LINQ to SQL Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 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 Manchester 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
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank 70 82 68
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -14
Contract jobs citing LINQ to SQL 3 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.328% 0.154% 0.289%
As % of the Application Development category 1.071% 0.510% 1.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £225 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-12.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £33.32 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.73 £33.32 -
% change year-on-year
-13.77% -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 280 392 290
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.63% 30.13% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 234 158
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £185
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 12 14
Average hourly rate £33.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.25% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ to SQL
North West

LINQ to SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester LINQ to SQL Daily Rate Trend

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 Manchester region.

Manchester LINQ to SQL Hourly Rate Trend

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) WCF
2 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 2 (66.67%) LINQ
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) OOP
3 1 (33.33%) OO
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
3 1 (33.33%) B2B
3 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) CSS
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (66.67%) WCF
2 2 (66.67%) LINQ
2 2 (66.67%) XML
2 2 (66.67%) HTML
2 2 (66.67%) Ajax
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (33.33%) HTML5
3 1 (33.33%) WPF
3 1 (33.33%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) InterSystems Cache
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 1 (33.33%) Subversion
1 1 (33.33%) Git (software)
1 1 (33.33%) Redmine
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM Developer
2 1 (33.33%) CRM Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) NHS
2 1 (33.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) OOP
1 1 (33.33%) OO
1 1 (33.33%) CRM
1 1 (33.33%) B2B
1 1 (33.33%) MVC
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 1 (33.33%) PL/SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Telerik
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