The first table below looks at the demand for ADO.NET Entity Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ADO.NET Entity Framework 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 East 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
ADO.NET Entity Framework
Rank 82 62 82
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +20
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework 1 18 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.080% 1.313% 0.143%
As % of the Application Development category 0.301% 5.000% 0.604%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 10 2
Average daily rate - £275 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +18.27%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £320 £320
% change year-on-year
-2.34% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
332 360 331
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.48% 26.26% 23.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 189 120
Average daily rate £313 £275 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.63% -5.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £225 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £413 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 36
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ADO.NET Entity Framework
England

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East Midlands ADO.NET Entity Framework Jobs Demand Trend

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands ADO.NET Entity Framework Daily Rate Trend

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework within the East 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
Leicestershire -10 1 - -
ADO.NET Entity Framework
England

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing ADO.NET Entity Framework 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 ADO.NET Entity Framework.

1 13 (100.00%) C#
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
1 13 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 11 (84.62%) LINQ
3 10 (76.92%) WCF
3 10 (76.92%) ASP.NET
4 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
4 9 (69.23%) IIS
4 9 (69.23%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (61.54%) WPF
5 8 (61.54%) MVVM
5 8 (61.54%) Windows
5 8 (61.54%) SOA
5 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
6 7 (53.85%) Web Services
6 7 (53.85%) Managed Extensibility Framework
7 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2012
7 6 (46.15%) Multithreading
7 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
7 6 (46.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (46.15%) Visual Studio
7 6 (46.15%) HTML
7 6 (46.15%) SNMP
7 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
8 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
8 5 (38.46%) MS Excel
8 5 (38.46%) VSS/SourceSafe
8 5 (38.46%) Ajax
8 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (38.46%) WMI

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing ADO.NET Entity Framework 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 ADO.NET Entity Framework. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (100.00%) .NET
1 13 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 11 (84.62%) LINQ
3 10 (76.92%) WCF
3 10 (76.92%) ASP.NET
4 8 (61.54%) WPF
5 7 (53.85%) Web Services
5 7 (53.85%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 6 (46.15%) HTML
7 5 (38.46%) Ajax
7 5 (38.46%) .NET Remoting
7 5 (38.46%) jQuery
7 5 (38.46%) Reactive Extensions
8 2 (15.38%) SOAP
8 2 (15.38%) Unity DI Container
9 1 (7.692%) LINQ to SQL
9 1 (7.692%) WinForms
9 1 (7.692%) XML
9 1 (7.692%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 9 (69.23%) IIS
2 2 (15.38%) MSMQ
3 1 (7.692%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) SNMP
1 6 (46.15%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (69.23%) SQL Server
1 9 (69.23%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server 2012
2 6 (46.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (7.692%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) Visual Studio
2 5 (38.46%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 5 (38.46%) Expression Blend
3 2 (15.38%) MSTest
3 2 (15.38%) NUnit
3 2 (15.38%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (53.85%) WPF Developer
3 5 (38.46%) .NET Developer
4 4 (30.77%) C# Developer
5 2 (15.38%) C# .NET Developer
6 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (7.692%) .NET Software Developer
6 1 (7.692%) Software Developer
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Windows 7
3 5 (38.46%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) MVVM
1 8 (61.54%) SOA
2 6 (46.15%) Multithreading
3 2 (15.38%) OOP
3 2 (15.38%) OO
3 2 (15.38%) OOD
3 2 (15.38%) Dependency Injection
3 2 (15.38%) TDD
4 1 (7.692%) Unit Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 1 (7.692%) T-SQL
3 1 (7.692%) VB
3 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (38.46%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Telerik
3 2 (15.38%) DevExpress