The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 19 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 Coventry 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank - 32 -
Contract jobs citing LINQ 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry - 0.344% -
As % of the Application Development category - 2.041% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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
Coventry
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
39 49 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Coventry 21.91% 16.84% 13.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 11
Average daily rate £250 £365 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.50% +21.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £234 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £415 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
Average hourly rate £28.50 - £18.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LINQ
West Midlands

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Coventry 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Web Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Web Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#