LINQ Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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 89 87 97
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +10
Contract jobs citing LINQ 6 16 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.367% 0.714% 0.264%
As % of the Application Development category 1.554% 2.974% 1.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 2
Average daily rate £240 £264 £308
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.00% -14.22%
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%
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All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 386 538 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.64% 24.00% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 293 255
Average daily rate £300 £300 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £17.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.85% -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £40.00 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands LINQ Daily Rate Trend

LINQ
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LINQ across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands LINQ Hourly Rate Trend

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 West Midlands 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
Staffordshire - 3 £240 -
Birmingham +11 1 £275 -15.38%
Coventry -4 1 £300 -
LINQ
England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) ASP.NET
3 11 (73.33%) SQL Server
4 10 (66.67%) C#
4 10 (66.67%) MVC
5 9 (60.00%) SQL
6 8 (53.33%) .NET Framework
6 8 (53.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 8 (53.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 6 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
8 5 (33.33%) jQuery
8 5 (33.33%) HTML
9 4 (26.67%) CSS
9 4 (26.67%) Visual Studio
9 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 4 (26.67%) Migration
10 3 (20.00%) VB.NET
10 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
10 3 (20.00%) WCF
10 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 2 (13.33%) BDD
11 2 (13.33%) GIS
11 2 (13.33%) DevExpress
11 2 (13.33%) IIS
11 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
11 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (13.33%) Ajax
12 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
12 1 (6.667%) JSON

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) ASP.NET
3 8 (53.33%) .NET Framework
3 8 (53.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 8 (53.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 5 (33.33%) jQuery
4 5 (33.33%) HTML
5 4 (26.67%) CSS
6 3 (20.00%) WCF
6 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 2 (13.33%) Ajax
8 1 (6.667%) JSON
8 1 (6.667%) WinForms
8 1 (6.667%) Web Services
8 1 (6.667%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (73.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (26.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (13.33%) GIS
5 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (6.667%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (6.667%) MSBuild
2 1 (6.667%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 10 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 5 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (26.67%) C# Developer
4 4 (26.67%) Web Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Applications Developer
5 3 (20.00%) VB.NET Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Web Applications Developer
5 3 (20.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (13.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (6.667%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
7 1 (6.667%) Senior Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) MVC
2 4 (26.67%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) BDD
4 1 (6.667%) TDD
4 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) C#
2 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.667%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) DevExpress
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.667%) Oracle
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