WinForms Jobs

Windows Forms (WinForms)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies requiring WinForms skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited WinForms over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 641 713 848
Rank change year-on-year +72 +135 -35
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 51 183 141
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.098% 0.19% 0.14%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.60% 0.87% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 40 154 110
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,125 £36,250
25th Percentile £40,465 £41,563 £42,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,195 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,938 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £64,750 £66,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,890 £52,500 £51,500
% change year-on-year -3.07% +1.94% +28.75%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,460 21,099 31,393
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 16.26% 21.42% 30.21%
Number of salaries quoted 6,443 15,769 19,367
10th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £41,117
25th Percentile £51,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -11.11% +8.00%
75th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £100,000 £106,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% +4.55%

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 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for WinForms in the UK

WinForms
Top 11 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 1 May 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
UK excluding London +90 47 £50,890 -3.07% 28
England +84 47 £52,000 -0.95% 35
Work from Home +110 31 £50,000 -4.76% 24
North of England +79 25 £49,195 -6.30% 14
North West +34 18 £35,000 -17.65% 7
Midlands +49 11 £51,500 +5.64% 7
West Midlands +31 11 £51,500 -1.90% 7
South East +82 8 £70,000 +27.27% 7
Yorkshire +68 7 £52,500 - 6
Scotland +121 3 £50,000 -18.70%
London +103 3 £125,000 +143.90% 10

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:

Applications
1 7 (13.73%) Revit
2 1 (1.96%) AutoCAD
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.53%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.84%) SaaS
4 3 (5.88%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.92%) AWS
6 1 (1.96%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.88%) MySQL
2 3 (5.88%) RDBMS
2 3 (5.88%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (3.92%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (19.61%) Git
2 7 (13.73%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (7.84%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.92%) CMake
4 2 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.92%) JIRA
4 2 (3.92%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (3.92%) TestRail
General
1 11 (21.57%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Finance
3 3 (5.88%) Advertising
3 3 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.88%) Back Office
3 3 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.92%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.92%) Retail
5 1 (1.96%) Law
Job Titles
1 37 (72.55%) Developer
2 14 (27.45%) .NET Developer
3 13 (25.49%) Software Engineer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior
5 9 (17.65%) C# Developer
5 9 (17.65%) Software Developer
5 9 (17.65%) WinForms Developer
6 6 (11.76%) C# Software Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Civil Engineer
6 6 (11.76%) Graduate
6 6 (11.76%) Graduate C# Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Graduate Developer
6 6 (11.76%) Graduate Software Developer
7 5 (9.80%) C# Software Engineer
7 5 (9.80%) Senior Software Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
8 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
9 3 (5.88%) Delphi Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (68.63%) .NET
2 17 (33.33%) WPF
3 10 (19.61%) .NET Core
4 6 (11.76%) .NET Framework
4 6 (11.76%) ASP.NET
4 6 (11.76%) REST
5 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
5 5 (9.80%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 5 (9.80%) OpenGL
5 5 (9.80%) Vulkan
6 4 (7.84%) Blazor
6 4 (7.84%) HTML
6 4 (7.84%) Qt
7 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
7 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
7 3 (5.88%) JSON
7 3 (5.88%) React
7 3 (5.88%) WCF
8 2 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
8 2 (3.92%) VTK
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.80%) 3D Graphics
2 5 (9.80%) CUDA
3 3 (5.88%) EPoS
3 3 (5.88%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
4 2 (3.92%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.92%) Clustering
4 2 (3.92%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 7 (13.73%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (41.18%) Computer Science
2 18 (35.29%) Software Engineering
3 15 (29.41%) Design Patterns
3 15 (29.41%) DevOps
3 15 (29.41%) OO
4 13 (25.49%) Agile
4 13 (25.49%) OOP
5 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (19.61%) Code Quality
7 9 (17.65%) E-Commerce
7 9 (17.65%) Mentoring
8 8 (15.69%) API Development
8 8 (15.69%) CI/CD
8 8 (15.69%) Clean Code
8 8 (15.69%) Mathematics
8 8 (15.69%) Microservices
9 7 (13.73%) Artificial Intelligence
9 7 (13.73%) Machine Learning
9 7 (13.73%) TDD
10 6 (11.76%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 50 (98.04%) C#
2 19 (37.25%) SQL
3 9 (17.65%) C++
4 6 (11.76%) C
4 6 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 5 (9.80%) Fortran
5 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
6 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
7 3 (5.88%) Delphi
7 3 (5.88%) VB.NET
8 2 (3.92%) Bash
8 2 (3.92%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 24 (47.06%) Degree
2 18 (35.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (9.80%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.92%) PhD
5 1 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.96%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Borland
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle