The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West 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 South 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 99 111 105
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -6
Contract jobs citing LINQ 16 28 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.781% 0.845% 0.428%
As % of the Application Development category 3.313% 3.531% 1.911%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 5
Average daily rate £313 £300 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £295 £285 £368
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £328 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £37.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +114.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.73 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-17.91% -17.64%
All Application Development
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
483 793 628
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 23.58% 23.93% 22.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 483 277
Average daily rate £325 £339 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.12% +9.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £240 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £475 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 23 36
Average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.20 £10.00 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.50 £41.00 £40.00
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South 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 South West region.

South West 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 South West region.

South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire +13 7 £313 +11.60%
Bristol -2 4 £325 +8.33%
Devon - 4 £300 -
Gloucestershire +26 1 £301 +77.05%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 34 (100.00%) C#
2 30 (88.24%) .NET
3 24 (70.59%) SQL Server
4 18 (52.94%) ASP.NET
5 17 (50.00%) MVC
5 17 (50.00%) jQuery
6 16 (47.06%) WCF
7 15 (44.12%) SQL
8 14 (41.18%) .NET Framework
9 13 (38.24%) JavaScript
9 13 (38.24%) XML
10 11 (32.35%) Windows
10 11 (32.35%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 9 (26.47%) Silverlight
11 9 (26.47%) Ajax
12 8 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
12 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
12 8 (23.53%) HTML
12 8 (23.53%) CSS
12 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
12 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
13 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2008
13 7 (20.59%) WPF
13 7 (20.59%) Web Services
13 7 (20.59%) TDD
13 7 (20.59%) Subversion
14 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
14 6 (17.65%) HTML5
14 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 5 (14.71%) SharePoint 2010

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South 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 30 (88.24%) .NET
2 18 (52.94%) ASP.NET
3 17 (50.00%) jQuery
4 16 (47.06%) WCF
5 14 (41.18%) .NET Framework
6 13 (38.24%) XML
7 11 (32.35%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 9 (26.47%) Ajax
8 9 (26.47%) Silverlight
9 8 (23.53%) HTML
9 8 (23.53%) CSS
9 8 (23.53%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (20.59%) Web Services
10 7 (20.59%) WPF
11 6 (17.65%) HTML5
11 6 (17.65%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 4 (11.76%) Ext JS
13 2 (5.882%) OAuth
13 2 (5.882%) RESTful
13 2 (5.882%) Managed Extensibility Framework
Application Platforms
1 6 (17.65%) SharePoint
2 5 (14.71%) SharePoint Server
2 5 (14.71%) SharePoint 2010
3 4 (11.76%) IIS
3 4 (11.76%) CMS
4 2 (5.882%) Windows Azure
5 1 (2.941%) Umbraco
5 1 (2.941%) WordPress
5 1 (2.941%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (11.76%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.941%) Photoshop
2 1 (2.941%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.941%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (70.59%) SQL Server
2 7 (20.59%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.941%) Redis
3 1 (2.941%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.941%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) Subversion
2 5 (14.71%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (11.76%) Visual Studio
3 4 (11.76%) NUnit
4 2 (5.882%) ReSharper
4 2 (5.882%) MSTest
4 2 (5.882%) Moq
General
1 4 (11.76%) Aerospace
2 2 (5.882%) Finance
3 1 (2.941%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.941%) Marketing
3 1 (2.941%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 27 (79.41%) Developer
2 14 (41.18%) .NET Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) SharePoint Developer
4 5 (14.71%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (11.76%) C# Developer
6 3 (8.824%) Software Developer
6 3 (8.824%) C# .NET Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Web Developer
7 2 (5.882%) Senior Developer
8 1 (2.941%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.941%) C# Software Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Web Developer
8 1 (2.941%) ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Senior Software Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Senior C# Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Senior .NET Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
8 1 (2.941%) Technical Leader
8 1 (2.941%) .NET Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (14.71%) Mobile App
2 3 (8.824%) N-Tier
3 2 (5.882%) Inversion of Control
3 2 (5.882%) Social Media
3 2 (5.882%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.941%) Social Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (32.35%) Windows
2 1 (2.941%) Linux
2 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (2.941%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (50.00%) MVC
2 8 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (20.59%) TDD
4 5 (14.71%) UML
5 4 (11.76%) Mobile Application Development
5 4 (11.76%) Unit Testing
6 3 (8.824%) Workflow
7 2 (5.882%) Scrum
7 2 (5.882%) Logistics
7 2 (5.882%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (5.882%) Dependency Injection
8 1 (2.941%) Analytics
8 1 (2.941%) Web Development
8 1 (2.941%) Digital Marketing
8 1 (2.941%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 34 (100.00%) C#
2 15 (44.12%) SQL
3 13 (38.24%) JavaScript
4 4 (11.76%) XAML
5 2 (5.882%) VB6
5 2 (5.882%) PHP
5 2 (5.882%) VB
6 1 (2.941%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.941%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.882%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.882%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) DO-178B
Vendors
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.882%) Infragistics
2 2 (5.882%) Telerik
2 2 (5.882%) Ektron
2 2 (5.882%) Facebook
2 2 (5.882%) Twitter
3 1 (2.941%) Google
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