Buckinghamshire WinForms Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Windows Forms (WinForms) skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Forms (WinForms)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Crawley Croydon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Glasgow Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Kent Leeds London Macclesfield Manchester Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Scotland Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	81
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	24	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	14.81 %	2.799 %
Daily rates quoted	9	4
Average minimum daily rate	£311	£288
Average daily rate	£316	£309
% change on same period last year	+2.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£322	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£322	£336
% change on same period last year	-4.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£40.00
Average hourly rate	-	£45.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.00	£36.61
% change on same period last year	-7.13 %
Application Development Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	162	393
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.216 %	0.392 %
Daily rates quoted	52	99
Average minimum daily rate	£381	£275
Average daily rate	£392	£292
% change on same period last year	+33.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£402	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£337
% change on same period last year	+0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.38	£31.17
Average hourly rate	£38.75	£32.18
% change on same period last year	+20.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.13	£33.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.55	£33.03
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
WinForms South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

WinForms
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing WinForms across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

WinForms
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing WinForms across the Buckinghamshire region.

WinForms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WinForms across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

WinForms
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing WinForms across the Buckinghamshire region.

WinForms
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+4	9	£350	-
High Wycombe	-	4	£300	-
Aylesbury	+6	1	£300	-

WinForms South East

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing WinForms also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WinForms.

1 39 (97.50 %) C# 2 35 (87.50 %) .NET 3 27 (67.50 %) SQL Server 4 26 (65.00 %) Windows 5 17 (42.50 %) SQL Server 2005 6 16 (40.00 %) .NET Framework 7 12 (30.00 %) OO 8 11 (27.50 %) VB.NET 8 11 (27.50 %) Extreme Programming 9 9 (22.50 %) WPF 9 9 (22.50 %) MFC 10 8 (20.00 %) Electronics 11 6 (15.00 %) C++ 11 6 (15.00 %) ActiveX 11 6 (15.00 %) Microsoft

12 4 (10.00 %) SQL 12 4 (10.00 %) WebServices 12 4 (10.00 %) XAML 13 3 (7.500 %) Agile Software Development 13 3 (7.500 %) WCF 13 3 (7.500 %) Visual Studio 13 3 (7.500 %) SQL Server 2000 14 2 (5.000 %) SOA 14 2 (5.000 %) ADO.NET 14 2 (5.000 %) XML 14 2 (5.000 %) ASP.NET 14 2 (5.000 %) Oracle 14 2 (5.000 %) LabVIEW 14 2 (5.000 %) GIS 14 2 (5.000 %) Finance

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing WinForms also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited WinForms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 35 (87.50 %) .NET 2 16 (40.00 %) .NET Framework 3 9 (22.50 %) WPF 3 9 (22.50 %) MFC 4 6 (15.00 %) ActiveX 5 4 (10.00 %) WebServices 6 3 (7.500 %) WCF 7 2 (5.000 %) XML 7 2 (5.000 %) ASP.NET 7 2 (5.000 %) ADO.NET 8 1 (2.500 %) ASP 8 1 (2.500 %) HTML 8 1 (2.500 %) WF 8 1 (2.500 %) LINQ	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.500 %) IIS
Applications 1 1 (2.500 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (67.50 %) SQL Server 2 17 (42.50 %) SQL Server 2005 3 3 (7.500 %) SQL Server 2000 4 2 (5.000 %) GIS 5 1 (2.500 %) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications 1 3 (7.500 %) Visual Studio 2 2 (5.000 %) LabVIEW 3 1 (2.500 %) NUnit	General 1 8 (20.00 %) Electronics 2 2 (5.000 %) Finance 3 1 (2.500 %) Government 3 1 (2.500 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 30 (75.00 %) Developer 2 23 (57.50 %) C# Developer 3 13 (32.50 %) .NET Developer 4 8 (20.00 %) WinForms Developer 5 4 (10.00 %) .NET Software Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) Software Engineer 5 4 (10.00 %) Programmer 6 3 (7.500 %) C# Software Engineer 6 3 (7.500 %) GUI Programmer 7 2 (5.000 %) CSharp Software Developer 7 2 (5.000 %) .NET Programmer 7 2 (5.000 %) GIS Developer 7 2 (5.000 %) Software Developer 8 1 (2.500 %) Lead Developer 8 1 (2.500 %) Analyst 8 1 (2.500 %) Applications Developer 8 1 (2.500 %) Analyst Programmer 8 1 (2.500 %) Server Analyst 8 1 (2.500 %) C# Analyst Programmer 8 1 (2.500 %) ASP.NET Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.500 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 26 (65.00 %) Windows 2 1 (2.500 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (30.00 %) OO 2 11 (27.50 %) Extreme Programming 3 3 (7.500 %) Agile Software Development 4 2 (5.000 %) Unit Testing 4 2 (5.000 %) SOA 5 1 (2.500 %) Workflow 5 1 (2.500 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (2.500 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (2.500 %) OOD 5 1 (2.500 %) UML 5 1 (2.500 %) OOP
Programming Languages 1 39 (97.50 %) C# 2 11 (27.50 %) VB.NET 3 6 (15.00 %) C++ 4 4 (10.00 %) XAML 4 4 (10.00 %) SQL 5 1 (2.500 %) Transact-SQL 5 1 (2.500 %) VB 5 1 (2.500 %) VB6 5 1 (2.500 %) Java 5 1 (2.500 %) JavaScript	Qualifications 1 2 (5.000 %) Degree 2 1 (2.500 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 6 (15.00 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.000 %) Oracle