South West WinForms Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Windows Forms (WinForms) skills within the South West 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 8 September 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 Colchester Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Macclesfield Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Redhill 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 8 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	130	158
Rank change on same period last year	+28
Matching contract IT job ads	15	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	1.899 %	1.392 %
Daily rates quoted	3	10
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£297
Average daily rate	£392	£323
% change on same period last year	+21.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£349
UK excluding London average daily rate	£320	£337
% change on same period last year	-4.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	-
Average hourly rate	£36.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.00	£37.06
% change on same period last year	-8.25 %
Application Development South West
Matching contract IT job ads	790	1221
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.071 %	1.209 %
Daily rates quoted	171	278
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£313
Average daily rate	£333	£335
% change on same period last year	-0.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£338	£336
% change on same period last year	+0.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	124	163
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.64	£30.16
Average hourly rate	£32.74	£33.80
% change on same period last year	-3.15 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.84	£37.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.50	£32.82
% change on same period last year	-0.97 %
WinForms England

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 South West 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 South West region.

WinForms
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WinForms across the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 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 South West region.

WinForms
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing WinForms across the South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 2008.

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 South West region over the 3 months to 8 September 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
Dorset	+5	8	-	-
Bristol	+4	4	£413	+27.90 %
Somerset	-	1	£350	-
Wiltshire	-	1	-	-

WinForms England

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 24 (82.76 %) C# 2 20 (68.97 %) .NET 3 17 (58.62 %) SQL Server 4 13 (44.83 %) Windows 5 12 (41.38 %) ASP.NET 6 9 (31.03 %) WebServices 6 9 (31.03 %) SQL 7 8 (27.59 %) UML 8 7 (24.14 %) ASP 8 7 (24.14 %) VB.NET 8 7 (24.14 %) Finance 9 6 (20.69 %) VB6 9 6 (20.69 %) VB 9 6 (20.69 %) Oracle 9 6 (20.69 %) XML

10 5 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2005 11 4 (13.79 %) WCF 11 4 (13.79 %) Agile Software Development 11 4 (13.79 %) XSLT 11 4 (13.79 %) OO 11 4 (13.79 %) J2EE 11 4 (13.79 %) Java 12 3 (10.34 %) MS Office 12 3 (10.34 %) COM+ 12 3 (10.34 %) TDD 12 3 (10.34 %) MSMQ 12 3 (10.34 %) Intranet 13 2 (6.897 %) WPF 13 2 (6.897 %) Multithreading 13 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Reporting Services

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 20 (68.97 %) .NET 2 12 (41.38 %) ASP.NET 3 9 (31.03 %) WebServices 4 7 (24.14 %) ASP 5 6 (20.69 %) XML 6 4 (13.79 %) XSLT 6 4 (13.79 %) WCF 6 4 (13.79 %) J2EE 7 3 (10.34 %) COM+ 8 2 (6.897 %) HTML 8 2 (6.897 %) WPF 8 2 (6.897 %) WebSphere 8 2 (6.897 %) .NET Framework 9 1 (3.448 %) ASP.NET 2.0 9 1 (3.448 %) EJB 9 1 (3.448 %) MFC 9 1 (3.448 %) ADO	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.897 %) WebLogic 2 1 (3.448 %) Apache 2 1 (3.448 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 3 (10.34 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.448 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 3 (10.34 %) Intranet 2 1 (3.448 %) SNMP 2 1 (3.448 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (58.62 %) SQL Server 2 5 (17.24 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 1 (3.448 %) Crystal Reports 4 1 (3.448 %) GIS	Development Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (3.448 %) VSS/SourceSafe 1 1 (3.448 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (3.448 %) ClearCase 1 1 (3.448 %) ClearQuest 1 1 (3.448 %) Subversion
General 1 7 (24.14 %) Finance 2 1 (3.448 %) Education 2 1 (3.448 %) Banking 2 1 (3.448 %) Multimedia 2 1 (3.448 %) Insurance 2 1 (3.448 %) Back Office	Job Titles 1 23 (79.31 %) Developer 2 11 (37.93 %) .NET Developer 3 9 (31.03 %) C# Developer 4 5 (17.24 %) Programmer 4 5 (17.24 %) WinForms Developer 5 4 (13.79 %) Java/J2EE Developer 5 4 (13.79 %) Java Developer 6 3 (10.34 %) .NET Programmer 6 3 (10.34 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 3 (10.34 %) J2EE Developer 6 3 (10.34 %) Analyst 6 3 (10.34 %) Analyst Programmer 7 2 (6.897 %) Software Engineer 7 2 (6.897 %) Applications Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) SQL Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) SQL Server Developer 7 2 (6.897 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 8 1 (3.448 %) Excel Specialist 8 1 (3.448 %) .NET Analyst Programmer 8 1 (3.448 %) VB6 Developer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.897 %) NHS 1 2 (6.897 %) Data Protection Act 1 2 (6.897 %) Multithreading 2 1 (3.448 %) Pocket PC	Operating Systems 1 13 (44.83 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (27.59 %) UML 2 4 (13.79 %) OO 2 4 (13.79 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (10.34 %) TDD 4 2 (6.897 %) Data Protection 4 2 (6.897 %) OOP 4 2 (6.897 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (3.448 %) OOA/OOD 5 1 (3.448 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (3.448 %) OOD 5 1 (3.448 %) Risk Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 24 (82.76 %) C# 2 9 (31.03 %) SQL 3 7 (24.14 %) VB.NET 4 6 (20.69 %) VB 4 6 (20.69 %) VB6 5 4 (13.79 %) Java 6 1 (3.448 %) VBA 6 1 (3.448 %) VC++ 6 1 (3.448 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (3.448 %) C++
System Software 1 3 (10.34 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 6 (20.69 %) Oracle 2 1 (3.448 %) Microsoft 2 1 (3.448 %) ESRI