The first table below looks at the demand for WinForms skills in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited WinForms over the 3 months to 23 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 Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 45 50 39
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -11
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 14 11 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 2.905% 1.993% 3.368%
As % of the Application Development category 5.109% 3.833% 5.830%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 11
Average salary £40,000 £37,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.10% +19.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £48,300 £42,500 £36,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Application Development
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
274 287 223
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 56.85% 51.99% 57.77%
Number of salaries quoted 255 270 202
Average salary £33,000 £31,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.76% +1.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £42,500 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WinForms
North West

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

Lancashire WinForms Salary Trend

WinForms
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing WinForms across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Lancashire 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 Lancashire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Lancaster - 6 £40,000 -
Preston +8 5 £31,000 -12.67%
Lytham St Annes - 1 £35,000 -
WinForms
North West

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (96.43%) ASP.NET
3 26 (92.86%) C#
4 19 (67.86%) HTML
4 19 (67.86%) CSS
4 19 (67.86%) WCF
5 16 (57.14%) SQL Server
6 14 (50.00%) MVC
7 12 (42.86%) TDD
7 12 (42.86%) SQL
8 11 (39.29%) VB.NET
8 11 (39.29%) WPF
8 11 (39.29%) Team Foundation Server
8 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET MVC
9 10 (35.71%) LINQ
10 9 (32.14%) SQL Server 2008
10 9 (32.14%) SQL Server 2005
10 9 (32.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (32.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (32.14%) MS Excel
10 9 (32.14%) T-SQL
10 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
10 9 (32.14%) Finance
10 9 (32.14%) Microsoft
11 8 (28.57%) Windows
12 7 (25.00%) Web Services
12 7 (25.00%) XML
12 7 (25.00%) jQuery
12 7 (25.00%) Web Application Development
13 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 28 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (96.43%) ASP.NET
3 19 (67.86%) HTML
3 19 (67.86%) CSS
3 19 (67.86%) WCF
4 11 (39.29%) WPF
4 11 (39.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (35.71%) LINQ
6 7 (25.00%) Web Services
6 7 (25.00%) XML
6 7 (25.00%) jQuery
7 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 6 (21.43%) Unity DI Container
7 6 (21.43%) Castle Windsor
7 6 (21.43%) Ninject
7 6 (21.43%) Razor View Engine
7 6 (21.43%) Spring.NET
8 5 (17.86%) XSL
8 5 (17.86%) JSON
9 4 (14.29%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (17.86%) CMS
Applications
1 9 (32.14%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 9 (32.14%) SQL Server 2008
2 9 (32.14%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (32.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (32.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (21.43%) MSTest
2 6 (21.43%) Rhino Mocks
2 6 (21.43%) Moq
2 6 (21.43%) NUnit
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 5 (17.86%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 28 (100.00%) Developer
2 9 (32.14%) Software Developer
3 8 (28.57%) .NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 6 (21.43%) C# Developer
4 6 (21.43%) Web Developer
5 1 (3.571%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (3.571%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (3.571%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 8 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) MVC
2 12 (42.86%) TDD
3 7 (25.00%) Web Application Development
4 6 (21.43%) Kanban
4 6 (21.43%) Dependency Injection
4 6 (21.43%) MVVM
4 6 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (21.43%) Scrum
5 5 (17.86%) E-Commerce
5 5 (17.86%) Web Development
6 2 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.571%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 26 (92.86%) C#
2 12 (42.86%) SQL
3 11 (39.29%) VB.NET
4 9 (32.14%) T-SQL
4 9 (32.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.143%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) MCTS
1 6 (21.43%) MCP
1 6 (21.43%) MCAD
1 6 (21.43%) MCSD
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (17.86%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) Microsoft