The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 20 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 Berkshire 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 109 122 112
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -10
Contract jobs citing LINQ 12 10 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.504% 0.321% 0.601%
As % of the Application Development category 2.367% 1.894% 2.384%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 5
Average daily rate £364 £313 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.40% -2.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £313 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £383 £313 £380
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
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
507 528 755
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 21.30% 16.97% 25.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 223 250 329
Average daily rate £400 £325 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -2.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 9 54
Average hourly rate £35.00 £19.00 £42.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+84.21% -55.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire 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 Berkshire region.

Berkshire LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Reading - 3 £364 - 2
Windsor - - - -
Ascot - - - - 2
Bracknell - - - -
Maidenhead - - - - 3
Newbury - - - - 2
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 29 (100.00%) C#
1 29 (100.00%) .NET
2 25 (86.21%) MVC
3 24 (82.76%) JavaScript
4 22 (75.86%) HTML
4 22 (75.86%) CSS
4 22 (75.86%) .NET Framework
4 22 (75.86%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 20 (68.97%) ASP.NET
5 20 (68.97%) SQL Server
5 20 (68.97%) Microsoft
6 16 (55.17%) TDD
7 15 (51.72%) Scrum
7 15 (51.72%) MS Excel
7 15 (51.72%) SQL
8 14 (48.28%) jQuery
9 13 (44.83%) Ajax
9 13 (44.83%) ASP.NET MVC
10 12 (41.38%) Windows Azure
11 11 (37.93%) Visual Studio
12 10 (34.48%) Agile Software Development
13 9 (31.03%) ASP.NET MVC 3
14 8 (27.59%) Razor View Engine
14 8 (27.59%) WCF
15 7 (24.14%) SQL Server 2005
15 7 (24.14%) XML
16 6 (20.69%) IIS
16 6 (20.69%) Web Development
16 6 (20.69%) Team Foundation Server
17 5 (17.24%) XSLT

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire 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 29 (100.00%) .NET
2 22 (75.86%) HTML
2 22 (75.86%) CSS
2 22 (75.86%) .NET Framework
2 22 (75.86%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 20 (68.97%) ASP.NET
4 14 (48.28%) jQuery
5 13 (44.83%) Ajax
5 13 (44.83%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (31.03%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 8 (27.59%) Razor View Engine
7 8 (27.59%) WCF
8 7 (24.14%) XML
9 5 (17.24%) XSLT
9 5 (17.24%) XHTML
10 4 (13.79%) Ruby on Rails
11 3 (10.34%) MSMQ
11 3 (10.34%) HTML5
12 2 (6.897%) Web Services
12 2 (6.897%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 12 (41.38%) Windows Azure
2 6 (20.69%) IIS
3 3 (10.34%) ESB
4 1 (3.448%) CMS
4 1 (3.448%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 15 (51.72%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.448%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (68.97%) SQL Server
2 7 (24.14%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (6.897%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (3.448%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (37.93%) Visual Studio
2 6 (20.69%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (13.79%) SpecFlow
4 1 (3.448%) JIRA
4 1 (3.448%) Selenium
4 1 (3.448%) Subversion
General
1 5 (17.24%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
2 4 (13.79%) Banking
3 2 (6.897%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (100.00%) Developer
2 22 (75.86%) .NET Developer
3 7 (24.14%) ASP.NET Developer
3 7 (24.14%) .NET Web Developer
3 7 (24.14%) Web Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior .NET Developer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior .NET Web Developer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Web Developer
6 3 (10.34%) C# Developer
6 3 (10.34%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Microsoft Developer
7 2 (6.897%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (3.448%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.448%) iPad
1 1 (3.448%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.897%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (86.21%) MVC
2 16 (55.17%) TDD
3 15 (51.72%) Scrum
4 10 (34.48%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (20.69%) Web Development
6 5 (17.24%) PRINCE2
6 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (17.24%) Information Architecture
6 5 (17.24%) BDD
7 4 (13.79%) Kanban
7 4 (13.79%) Scalability Testing
8 2 (6.897%) Graceful Degradation
8 2 (6.897%) CRM
8 2 (6.897%) ETL
8 2 (6.897%) UML
9 1 (3.448%) Test Automation
9 1 (3.448%) Domain-Driven Design
9 1 (3.448%) Unit Testing
9 1 (3.448%) OOP
9 1 (3.448%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 29 (100.00%) C#
2 24 (82.76%) JavaScript
3 15 (51.72%) SQL
4 4 (13.79%) VB.NET
4 4 (13.79%) Ruby
5 2 (6.897%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.448%) QA
Vendors
1 20 (68.97%) Microsoft
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