The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon 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 31 - 34
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing LINQ 7 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 2.545% - 0.949%
As % of the Application Development category 12.50% - 5.660%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 3
Average daily rate £313 - £450
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
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
56 66 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 20.36% 18.23% 16.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 51 28
Average daily rate £325 £335 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% -4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £245 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £501 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ
Wiltshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) jQuery
3 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
4 5 (62.50%) XML
4 5 (62.50%) Windows
4 5 (62.50%) SharePoint 2010
4 5 (62.50%) Subversion
4 5 (62.50%) SharePoint Server
4 5 (62.50%) WCF
4 5 (62.50%) Silverlight
5 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
5 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
6 3 (37.50%) MVC
6 3 (37.50%) TDD
6 3 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
7 2 (25.00%) Ajax
7 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 2 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
7 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (25.00%) Scrum
7 2 (25.00%) HTML
7 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
7 2 (25.00%) IIS
7 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
7 2 (25.00%) CSS

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) jQuery
3 5 (62.50%) WCF
3 5 (62.50%) Silverlight
3 5 (62.50%) XML
4 3 (37.50%) .NET Framework
4 3 (37.50%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 2 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
5 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (25.00%) HTML
5 2 (25.00%) Ajax
5 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
5 2 (25.00%) CSS
6 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
1 5 (62.50%) SharePoint Server
1 5 (62.50%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (25.00%) IIS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
General
1 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (62.50%) SharePoint Developer
3 3 (37.50%) .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) MVC
1 3 (37.50%) TDD
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (87.50%) SQL
3 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft