The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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 53 58 55
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -3
Contract jobs citing WinForms 27 2 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 2.866% 0.259% 1.143%
As % of the Application Development category 6.265% 1.087% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 6
Average daily rate £425 £275 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+54.54% -24.13%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £315 £275 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £275 £453
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
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
431 184 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 45.75% 23.83% 37.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 84 157
Average daily rate £338 £283 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+19.46% -19.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £235 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WinForms
Scotland

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow WinForms Daily Rate Trend

WinForms
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WinForms across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow WinForms Daily Rate Histogram

WinForms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Glasgow WinForms Hourly Rate Trend

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 32 (100.00%) C#
2 21 (65.63%) Sybase
3 19 (59.38%) SQL
4 18 (56.25%) Multithreading
5 15 (46.88%) WPF
6 11 (34.38%) .NET
7 8 (25.00%) Front Office
7 8 (25.00%) XML
7 8 (25.00%) OO
8 7 (21.88%) UNIX
8 7 (21.88%) Finance
9 5 (15.63%) Linux
9 5 (15.63%) MS Excel
9 5 (15.63%) Java
10 4 (12.50%) DB2
10 4 (12.50%) Windows
10 4 (12.50%) HTTP
10 4 (12.50%) WCF
11 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET
11 3 (9.375%) SOAP
11 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
11 3 (9.375%) Perl
11 3 (9.375%) Wealth Management
12 2 (6.250%) QA
12 2 (6.250%) Derivative
12 2 (6.250%) HTML
12 2 (6.250%) Oracle
12 2 (6.250%) COM+
12 2 (6.250%) MVC
12 2 (6.250%) OOP

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 15 (46.88%) WPF
2 11 (34.38%) .NET
3 8 (25.00%) XML
4 4 (12.50%) WCF
5 3 (9.375%) SOAP
5 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET
6 2 (6.250%) COM+
6 2 (6.250%) HTML
6 2 (6.250%) HTML5
7 1 (3.125%) CSS3
7 1 (3.125%) Sencha Touch
7 1 (3.125%) jQuery
7 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (3.125%) CSS
7 1 (3.125%) Hibernate
7 1 (3.125%) Spring
7 1 (3.125%) Ajax
Applications
1 5 (15.63%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.50%) DB2
2 1 (3.125%) MS Access
2 1 (3.125%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.125%) NUnit
1 1 (3.125%) MSTest
General
1 8 (25.00%) Front Office
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 1 (3.125%) Banking
Job Titles
1 32 (100.00%) Developer
2 27 (84.38%) C# Developer
3 15 (46.88%) WinForms Developer
4 8 (25.00%) .NET Developer
5 7 (21.88%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (6.250%) UI Developer
6 2 (6.250%) UI Programmer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior UI Developer
7 1 (3.125%) WPF Developer
7 1 (3.125%) RAD Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Senior Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (3.125%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (3.125%) Excel Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.250%) Derivative
2 1 (3.125%) Computer Science
2 1 (3.125%) Data Integration
2 1 (3.125%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (3.125%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) UNIX
2 5 (15.63%) Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (56.25%) Multithreading
2 8 (25.00%) OO
3 3 (9.375%) Wealth Management
4 2 (6.250%) OOP
4 2 (6.250%) RAD
4 2 (6.250%) MVC
5 1 (3.125%) Web Development
5 1 (3.125%) ERD
5 1 (3.125%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (3.125%) MVVM
5 1 (3.125%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 32 (100.00%) C#
2 19 (59.38%) SQL
3 5 (15.63%) Java
4 3 (9.375%) JavaScript
4 3 (9.375%) Perl
5 1 (3.125%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.125%) VBA
5 1 (3.125%) Python
5 1 (3.125%) Shell Script
5 1 (3.125%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (3.125%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.250%) QA
Vendors
1 21 (65.63%) Sybase
2 2 (6.250%) Oracle
3 1 (3.125%) Sencha
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