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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 224 160 105
Rank change year-on-year
-64 -55
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 542 876 1349
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 1.239% 1.633% 2.326%
As % of the Application Development category 3.080% 4.012% 5.874%
Number of salaries quoted 504 789 1159
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.34%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £90,000 £75,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17599 21837 22966
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 40.24% 40.71% 39.60%
Number of salaries quoted 15254 19449 20169
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,250
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WinForms
England

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 London region.

London WinForms Salary Trend

WinForms
Salary Histogram

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

London 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 London 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
City of London -43 151 £55,000 -4.34%
Croydon - 6 £42,500 -
Wembley +10 3 £52,500 +16.66%
Canary Wharf +2 2 £65,000 +18.18%
Enfield 0 2 £32,250 -14.00%
Ealing -10 2 £42,500 -
Romford - 1 - -
Hammersmith - 1 £55,000 -
Wimbledon - 1 £40,000 -
Chiswick - 1 £45,000 -
WinForms
England

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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 1189 (97.14%) C#
2 992 (81.05%) .NET
3 794 (64.87%) SQL Server
4 748 (61.11%) WPF
5 494 (40.36%) WCF
6 493 (40.28%) SQL
7 490 (40.03%) Finance
8 463 (37.83%) Windows
9 423 (34.56%) ASP.NET
10 381 (31.13%) TDD
11 341 (27.86%) Microsoft
12 294 (24.02%) Banking
13 290 (23.69%) SQL Server 2008
14 286 (23.37%) MVC
15 279 (22.79%) Scrum
15 279 (22.79%) OO
15 279 (22.79%) Multithreading
16 253 (20.67%) Front Office
17 243 (19.85%) Degree
18 235 (19.20%) ASP.NET MVC
19 229 (18.71%) Computer Science
20 205 (16.75%) NUnit
21 193 (15.77%) MCTS
22 190 (15.52%) MVVM
23 188 (15.36%) Microsoft Certification
23 188 (15.36%) .NET Framework
24 186 (15.20%) MCP
24 186 (15.20%) MCAD
24 186 (15.20%) MCSD
25 185 (15.11%) Oracle

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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
1 992 (81.05%) .NET
2 748 (61.11%) WPF
3 494 (40.36%) WCF
4 423 (34.56%) ASP.NET
5 235 (19.20%) ASP.NET MVC
6 188 (15.36%) .NET Framework
7 182 (14.87%) NHibernate
8 151 (12.34%) LINQ
9 148 (12.09%) XML
10 122 (9.967%) jQuery
11 121 (9.886%) Web Services
12 119 (9.722%) Castle Windsor
13 109 (8.905%) Razor View Engine
14 108 (8.824%) Ajax
15 95 (7.761%) CSS
16 93 (7.598%) ASP.NET MVC 4
16 93 (7.598%) Silverlight
17 87 (7.108%) HTML
18 78 (6.373%) ASP.NET MVC 3
19 68 (5.556%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 107 (8.742%) SharePoint
2 71 (5.801%) IIS
3 38 (3.105%) CMS
4 31 (2.533%) BizTalk Server
5 21 (1.716%) SharePoint Server
6 18 (1.471%) SharePoint 2010
7 16 (1.307%) Oracle Workflow
8 15 (1.225%) Oracle Coherence
8 15 (1.225%) TIBCO EMS
9 12 (0.980%) Windows Azure
10 11 (0.899%) MSMQ
10 11 (0.899%) SharePoint 2013
11 9 (0.735%) Rendezvous
12 6 (0.490%) Sitecore CMS
13 2 (0.163%) MS Project Server
13 2 (0.163%) Immediacy CMS
13 2 (0.163%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.163%) LiveSite
14 1 (0.082%) ActiveMQ
14 1 (0.082%) Confluence
Applications
1 113 (9.232%) MS Excel
2 42 (3.431%) MS Office
3 10 (0.817%) Spreadsheet
4 2 (0.163%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.082%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.082%) Fireworks
5 1 (0.082%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (0.572%) Temenos T24
2 6 (0.490%) Agresso
3 3 (0.245%) RMDS
3 3 (0.245%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.082%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.595%) TCP/IP
2 26 (2.124%) Broadband
3 21 (1.716%) HTTP
4 14 (1.144%) Internet
5 6 (0.490%) Intranet
6 3 (0.245%) VoIP
7 1 (0.082%) IKE
7 1 (0.082%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.082%) SAN
7 1 (0.082%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 794 (64.87%) SQL Server
2 290 (23.69%) SQL Server 2008
3 141 (11.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 87 (7.108%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 65 (5.310%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 61 (4.984%) SQL Server 2005
7 47 (3.840%) SQL Server 2012
8 37 (3.023%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 21 (1.716%) Oracle 8/8i
10 18 (1.471%) RDBMS
10 18 (1.471%) MS Access
11 15 (1.225%) MySQL
12 10 (0.817%) Ingres
12 10 (0.817%) OLTP
13 8 (0.654%) DB2
14 7 (0.572%) PowerCenter
15 6 (0.490%) OLAP
15 6 (0.490%) DTS
16 4 (0.327%) Oracle 11g
16 4 (0.327%) KDB
Development Applications
1 205 (16.75%) NUnit
2 185 (15.11%) Rhino Mocks
3 114 (9.314%) Team Foundation Server
4 109 (8.905%) Moq
5 107 (8.742%) Visual Studio
6 94 (7.680%) Subversion
7 53 (4.330%) Oracle Forms
7 53 (4.330%) MSTest
8 19 (1.552%) Maven
9 16 (1.307%) TeamCity
10 12 (0.980%) Selenium
11 8 (0.654%) WebDriver
12 4 (0.327%) JUnit
13 3 (0.245%) LLBLGen Pro
14 2 (0.163%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
14 2 (0.163%) Git (software)
14 2 (0.163%) Expression Blend
14 2 (0.163%) Eclipse
15 1 (0.082%) PowerDesigner
15 1 (0.082%) CruiseControl
General
1 490 (40.03%) Finance
2 294 (24.02%) Banking
3 253 (20.67%) Front Office
4 128 (10.46%) Investment Banking
5 75 (6.127%) Music
6 49 (4.003%) Telecoms
7 34 (2.778%) Back Office
8 29 (2.369%) Legal
9 22 (1.797%) Games
10 20 (1.634%) Law
11 17 (1.389%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.225%) Retail
13 11 (0.899%) Publishing
14 10 (0.817%) Pharmaceutical
15 4 (0.327%) Marketing
16 3 (0.245%) Online Betting
17 2 (0.163%) Billing
17 2 (0.163%) Advertising
18 1 (0.082%) International Banking
18 1 (0.082%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1050 (85.78%) Developer
2 636 (51.96%) C# Developer
3 386 (31.54%) .NET Developer
4 208 (16.99%) C# .NET Developer
5 190 (15.52%) Senior Developer
6 103 (8.415%) Senior C# Developer
7 77 (6.291%) WinForms Developer
7 77 (6.291%) Software Engineer
8 65 (5.310%) WPF Developer
9 62 (5.065%) Programmer
10 61 (4.984%) Agile C# Developer
11 56 (4.575%) SQL Developer
12 53 (4.330%) Team Leader
13 51 (4.167%) C# Software Engineer
14 50 (4.085%) Architect
15 47 (3.840%) ASP.NET Developer
15 47 (3.840%) C# ASP.NET Developer
16 46 (3.758%) Senior .NET Developer
17 45 (3.676%) C# Programmer
18 32 (2.614%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 229 (18.71%) Computer Science
2 141 (11.52%) Derivative
3 101 (8.252%) Fixed Income
4 96 (7.843%) Client/Server
5 84 (6.863%) Hedge funds
6 83 (6.781%) Mathematics
7 77 (6.291%) Equities
8 67 (5.474%) Physics
9 63 (5.147%) N-Tier
10 62 (5.065%) Inversion of Control
11 56 (4.575%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 51 (4.167%) Tandem
13 50 (4.085%) Grid Computing
14 38 (3.105%) Equity Derivative
15 31 (2.533%) Enterprise Software
16 23 (1.879%) Management Information System
17 18 (1.471%) Interest Rate Derivative
18 16 (1.307%) Commodity Exotics
19 13 (1.062%) SaaS
20 10 (0.817%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 463 (37.83%) Windows
2 84 (6.863%) UNIX
3 57 (4.657%) Linux
4 11 (0.899%) Oracle Linux
5 7 (0.572%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (0.163%) Windows 7
6 2 (0.163%) Windows 2000
6 2 (0.163%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.082%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (31.13%) TDD
2 286 (23.37%) MVC
3 279 (22.79%) Scrum
3 279 (22.79%) OO
3 279 (22.79%) Multithreading
4 190 (15.52%) MVVM
5 179 (14.62%) Agile Software Development
6 149 (12.17%) Unit Testing
7 135 (11.03%) Kanban
8 117 (9.559%) OOD
9 115 (9.395%) Risk Management
10 108 (8.824%) Web Application Development
11 103 (8.415%) BDD
12 92 (7.516%) OOP
13 71 (5.801%) Continuous Integration
14 69 (5.637%) Dependency Injection
15 64 (5.229%) OOA/OOD
16 58 (4.739%) Web Development
17 52 (4.248%) Parallel Computing
18 50 (4.085%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1189 (97.14%) C#
2 493 (40.28%) SQL
3 178 (14.54%) T-SQL
4 170 (13.89%) JavaScript
5 128 (10.46%) Java
6 119 (9.722%) VB.NET
7 110 (8.987%) C++
8 108 (8.824%) VB
9 44 (3.595%) VB6
10 35 (2.859%) Python
11 34 (2.778%) VBA
12 33 (2.696%) PL/SQL
13 17 (1.389%) F#
14 16 (1.307%) XAML
15 12 (0.980%) C
16 9 (0.735%) Shell Script
16 9 (0.735%) Perl
17 7 (0.572%) Fortran
17 7 (0.572%) MATLAB
18 4 (0.327%) Korn
Qualifications
1 243 (19.85%) Degree
2 193 (15.77%) MCTS
3 188 (15.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 186 (15.20%) MCP
4 186 (15.20%) MCAD
4 186 (15.20%) MCSD
5 12 (0.980%) Security Cleared
6 10 (0.817%) SC Cleared
6 10 (0.817%) DV Cleared
7 7 (0.572%) MCPD
8 6 (0.490%) PhD
9 5 (0.408%) ISEB
9 5 (0.408%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (2.288%) QA
2 8 (0.654%) SLA
3 4 (0.327%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.082%) IAS 39
System Software
1 8 (0.654%) Active Directory
2 7 (0.572%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (0.490%) SCCM
1 6 (0.490%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (0.163%) WMI
Vendors
1 341 (27.86%) Microsoft
2 185 (15.11%) Oracle
3 42 (3.431%) TIBCO
4 31 (2.533%) Sybase
5 27 (2.206%) Infragistics
6 24 (1.961%) Sun
7 21 (1.716%) DevExpress
8 16 (1.307%) DataSynapse
9 11 (0.899%) 29West
10 9 (0.735%) HP
10 9 (0.735%) SAP
10 9 (0.735%) Telerik
11 8 (0.654%) VMware
12 7 (0.572%) Informatica
12 7 (0.572%) Ektron
12 7 (0.572%) Syncfusion
13 6 (0.490%) Sitecore
13 6 (0.490%) Sony
13 6 (0.490%) Bloomberg
14 5 (0.408%) Reuters
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