LINQ Contracts in Bristol
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 21 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 Bristol 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 46 44 48
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +4
Contract jobs citing LINQ 4 17 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.752% 2.033% 0.161%
As % of the Application Development category 3.704% 8.586% 1.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 1
Average daily rate £325 £300 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -4.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £300 £295
% change year-on-year
+3.75% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.73 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-17.91% -17.64%
All Application Development
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 108 198 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 20.30% 23.68% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 136 34
Average daily rate £309 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.92% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £405 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 7
Average hourly rate £42.50 £25.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+70.00% -37.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ
South West

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (66.67%) WCF
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (33.33%) Facebook
3 2 (33.33%) Twitter
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) Ektron
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) VB
3 2 (33.33%) ASP
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) XHTML
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (33.33%) XSLT
3 2 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) WCF
2 4 (66.67%) jQuery
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
2 4 (66.67%) CSS
2 4 (66.67%) HTML
2 4 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 3
3 2 (33.33%) RESTful
3 2 (33.33%) ASP
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) XHTML
3 2 (33.33%) XSLT
3 2 (33.33%) HTML5
3 2 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (33.33%) OAuth
3 2 (33.33%) WF
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (33.33%) ReSharper
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (33.33%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) MVC
2 4 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) VB
3 2 (33.33%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Facebook
1 2 (33.33%) Twitter
1 2 (33.33%) Ektron
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Telerik
1 2 (33.33%) Infragistics
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