 50 (27.47%) Software Engineer
5 48 (26.37%) Senior
6 31 (17.03%) C# .NET Developer
7 30 (16.48%) Senior Software Engineer
8 27 (14.84%) Software Developer
9 14 (7.69%) Applications Developer
10 12 (6.59%) .NET Applications Developer
10 12 (6.59%) C# Application Developer
10 12 (6.59%) Full Stack Developer
10 12 (6.59%) Full-Stack C# Developer
10 12 (6.59%) Senior Developer
11 11 (6.04%) Applications Engineer
12 9 (4.95%) C# Software Engineer
12 9 (4.95%) WinForms Developer
13 8 (4.40%) Lead
13 8 (4.40%) Lead C# Developer
13 8 (4.40%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (76.37%) .NET
2 102 (56.04%) WPF
3 67 (36.81%) .NET Framework
4 65 (35.71%) ASP.NET
5 46 (25.27%) HTML
6 39 (21.43%) .NET Core
7 35 (19.23%) Entity Framework
8 34 (18.68%) ASP.NET Web API
9 33 (18.13%) ASP.NET MVC
10 31 (17.03%) Web Services
11 29 (15.93%) AngularJS
12 28 (15.38%) LINQ
13 27 (14.84%) Node.js
14 26 (14.29%) React
15 24 (13.19%) Vue
16 22 (12.09%) WCF
17 16 (8.79%) CSS
18 13 (7.14%) RESTful
19 11 (6.04%) Blazor
20 10 (5.49%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.59%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (3.85%) CUDA
2 7 (3.85%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.65%) Tandem
5 2 (1.10%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.10%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (0.55%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.55%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 48 (26.37%) Windows
2 11 (6.04%) Android
3 9 (4.95%) Linux
4 5 (2.75%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (1.65%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 73 (40.11%) Agile
2 70 (38.46%) Software Engineering
3 49 (26.92%) MVC
4 40 (21.98%) Full Stack Development
5 37 (20.33%) TDD
6 30 (16.48%) Scrum
7 29 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
8 27 (14.84%) Microservices
9 26 (14.29%) Computer Science
10 21 (11.54%) MVVM
11 20 (10.99%) BDD
11 20 (10.99%) Business Intelligence
11 20 (10.99%) Kanban
11 20 (10.99%) SDLC
11 20 (10.99%) Web Application Development
12 17 (9.34%) DevOps
12 17 (9.34%) Multithreading
12 17 (9.34%) Web Development
13 16 (8.79%) UML
14 15 (8.24%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 179 (98.35%) C#
2 77 (42.31%) SQL
3 49 (26.92%) JavaScript
4 37 (20.33%) C++
5 22 (12.09%) C
5 22 (12.09%) TypeScript
6 18 (9.89%) VB.NET
7 17 (9.34%) Java
8 12 (6.59%) Delphi
8 12 (6.59%) T-SQL
9 10 (5.49%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.85%) Bash
10 7 (3.85%) C-shell
10 7 (3.85%) Fortran
10 7 (3.85%) XAML
11 6 (3.30%) VB
12 2 (1.10%) PHP
13 1 (0.55%) F#
13 1 (0.55%) VB6
13 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 32 (17.58%) Degree
2 17 (9.34%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.85%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.20%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.65%) MCSD
5 3 (1.65%) PhD
6 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.75%) QA
2 4 (2.20%) PMO
3 1 (0.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (8.79%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 9 (4.95%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 56 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.14%) Oracle
2 13 (7.14%) Xamarin
3 8 (4.40%) DevExpress
4 2 (1.10%) Adobe
5 1 (0.55%) Axosoft
5 1 (0.55%) SAP
5 1 (0.55%) SYSPRO
5 1 (0.55%) Telerik