The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Sussex 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 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 East Sussex 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
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing LINQ to SQL 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £288 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £33.30 -
% change year-on-year
-17.41% -
All Application Development
East Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
89 95 76
As % of all contract IT jobs located in East Sussex 31.23% 26.10% 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 38 52
Average daily rate £315 £280 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -10.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £321 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 0
Average hourly rate - £25.88 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LINQ to SQL
South East

LINQ to SQL
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WF
1 1 (100.00%) LINQ
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) UML
1 1 (100.00%) OOA/OOD
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) SOA
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB.NET