The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 24 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 Canary Wharf 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 49 42 53
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +11
Contract jobs citing WinForms 2 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.518% 2.116% 1.553%
As % of the Application Development category 1.667% 6.452% 4.878%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 8
Average daily rate £608 £500 £495
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.50% +1.01%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £602 £400 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £614 £650 £565
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
- +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
All Application Development
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
120 124 164
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 31.09% 32.80% 31.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 78 135
Average daily rate £600 £525 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -4.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £400 £418
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £650 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WinForms
London

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf WinForms Daily Rate Trend

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (60.00%) WPF
3 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (40.00%) Use Case
3 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 2 (40.00%) Front Office
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
3 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (40.00%) Physics
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Derivative
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) VBA
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (20.00%) TIBCO
4 1 (20.00%) Rendezvous
4 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Oracle
4 1 (20.00%) C++
4 1 (20.00%) Sybase
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) WPF
3 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Rendezvous
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO EMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
General
1 2 (40.00%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Front Office Developer
3 2 (40.00%) VBA Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Excel Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Excel VBA Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (20.00%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (40.00%) Physics
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 2 (40.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Multithreading
2 2 (40.00%) Use Case
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) OOP
3 1 (20.00%) OO
3 1 (20.00%) RAD
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) Java
3 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (40.00%) VBA
3 2 (40.00%) Python
4 1 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) TIBCO
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Sybase