The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds 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 76 56 61
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +5
Contract jobs citing LINQ 2 17 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.253% 1.682% 0.147%
As % of the Application Development category 0.755% 5.296% 0.508%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 16 0
Average daily rate £300 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
265 321 197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 33.46% 31.75% 29.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 205 110
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £329 £380 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 6
Average hourly rate £38.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+117.14% -22.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LINQ
West Yorkshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Sinatra
2 2 (66.67%) RavenDB
2 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Apache Solr
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Lucene
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) Sinatra
2 2 (66.67%) Regular Expression
2 2 (66.67%) RESTful
2 2 (66.67%) Lucene
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby on Rails
2 2 (66.67%) XHTML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) NHibernate
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (33.33%) REST
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Apache Solr
1 2 (66.67%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) RavenDB
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) DSDM
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle