West Midlands WinForms Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Windows Forms (WinForms) skills within the West Midlands 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 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Windows Forms (WinForms)
Location Alderley Edge Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London Croydon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Kent Leeds Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Potters Bar Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	104	119
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	18	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.413 %	1.322 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£329
% change on same period last year	-0.34 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£32.00	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£32.00	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-8.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£33.81	£35.39
% change on same period last year	-4.44 %
Application Development West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	746	681
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.993 %	0.690 %
Daily rates quoted	161	124
Average minimum daily rate	£298	£292
Average daily rate	£316	£308
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£323
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£335
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	25	52
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.19	£31.18
Average hourly rate	£30.07	£33.56
% change on same period last year	-10.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.94	£35.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.66	£33.10
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
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 West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

WinForms
Hourly Rate Trend

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

WinForms
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 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
Wolverhampton	-	3	-	-
Worcestershire	+2	3	-	-
Birmingham	+15	2	-	-
Warwickshire	+10	2	-	-
Staffordshire	-	1	-	-

WinForms England

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 27 (81.82 %) .NET 2 19 (57.58 %) C# 3 16 (48.48 %) VB.NET 3 16 (48.48 %) SQL Server 4 9 (27.27 %) Manufacturing 4 9 (27.27 %) ASP.NET 4 9 (27.27 %) WebServices 4 9 (27.27 %) XML 5 8 (24.24 %) Windows 6 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 7 5 (15.15 %) CRM 7 5 (15.15 %) Oracle 8 4 (12.12 %) SQL 8 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 2000 9 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7

9 3 (9.091 %) C++ 9 3 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 9 3 (9.091 %) ERP 9 3 (9.091 %) XSLT 10 2 (6.061 %) OO 10 2 (6.061 %) OOD 10 2 (6.061 %) Fortran 10 2 (6.061 %) XSD 10 2 (6.061 %) C 10 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 10 2 (6.061 %) .NET Remoting 10 2 (6.061 %) .NET Framework 11 1 (3.030 %) C++/CLI 11 1 (3.030 %) Unit Testing 11 1 (3.030 %) Continuous Integration

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 27 (81.82 %) .NET 2 9 (27.27 %) ASP.NET 2 9 (27.27 %) WebServices 2 9 (27.27 %) XML 3 3 (9.091 %) XSLT 4 2 (6.061 %) XSD 4 2 (6.061 %) .NET Remoting 4 2 (6.061 %) .NET Framework 5 1 (3.030 %) WCF 5 1 (3.030 %) WPF 5 1 (3.030 %) WF 5 1 (3.030 %) Silverlight 5 1 (3.030 %) ASP.NET 2.0 5 1 (3.030 %) SOAP 5 1 (3.030 %) AJAX 5 1 (3.030 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.030 %) BizTalk Server 1 1 (3.030 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 16 (48.48 %) SQL Server 2 6 (18.18 %) SQL Server 2005 3 4 (12.12 %) SQL Server 2000 4 3 (9.091 %) SQL Server 7 5 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 3 (9.091 %) Visual Studio 2 1 (3.030 %) Oracle Forms 2 1 (3.030 %) NUnit 2 1 (3.030 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 9 (27.27 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (6.061 %) Telecoms 3 1 (3.030 %) Finance 3 1 (3.030 %) Games
Job Titles 1 27 (81.82 %) Developer 2 19 (57.58 %) .NET Developer 3 10 (30.30 %) C# Developer 4 8 (24.24 %) VB.NET Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) C# Software Engineer 5 3 (9.091 %) Web Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) WinForms Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) C# Web Developer 5 3 (9.091 %) Software Engineer 6 2 (6.061 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) Consultant 6 2 (6.061 %) Software Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) ASP.NET Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) .NET Web Developer 6 2 (6.061 %) .NET Consultant 7 1 (3.030 %) .NET Architect 7 1 (3.030 %) .NET Technical Architect 7 1 (3.030 %) Architect	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.030 %) N-Tier 1 1 (3.030 %) NHS 1 1 (3.030 %) Mathematics 1 1 (3.030 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 8 (24.24 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (15.15 %) CRM 2 3 (9.091 %) ERP 3 2 (6.061 %) OOD 3 2 (6.061 %) OO 4 1 (3.030 %) RUP 4 1 (3.030 %) E-Commerce 4 1 (3.030 %) UML 4 1 (3.030 %) Configuration Management 4 1 (3.030 %) Workflow 4 1 (3.030 %) Agile Software Development 4 1 (3.030 %) TDD 4 1 (3.030 %) Enterprise Architecture 4 1 (3.030 %) Web Development 4 1 (3.030 %) Unit Testing 4 1 (3.030 %) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages 1 19 (57.58 %) C# 2 16 (48.48 %) VB.NET 3 4 (12.12 %) SQL 4 3 (9.091 %) C++ 5 2 (6.061 %) C 5 2 (6.061 %) Fortran 6 1 (3.030 %) XAML 6 1 (3.030 %) C++/CLI 6 1 (3.030 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (3.030 %) VBScript 6 1 (3.030 %) VB	Qualifications 1 1 (3.030 %) MCAD 1 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (3.030 %) MCTS 1 1 (3.030 %) MCPD 1 1 (3.030 %) Degree
Vendors 1 5 (15.15 %) Oracle 2 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft