The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 64 74 73
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -1
Contract jobs citing WinForms 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.127% 0.098% 0.189%
As % of the Application Development category 0.478% 0.515% 0.844%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £288 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £30.25 £39.00
% change year-on-year
+32.23% -22.43%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
209 194 237
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 26.52% 19.09% 22.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 104 104
Average daily rate £325 £308 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.69% -6.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 8
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £21.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +59.52%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WinForms
South East

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire WinForms Jobs Demand Trend

WinForms
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire WinForms Daily Rate Trend

WinForms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire WinForms Hourly Rate Trend

WinForms
Contract Locations

The table below 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 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +11 1 £288 -
WinForms
South East

WinForms
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (50.00%) WPF
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 2 (33.33%) OLAP
4 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 2 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 2 (33.33%) Windows
4 2 (33.33%) WCF
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (33.33%) Web Development
5 1 (16.67%) Ajax
5 1 (16.67%) SaaS
5 1 (16.67%) MVVM
5 1 (16.67%) LINQ
5 1 (16.67%) XML
5 1 (16.67%) XSLT
5 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
5 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (16.67%) Managed Extensibility Framework

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (50.00%) WPF
3 2 (33.33%) WCF
4 1 (16.67%) LINQ
4 1 (16.67%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) XSLT
4 1 (16.67%) Ajax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) OLAP
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 2 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) C# Developer
2 4 (66.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (33.33%) .NET Web Developer
4 2 (33.33%) C# Web Developer
4 2 (33.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
5 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 1 (16.67%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
4 1 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft