The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ to SQL 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 City of London 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
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank - - 234
Contract jobs citing LINQ to SQL 0 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - - 0.021%
As % of the Application Development category - - 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £65.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.73 £33.31 -
% change year-on-year
-13.74% -
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1841 1995 2685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.65% 25.38% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1452 1472 2083
Average daily rate £413 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 28 21
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £44.75 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ to SQL
London

LINQ to SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London LINQ to SQL Jobs Demand Trend

LINQ to SQL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing LINQ to SQL across the City of London region.

City of London LINQ to SQL Daily Rate Trend

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing LINQ to SQL 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 to SQL.

1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) LINQ
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
2 5 (83.33%) WCF
2 5 (83.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) Perl
3 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) IIS
3 3 (50.00%) Workflow
3 3 (50.00%) Linux
3 3 (50.00%) XSL
3 3 (50.00%) XSLT
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) Task Parallel Library
3 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing LINQ to SQL 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 to SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) XML
1 6 (100.00%) LINQ
2 5 (83.33%) jQuery
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
2 5 (83.33%) WCF
2 5 (83.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 5 (83.33%) CSS
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) XSL
3 3 (50.00%) XSLT
3 3 (50.00%) REST
3 3 (50.00%) Task Parallel Library
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (50.00%) HTML5
3 3 (50.00%) WF
3 3 (50.00%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) IIS
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Azure
2 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 2 (33.33%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (83.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) .NET Developer
1 5 (83.33%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
1 1 (16.67%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Linux
2 3 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (16.67%) Android
4 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) MVC
2 3 (50.00%) Workflow
2 3 (50.00%) MVVM
2 3 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 1 (16.67%) OO
4 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 3 (50.00%) Perl
4 2 (33.33%) VB.NET
5 1 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (16.67%) C++
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Apple