The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 21 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 54 34 47
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +13
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 43 49 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 3.923% 5.010% 3.321%
As % of the Application Development category 13.61% 12.10% 8.615%
Number of salaries quoted 42 47 28
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £40,000 £35,550
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £43,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
316 405 325
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.83% 41.41% 38.55%
Number of salaries quoted 285 343 315
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WinForms
East of England

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire WinForms Salary Trend

WinForms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WinForms across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Bedfordshire WinForms Salary Histogram

WinForms
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing WinForms within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Bedford +2 40 £42,500 -
Luton -7 1 £37,500 -8.53%
WinForms
East of England

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 71 (100.00%) C#
1 71 (100.00%) .NET
2 61 (85.92%) SQL
3 54 (76.06%) SQL Server
4 51 (71.83%) Microsoft
5 50 (70.42%) ASP.NET
6 47 (66.20%) Silverlight
7 46 (64.79%) WPF
8 45 (63.38%) WCF
9 40 (56.34%) T-SQL
10 36 (50.70%) XML
10 36 (50.70%) MVC
11 35 (49.30%) Web Services
11 35 (49.30%) WF
12 33 (46.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 33 (46.48%) Windows
13 30 (42.25%) MS Excel
14 29 (40.85%) Scrum
15 28 (39.44%) .NET Framework
16 27 (38.03%) MSTest
17 25 (35.21%) CSS
18 24 (33.80%) Team Foundation Server
19 23 (32.39%) TDD
19 23 (32.39%) NUnit
19 23 (32.39%) Oracle
20 21 (29.58%) Crystal Reports
20 21 (29.58%) HTML
20 21 (29.58%) JavaScript
21 20 (28.17%) Visual Studio
22 18 (25.35%) PowerBuilder

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 71 (100.00%) .NET
2 50 (70.42%) ASP.NET
3 47 (66.20%) Silverlight
4 46 (64.79%) WPF
5 45 (63.38%) WCF
6 36 (50.70%) XML
7 35 (49.30%) Web Services
7 35 (49.30%) WF
8 28 (39.44%) .NET Framework
9 25 (35.21%) CSS
10 21 (29.58%) HTML
11 16 (22.54%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (16.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 11 (15.49%) ASP
13 11 (15.49%) LINQ
14 10 (14.08%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 8 (11.27%) ADO.NET
15 8 (11.27%) LINQ to SQL
16 4 (5.634%) ASP.NET MVC 4
17 2 (2.817%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 12 (16.90%) SharePoint
2 6 (8.451%) Windows Azure
3 5 (7.042%) BizTalk Server
3 5 (7.042%) SharePoint 2013
4 3 (4.225%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (1.408%) IIS
Applications
1 30 (42.25%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (12.68%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.225%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (76.06%) SQL Server
2 33 (46.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 21 (29.58%) Crystal Reports
4 17 (23.94%) SQL Server 2008
5 16 (22.54%) SQL Server 2012
6 9 (12.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 8 (11.27%) RDBMS
8 7 (9.859%) Oracle Reports
9 4 (5.634%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 3 (4.225%) SQL Server 2005
11 2 (2.817%) SQL Server 2000
12 1 (1.408%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 27 (38.03%) MSTest
2 24 (33.80%) Team Foundation Server
3 23 (32.39%) NUnit
4 20 (28.17%) Visual Studio
5 18 (25.35%) PowerBuilder
5 18 (25.35%) Visual Studio Team System
6 8 (11.27%) Subversion
7 7 (9.859%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (7.042%) JIRA
9 4 (5.634%) Moq
10 1 (1.408%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 3 (4.225%) Manufacturing
1 3 (4.225%) Finance
2 1 (1.408%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 52 (73.24%) Developer
2 30 (42.25%) C# Developer
3 19 (26.76%) C# .NET Developer
4 14 (19.72%) .NET Developer
5 12 (16.90%) Consultant
5 12 (16.90%) Senior Developer
6 11 (15.49%) Development Consultant
7 8 (11.27%) Senior C# Developer
8 6 (8.451%) Team Leader
8 6 (8.451%) .NET Team Leader
9 5 (7.042%) Development Team Leader
9 5 (7.042%) Software Developer
10 4 (5.634%) Development Manager
10 4 (5.634%) Web Team Leader
11 3 (4.225%) Technical Leader
11 3 (4.225%) Architect
12 2 (2.817%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
12 2 (2.817%) Junior C# .NET Developer
12 2 (2.817%) C# Programmer
12 2 (2.817%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.08%) N-Tier
2 5 (7.042%) Wiki
3 2 (2.817%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.817%) Mathematics
4 1 (1.408%) Statistics
4 1 (1.408%) Visualisation
4 1 (1.408%) Physics
4 1 (1.408%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 33 (46.48%) Windows
2 1 (1.408%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (50.70%) MVC
2 29 (40.85%) Scrum
3 23 (32.39%) TDD
4 13 (18.31%) Project Management
5 11 (15.49%) OO
6 10 (14.08%) Multithreading
6 10 (14.08%) Kanban
7 9 (12.68%) CRM
8 8 (11.27%) Software Engineering
9 7 (9.859%) ETL
9 7 (9.859%) Domain-Driven Design
10 6 (8.451%) Unit Testing
11 4 (5.634%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (5.634%) SOA
11 4 (5.634%) Continuous Integration
12 3 (4.225%) Use Case
12 3 (4.225%) OOD
12 3 (4.225%) E-Commerce
12 3 (4.225%) MVVM
13 2 (2.817%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 71 (100.00%) C#
2 61 (85.92%) SQL
3 40 (56.34%) T-SQL
4 21 (29.58%) JavaScript
5 8 (11.27%) VB6
5 8 (11.27%) VB
6 5 (7.042%) VBScript
6 5 (7.042%) PL/SQL
7 3 (4.225%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.408%) VBA
8 1 (1.408%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (1.408%) MCTS
1 1 (1.408%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (1.408%) MCP
1 1 (1.408%) MCAD
1 1 (1.408%) MCSD
Vendors
1 51 (71.83%) Microsoft
2 23 (32.39%) Oracle
3 4 (5.634%) Telerik
4 3 (4.225%) Capita
5 2 (2.817%) DevExpress
6 1 (1.408%) Typemock
Bedford, Bedfordshire
This involves working on many modules of my client's global software written on the .NET platform using C# with both Web and WinForms development using the .NET...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 18 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
As part of the IT Graduate Programme, you can expect to be exposed to and gain experience in the following: * C# 3 and 4 * SQL Server 2008 and...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Salary: £23000.00 per annum
Posted: 26 April 2013
Bedford, South East
As part of the IT Graduate Programme, you can expect to be exposed to and gain experience in the following: * C# 3 and 4 * SQL Server 2008 and...
Capita Resourcing
Salary: £23000.00 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013
Bedford, South East
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
NET Developer (ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, Desktop, Winforms, Windows, .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, WCF, WPF, MVVM, Prism, Continuous...
Dawson & Walsh
Salary: £30000 - £50000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
Technical Lead Developer / Solution Architect (Microsoft Gold Partner - C#, ASP.Net, WCF, MVC) We are looking for a Technical Lead, Lead Developer or Solution Architect with good experience...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013