The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Nottinghamshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 41 33 33
Rank change year-on-year
-8 0
Contract jobs citing LINQ 1 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 0.286% 1.429% 1.286%
As % of the Application Development category 1.220% 3.810% 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £275 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.06%
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.75 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-26.42% -17.64%
All Application Development
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
82 105 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 23.43% 37.50% 25.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 67 38
Average daily rate £290 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
Average hourly rate £30.00 £8.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+252.94% -37.03%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
LINQ
East Midlands

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire LINQ Daily 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 Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Nottingham - 1 - - 2
LINQ
East Midlands

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) GIS
4 2 (40.00%) Telerik
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (40.00%) WPF
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (40.00%) Intranet
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) MVVM
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
5 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (20.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
5 1 (20.00%) IIS
5 1 (20.00%) C++
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) Windows
5 1 (20.00%) SOA

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) WCF
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) .NET Framework
3 3 (60.00%) jQuery
4 2 (40.00%) Ajax
4 2 (40.00%) WPF
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 1 (20.00%) Managed Extensibility Framework
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) Intranet
2 1 (20.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) GIS
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (40.00%) C# Developer
4 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) WPF Developer
4 1 (20.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) MVVM
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
2 1 (20.00%) Multithreading
2 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB.NET
3 1 (20.00%) C++
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Telerik