WinForms Jobs

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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 716 819 833
Rank change year-on-year +103 +14 -48
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 193 128 459
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.90% 0.46% 0.65%
Number of salaries quoted 157 105 181
10th Percentile £33,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +29.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £61,250 £62,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £64,750 £71,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year - +31.25% -2.44%

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 21,541 27,618 70,092
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.52% 29.18% 41.54%
Number of salaries quoted 16,014 17,838 29,844
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £64,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +4.65% +17.27%
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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +60 175 £52,500 - 35
England +69 149 £52,500 - 42
Work from Home +91 125 £52,500 -8.70% 30
Midlands +24 48 £47,500 +5.56% 11
North of England +32 37 £52,500 +5.00% 13
West Midlands +15 35 £51,250 +20.59% 7
South East +13 34 £57,500 +9.52% 4
Wales - 25 £50,000 - 1
Yorkshire +69 20 £52,500 +23.53% 11
North West -11 17 £35,000 -39.13% 1
East Midlands -10 13 £37,500 -31.82% 4
Scotland -54 13 £61,500 +17.14% 1
London +93 12 £52,500 -4.35% 11
East of England -1 9 £42,500 -20.93%
South West -23 9 £62,500 +13.64% 5

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 (1.55%) Confluence
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.04%) Adobe XD
2 2 (1.04%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (1.04%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 49 (25.39%) Azure
2 27 (13.99%) AWS
3 19 (9.84%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (6.74%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (5.70%) Power Platform
6 7 (3.63%) Azure API Management
6 7 (3.63%) Azure Event Grid
6 7 (3.63%) Azure Functions
6 7 (3.63%) Serverless
7 3 (1.55%) WhatsApp
8 2 (1.04%) Figma
8 2 (1.04%) GCP
9 1 (0.52%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.81%) TCP/IP
2 12 (6.22%) Modbus
3 4 (2.07%) Ethernet
3 4 (2.07%) RS-232
4 3 (1.55%) Bluetooth
4 3 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (42.49%) SQL Server
2 26 (13.47%) Elasticsearch
3 21 (10.88%) MongoDB
4 11 (5.70%) Relational Database
5 10 (5.18%) Oracle Database
5 10 (5.18%) Power BI
6 7 (3.63%) MySQL
6 7 (3.63%) SQLite
7 6 (3.11%) Crystal Reports
8 5 (2.59%) RDBMS
9 3 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 39 (20.21%) Visual Studio
2 28 (14.51%) Git
3 23 (11.92%) JIRA
4 18 (9.33%) Team Foundation Server
5 13 (6.74%) Jenkins
6 12 (6.22%) GitLab
7 11 (5.70%) NUnit
8 8 (4.15%) CMake
8 8 (4.15%) TestRail
9 5 (2.59%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (2.07%) Subversion
11 2 (1.04%) Android Studio
11 2 (1.04%) Balsamiq
12 1 (0.52%) Bitbucket
12 1 (0.52%) SpecFlow
12 1 (0.52%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (16.58%) Social Skills
2 14 (7.25%) Finance
3 13 (6.74%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (6.74%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (4.15%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.11%) Automotive
6 5 (2.59%) Games
7 4 (2.07%) Advertising
7 4 (2.07%) Back Office
8 3 (1.55%) Banking
8 3 (1.55%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.55%) Investment Banking
9 2 (1.04%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) iGaming
10 1 (0.52%) Military
10 1 (0.52%) Police
10 1 (0.52%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 124 (64.25%) Developer
2 60 (31.09%) .NET Developer
3 56 (29.02%) C# Developer
3 56 (29.02%) Software Engineer
4 51 (26.42%) Senior
5 31 (16.06%) Senior Software Engineer
6 30 (15.54%) C# .NET Developer
7 29 (15.03%) Software Developer
8 17 (8.81%) Senior Developer
9 13 (6.74%) Applications Developer
9 13 (6.74%) C# Software Engineer
10 12 (6.22%) Applications Engineer
11 11 (5.70%) .NET Applications Developer
11 11 (5.70%) C# Application Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Full Stack Developer
12 10 (5.18%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 10 (5.18%) WinForms Developer
13 8 (4.15%) C# Software Developer
13 8 (4.15%) Lead
14 7 (3.63%) Lead C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 144 (74.61%) .NET
2 107 (55.44%) WPF
3 69 (35.75%) .NET Framework
4 65 (33.68%) ASP.NET
5 47 (24.35%) HTML
6 41 (21.24%) .NET Core
7 37 (19.17%) ASP.NET MVC
8 36 (18.65%) Entity Framework
9 35 (18.13%) Web Services
10 34 (17.62%) ASP.NET Web API
11 33 (17.10%) React
12 32 (16.58%) AngularJS
12 32 (16.58%) Node.js
13 28 (14.51%) Vue
14 25 (12.95%) LINQ
15 24 (12.44%) WCF
16 15 (7.77%) CSS
17 13 (6.74%) RESTful
18 11 (5.70%) HTML5
19 10 (5.18%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.18%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (4.15%) CUDA
3 7 (3.63%) Mobile App
4 4 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.55%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.55%) Derivative
5 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
5 3 (1.55%) Tandem
6 2 (1.04%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.04%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.04%) Mobile Computing
7 1 (0.52%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.52%) Distributed Applications
7 1 (0.52%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 53 (27.46%) Windows
2 11 (5.70%) Android
3 8 (4.15%) Linux
4 5 (2.59%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (1.55%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (39.38%) Software Engineering
2 70 (36.27%) Agile
3 55 (28.50%) MVC
4 38 (19.69%) Full Stack Development
4 38 (19.69%) TDD
5 37 (19.17%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (16.58%) Microservices
7 30 (15.54%) Computer Science
8 29 (15.03%) Scrum
9 23 (11.92%) MVVM
10 22 (11.40%) Business Intelligence
11 21 (10.88%) BDD
11 21 (10.88%) Kanban
11 21 (10.88%) Web Application Development
12 20 (10.36%) SDLC
13 19 (9.84%) DevOps
14 17 (8.81%) Mathematics
14 17 (8.81%) Multithreading
14 17 (8.81%) OO
14 17 (8.81%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 189 (97.93%) C#
2 83 (43.01%) SQL
3 52 (26.94%) JavaScript
4 37 (19.17%) C++
5 24 (12.44%) C
6 22 (11.40%) TypeScript
7 19 (9.84%) VB.NET
8 15 (7.77%) Java
9 14 (7.25%) PowerShell
10 11 (5.70%) T-SQL
11 10 (5.18%) Delphi
12 8 (4.15%) Bash
12 8 (4.15%) C-shell
12 8 (4.15%) Fortran
13 7 (3.63%) XAML
14 4 (2.07%) VB
15 2 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 37 (19.17%) Degree
2 20 (10.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (3.63%) Master's Degree
4 4 (2.07%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (1.55%) MCSD
5 3 (1.55%) PhD
6 1 (0.52%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (2.07%) PMO
1 4 (2.07%) QA
2 3 (1.55%) EMIR
2 3 (1.55%) MiFID
3 1 (0.52%) GDPR
System Software
1 18 (9.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (5.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 60 (31.09%) Microsoft
2 13 (6.74%) Xamarin
3 11 (5.70%) Oracle
4 8 (4.15%) DevExpress
5 2 (1.04%) Adobe
6 1 (0.52%) Infragistics
6 1 (0.52%) SAP
6 1 (0.52%) SYSPRO