LINQ Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ 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 over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 65 44 61
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +17
Contract jobs citing LINQ 8 45 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.856% 3.478% 0.755%
As % of the Application Development category 2.730% 11.66% 2.712%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 26 5
Average daily rate £275 £243 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.40% -11.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £255 £228 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £338 £290
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £288
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £33.30 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-21.42% -17.64%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 293 386 295
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 31.34% 29.83% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 224 161
Average daily rate £293 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £175
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 19 14 12
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.57% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
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
North West

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LINQ across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Manchester LINQ Daily Rate Histogram

LINQ
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester LINQ Hourly Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 19 (100.00%) C#
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
1 19 (100.00%) CSS
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
2 17 (89.47%) JavaScript
3 15 (78.95%) Web Services
3 15 (78.95%) Ajax
4 14 (73.68%) TDD
5 13 (68.42%) jQuery
6 12 (63.16%) .NET Framework
6 12 (63.16%) HTML
7 11 (57.89%) MVC
7 11 (57.89%) WCF
8 10 (52.63%) SQL Server 2005
8 10 (52.63%) SQL Server 2008
8 10 (52.63%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 10 (52.63%) XML
9 9 (47.37%) Visual Studio
9 9 (47.37%) SharePoint
9 9 (47.37%) Telerik
10 8 (42.11%) NHibernate
11 7 (36.84%) XHTML
11 7 (36.84%) Scrum
12 6 (31.58%) T-SQL
13 5 (26.32%) RESTful
13 5 (26.32%) RavenDB
14 4 (21.05%) NHS
15 3 (15.79%) Git (software)
15 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 19 (100.00%) .NET
1 19 (100.00%) CSS
2 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
3 15 (78.95%) Web Services
3 15 (78.95%) Ajax
4 13 (68.42%) jQuery
5 12 (63.16%) .NET Framework
5 12 (63.16%) HTML
6 11 (57.89%) WCF
7 10 (52.63%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 10 (52.63%) XML
8 8 (42.11%) NHibernate
9 7 (36.84%) XHTML
10 5 (26.32%) RESTful
11 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET MVC
12 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC 2
12 2 (10.53%) Sinatra
12 2 (10.53%) LINQ to SQL
12 2 (10.53%) Lucene
12 2 (10.53%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 9 (47.37%) SharePoint
2 2 (10.53%) Apache Solr
2 2 (10.53%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (52.63%) SQL Server 2005
2 10 (52.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (26.32%) RavenDB
4 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.263%) InterSystems Cache
5 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Visual Studio
2 3 (15.79%) Git (software)
3 1 (5.263%) Redmine
3 1 (5.263%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (5.263%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 11 (57.89%) C# Developer
3 8 (42.11%) Agile C# Developer
4 6 (31.58%) .NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Software Developer
6 3 (15.79%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (15.79%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Agile .NET Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) NHS
2 2 (10.53%) Open Source
2 2 (10.53%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.263%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.263%) Windows
1 1 (5.263%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) TDD
2 11 (57.89%) MVC
3 7 (36.84%) Scrum
4 2 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (10.53%) Domain-Driven Design
4 2 (10.53%) UML
4 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 2 (10.53%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.263%) Web Application Development
5 1 (5.263%) OOP
5 1 (5.263%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) C#
2 17 (89.47%) JavaScript
3 6 (31.58%) T-SQL
4 2 (10.53%) Ruby
4 2 (10.53%) SQL
5 1 (5.263%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Telerik
2 1 (5.263%) Oracle
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