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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Windows Forms (WinForms)
Rank 49 43 34
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -9
Permanent jobs citing WinForms 1 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 0.264% 1.531% 0.866%
As % of the Application Development category 1.149% 3.846% 2.198%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 2
Average salary £37,500 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.53% +9.33%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Application Development
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
87 156 91
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 22.96% 39.80% 39.39%
Number of salaries quoted 64 117 84
Average salary £37,500 £41,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.53% +17.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £28,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
WinForms
Bedfordshire

WinForms
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton WinForms Salary Trend

WinForms
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 8 (100.00%) C#
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (87.50%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 6 (75.00%) Scrum
3 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (75.00%) Web Services
4 5 (62.50%) Windows
4 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
4 5 (62.50%) ETL
4 5 (62.50%) BizTalk Server
5 3 (37.50%) MVC
5 3 (37.50%) Finance
5 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
5 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
6 2 (25.00%) XML
6 2 (25.00%) NUnit
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
6 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
7 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (12.50%) BDD
7 1 (12.50%) Regression Analysis
7 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
7 1 (12.50%) WCF
7 1 (12.50%) WF
7 1 (12.50%) Use Case

WinForms
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (75.00%) Web Services
3 2 (25.00%) XML
3 2 (25.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (12.50%) WCF
4 1 (12.50%) WF
4 1 (12.50%) jQuery
4 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (12.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (12.50%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
1 5 (62.50%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (75.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (12.50%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (12.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (25.00%) NUnit
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
1 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (87.50%) .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Software Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) .NET Team Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Agile .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Agile C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) C# Developer
4 1 (12.50%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
1 1 (12.50%) Statistics
1 1 (12.50%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Scrum
2 5 (62.50%) ETL
3 3 (37.50%) MVC
3 3 (37.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (12.50%) TDD
4 1 (12.50%) Web Development
4 1 (12.50%) Use Case
4 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) Regression Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) T-SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB
2 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
2 1 (12.50%) VB6
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft