The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 174 143 98
Rank change year-on-year
-31 -45
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 154 211 368
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 1.319% 1.605% 2.403%
As % of the Application Development category 3.433% 4.319% 6.538%
Number of salaries quoted 139 207 304
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -11.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,500 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £90,500 £75,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4486 4885 5629
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.43% 37.15% 36.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3953 4586 5181
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WinForms
London

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London WinForms Salary Trend

WinForms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WinForms across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London WinForms Salary Histogram

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 318 (98.45%) C#
2 229 (70.90%) .NET
3 174 (53.87%) SQL Server
4 161 (49.85%) WPF
5 141 (43.65%) SQL
6 120 (37.15%) Finance
7 114 (35.29%) Front Office
8 100 (30.96%) Banking
9 97 (30.03%) Windows
10 90 (27.86%) OO
11 79 (24.46%) Microsoft
12 78 (24.15%) WCF
13 72 (22.29%) Multithreading
14 71 (21.98%) SQL Server 2008
15 65 (20.12%) Oracle
16 64 (19.81%) ASP.NET
16 64 (19.81%) Unit Testing
17 63 (19.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 62 (19.20%) Agile Software Development
19 60 (18.58%) XML
20 57 (17.65%) Derivative
21 55 (17.03%) Team Foundation Server
22 53 (16.41%) Investment Banking
23 50 (15.48%) TDD
24 49 (15.17%) Computer Science
24 49 (15.17%) Java
25 48 (14.86%) OOD
26 47 (14.55%) Degree
27 45 (13.93%) Visual Studio
28 43 (13.31%) Web Services

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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
1 229 (70.90%) .NET
2 161 (49.85%) WPF
3 78 (24.15%) WCF
4 64 (19.81%) ASP.NET
5 60 (18.58%) XML
6 43 (13.31%) Web Services
7 40 (12.38%) .NET Framework
8 36 (11.15%) jQuery
9 25 (7.740%) XSLT
10 22 (6.811%) Ajax
11 14 (4.334%) ASP.NET MVC
11 14 (4.334%) XSL
11 14 (4.334%) CSS
12 13 (4.025%) LINQ
13 12 (3.715%) HTML5
14 11 (3.406%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 11 (3.406%) Silverlight
14 11 (3.406%) ASP
14 11 (3.406%) Hibernate
14 11 (3.406%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 27 (8.359%) IIS
1 27 (8.359%) SharePoint
2 17 (5.263%) CMS
3 10 (3.096%) Oracle Coherence
4 6 (1.858%) Rendezvous
5 2 (0.619%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.619%) Immediacy CMS
5 2 (0.619%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.619%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (0.619%) TIBCO EMS
6 1 (0.310%) Confluence
6 1 (0.310%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (0.310%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 32 (9.907%) MS Office
2 17 (5.263%) MS Excel
3 2 (0.619%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.548%) Temenos T24
2 3 (0.929%) RMDS
3 2 (0.619%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.310%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 11 (3.406%) HTTP
2 9 (2.786%) Internet
3 6 (1.858%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.310%) SAN
4 1 (0.310%) IKE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (53.87%) SQL Server
2 71 (21.98%) SQL Server 2008
3 63 (19.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 41 (12.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 28 (8.669%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 24 (7.430%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 21 (6.502%) SQL Server 2005
8 6 (1.858%) Oracle 8/8i
8 6 (1.858%) MS Access
8 6 (1.858%) Ingres
9 3 (0.929%) PowerCenter
9 3 (0.929%) SQL Server 2000
10 2 (0.619%) Oracle OLAP
10 2 (0.619%) MySQL
10 2 (0.619%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.619%) OLAP
11 1 (0.310%) Oracle Reports
11 1 (0.310%) Data Warehouse
11 1 (0.310%) OLTP
11 1 (0.310%) KDB
Development Applications
1 55 (17.03%) Team Foundation Server
2 45 (13.93%) Visual Studio
3 26 (8.050%) Subversion
4 16 (4.954%) Maven
5 12 (3.715%) TeamCity
6 10 (3.096%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (1.858%) Selenium
8 5 (1.548%) JUnit
8 5 (1.548%) NUnit
9 2 (0.619%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
9 2 (0.619%) Expression Blend
10 1 (0.310%) Moq
10 1 (0.310%) Git (software)
10 1 (0.310%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.310%) Visual Studio Team System
10 1 (0.310%) JIRA
General
1 120 (37.15%) Finance
2 114 (35.29%) Front Office
3 100 (30.96%) Banking
4 53 (16.41%) Investment Banking
5 19 (5.882%) Legal
6 10 (3.096%) Telecoms
7 8 (2.477%) Back Office
8 7 (2.167%) Publishing
9 6 (1.858%) Games
9 6 (1.858%) Retail
10 3 (0.929%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.619%) Advertising
11 2 (0.619%) Law
12 1 (0.310%) Billing
Job Titles
1 260 (80.50%) Developer
2 178 (55.11%) C# Developer
3 73 (22.60%) .NET Developer
4 58 (17.96%) C# .NET Developer
5 35 (10.84%) WPF Developer
6 31 (9.598%) Senior Developer
7 26 (8.050%) Team Leader
8 22 (6.811%) Development Team Leader
8 22 (6.811%) Process Engineer
9 20 (6.192%) Software Development Engineer
9 20 (6.192%) Development Engineer
9 20 (6.192%) Software Engineer
10 17 (5.263%) Java Developer
10 17 (5.263%) Senior C# Developer
11 12 (3.715%) WinForms Developer
11 12 (3.715%) SQL Developer
12 11 (3.406%) Software Developer
12 11 (3.406%) Programmer
12 11 (3.406%) Front-End Developer
13 10 (3.096%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 57 (17.65%) Derivative
2 49 (15.17%) Computer Science
3 39 (12.07%) Fixed Income
4 27 (8.359%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 24 (7.430%) Hedge funds
6 22 (6.811%) Equity Derivative
7 16 (4.954%) N-Tier
8 11 (3.406%) Equities
9 9 (2.786%) Interest Rate Derivative
9 9 (2.786%) Grid Computing
10 8 (2.477%) Mathematics
11 7 (2.167%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.858%) Credit Derivative
12 6 (1.858%) BBC
13 5 (1.548%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.548%) RIA
14 4 (1.238%) Physics
15 3 (0.929%) Client/Server
15 3 (0.929%) Visualisation
15 3 (0.929%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 97 (30.03%) Windows
2 37 (11.46%) UNIX
3 25 (7.740%) Linux
4 1 (0.310%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.310%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (27.86%) OO
2 72 (22.29%) Multithreading
3 64 (19.81%) Unit Testing
4 62 (19.20%) Agile Software Development
5 50 (15.48%) TDD
6 48 (14.86%) OOD
7 37 (11.46%) Risk Management
8 32 (9.907%) Web Development
9 29 (8.978%) Scrum
10 28 (8.669%) MVC
10 28 (8.669%) System Testing
11 25 (7.740%) OOP
12 22 (6.811%) Configuration Management
13 19 (5.882%) Waterfall
14 18 (5.573%) Software Testing
15 14 (4.334%) ETL
15 14 (4.334%) Data Modelling
16 13 (4.025%) Business Intelligence
17 11 (3.406%) Data Management
18 10 (3.096%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 318 (98.45%) C#
2 141 (43.65%) SQL
3 49 (15.17%) Java
4 43 (13.31%) JavaScript
5 36 (11.15%) T-SQL
6 32 (9.907%) VB.NET
7 19 (5.882%) VB
8 17 (5.263%) VBA
9 14 (4.334%) C++
10 12 (3.715%) Python
10 12 (3.715%) PL/SQL
11 7 (2.167%) VB6
12 5 (1.548%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.929%) MATLAB
13 3 (0.929%) XAML
14 2 (0.619%) Fortran
15 1 (0.310%) Delphi
15 1 (0.310%) Perl
15 1 (0.310%) Haskell
15 1 (0.310%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 47 (14.55%) Degree
2 7 (2.167%) ISTQB
2 7 (2.167%) ISEB
3 6 (1.858%) MCTS
3 6 (1.858%) MCPD
4 2 (0.619%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.310%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.406%) QA
System Software
1 6 (1.858%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 79 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 65 (20.12%) Oracle
3 21 (6.502%) TIBCO
4 11 (3.406%) DataSynapse
5 10 (3.096%) 29West
6 9 (2.786%) Telerik
7 7 (2.167%) VMware
8 6 (1.858%) Sony
8 6 (1.858%) Ektron
9 5 (1.548%) Sybase
10 3 (0.929%) Reuters
10 3 (0.929%) Informatica
11 2 (0.619%) Perforce
11 2 (0.619%) Sophis
11 2 (0.619%) Alterian
11 2 (0.619%) Bloomberg
11 2 (0.619%) Calypso
11 2 (0.619%) Intel
11 2 (0.619%) Twitter
11 2 (0.619%) Syncfusion
City, London
A leading specialised Global Securities Investment Bank based in London City is seeking a new Senior C# .NET Back Office Developer (SQL, Winforms/ WPF) to work on their...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + bonus and benefits and training
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
The systems you work on are complex and highly transactional and built in C#, .NET 3.5, SQL, TFS, ASP.NET and Winforms or WCF... This is a...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + bonus and benefits and training
Posted: 19 May 2013
City of London
Skills Required: C# Development Winforms and WPF UI Development LINQ Multithreading SQL Server The successful candidate will come from an excellent academic background, with a strong numerate degree...
Huxley Associates
Salary: Competitive Salary and Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Skills Required: C# Development Winforms and WPF UI Development LINQ Multithreading SQL Server The successful candidate will come from an excellent academic background, with a strong numerate degree...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
There are extensive upgrades planned to build new and improve existing systems primarily with C#/.NET framework For this role, the C# Developer is required to design and...
Real Staffing
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Beneficial WPF or Silverlight. - Beneficial ASP.NET and Winforms Development experience... C#, Developer, Programmer, WPF, Winforms, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Silverlight, Finance, Financial Services, Software... C# Developer, WPF,...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Package + Bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013
City of London
C# Developer, WPF, ASP.NET, SQL Server Minimum 2 years commercial C# Development experience - Must Have SQL Server, Stored Procedures etc... C#, Developer, Programmer, WPF, Winforms, ASP.NET,...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Excellent Package + Bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013
City, London
They are looking for senior C# developers who have either Finance or Consulting experience... For the role you will need experience of C#, ASP.NET, SQL additional knowledge...
Aston Carter
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Extensive Package + Bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013
City, London
C# Developer .Net WPF UI London to £55k. C# Developer / .Net Programmer (WPF UI C# .Net Front Office Trading)... Requirements for C# Developer: Commercial C# .Net development experience,...
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £55k + bonus (c50%) + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Ideally you will have experience of most of the following: *Proven C# skills *Experience in .Net *Basic knowledge of Winforms *WPF *Proficiency in PL/SQL, SQL *Unix Scripting *...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INS,PENSION
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Ideally you will have experience of most of the following: *Proven C# skills *Experience in .Net *Basic knowledge of Winforms *WPF *Proficiency in PL/SQL, SQL *Unix Scripting *...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INS,PENSION
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
This is a great C# role for an excellent C#developer with or without banking experience. The C# candidate needs to demonstrate in-depth OOD, multi-threaded development,...
Real Staffing
Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
The successful candidate will need experience with; JAVA, Spring, Hibernate, C# .Net WinForms, Oracle Coherence (Distributed Caching), Data Synapse (Grid Computing), TIBCO (Enterprise Messaging), Unix/Linux, Maven, Subversion (...
iKas International
Salary: £60000 - £100000 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013