WinForms Job Trends in the West Midlands

Windows Forms (WinForms)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 178 181 169
Rank change year-on-year +3 -12 +114
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 2 17 6
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.038% 0.39% 0.18%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.49% 2.41% 1.02%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 6
10th Percentile - £43,625 £41,875
25th Percentile - £43,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile - £55,250 £47,500
90th Percentile - £58,125 £53,125
England median annual salary £51,250 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 412 705 588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 7.83% 16.26% 17.59%
Number of salaries quoted 358 382 527
10th Percentile £30,000 £37,575 £36,250
25th Percentile £41,185 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +7.48% -2.73%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,188 £67,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £77,500
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -3.70%

WinForms
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

WinForms job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

WinForms
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing WinForms

WinForms
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the West Midlands 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
Staffordshire -15 2 £55,000 +15.79% 1
WinForms
England

WinForms
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Go