The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton 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 Southampton 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 34 31 20
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -11
Contract jobs citing WinForms 1 1 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 0.339% 0.437% 4.372%
As % of the Application Development category 1.449% 2.000% 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £288 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+39.13% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £30.25 £39.00
% change year-on-year
+32.23% -22.43%
All Application Development
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
69 50 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 23.39% 21.83% 24.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 13
Average daily rate £350 £300 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £250 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £563
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 6
Average hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +11.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
WinForms
Hampshire

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton WinForms Hourly Rate Trend

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) DHTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Social Media
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) ESB
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WF
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) SOAP
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSL
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) WF
2 1 (50.00%) LINQ
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) DHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intranet
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) Extranet
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) OOD
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Zachman Framework
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)