The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 22 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 Guildford 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 28 20 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Contract jobs citing LINQ 4 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 1.835% 0.826% -
As % of the Application Development category 5.263% 3.704% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £450 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-21.42% -17.64%
All Application Development
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
76 27 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 34.86% 22.31% 25.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 13 17
Average daily rate £320 £400 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +42.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 2
Average hourly rate £40.50 £31.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.57% -16.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ
Surrey

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) ESB
2 2 (50.00%) ReSharper
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) Moq
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Subversion
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 2 (50.00%) ASP
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Server

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (50.00%) HTML5
2 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 2 (50.00%) ASP
2 2 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) CSS3
2 2 (50.00%) Backbone.js
2 2 (50.00%) KnockoutJS
2 2 (50.00%) Caliburn.Micro
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) ESB
1 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) ReSharper
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (50.00%) Moq
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
1 2 (50.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) BizTalk Consultant
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) OO
2 2 (50.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
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Posted: 15 May 2013