South West LINQ Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Language Integrated Query (LINQ) skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 15 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Location Berkshire Birmingham Brentwood Buckinghamshire Cheshire City of London Coventry Crewe East Midlands East of England England Essex Guildford Hampshire Havant Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Midlands North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Portsmouth Somerset South East South West Street Surrey Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	145	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.229 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£277	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.83	-
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development South West
Matching contract IT job ads	875	1235
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.247 %	1.277 %
Daily rates quoted	195	268
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£311
Average daily rate	£327	£328
% change on same period last year	-0.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£346
UK excluding London average daily rate	£331	£334
% change on same period last year	-0.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	137	177
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.68	£30.67
Average hourly rate	£28.75	£33.66
% change on same period last year	-14.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.83	£36.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.79	£32.03
% change on same period last year	-3.85 %
LINQ England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

LINQ
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing LINQ across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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 15 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Somerset	-	1	-	-

LINQ England

LINQ
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, 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 3 (100.00 %) .NET 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 2 (66.67 %) AJAX 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (66.67 %) C# 3 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 3 1 (33.33 %) ADO.NET 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel

3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 1 (33.33 %) NUnit 3 1 (33.33 %) Content Management 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 1 (33.33 %) Infragistics 3 1 (33.33 %) CMS

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 15 October 2008, 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 3 (100.00 %) .NET 2 2 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (66.67 %) AJAX 2 2 (66.67 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (33.33 %) XML 3 1 (33.33 %) XSLT 3 1 (33.33 %) ADO.NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (100.00 %) SQL Server 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (33.33 %) NUnit	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Developer 1 3 (100.00 %) .NET Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Content Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C# 2 1 (33.33 %) JavaScript 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) VB.NET
Vendors 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 1 (33.33 %) Infragistics