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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 698 840 822
Rank change year-on-year +142 -18 -54
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 183 132 434
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.13% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.87% 0.43% 0.67%
Number of salaries quoted 154 105 194
10th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +22.22% -
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,750 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +31.25% -5.88%

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 21,024 30,475 64,608
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.23% 30.11% 40.68%
Number of salaries quoted 15,725 18,827 30,056
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £63,550
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +6.22% +15.55%
75th Percentile £78,750 £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 13 May 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 13 May 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 +70 166 £52,500 - 46
England +124 138 £52,500 - 50
Work from Home +119 118 £52,500 -6.67% 50
Midlands +32 44 £48,750 +8.33% 15
North of England +47 34 £52,500 - 17
South East +29 32 £57,500 +9.52% 7
West Midlands +43 31 £52,500 +23.53% 10
Wales - 25 £50,000 - 3
Yorkshire +86 17 £52,500 +23.53% 15
North West -2 17 £35,000 -39.13% 2
Scotland -43 14 £61,500 +20.00% 1
East Midlands +1 13 £37,500 -26.83% 5
London +90 11 £52,500 -4.55% 10
East of England +15 9 £42,500 -20.93%
South West -15 8 £62,500 +13.64% 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.64%) Confluence
2 1 (0.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.09%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.09%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.09%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (26.78%) Azure
2 28 (15.30%) AWS
3 17 (9.29%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (7.10%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (6.01%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.83%) Azure API Management
6 7 (3.83%) Azure Event Grid
6 7 (3.83%) Azure Functions
6 7 (3.83%) Serverless
7 4 (2.19%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.09%) Figma
8 2 (1.09%) GCP
9 1 (0.55%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.55%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.55%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 18 (9.84%) TCP/IP
2 13 (7.10%) Modbus
3 4 (2.19%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.19%) RS-232
4 3 (1.64%) Bluetooth
4 3 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (44.26%) SQL Server
2 26 (14.21%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (11.48%) MongoDB
4 11 (6.01%) Relational Database
5 10 (5.46%) Oracle Database
5 10 (5.46%) Power BI
6 7 (3.83%) MySQL
6 7 (3.83%) SQLite
7 6 (3.28%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (2.73%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (22.40%) Visual Studio
2 27 (14.75%) Git
3 23 (12.57%) JIRA
4 17 (9.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 13 (7.10%) GitLab
6 12 (6.56%) Jenkins
6 12 (6.56%) NUnit
7 7 (3.83%) CMake
7 7 (3.83%) TestRail
8 5 (2.73%) Octopus Deploy
9 4 (2.19%) Subversion
10 2 (1.09%) Android Studio
11 1 (0.55%) Balsamiq
11 1 (0.55%) Bitbucket
11 1 (0.55%) TeamCity
General
1 27 (14.75%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.10%) Finance
3 12 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (6.56%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (3.83%) Manufacturing
5 5 (2.73%) Automotive
6 4 (2.19%) Games
7 3 (1.64%) Banking
7 3 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.64%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.09%) Advertising
8 2 (1.09%) Back Office
8 2 (1.09%) Retail
9 1 (0.55%) Military
9 1 (0.55%) Police
9 1 (0.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 118 (64.48%) Developer
2 56 (30.60%) .NET Developer
3 54 (29.51%) C# Developer
4 52 (28.42%) Software Engineer
5 49 (26.78%) Senior
6 31 (16.94%) Senior Software Engineer
7 29 (15.85%) C# .NET Developer
8 28 (15.30%) Software Developer
9 14 (7.65%) Senior Developer
10 13 (7.10%) Applications Developer
11 12 (6.56%) Applications Engineer
12 11 (6.01%) .NET Applications Developer
12 11 (6.01%) C# Application Developer
12 11 (6.01%) C# Software Engineer
13 10 (5.46%) Full Stack Developer
13 10 (5.46%) Full-Stack C# Developer
13 10 (5.46%) WinForms Developer
14 8 (4.37%) C# Software Developer
15 7 (3.83%) Desktop Engineer
15 7 (3.83%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (75.41%) .NET
2 101 (55.19%) WPF
3 68 (37.16%) .NET Framework
4 64 (34.97%) ASP.NET
5 46 (25.14%) HTML
6 40 (21.86%) .NET Core
7 36 (19.67%) Entity Framework
8 35 (19.13%) ASP.NET MVC
9 34 (18.58%) ASP.NET Web API
10 31 (16.94%) Web Services
11 29 (15.85%) AngularJS
11 29 (15.85%) Node.js
11 29 (15.85%) React
12 25 (13.66%) LINQ
12 25 (13.66%) Vue
13 23 (12.57%) WCF
14 16 (8.74%) CSS
15 13 (7.10%) RESTful
16 10 (5.46%) Blazor
16 10 (5.46%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.46%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (3.83%) CUDA
2 7 (3.83%) Mobile App
3 4 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.64%) Tandem
5 2 (1.09%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.09%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.09%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.09%) Derivative
5 2 (1.09%) Mobile Computing
6 1 (0.55%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.55%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (0.55%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 49 (26.78%) Windows
2 11 (6.01%) Android
3 8 (4.37%) Linux
4 5 (2.73%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (1.64%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (39.34%) Agile
1 72 (39.34%) Software Engineering
2 49 (26.78%) MVC
3 39 (21.31%) Full Stack Development
4 38 (20.77%) TDD
5 31 (16.94%) Microservices
5 31 (16.94%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (16.39%) Scrum
7 27 (14.75%) Computer Science
8 22 (12.02%) MVVM
9 21 (11.48%) BDD
9 21 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
9 21 (11.48%) Kanban
9 21 (11.48%) SDLC
9 21 (11.48%) Web Application Development
10 18 (9.84%) DevOps
11 17 (9.29%) Multithreading
11 17 (9.29%) OOP
12 15 (8.20%) Mathematics
12 15 (8.20%) OO
Programming Languages
1 180 (98.36%) C#
2 77 (42.08%) SQL
3 49 (26.78%) JavaScript
4 36 (19.67%) C++
5 23 (12.57%) TypeScript
6 22 (12.02%) C
7 18 (9.84%) VB.NET
8 17 (9.29%) Java
9 12 (6.56%) PowerShell
10 11 (6.01%) T-SQL
11 10 (5.46%) Delphi
12 7 (3.83%) Bash
12 7 (3.83%) C-shell
12 7 (3.83%) Fortran
12 7 (3.83%) XAML
13 5 (2.73%) VB
14 2 (1.09%) PHP
15 1 (0.55%) F#
15 1 (0.55%) R
15 1 (0.55%) VBA
Qualifications
1 33 (18.03%) Degree
2 18 (9.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.83%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.19%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.64%) MCSD
5 3 (1.64%) PhD
6 1 (0.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.73%) QA
2 4 (2.19%) PMO
3 2 (1.09%) EMIR
3 2 (1.09%) MiFID
4 1 (0.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (9.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (5.46%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 58 (31.69%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.10%) Xamarin
3 11 (6.01%) Oracle
4 8 (4.37%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.09%) Adobe
6 1 (0.55%) SAP
6 1 (0.55%) SYSPRO
6 1 (0.55%) Telerik