The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank - 31 54
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 0 6 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester - 3.614% 1.389%
As % of the Application Development category - 7.229% 2.162%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 4
Average salary - £30,000 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
All Application Development
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
130 83 185
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 42.48% 50.00% 64.24%
Number of salaries quoted 75 81 180
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £46,400 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
WinForms
Cheshire

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester WinForms Salary Trend

WinForms
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) Web Services
1 3 (100.00%) XML
1 3 (100.00%) Middleware
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) WPF
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 3 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL