The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT jobs advertised for the Aberdeen region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 20 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 Aberdeen region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 31 45 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 14 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 4.118% 0.706% -
As % of the Application Development category 13.33% 2.830% -
Number of salaries quoted 10 2 0
Average salary £42,000 £34,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.86% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Application Development
Aberdeen
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
105 106 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Aberdeen 30.88% 24.94% 30.35%
Number of salaries quoted 75 92 56
Average salary £37,500 £39,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.84% -2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £49,750 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WinForms
Scotland

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Aberdeen WinForms Jobs Demand Trend

WinForms
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing WinForms across the Aberdeen region.

Aberdeen WinForms Salary Trend

WinForms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WinForms across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Aberdeen WinForms Salary Histogram

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WinForms.

1 23 (100.00%) C#
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (82.61%) WPF
3 17 (73.91%) SQL Server
4 14 (60.87%) Windows
4 14 (60.87%) WCF
5 13 (56.52%) ASP.NET
5 13 (56.52%) MVC
6 12 (52.17%) ASP.NET MVC
7 10 (43.48%) .NET Framework
8 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 9 (39.13%) MCP
9 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
9 7 (30.43%) TDD
9 7 (30.43%) Dependency Injection
10 6 (26.09%) Ninject
10 6 (26.09%) Web Application Development
10 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET MVC 4
10 6 (26.09%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (26.09%) MCTS
10 6 (26.09%) Scrum
10 6 (26.09%) MCAD
10 6 (26.09%) MCSD
10 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
11 5 (21.74%) C++
11 5 (21.74%) Streaming Music
11 5 (21.74%) Music
11 5 (21.74%) LINQ
11 5 (21.74%) jQuery
11 5 (21.74%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Aberdeen 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 IT job ads sampled that cited WinForms. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (100.00%) .NET
2 19 (82.61%) WPF
3 14 (60.87%) WCF
4 13 (56.52%) ASP.NET
5 12 (52.17%) ASP.NET MVC
6 10 (43.48%) .NET Framework
7 6 (26.09%) Ninject
7 6 (26.09%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 5 (21.74%) KnockoutJS
8 5 (21.74%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 5 (21.74%) Node.js
8 5 (21.74%) LINQ
8 5 (21.74%) jQuery
9 2 (8.696%) HTML
10 1 (4.348%) WSE
10 1 (4.348%) CSS
10 1 (4.348%) Web Services
10 1 (4.348%) Spring.NET
10 1 (4.348%) HTML5
10 1 (4.348%) Castle Windsor
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (73.91%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (4.348%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.348%) NUnit
2 1 (4.348%) Subversion
2 1 (4.348%) MSTest
2 1 (4.348%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (4.348%) Moq
General
1 5 (21.74%) Music
2 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Aerospace
2 1 (4.348%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (91.30%) Developer
2 15 (65.22%) .NET Developer
3 8 (34.78%) Software Developer
4 4 (17.39%) Software Engineer
4 4 (17.39%) Senior Developer
5 3 (13.04%) C# Developer
5 3 (13.04%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (8.696%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (8.696%) Senior .NET Developer
6 2 (8.696%) .NET Software Engineer
6 2 (8.696%) WinForms Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Junior .NET Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (4.348%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Junior Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Junior
7 1 (4.348%) Analyst
7 1 (4.348%) WPF Developer
7 1 (4.348%) Senior WinForms Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (21.74%) Streaming Music
3 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.348%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 14 (60.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (56.52%) MVC
2 7 (30.43%) Dependency Injection
2 7 (30.43%) TDD
3 6 (26.09%) Scrum
3 6 (26.09%) Web Application Development
4 5 (21.74%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (13.04%) OO
6 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (4.348%) OOD
7 1 (4.348%) Project Management
7 1 (4.348%) 3D Modelling
7 1 (4.348%) MVVM
7 1 (4.348%) Asset Management
7 1 (4.348%) Software Engineering
7 1 (4.348%) AOP
7 1 (4.348%) Web Development
7 1 (4.348%) Risk Analysis
7 1 (4.348%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (4.348%) Multithreading
7 1 (4.348%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (30.43%) JavaScript
3 5 (21.74%) C++
4 4 (17.39%) Java
5 3 (13.04%) SQL
6 1 (4.348%) VB.NET
6 1 (4.348%) Python
6 1 (4.348%) F#
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) MCP
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (26.09%) MCTS
2 6 (26.09%) MCAD
2 6 (26.09%) MCSD
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.348%) Infragistics
2 1 (4.348%) DevExpress
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle
Aberdeen, Scotland
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