The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 22 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 Leeds 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 63 68 51
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -17
Contract jobs citing WinForms 5 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.665% 0.336% 0.483%
As % of the Application Development category 1.946% 1.266% 2.143%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £280 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.33% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £319 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.96% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £38.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
257 237 140
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 34.18% 26.54% 22.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 157 77
Average daily rate £290 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 5
Average hourly rate £33.00 £18.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+83.33% -57.64%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WinForms
West Yorkshire

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds WinForms Hourly Rate Trend

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 15 (93.75%) .NET
2 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (75.00%) C#
3 11 (68.75%) SQL
3 11 (68.75%) VB.NET
4 9 (56.25%) Oracle
5 8 (50.00%) PL/SQL
5 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET
6 7 (43.75%) WCF
7 6 (37.50%) Windows
8 5 (31.25%) BizTalk Server
9 4 (25.00%) CMMI
9 4 (25.00%) RUP
9 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
9 4 (25.00%) WPF
9 4 (25.00%) Perforce
9 4 (25.00%) JIRA
10 3 (18.75%) Web Development
10 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (18.75%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 3 (18.75%) XSLT
10 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
11 2 (12.50%) OOD
11 2 (12.50%) MVC
11 2 (12.50%) Finance
11 2 (12.50%) CRM
11 2 (12.50%) UML
11 2 (12.50%) OO

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 (93.75%) .NET
2 8 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 7 (43.75%) WCF
4 4 (25.00%) WPF
5 3 (18.75%) XSLT
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (6.250%) REST
7 1 (6.250%) Web Services
7 1 (6.250%) ASP
7 1 (6.250%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.250%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 6 (37.50%) VB.NET Developer
4 5 (31.25%) C# Developer
5 3 (18.75%) BizTalk Developer
5 3 (18.75%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (18.75%) Software Developer
6 2 (12.50%) WinForms Developer
7 1 (6.250%) C# Programmer
7 1 (6.250%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Programmer
7 1 (6.250%) C# Software Engineer
7 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) CMMI
1 4 (25.00%) RUP
2 3 (18.75%) Web Development
2 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (12.50%) OOD
3 2 (12.50%) MVC
3 2 (12.50%) CRM
3 2 (12.50%) UML
3 2 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (6.250%) Multithreading
4 1 (6.250%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) C#
2 11 (68.75%) SQL
2 11 (68.75%) VB.NET
3 8 (50.00%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Perforce
3 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.250%) Remedy