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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 651 719 839
Rank change year-on-year +68 +120 -9
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 51 189 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.18% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.53% 0.88% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 41 157 105
10th Percentile £32,500 £33,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +25.71%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £64,750 £71,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +31.25%

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 9,568 21,459 28,171
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.13% 20.70% 29.41%
Number of salaries quoted 5,873 15,949 17,957
10th Percentile £38,350 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,206 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.34% -11.11% +3.85%
75th Percentile £86,250 £78,750 £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 31 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 31 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
England +77 51 £52,500 - 42
UK excluding London +59 46 £51,500 -1.90% 32
Work from Home +35 36 £52,000 -0.95% 30
North of England +33 29 £50,890 -3.07% 13
North West +5 20 £42,500 +21.43% 6
West Midlands +32 11 £51,500 +0.49% 8
Midlands +28 11 £51,500 +8.42% 8
Yorkshire +48 9 £70,000 +33.33% 7
London +98 5 £102,500 +95.24% 12
South East +49 4 £72,500 +26.09% 4
South West +105 2 £38,750 -38.00% 3

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 14 (27.45%) Azure
2 9 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (13.73%) 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 15 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 7 (13.73%) Relational Database
3 6 (11.76%) RDBMS
4 4 (7.84%) MySQL
5 3 (5.88%) MongoDB
5 3 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 3 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (25.49%) Git
2 6 (11.76%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (9.80%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.92%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (1.96%) CMake
5 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.96%) JIRA
5 1 (1.96%) TestRail
General
1 9 (17.65%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.76%) Finance
3 4 (7.84%) Back Office
4 3 (5.88%) Advertising
4 3 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.92%) Retail
6 1 (1.96%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.96%) Games
6 1 (1.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.96%) Law
6 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (80.39%) Developer
2 18 (35.29%) .NET Developer
3 12 (23.53%) C# Developer
4 10 (19.61%) Senior
4 10 (19.61%) Software Engineer
5 9 (17.65%) WinForms Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Graduate
6 7 (13.73%) Graduate C# Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Graduate Developer
6 7 (13.73%) Software Developer
7 6 (11.76%) C# Software Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Civil Engineer
7 6 (11.76%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Graduate Software Developer
7 6 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (9.80%) .NET Software Engineer
8 5 (9.80%) C# Software Engineer
8 5 (9.80%) Senior .NET Software Engineer
9 4 (7.84%) Lead Developer
9 4 (7.84%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (72.55%) .NET
2 13 (25.49%) WPF
3 10 (19.61%) ASP.NET
3 10 (19.61%) REST
4 9 (17.65%) .NET Core
5 7 (13.73%) .NET Framework
6 6 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
6 6 (11.76%) Blazor
7 5 (9.80%) AngularJS
7 5 (9.80%) HTML
7 5 (9.80%) React
8 4 (7.84%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 4 (7.84%) WCF
8 4 (7.84%) Web Services
9 3 (5.88%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (5.88%) FIX Protocol
9 3 (5.88%) jQuery
9 3 (5.88%) JSON
9 3 (5.88%) KnockoutJS
9 3 (5.88%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.76%) Product Ownership
1 6 (11.76%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.88%) 3D Graphics
2 3 (5.88%) Cloud Native
2 3 (5.88%) EPoS
2 3 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.92%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.92%) Clustering
3 2 (3.92%) CUDA
4 1 (1.96%) Hedge funds
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.96%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (25.49%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (39.22%) Computer Science
2 19 (37.25%) Design Patterns
2 19 (37.25%) OO
3 17 (33.33%) DevOps
3 17 (33.33%) OOP
4 16 (31.37%) Software Engineering
5 12 (23.53%) Agile
5 12 (23.53%) Microservices
6 11 (21.57%) TDD
7 10 (19.61%) API Development
7 10 (19.61%) Code Quality
7 10 (19.61%) Problem-Solving
7 10 (19.61%) Web Development
8 9 (17.65%) Clean Code
8 9 (17.65%) E-Commerce
8 9 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 7 (13.73%) CI/CD
9 7 (13.73%) MVC
10 6 (11.76%) Line Management
10 6 (11.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 51 (100.00%) C#
2 24 (47.06%) SQL
3 7 (13.73%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.80%) TypeScript
5 4 (7.84%) C++
5 4 (7.84%) PowerShell
5 4 (7.84%) VB.NET
6 3 (5.88%) Delphi
7 2 (3.92%) C
7 2 (3.92%) Fortran
8 1 (1.96%) Bash
8 1 (1.96%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 22 (43.14%) Degree
2 19 (37.25%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.92%) PhD
System Software
1 1 (1.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.96%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.88%) Borland
2 3 (5.88%) Oracle