The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 17 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 Liverpool 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank - 24 23
Contract jobs citing LINQ 0 6 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool - 3.226% 0.625%
As % of the Application Development category - 10.17% 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 1
Average daily rate - £290 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +5.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.73 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-17.91% -17.64%
All Application Development
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
40 59 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 27.03% 31.72% 16.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 35 14
Average daily rate £375 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £275 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £375 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £14.79 £11.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.58% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ
Merseyside

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Liverpool LINQ Hourly Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Mobile
2 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) UML
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Intranet
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Sitecore CMS

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) jQuery
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) CSS
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Sitecore CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Rhino Mocks
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) UML
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Sitecore