The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 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 England 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
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank 501 527 538
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +11
Contract jobs citing LINQ to SQL 12 32 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.029% 0.060% 0.059%
As % of the Application Development category 0.106% 0.229% 0.208%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 18
Average daily rate £320 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £278 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £305 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £44.50 £33.31 £65.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+33.59% -48.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £33.31 -
% change year-on-year
-17.44% -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
11342 13944 15844
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 27.28% 26.14% 28.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 7269 8358 9412
Average daily rate £375 £360 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 366 550
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -7.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ to SQL
UK

LINQ to SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England LINQ to SQL Daily Rate Trend

LINQ to SQL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LINQ to SQL across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England LINQ to SQL Daily Rate Histogram

LINQ to SQL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LINQ to SQL across the England region.

England LINQ to SQL Hourly Rate Trend

LINQ to SQL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ to SQL within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +35 7 £370 +23.33%
North West +16 5 £288 -
LINQ to SQL
UK

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 30 (100.00%) SQL
1 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (90.00%) C#
2 27 (90.00%) LINQ
3 26 (86.67%) ASP.NET
4 25 (83.33%) SQL Server
4 25 (83.33%) .NET Framework
4 25 (83.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 22 (73.33%) JavaScript
6 21 (70.00%) XML
7 20 (66.67%) CSS
7 20 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
8 15 (50.00%) Windows
8 15 (50.00%) HTML
9 14 (46.67%) MVC
9 14 (46.67%) WCF
10 13 (43.33%) Web Services
11 12 (40.00%) IIS
11 12 (40.00%) jQuery
12 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
13 10 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
14 8 (26.67%) SQL Server 2005
14 8 (26.67%) ADO.NET
14 8 (26.67%) XSLT
15 7 (23.33%) Visual Studio
15 7 (23.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 7 (23.33%) JSON
16 6 (20.00%) NHibernate
16 6 (20.00%) Ajax
16 6 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (90.00%) LINQ
3 26 (86.67%) ASP.NET
4 25 (83.33%) .NET Framework
4 25 (83.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 21 (70.00%) XML
6 20 (66.67%) CSS
7 15 (50.00%) HTML
8 14 (46.67%) WCF
9 13 (43.33%) Web Services
10 12 (40.00%) jQuery
11 10 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
12 8 (26.67%) ADO.NET
12 8 (26.67%) XSLT
13 7 (23.33%) JSON
14 6 (20.00%) NHibernate
14 6 (20.00%) Ajax
14 6 (20.00%) WinForms
15 5 (16.67%) ASP
15 5 (16.67%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 12 (40.00%) IIS
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Azure
3 2 (6.667%) MS Exchange
3 2 (6.667%) CMS
4 1 (3.333%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.333%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (83.33%) SQL Server
2 20 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (26.67%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (23.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (3.333%) InterSystems Cache
7 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 7 (23.33%) Visual Studio
2 6 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (13.33%) Subversion
3 4 (13.33%) Git (software)
4 2 (6.667%) CruiseControl
4 2 (6.667%) Redmine
4 2 (6.667%) LLBLGen Pro
4 2 (6.667%) TeamCity
4 2 (6.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (6.667%) Retail
4 1 (3.333%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.333%) Local Government
4 1 (3.333%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 27 (90.00%) Developer
2 23 (76.67%) .NET Developer
3 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Software Developer
4 5 (16.67%) C# Developer
5 4 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Senior Developer
6 3 (10.00%) .NET Software Developer
6 3 (10.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Architect
7 1 (3.333%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.333%) .NET Architect
7 1 (3.333%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 1 (3.333%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (3.333%) CRM Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Technical Leader
7 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Developer
7 1 (3.333%) C# Application Developer
7 1 (3.333%) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) N-Tier
2 3 (10.00%) NHS
3 2 (6.667%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (6.667%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (13.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (10.00%) Linux
4 2 (6.667%) Windows 2000 Server
4 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.333%) Android
5 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) MVC
2 6 (20.00%) Workflow
3 4 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (13.33%) MVVM
3 4 (13.33%) Kanban
3 4 (13.33%) Scrum
4 3 (10.00%) OO
4 3 (10.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (10.00%) Project Management
4 3 (10.00%) Dependency Injection
4 3 (10.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (6.667%) Refactoring
5 2 (6.667%) Unit Testing
5 2 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (6.667%) E-Commerce
5 2 (6.667%) Validation
5 2 (6.667%) OOP
6 1 (3.333%) User Stories
6 1 (3.333%) OOA/OOD
6 1 (3.333%) UML
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) SQL
2 27 (90.00%) C#
3 22 (73.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.00%) VB.NET
5 3 (10.00%) Perl
6 2 (6.667%) Java
7 1 (3.333%) C++
7 1 (3.333%) PL/SQL
7 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
7 1 (3.333%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) Dublin Core
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Telerik
3 2 (6.667%) Oracle
4 1 (3.333%) Apple
Wilmslow, North West
Our client based in Wilmslow is currently looking for a .NET Developer for a 1-3 month rolling contract. This role will suit a motivated and pro-active...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Rate: £200 - £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
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Required Skills / Experience: Web development experience with C#, .Net, SSRS, LINQ and SQL... Keywords: C#, .Net, SSRS, LINQ, MVC, SQL, CRM, SMS, Web Developer, Design Patterns, Model-View-...
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Rate: From £250 to £350 per day dependent upon experience
Posted: 8 May 2013