The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Runcorn 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 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 Runcorn 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
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing LINQ to SQL 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Runcorn - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
-8.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.73 £33.31 -
% change year-on-year
-13.74% -
All Application Development
Runcorn
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Runcorn 85.71% - 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ to SQL
Cheshire

LINQ to SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Runcorn LINQ to SQL Jobs Demand Trend

LINQ to SQL
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn 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%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 3 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Ninject
1 3 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
2 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
2 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (66.67%) Subversion
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) ASP
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XPath
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) LINQ
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) MVC
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Telerik
3 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Runcorn 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%) NHibernate
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 3 (100.00%) Ninject
1 3 (100.00%) Unity DI Container
2 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 2 (66.67%) ASP
2 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) LINQ
3 1 (33.33%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git (software)
1 2 (66.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (66.67%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Inversion of Control
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Telerik