The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT jobs advertised for the Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 38 37 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 3 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 1.200% 1.449% -
As % of the Application Development category 2.778% 3.333% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
Average salary £35,000 £25,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.25% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Application Development
Belfast
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
108 90 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Belfast 43.20% 43.48% 32.20%
Number of salaries quoted 78 42 41
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WinForms
County Antrim

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast WinForms Salary Trend

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 9 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) Multithreading
3 6 (66.67%) .NET
3 6 (66.67%) Windows
3 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 6 (66.67%) Finance
3 6 (66.67%) WCF
3 6 (66.67%) WPF
4 5 (55.56%) Sybase
4 5 (55.56%) Oracle
5 4 (44.44%) WF
5 4 (44.44%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (44.44%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
5 4 (44.44%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (44.44%) Scrum
5 4 (44.44%) SQL
5 4 (44.44%) Workflow
6 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
7 1 (11.11%) DevExpress
7 1 (11.11%) Open Source
7 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
7 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
7 1 (11.11%) MVVM
7 1 (11.11%) Banking
7 1 (11.11%) Spring
7 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
7 1 (11.11%) Ajax
7 1 (11.11%) Blog

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Belfast 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 6 (66.67%) .NET
1 6 (66.67%) WCF
1 6 (66.67%) WPF
2 4 (44.44%) WF
2 4 (44.44%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) Spring
3 1 (11.11%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 4 (44.44%) Oracle Workflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Developer
1 7 (77.78%) C# Developer
2 5 (55.56%) .NET Developer
2 5 (55.56%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (44.44%) Applications Specialist
4 1 (11.11%) Senior Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Senior C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Blog
1 1 (11.11%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Multithreading
2 4 (44.44%) Workflow
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) Strategic Planning
2 4 (44.44%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (11.11%) MVVM
4 1 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
3 1 (11.11%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Perl
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
1 5 (55.56%) Sybase
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Syncfusion
2 1 (11.11%) DevExpress