The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 - 27 31
Contract jobs citing LINQ 0 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside - 3.371% 0.402%
As % of the Application Development category - 11.39% 2.041%
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 £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
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
60 79 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 27.91% 29.59% 19.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 38 15
Average daily rate £300 £325 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +18.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £275 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £400 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 2
Average hourly rate £14.79 £21.86 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.35% +61.92%
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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside LINQ Hourly Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Sitecore
2 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
2 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) CMS
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Intranet

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Domain-Driven Design
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft