LINQ Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing LINQ 7 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.287% - -
As % of the Application Development category 0.875% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
Average daily rate £335 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.73 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-17.91% -17.64%
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 800 416 559
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 32.80% 15.70% 19.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 186 297
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £215 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 16 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £25.25 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ
UK

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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
Glasgow - 5 £350 -
Edinburgh - 2 £300 -
LINQ
UK

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 16 (84.21%) .NET
2 15 (78.95%) SQL Server
3 9 (47.37%) Unit Testing
3 9 (47.37%) C#
3 9 (47.37%) ServiceStack
4 8 (42.11%) REST
4 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
4 8 (42.11%) Dependency Injection
5 5 (26.32%) jQuery
5 5 (26.32%) .NET Framework
5 5 (26.32%) XPath
5 5 (26.32%) Ajax
5 5 (26.32%) CSS
5 5 (26.32%) Web Services
5 5 (26.32%) XML
5 5 (26.32%) XSLT
5 5 (26.32%) HTML
5 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
5 5 (26.32%) SQL
5 5 (26.32%) T-SQL
5 5 (26.32%) OO
5 5 (26.32%) XHTML
5 5 (26.32%) OOD
5 5 (26.32%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 4 (21.05%) Digital Media
6 4 (21.05%) CMS
6 4 (21.05%) Umbraco
7 3 (15.79%) Social Network
7 3 (15.79%) WCF
7 3 (15.79%) WPF

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 16 (84.21%) .NET
2 9 (47.37%) ServiceStack
3 8 (42.11%) REST
3 8 (42.11%) ASP.NET
4 5 (26.32%) CSS
4 5 (26.32%) Web Services
4 5 (26.32%) XML
4 5 (26.32%) XSLT
4 5 (26.32%) XHTML
4 5 (26.32%) Ajax
4 5 (26.32%) .NET Framework
4 5 (26.32%) jQuery
4 5 (26.32%) HTML
4 5 (26.32%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 3 (15.79%) WCF
5 3 (15.79%) WPF
6 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (10.53%) Razor View Engine
7 1 (5.263%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 4 (21.05%) CMS
1 4 (21.05%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.263%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) VoIP
1 2 (10.53%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (10.53%) MongoDB
General
1 1 (5.263%) Front Office
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (78.95%) Developer
2 10 (52.63%) .NET Developer
3 3 (15.79%) C# Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Web Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Web Developer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) Development Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) .NET Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) Senior .NET Web Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Web Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) Web Development Team Leader
5 1 (5.263%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Digital Media
2 3 (15.79%) Web 2.0
2 3 (15.79%) Social Network
3 2 (10.53%) NHS
4 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
4 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Unit Testing
2 8 (42.11%) Dependency Injection
3 5 (26.32%) OO
3 5 (26.32%) OOD
4 2 (10.53%) MVC
4 2 (10.53%) Multithreading
4 2 (10.53%) Content Management
4 2 (10.53%) Web Development
5 1 (5.263%) Mobile Application Development
5 1 (5.263%) Software Engineering
5 1 (5.263%) Migration
5 1 (5.263%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (47.37%) C#
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 5 (26.32%) T-SQL
2 5 (26.32%) XPath
3 2 (10.53%) Scala
3 2 (10.53%) VB
4 1 (5.263%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (10.53%) MCSE
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.263%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Cisco
2 1 (5.263%) VMware
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