The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex 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 Essex 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 37 43 46
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +3
Contract jobs citing LINQ 14 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 3.279% 1.126% 0.787%
As % of the Application Development category 10.14% 6.173% 2.830%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 1 3
Average daily rate £243 £270 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.18% +20.00%
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
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
138 81 106
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 32.32% 18.24% 27.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 31 50
Average daily rate £265 £240 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.41% -33.79%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £175 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 10
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £26.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +30.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £31.95 £26.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LINQ
East of England

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the Essex region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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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
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Vacancies
Chelmsford - 6 £245 -
Brentwood - - - -
LINQ
East of England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 14 (100.00%) C#
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
1 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (92.86%) ASP.NET
3 11 (78.57%) MVC
4 10 (71.43%) E-Commerce
4 10 (71.43%) WCF
5 8 (57.14%) NHibernate
5 8 (57.14%) Visual Studio
6 5 (35.71%) XML
6 5 (35.71%) XHTML
7 4 (28.57%) OO
7 4 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
7 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
8 3 (21.43%) OOP
8 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
8 3 (21.43%) IIS
8 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
9 2 (14.29%) CSS
9 2 (14.29%) XSLT
9 2 (14.29%) Windows
9 2 (14.29%) Web Services
9 2 (14.29%) Tandem
9 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
9 2 (14.29%) jQuery
9 2 (14.29%) XPath
9 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (7.143%) REST

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 14 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (92.86%) ASP.NET
3 10 (71.43%) WCF
4 8 (57.14%) NHibernate
5 5 (35.71%) XML
5 5 (35.71%) XHTML
6 4 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (28.57%) .NET Framework
6 4 (28.57%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (14.29%) CSS
7 2 (14.29%) XSLT
7 2 (14.29%) Web Services
7 2 (14.29%) jQuery
8 1 (7.143%) REST
8 1 (7.143%) CSS3
8 1 (7.143%) KnockoutJS
8 1 (7.143%) WF
8 1 (7.143%) HTML5
8 1 (7.143%) cXML
8 1 (7.143%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) IIS
2 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.143%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Visual Studio
2 2 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (7.143%) ReSharper
3 1 (7.143%) NUnit
3 1 (7.143%) CruiseControl
General
1 1 (7.143%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (100.00%) Developer
2 8 (57.14%) .NET Developer
3 6 (42.86%) C# Developer
3 6 (42.86%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (21.43%) Web Developer
5 2 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (7.143%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) MVC
2 10 (71.43%) E-Commerce
3 4 (28.57%) OO
4 3 (21.43%) Unit Testing
4 3 (21.43%) OOP
5 1 (7.143%) Analytics
5 1 (7.143%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.143%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (7.143%) B2B
5 1 (7.143%) Workflow
5 1 (7.143%) Scrum
5 1 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (7.143%) TDD
5 1 (7.143%) SSADM
Programming Languages
1 14 (100.00%) C#
1 14 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) T-SQL
3 2 (14.29%) XPath
4 1 (7.143%) XQuery
4 1 (7.143%) Python
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Adobe
2 1 (7.143%) Telerik
2 1 (7.143%) Google
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