The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 24 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 179 136 113
Rank change year-on-year
-43 -23
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 1590 2134 2482
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.572% 1.882% 2.107%
As % of the Application Development category 3.852% 4.460% 5.209%
Number of salaries quoted 1498 1972 2236
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41278 47846 47649
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.81% 42.21% 40.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36239 42684 42303
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WinForms
UK

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England WinForms Salary Trend

WinForms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WinForms across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London -64 542 £55,000 -
South East -32 365 £40,000 +6.66%
East of England -11 193 £37,500 -11.24%
North West -46 119 £33,000 +1.53%
West Midlands +12 114 £37,500 +25.00%
East Midlands +15 105 £37,500 -
Yorkshire -24 102 £33,000 +1.54%
South West -25 42 £37,500 +7.14%
North East +8 10 £22,500 -38.35%
WinForms
UK

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 3214 (93.40%) C#
2 3112 (90.44%) .NET
3 2389 (69.43%) SQL Server
4 1952 (56.73%) WPF
5 1859 (54.02%) ASP.NET
6 1558 (45.28%) Windows
7 1438 (41.79%) WCF
8 1289 (37.46%) SQL
9 1097 (31.88%) TDD
10 1078 (31.33%) MVC
11 958 (27.84%) Microsoft
12 947 (27.52%) Scrum
13 822 (23.89%) Finance
14 808 (23.48%) ASP.NET MVC
15 757 (22.00%) NUnit
16 727 (21.13%) MVVM
17 720 (20.92%) Microsoft Certification
18 694 (20.17%) OO
19 672 (19.53%) MCSD
20 671 (19.50%) MCP
20 671 (19.50%) MCAD
21 665 (19.33%) .NET Framework
22 662 (19.24%) MCTS
22 662 (19.24%) Rhino Mocks
23 640 (18.60%) VB.NET
24 605 (17.58%) Kanban
25 574 (16.68%) Degree
26 566 (16.45%) SQL Server 2008
27 564 (16.39%) Moq
28 559 (16.25%) JavaScript

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 3112 (90.44%) .NET
2 1952 (56.73%) WPF
3 1859 (54.02%) ASP.NET
4 1438 (41.79%) WCF
5 808 (23.48%) ASP.NET MVC
6 665 (19.33%) .NET Framework
7 557 (16.19%) Castle Windsor
8 494 (14.36%) Ninject
9 488 (14.18%) Razor View Engine
10 485 (14.09%) HTML
11 483 (14.04%) Web Services
12 479 (13.92%) XML
13 478 (13.89%) Unity DI Container
14 475 (13.80%) Spring.NET
15 463 (13.46%) CSS
16 452 (13.14%) ASP.NET MVC 4
17 373 (10.84%) jQuery
18 329 (9.561%) LINQ
19 288 (8.370%) NHibernate
20 286 (8.312%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 218 (6.335%) SharePoint
2 152 (4.417%) IIS
3 79 (2.296%) CMS
4 69 (2.005%) BizTalk Server
5 46 (1.337%) Windows Azure
6 38 (1.104%) SharePoint 2010
7 25 (0.727%) SharePoint Server
8 21 (0.610%) Oracle Workflow
9 18 (0.523%) SharePoint 2013
10 15 (0.436%) TIBCO EMS
10 15 (0.436%) Oracle Coherence
11 14 (0.407%) MSMQ
12 13 (0.378%) Kentico
13 12 (0.349%) Umbraco
14 9 (0.262%) Rendezvous
15 8 (0.232%) Sitecore CMS
16 7 (0.203%) WordPress
17 4 (0.116%) MS Exchange
18 3 (0.087%) ESB
18 3 (0.087%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 333 (9.677%) MS Excel
2 68 (1.976%) MS Office
3 18 (0.523%) Photoshop
4 12 (0.349%) Adobe Illustrator
5 10 (0.291%) Spreadsheet
6 6 (0.174%) Fireworks
7 4 (0.116%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.087%) MS Visio
9 2 (0.058%) InfoPath
10 1 (0.029%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 56 (1.627%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.291%) Agresso
3 7 (0.203%) Temenos T24
4 5 (0.145%) Dynamics NAV
5 3 (0.087%) RMDS
5 3 (0.087%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.087%) Google Analytics
6 2 (0.058%) Tridion
6 2 (0.058%) Visualfiles
7 1 (0.029%) ION MarketView
7 1 (0.029%) Summit
7 1 (0.029%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 60 (1.744%) Internet
2 53 (1.540%) HTTP
3 50 (1.453%) TCP/IP
4 31 (0.901%) Intranet
5 29 (0.843%) Broadband
6 6 (0.174%) Firewall
7 4 (0.116%) HTTPS
7 4 (0.116%) LDAP
8 3 (0.087%) FTP
8 3 (0.087%) VoIP
9 2 (0.058%) WAN
9 2 (0.058%) GSM
9 2 (0.058%) Kerberos
9 2 (0.058%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.058%) Cisco ICM
10 1 (0.029%) AMQP
10 1 (0.029%) SSH
10 1 (0.029%) SSL
10 1 (0.029%) IKE
10 1 (0.029%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2389 (69.43%) SQL Server
2 566 (16.45%) SQL Server 2008
3 269 (7.817%) SQL Server 2005
4 264 (7.672%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 180 (5.231%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 109 (3.168%) SQL Server 2012
7 86 (2.499%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 55 (1.598%) Oracle 8/8i
9 47 (1.366%) MySQL
10 46 (1.337%) Crystal Reports
11 42 (1.221%) Microsoft Analysis Services
12 34 (0.988%) RDBMS
13 32 (0.930%) MS Access
14 21 (0.610%) Oracle 11g
15 18 (0.523%) DTS
15 18 (0.523%) Oracle 10g
16 16 (0.465%) Oracle 9i
16 16 (0.465%) Oracle Reports
17 13 (0.378%) SQL Server 2000
18 12 (0.349%) GIS
Development Applications
1 757 (22.00%) NUnit
2 662 (19.24%) Rhino Mocks
3 564 (16.39%) Moq
4 501 (14.56%) MSTest
5 400 (11.62%) Visual Studio
6 260 (7.556%) Team Foundation Server
7 157 (4.563%) Subversion
8 80 (2.325%) Oracle Forms
9 44 (1.279%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 29 (0.843%) TeamCity
11 22 (0.639%) Visual Studio Team System
12 20 (0.581%) JIRA
13 19 (0.552%) Selenium
13 19 (0.552%) Maven
13 19 (0.552%) PowerBuilder
14 12 (0.349%) WebDriver
15 7 (0.203%) Dreamweaver
16 6 (0.174%) Git (software)
17 5 (0.145%) InstallShield
18 4 (0.116%) JUnit
General
1 822 (23.89%) Finance
2 334 (9.706%) Banking
3 262 (7.614%) Front Office
4 150 (4.359%) Investment Banking
5 96 (2.790%) Music
6 72 (2.092%) Telecoms
7 62 (1.802%) Back Office
8 58 (1.686%) Manufacturing
9 56 (1.627%) Retail
10 46 (1.337%) Legal
11 43 (1.250%) Marketing
12 36 (1.046%) Law
13 30 (0.872%) Financial Institution
14 27 (0.785%) Games
15 17 (0.494%) Publishing
16 16 (0.465%) Advertising
17 15 (0.436%) Aerospace
17 15 (0.436%) Automotive
18 13 (0.378%) Pharmaceutical
19 4 (0.116%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2994 (87.01%) Developer
2 1511 (43.91%) .NET Developer
3 1399 (40.66%) C# Developer
4 744 (21.62%) C# .NET Developer
5 409 (11.89%) Software Developer
6 366 (10.64%) Senior Developer
7 272 (7.905%) Software Engineer
8 225 (6.539%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 219 (6.364%) ASP.NET Developer
10 195 (5.667%) Senior C# Developer
11 164 (4.766%) C# Software Developer
12 150 (4.359%) Junior
13 148 (4.301%) Junior Developer
13 148 (4.301%) WinForms Developer
14 138 (4.010%) Graduate
15 135 (3.923%) C# Software Engineer
16 130 (3.778%) Graduate Developer
17 125 (3.633%) VB.NET Developer
18 124 (3.604%) .NET Software Developer
19 115 (3.342%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 480 (13.95%) Inversion of Control
2 423 (12.29%) Computer Science
3 186 (5.405%) N-Tier
3 186 (5.405%) Enterprise Software
4 157 (4.563%) Client/Server
5 141 (4.098%) Derivative
6 140 (4.069%) Mathematics
7 101 (2.935%) Fixed Income
8 86 (2.499%) Physics
9 84 (2.441%) Hedge funds
10 81 (2.354%) Tandem
11 77 (2.238%) Equities
12 63 (1.831%) Mobile App
13 56 (1.627%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 50 (1.453%) Grid Computing
15 38 (1.104%) Equity Derivative
16 33 (0.959%) Visualisation
17 30 (0.872%) Management Information System
18 22 (0.639%) iPad
19 18 (0.523%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 1558 (45.28%) Windows
2 96 (2.790%) UNIX
3 74 (2.151%) Linux
4 32 (0.930%) Android
5 22 (0.639%) Windows Mobile
6 17 (0.494%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.436%) Windows Server 2008
8 11 (0.320%) Oracle Linux
9 8 (0.232%) Windows 8
10 4 (0.116%) Windows 2000
10 4 (0.116%) Windows 7
11 2 (0.058%) Windows CE
11 2 (0.058%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.058%) Windows XP
11 2 (0.058%) Solaris
11 2 (0.058%) Windows Phone 8
11 2 (0.058%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 1097 (31.88%) TDD
2 1078 (31.33%) MVC
3 947 (27.52%) Scrum
4 727 (21.13%) MVVM
5 694 (20.17%) OO
6 605 (17.58%) Kanban
7 518 (15.05%) Web Application Development
8 516 (15.00%) Agile Software Development
9 515 (14.97%) Continuous Integration
10 507 (14.73%) Dependency Injection
11 366 (10.64%) Multithreading
12 237 (6.888%) OOD
13 232 (6.742%) Unit Testing
14 229 (6.655%) Web Development
15 181 (5.260%) OOP
16 168 (4.882%) BDD
17 152 (4.417%) Business Intelligence
18 139 (4.040%) Software Engineering
19 125 (3.633%) Risk Management
20 100 (2.906%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3214 (93.40%) C#
2 1289 (37.46%) SQL
3 640 (18.60%) VB.NET
4 559 (16.25%) JavaScript
5 491 (14.27%) T-SQL
6 399 (11.60%) VB
7 347 (10.08%) C++
8 221 (6.423%) Java
9 129 (3.749%) VB6
10 86 (2.499%) PL/SQL
11 67 (1.947%) C
12 58 (1.686%) VBA
13 49 (1.424%) Python
14 33 (0.959%) XAML
15 32 (0.930%) VC++
15 32 (0.930%) PHP
16 17 (0.494%) F#
17 15 (0.436%) XPath
18 13 (0.378%) Fortran
18 13 (0.378%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 720 (20.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 672 (19.53%) MCSD
3 671 (19.50%) MCP
3 671 (19.50%) MCAD
4 662 (19.24%) MCTS
5 574 (16.68%) Degree
6 47 (1.366%) Security Cleared
7 25 (0.727%) SC Cleared
8 21 (0.610%) DV Cleared
8 21 (0.610%) PhD
9 10 (0.291%) MCPD
10 7 (0.203%) ISTQB
10 7 (0.203%) ISEB
11 1 (0.029%) ISEB Practitioner
11 1 (0.029%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (2.354%) QA
2 16 (0.465%) SLA
3 9 (0.262%) ISO 9001
4 6 (0.174%) HL7
5 4 (0.116%) TickIT
5 4 (0.116%) WCAG
5 4 (0.116%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.029%) IAS 39
6 1 (0.029%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.029%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 18 (0.523%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.203%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.174%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 6 (0.174%) SCCM
2 2 (0.058%) WMI
2 2 (0.058%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (0.029%) Nagios
Vendors
1 958 (27.84%) Microsoft
2 324 (9.416%) Oracle
3 52 (1.511%) Infragistics
4 43 (1.250%) DevExpress
5 42 (1.221%) TIBCO
6 31 (0.901%) Sybase
7 27 (0.785%) Adobe
8 26 (0.756%) Telerik
9 25 (0.727%) Sun
10 16 (0.465%) DataSynapse
11 15 (0.436%) Twitter
11 15 (0.436%) Perforce
12 13 (0.378%) SAP
13 11 (0.320%) 29West
14 10 (0.291%) IBM
14 10 (0.291%) Google
15 9 (0.262%) Cognos
15 9 (0.262%) HP
16 8 (0.232%) VMware
16 8 (0.232%) Sitecore
Brentwood, Essex
This International Company are looking to bring 3 C# / .Net Developers into their rapidly growing company. With sites all over the country you will have the chance to...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
Primary skills are; C#, WinForms and or WPF, SQL Server, C#.NET, C# Desirables; C# ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, C++ As C# Developer you will be working on...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Essex
Software Applications Developer ( Winforms, SQL Server, Windows Forms, C#.NET, VB.NET ) needed... The ideal candidate will have commercial experience in Winforms, (Windows Forms) Development, C#.NET and...
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
York, North Yorkshire
C#.Net Developer - York - Excellent Web and Winforms roles available - Flexitime... C#.Net (ASP.Net or Winforms SQL TDD / Agile Entity Framework would be a benefit A flexible...
Vertical IT
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + Flexible working hours
Posted: 24 May 2013
Staffordshire, West Midlands
C# Winforms Developer - SQL, .Net, Software Developer - £40k - Great Company & Role!!C#, Winforms, SQL Server, Staffordshire - Cannock, Walsall, Wolverhampton, StaffordMy client are a highly established and successful solution...
IT Ventures Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Walsall, West Midlands (County)
C# or VB.Net Winforms skills?... Skills: You should be accustomed to Windows development with core skills in C# or VB.Net (ideally C# ) and you should have...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £26000 - £30000 per annum + pension etc
Posted: 23 May 2013
Bradford, Yorkshire
C# .Net Developer, Bradford / Leeds (West Yorkshire), £25-30k + private healthcare & pension NO TRAVEL! Fantastic opportunity to learn new cutting edge technologies within ERP / Accounting & Financial Software!A...
Nigel Frank International
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + private healthcare & pension
Posted: 22 May 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
C#.NET Developer - Leeds - £30,000 - £45,000 + Pension + Bonus. Max package = £50,000.Developer, Programmer, Engineer, C#, ASP.NET, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, WinForms, Windows Forms, WCF,...
Cornucopia IT Resourcing Limited
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + pension + bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
The Fundamental requirements we require are: *Delivering commercial products using C# and the .Net framework (Ideally v3.5/4.0) *Delivering commercial products using SQL Server Any exposure...
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Crewe, North West
They will be primarily working using C#, ASP.Net, SQL databases, JQuery, web services ... Proven commercial experience in a software development role using .Net and C# is essential...
Mint
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + holidays
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Excellent C#.NET and ASP.NET skills... Experience of Agile and Waterfall environments. SQL Server (at least 2005) experience (table design, stored procedures, query optimization) Excellent Windows GUI...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Staffordshire
C# Developers: WPF & Asp.Net Requirements... The Job The successful candidates will be possess strong knowledge in OOP techniques and will specialised in the development of either C#/...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013
Cannock, Staffordshire
My client is looking to recruit a Senior .Net Developer who has experience in C#, SQL Server and Windows Application Development... You will be working on C#, Windows...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Essential Skills: - Commercial development exposure to VB.NET and / or C# - Commercial development exposure to Windows Application Development with WPF and / or Winforms - Commercial development experience with SQL...
ninesharp
Salary: £30000 - £36000 per annum + attractive benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
C# .NET developer required for leading city Risk modelling team. Opportunity to learn WPF and Derivatives modelling. We are looking for 2 C# developers with strong RDBMS skills (...
McGregor Boyall
Posted: 24 May 2013
Skipton, North Yorkshire
C# / ASP.NET Developers / Skipton / North Yorkshire. Amazing opportunity with my Financial Services client based in North Yorkshire has arisen for C# / ASP.NET Developers. This is a...
QUANTICA
Salary: £42000 per annum + Excellent benefits!
Posted: 20 May 2013
Birkenhead, North West
Skills needed for this exciting opportunity are: C# WinForms or WPF Design Pattern MVVM SQL SSRS Agile Web Services XML During the past year as their reputation in...
Computer Futures
Salary: £38000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Developer, Programmer, Engineer, C#, ASP.NET, WPF, Windows Presentation Foundation, WinForms, Windows Forms, WCF, Windows Communication Foundation, MVC, SharePoint, Microsoft Dynamics, Dynamics CRM Cornucopia is currently working with...
Cornucopia IT Resourcing
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Pension + Bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
Bristol, South West
They appreciate this is hard to find and therefore willing to flex if someone is more experienced in one as the team are mixed, however the opportunity to...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus Health Pension
Posted: 16 May 2013
Bath, Avon
My client a prestigious and world renowned, innovative software house are seeking a number of talented developers (C#, Asp.Net)... The company work within an Agile environment, where...
TEKsystems
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013
Skipton, North Yorkshire
As well as experience of C#.Net, and SQL Server any additional experience of any of the following would also be of particular interest: ASP.net, WCF, JavaScript,...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Leicestershire
Web Developer/.NET Developer (Version 3.5/4) - C# or VB.NET/ASP.NET/Microsoft SQL Server/LINQ using Microsoft Visual Studio. A growing business requires a .NET...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Senior/Lead C# .Net Applications Developer, Winforms Developer, C, .Net, SQL Server, VB.Net to work for a prestigious Accountancy firm based in central London. You will have...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £75000 - £90000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
The Fundamental requirements we require are: *Delivering commercial products using C# and the .Net framework (Ideally v3.5/4.0) *Delivering commercial products using SQL Server Any exposure...
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £22000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013