LINQ Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 21 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 North West 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 104 77 117
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +40
Contract jobs citing LINQ 15 58 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.635% 1.839% 0.432%
As % of the Application Development category 2.355% 6.318% 1.776%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 34 7
Average daily rate £275 £260 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.76% -5.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £300 £295
% change year-on-year
+3.75% +1.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £29.96 £33.30 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.03% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.73 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-17.91% -17.64%
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 637 918 732
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 26.98% 29.11% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 504 424
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 32 22
Average hourly rate £29.96 £18.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+61.90% -32.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.37 £33.31 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West LINQ Hourly Rate Trend

LINQ
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Manchester -21 8 £275 +11.11%
Cheshire - 6 £291 -
LINQ
England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 49 (100.00%) C#
1 49 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (79.59%) ASP.NET
3 38 (77.55%) SQL Server
4 36 (73.47%) JavaScript
5 32 (65.31%) CSS
6 30 (61.22%) Web Services
7 29 (59.18%) jQuery
8 28 (57.14%) .NET Framework
9 25 (51.02%) SQL
9 25 (51.02%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 24 (48.98%) WCF
11 22 (44.90%) XML
12 20 (40.82%) HTML
12 20 (40.82%) SQL Server 2005
13 19 (38.78%) Visual Studio
13 19 (38.78%) TDD
13 19 (38.78%) Ajax
14 18 (36.73%) SQL Server 2008
15 17 (34.69%) MVC
16 16 (32.65%) LINQ to SQL
17 12 (24.49%) Telerik
18 11 (22.45%) SharePoint
18 11 (22.45%) T-SQL
18 11 (22.45%) NHibernate
19 8 (16.33%) Scrum
20 7 (14.29%) XSLT
20 7 (14.29%) XHTML
21 6 (12.24%) Windows
21 6 (12.24%) Finance

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 49 (100.00%) .NET
2 39 (79.59%) ASP.NET
3 32 (65.31%) CSS
4 30 (61.22%) Web Services
5 29 (59.18%) jQuery
6 28 (57.14%) .NET Framework
7 25 (51.02%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 24 (48.98%) WCF
9 22 (44.90%) XML
10 20 (40.82%) HTML
11 19 (38.78%) Ajax
12 16 (32.65%) LINQ to SQL
13 11 (22.45%) NHibernate
14 7 (14.29%) XSLT
14 7 (14.29%) XHTML
15 6 (12.24%) ASP.NET MVC
16 5 (10.20%) RESTful
16 5 (10.20%) WinForms
17 4 (8.163%) WPF
18 3 (6.122%) ASP.NET MVC 2
Application Platforms
1 11 (22.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (10.20%) IIS
3 2 (4.082%) Apache
3 2 (4.082%) Apache Solr
4 1 (2.041%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (2.041%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (8.163%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.082%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (77.55%) SQL Server
2 20 (40.82%) SQL Server 2005
3 18 (36.73%) SQL Server 2008
4 6 (12.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (10.20%) RavenDB
6 4 (8.163%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (6.122%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (2.041%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (2.041%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (2.041%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 19 (38.78%) Visual Studio
2 5 (10.20%) Git (software)
2 5 (10.20%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (6.122%) Subversion
4 2 (4.082%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 2 (4.082%) Redmine
5 1 (2.041%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (2.041%) NUnit
General
1 6 (12.24%) Finance
2 4 (8.163%) Banking
3 1 (2.041%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 49 (100.00%) Developer
2 26 (53.06%) .NET Developer
3 19 (38.78%) C# Developer
4 10 (20.41%) ASP.NET Developer
5 9 (18.37%) Agile C# Developer
6 7 (14.29%) Senior Developer
7 6 (12.24%) C# .NET Developer
7 6 (12.24%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 5 (10.20%) Software Developer
9 4 (8.163%) Senior .NET Developer
10 3 (6.122%) WPF Developer
11 2 (4.082%) Web Developer
11 2 (4.082%) Applications Developer
11 2 (4.082%) SQL Developer
11 2 (4.082%) Agile .NET Developer
11 2 (4.082%) .NET Applications Developer
12 1 (2.041%) .NET Software Developer
12 1 (2.041%) C# Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) NHS
2 4 (8.163%) Management Information System
2 4 (8.163%) iPad
3 2 (4.082%) Open Source
3 2 (4.082%) Computer Science
4 1 (2.041%) Social Media
4 1 (2.041%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.24%) Windows
2 4 (8.163%) Android
3 2 (4.082%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (38.78%) TDD
2 17 (34.69%) MVC
3 8 (16.33%) Scrum
4 4 (8.163%) Project Management
4 4 (8.163%) Contact Management
4 4 (8.163%) Portfolio Management
4 4 (8.163%) Demand Management
5 3 (6.122%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (6.122%) MVVM
5 3 (6.122%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (6.122%) UML
6 2 (4.082%) OOP
6 2 (4.082%) E-Commerce
6 2 (4.082%) ITIL
6 2 (4.082%) PRINCE2
6 2 (4.082%) Service Delivery
6 2 (4.082%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (4.082%) Business Development
7 1 (2.041%) Refactoring
7 1 (2.041%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (100.00%) C#
2 36 (73.47%) JavaScript
3 25 (51.02%) SQL
4 11 (22.45%) T-SQL
5 5 (10.20%) XPath
6 4 (8.163%) VB.NET
7 2 (4.082%) Java
7 2 (4.082%) C++
7 2 (4.082%) Ruby
8 1 (2.041%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.122%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (4.082%) Degree
4 1 (2.041%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Telerik
2 4 (8.163%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.041%) Sitecore
3 1 (2.041%) Facebook
3 1 (2.041%) Twitter
3 1 (2.041%) Oracle
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