LINQ Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 22 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.

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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 331 297 310
Rank change year-on-year
-34 +13
Contract jobs citing LINQ 214 343 313
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.454% 0.579% 0.520%
As % of the Application Development category 1.668% 2.263% 1.889%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 223 198
Average daily rate £365 £325 £330
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.30% -1.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £251 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £529 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 10
Average hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -17.64%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.20 £31.47 £40.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.80 £37.10 £190.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-21.42% -17.64%
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 12831 15156 16571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.23% 25.57% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8032 8869 9678
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 371 395 571
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LINQ within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

LINQ Daily Rate Histogram

LINQ
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LINQ within the UK.

LINQ Hourly Rate Trend

LINQ
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LINQ within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

LINQ Hourly Rate Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 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 UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England -50 196 £375 +15.23%
London -17 84 £500 +25.00%
South East +17 51 £325 +1.56%
City of London +13 31 £515 +8.42%
South West +17 16 £313 +4.16%
East of England +6 15 £270 -
North West -36 14 £275 +5.76%
Hampshire - 14 £355 -
Surrey +10 13 £325 -
Berkshire +14 12 £375 +20.00%
Basingstoke - 10 £400 -
Essex +3 9 £265 -1.85%
Buckinghamshire +9 8 £288 +4.54%
Woking +3 8 £325 +1.56%
Manchester -22 8 £275 +11.11%
Wiltshire +15 7 £313 +11.60%
High Wycombe +4 7 £275 -4.34%
Swindon - 7 £313 -
Scotland - 7 £335 -
Yorkshire -16 6 £300 -7.69%
Chelmsford - 6 £245 -
Slough - 6 - -
Cheshire - 6 £291 -
West Midlands 0 5 £258 -2.36%
Reading - 5 £375 -
Glasgow - 5 £350 -
Suffolk +12 4 - -
Ipswich +7 4 - -
Brighton +2 4 £358 -
East Sussex 0 4 £358 -24.73%

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1 439 (93.01%) .NET
2 438 (92.80%) C#
3 339 (71.82%) SQL Server
4 291 (61.65%) ASP.NET
5 244 (51.69%) WCF
6 221 (46.82%) SQL
7 217 (45.97%) .NET Framework
8 201 (42.58%) jQuery
9 195 (41.31%) JavaScript
10 192 (40.68%) MVC
11 175 (37.08%) CSS
12 161 (34.11%) HTML
13 149 (31.57%) XML
14 148 (31.36%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 139 (29.45%) ASP.NET MVC
16 135 (28.60%) TDD
17 126 (26.69%) Web Services
18 123 (26.06%) Ajax
18 123 (26.06%) SQL Server 2008
19 122 (25.85%) Microsoft
20 120 (25.42%) Visual Studio
21 100 (21.19%) WPF
22 95 (20.13%) Scrum
23 89 (18.86%) Agile Software Development
23 89 (18.86%) SQL Server 2005
24 85 (18.01%) Windows
25 75 (15.89%) T-SQL
26 67 (14.19%) Banking
27 62 (13.14%) OO
28 59 (12.50%) NHibernate

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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
1 439 (93.01%) .NET
2 291 (61.65%) ASP.NET
3 244 (51.69%) WCF
4 217 (45.97%) .NET Framework
5 201 (42.58%) jQuery
6 175 (37.08%) CSS
7 161 (34.11%) HTML
8 149 (31.57%) XML
9 148 (31.36%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 139 (29.45%) ASP.NET MVC
11 126 (26.69%) Web Services
12 123 (26.06%) Ajax
13 100 (21.19%) WPF
14 59 (12.50%) NHibernate
15 57 (12.08%) XSLT
16 47 (9.958%) Razor View Engine
17 44 (9.322%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 44 (9.322%) HTML5
18 43 (9.110%) Silverlight
19 34 (7.203%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 42 (8.898%) SharePoint
1 42 (8.898%) IIS
2 41 (8.686%) Windows Azure
3 27 (5.720%) CMS
4 24 (5.085%) SharePoint 2010
4 24 (5.085%) BizTalk Server
5 13 (2.754%) SharePoint Server
6 10 (2.119%) Umbraco
7 7 (1.483%) ESB
8 6 (1.271%) Apache
8 6 (1.271%) Sitecore CMS
9 5 (1.059%) Apache Solr
9 5 (1.059%) MSMQ
10 4 (0.847%) ColdFusion
11 3 (0.636%) Sitefinity
11 3 (0.636%) MS Exchange
11 3 (0.636%) TIBCO EMS
12 2 (0.424%) Oracle Workflow
12 2 (0.424%) MS Project Server
13 1 (0.212%) Orchard CMS
Applications
1 42 (8.898%) MS Excel
2 7 (1.483%) PowerPivot
3 6 (1.271%) Photoshop
4 5 (1.059%) MS Office
5 3 (0.636%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.271%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.424%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.424%) Bond Adapt
2 2 (0.424%) WebTrends
3 1 (0.212%) Google Analytics
3 1 (0.212%) Tridion
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.178%) Intranet
2 6 (1.271%) Internet
2 6 (1.271%) HTTP
2 6 (1.271%) SNMP
2 6 (1.271%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.424%) HTTPS
3 2 (0.424%) VoIP
3 2 (0.424%) WAN
4 1 (0.212%) Network Security
4 1 (0.212%) ATM
4 1 (0.212%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 339 (71.82%) SQL Server
2 123 (26.06%) SQL Server 2008
3 89 (18.86%) SQL Server 2005
4 44 (9.322%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 37 (7.839%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 26 (5.508%) SQL Server 2000
7 17 (3.602%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 14 (2.966%) SQL Server 2012
9 10 (2.119%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 10 (2.119%) OLAP
10 9 (1.907%) MySQL
11 8 (1.695%) Star Schema
12 7 (1.483%) RavenDB
12 7 (1.483%) Sybase ASE
13 6 (1.271%) Oracle 8/8i
14 4 (0.847%) GIS
14 4 (0.847%) Data Warehouse
14 4 (0.847%) Oracle 11g
14 4 (0.847%) PerformancePoint
15 3 (0.636%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 120 (25.42%) Visual Studio
2 48 (10.17%) Team Foundation Server
3 46 (9.746%) Subversion
4 22 (4.661%) NUnit
5 21 (4.449%) Git (software)
6 16 (3.390%) SpecFlow
6 16 (3.390%) ReSharper
7 11 (2.331%) Selenium
8 10 (2.119%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 10 (2.119%) TeamCity
9 9 (1.907%) Moq
10 7 (1.483%) TortoiseSVN
11 5 (1.059%) Rhino Mocks
11 5 (1.059%) Expression Blend
11 5 (1.059%) MSI
11 5 (1.059%) CruiseControl
12 4 (0.847%) MSTest
12 4 (0.847%) MSBuild
13 3 (0.636%) JIRA
14 2 (0.424%) NetAdvantage
General
1 67 (14.19%) Banking
2 57 (12.08%) Finance
3 38 (8.051%) Investment Banking
4 29 (6.144%) Front Office
5 9 (1.907%) Pharmaceutical
6 8 (1.695%) Marketing
7 7 (1.483%) Financial Institution
7 7 (1.483%) Telecoms
8 6 (1.271%) Publishing
9 5 (1.059%) Retail
9 5 (1.059%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.424%) Avionics
11 1 (0.212%) Music
11 1 (0.212%) Local Government
11 1 (0.212%) Automotive
11 1 (0.212%) Legal
Job Titles
1 436 (92.37%) Developer
2 239 (50.64%) .NET Developer
3 192 (40.68%) C# Developer
4 91 (19.28%) C# .NET Developer
5 88 (18.64%) ASP.NET Developer
6 53 (11.23%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 46 (9.746%) Web Developer
8 41 (8.686%) Senior Developer
9 29 (6.144%) .NET Web Developer
10 24 (5.085%) Agile C# Developer
11 23 (4.873%) Agile .NET Developer
12 22 (4.661%) Software Engineer
13 21 (4.449%) Software Developer
14 20 (4.237%) WPF Developer
15 19 (4.025%) Senior .NET Developer
16 15 (3.178%) C# Software Engineer
17 13 (2.754%) Senior C# Developer
18 12 (2.542%) SQL Developer
19 11 (2.331%) .NET Software Engineer
20 10 (2.119%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 16 (3.390%) N-Tier
2 13 (2.754%) Social Media
3 12 (2.542%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (2.542%) NHS
4 11 (2.331%) Web 2.0
5 10 (2.119%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.907%) Mobile App
6 9 (1.907%) Inversion of Control
7 8 (1.695%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.695%) Open Source
8 7 (1.483%) Digital Media
8 7 (1.483%) New Media
8 7 (1.483%) RIA
8 7 (1.483%) Computer Science
8 7 (1.483%) Derivative
8 7 (1.483%) Equities
9 6 (1.271%) Statistics
9 6 (1.271%) W3C
9 6 (1.271%) Client/Server
9 6 (1.271%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 85 (18.01%) Windows
2 8 (1.695%) Windows 7
3 7 (1.483%) Windows 8
3 7 (1.483%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (1.059%) Android
5 4 (0.847%) Linux
5 4 (0.847%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.636%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (0.636%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (0.424%) UNIX
7 2 (0.424%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (0.212%) Windows Phone 8
8 1 (0.212%) Windows Phone
8 1 (0.212%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.212%) Windows Phone 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (40.68%) MVC
2 135 (28.60%) TDD
3 95 (20.13%) Scrum
4 89 (18.86%) Agile Software Development
5 62 (13.14%) OO
6 38 (8.051%) MVVM
7 37 (7.839%) Multithreading
8 36 (7.627%) BDD
9 35 (7.415%) Web Development
10 27 (5.720%) E-Commerce
11 26 (5.508%) Unit Testing
12 20 (4.237%) Kanban
13 19 (4.025%) SOA
13 19 (4.025%) Workflow
14 16 (3.390%) Continuous Integration
15 14 (2.966%) Asset Management
15 14 (2.966%) Business Intelligence
15 14 (2.966%) OOP
16 12 (2.542%) OOD
17 10 (2.119%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 438 (92.80%) C#
2 221 (46.82%) SQL
3 195 (41.31%) JavaScript
4 75 (15.89%) T-SQL
5 36 (7.627%) VB.NET
6 20 (4.237%) VB
7 15 (3.178%) C++
8 13 (2.754%) Java
9 12 (2.542%) VB6
10 10 (2.119%) XPath
10 10 (2.119%) XAML
11 9 (1.907%) PowerShell
11 9 (1.907%) VBA
12 8 (1.695%) Ruby
12 8 (1.695%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.271%) Perl
14 4 (0.847%) ActionScript
15 3 (0.636%) VBScript
15 3 (0.636%) PHP
16 2 (0.424%) C
Qualifications
1 21 (4.449%) Microsoft Certification
2 19 (4.025%) Security Cleared
3 12 (2.542%) Degree
4 4 (0.847%) SC Cleared
5 3 (0.636%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.424%) MCSE
6 2 (0.424%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.212%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.271%) DO-178B
2 4 (0.847%) ISO 9001
3 3 (0.636%) Dublin Core
4 2 (0.424%) QA
5 1 (0.212%) Basel III
5 1 (0.212%) WAI
System Software
1 8 (1.695%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (1.059%) WMI
2 1 (0.212%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 122 (25.85%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.203%) Oracle
3 30 (6.356%) Telerik
4 12 (2.542%) Twitter
5 10 (2.119%) Sybase
6 8 (1.695%) Charles River
6 8 (1.695%) Sitecore
7 7 (1.483%) DevExpress
7 7 (1.483%) Endeca
8 6 (1.271%) Fidessa
8 6 (1.271%) Cadis
9 4 (0.847%) Infragistics
9 4 (0.847%) TIBCO
10 3 (0.636%) Facebook
10 3 (0.636%) EPiServer
11 2 (0.424%) Perforce
11 2 (0.424%) Google
11 2 (0.424%) Cisco
11 2 (0.424%) Adobe
11 2 (0.424%) Ektron
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