The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Warrington 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 20 20 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing LINQ 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 0.943% 0.952% -
As % of the Application Development category 5.000% 2.381% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £283 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.72% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £310 £300 £280
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.75 £35.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year
-26.42% -17.64%
All Application Development
Warrington
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
20 42 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Warrington 18.87% 40.00% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 27 15
Average daily rate £300 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £260 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £370 £900
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £11.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
LINQ
Cheshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington 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 Warrington region.

Warrington LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VB.NET
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) Photoshop
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (100.00%) Contact Management
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) Android
1 4 (100.00%) iPad
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Warrington 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Web Services
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Web Developer
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Web Developer
3 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (100.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Contact Management
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 4 (100.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared