The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ 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 Brighton 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 24 26 22
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Contract jobs citing LINQ 4 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 2.703% 3.516% 0.730%
As % of the Application Development category 5.882% 11.84% 2.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £358 - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £285
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-21.42% -17.64%
All Application Development
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
68 76 50
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 45.95% 29.69% 36.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 24 26
Average daily rate £315 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ
East Sussex

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (60.00%) OO
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (40.00%) Razor View Engine
4 2 (40.00%) Lua
4 2 (40.00%) WPF
4 2 (40.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (40.00%) DevExpress
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (40.00%) HTML5
4 2 (40.00%) Rhino Mocks
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) NUnit
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) XML
4 2 (40.00%) XSLT

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (60.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (40.00%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (40.00%) WPF
3 2 (40.00%) jQuery
3 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (40.00%) HTML5
3 2 (40.00%) Ajax
3 2 (40.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) XML
3 2 (40.00%) XSLT
3 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
4 1 (20.00%) WF
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 1 (20.00%) LINQ to SQL
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (40.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (40.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) .NET Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
1 1 (20.00%) Informatics
1 1 (20.00%) Health Informatics
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (40.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) UML
3 1 (20.00%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (20.00%) SOA
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Refactoring
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (40.00%) Lua
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) DevExpress
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft