The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Basingstoke region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing LINQ 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 3.015% - -
As % of the Application Development category 6.316% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £310 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.75 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-26.42% -17.64%
All Application Development
Basingstoke
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
95 82 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Basingstoke 47.74% 43.85% 28.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 24 27
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £260 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £403 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 14
Average hourly rate £23.13 £24.25 £34.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.63% -29.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
LINQ
Hampshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke LINQ Jobs Demand Trend

LINQ
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LINQ across the Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing LINQ 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited LINQ.

1 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) SQL Server
2 14 (93.33%) Scrum
3 12 (80.00%) WCF
4 10 (66.67%) MVC
4 10 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 10 (66.67%) jQuery
4 10 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 9 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 9 (60.00%) SQL
5 9 (60.00%) TDD
6 7 (46.67%) Subversion
6 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
6 7 (46.67%) SQL Server 2005
6 7 (46.67%) .NET Framework
6 7 (46.67%) ReSharper
6 7 (46.67%) Selenium
6 7 (46.67%) T-SQL
6 7 (46.67%) MySQL
6 7 (46.67%) SQL Server 2000
6 7 (46.67%) Web Services
6 7 (46.67%) XML
6 7 (46.67%) OO
6 7 (46.67%) WSDL
6 7 (46.67%) XML Schema
6 7 (46.67%) BDD
6 7 (46.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 7 (46.67%) Kanban
6 7 (46.67%) Cloud Computing

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Basingstoke region citing LINQ also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited LINQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (80.00%) WCF
3 10 (66.67%) jQuery
3 10 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
3 10 (66.67%) ASP.NET
4 7 (46.67%) .NET Framework
4 7 (46.67%) Web Services
4 7 (46.67%) XML
4 7 (46.67%) WSDL
4 7 (46.67%) XML Schema
4 7 (46.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (20.00%) Ajax
5 3 (20.00%) HTML
5 3 (20.00%) CSS
6 2 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 2 (13.33%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (6.667%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 5 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (6.667%) CMS
2 1 (6.667%) Umbraco
2 1 (6.667%) Sitecore CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (93.33%) SQL Server
2 9 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (46.67%) MySQL
3 7 (46.67%) SQL Server 2000
3 7 (46.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Subversion
1 7 (46.67%) ReSharper
1 7 (46.67%) Selenium
1 7 (46.67%) Git (software)
1 7 (46.67%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 12 (80.00%) C# Developer
3 9 (60.00%) .NET Developer
4 7 (46.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 7 (46.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 7 (46.67%) Agile .NET Developer
4 7 (46.67%) Agile C# Developer
4 7 (46.67%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Lead C# Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
5 1 (6.667%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (46.67%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Scrum
2 10 (66.67%) MVC
3 9 (60.00%) TDD
4 7 (46.67%) Kanban
4 7 (46.67%) BDD
4 7 (46.67%) OO
4 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (6.667%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 7 (46.67%) T-SQL
4 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) Sitecore