The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 24 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 Surrey 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 67 74 92
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +18
Contract jobs citing LINQ 13 21 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 1.127% 1.304% 0.599%
As % of the Application Development category 3.824% 4.585% 2.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 3
Average daily rate £325 £325 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £312 £280 £283
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £319
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £285
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-21.42% -17.64%
All Application Development
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
340 458 540
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 29.49% 28.43% 29.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 263 296
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 14 16
Average hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £19.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £41.50 £35.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LINQ across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Surrey LINQ Daily Rate Histogram

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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 24 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
Woking +6 8 £325 +1.56%
Guildford -7 4 £450 +20.00%
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 17 (100.00%) C#
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (70.59%) SQL Server
2 12 (70.59%) .NET Framework
3 10 (58.82%) WPF
3 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
3 10 (58.82%) ASP.NET
4 9 (52.94%) CSS
4 9 (52.94%) HTML
4 9 (52.94%) jQuery
4 9 (52.94%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (47.06%) Scrum
5 8 (47.06%) SQL
6 7 (41.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 6 (35.29%) MVC
7 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
7 6 (35.29%) NHibernate
7 6 (35.29%) WCF
7 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET MVC
8 5 (29.41%) Inversion of Control
8 5 (29.41%) HTML5
8 5 (29.41%) MVVM
8 5 (29.41%) Moq
8 5 (29.41%) BDD
8 5 (29.41%) Multithreading
8 5 (29.41%) ReSharper
8 5 (29.41%) TDD
8 5 (29.41%) Ajax
8 5 (29.41%) MSI
8 5 (29.41%) XML

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (70.59%) .NET Framework
3 10 (58.82%) WPF
3 10 (58.82%) ASP.NET
4 9 (52.94%) CSS
4 9 (52.94%) HTML
4 9 (52.94%) jQuery
5 7 (41.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 6 (35.29%) NHibernate
6 6 (35.29%) WCF
6 6 (35.29%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (29.41%) HTML5
7 5 (29.41%) Ajax
7 5 (29.41%) XML
7 5 (29.41%) CSS3
7 5 (29.41%) Caliburn.Micro
7 5 (29.41%) Backbone.js
7 5 (29.41%) KnockoutJS
8 3 (17.65%) ASP
9 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) ESB
2 2 (11.76%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (70.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (17.65%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (29.41%) Moq
2 5 (29.41%) ReSharper
2 5 (29.41%) MSI
2 5 (29.41%) TeamCity
3 3 (17.65%) Subversion
3 3 (17.65%) Visual Studio
4 2 (11.76%) NetAdvantage
5 1 (5.882%) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) C# Developer
3 6 (35.29%) .NET Developer
4 5 (29.41%) C# .NET Developer
4 5 (29.41%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 5 (29.41%) .NET Software Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) Software Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (29.41%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (23.53%) Software Developer
6 3 (17.65%) C# Software Developer
6 3 (17.65%) .NET Software Developer
7 2 (11.76%) WPF Developer
7 2 (11.76%) SQL Developer
7 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Developer
7 2 (11.76%) Consultant
7 2 (11.76%) Agile C# Developer
7 2 (11.76%) BizTalk Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Inversion of Control
1 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (11.76%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Scrum
2 6 (35.29%) MVC
3 5 (29.41%) MVVM
3 5 (29.41%) BDD
3 5 (29.41%) Multithreading
3 5 (29.41%) TDD
3 5 (29.41%) OO
4 3 (17.65%) Web Development
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (58.82%) JavaScript
3 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.882%) MCP
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Infragistics
3 1 (5.882%) Google
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