The first table below looks at the demand for ADO.NET Entity Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 of England 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 106 98 115
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +17
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework 8 34 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.374% 1.151% 0.454%
As % of the Application Development category 1.309% 4.028% 1.550%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 10
Average daily rate £320 £275 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.36% -30.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £270 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £325 £420
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 of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
611 844 774
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 28.56% 28.56% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 436 355
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 59 60
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.40 £42.50 £47.50
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England ADO.NET Entity Framework Daily Rate Trend

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England ADO.NET Entity Framework Daily Rate Histogram

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework across the East of England region.

East of England ADO.NET Entity Framework Hourly 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 of England 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
Essex -3 5 £288 +6.48%
Hertfordshire +5 2 £400 +45.45%
Bedfordshire 0 1 £350 +7.69%
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 of England 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
1 16 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 14 (87.50%) C#
3 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
4 11 (68.75%) ASP.NET
5 10 (62.50%) SQL
6 9 (56.25%) LINQ
7 8 (50.00%) Windows
7 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
7 8 (50.00%) MVC
8 7 (43.75%) CSS
8 7 (43.75%) XML
8 7 (43.75%) WCF
8 7 (43.75%) jQuery
8 7 (43.75%) Unit Testing
9 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
9 6 (37.50%) N-Tier
9 6 (37.50%) T-SQL
10 5 (31.25%) SOA
10 5 (31.25%) Web Services
10 5 (31.25%) TDD
10 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 5 (31.25%) Ajax
10 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET MVC
11 4 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
11 4 (25.00%) Silverlight
11 4 (25.00%) WPF
11 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
11 4 (25.00%) Scrum
11 4 (25.00%) HTML

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 16 (100.00%) .NET
1 16 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 11 (68.75%) ASP.NET
3 9 (56.25%) LINQ
4 7 (43.75%) CSS
4 7 (43.75%) XML
4 7 (43.75%) WCF
4 7 (43.75%) jQuery
5 5 (31.25%) Web Services
5 5 (31.25%) Ajax
5 5 (31.25%) ASP.NET MVC
6 4 (25.00%) Unity DI Container
6 4 (25.00%) Silverlight
6 4 (25.00%) WPF
6 4 (25.00%) HTML
7 3 (18.75%) SOAP
7 3 (18.75%) NHibernate
7 3 (18.75%) WF
8 2 (12.50%) REST
8 2 (12.50%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) IIS
2 3 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (12.50%) MSMQ
3 2 (12.50%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Project
2 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (6.250%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (31.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 4 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
5 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (6.250%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (6.250%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (12.50%) NUnit
2 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (6.250%) CruiseControl
3 1 (6.250%) ReSharper
3 1 (6.250%) MSTest
3 1 (6.250%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Spanish Language
3 1 (6.250%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (31.25%) Senior Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Senior .NET Developer
4 3 (18.75%) Agile .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# .NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) C# Developer
5 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Lead Developer
5 2 (12.50%) Architect
5 2 (12.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (6.250%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Junior
6 1 (6.250%) Web Developer
6 1 (6.250%) Junior Project Manager
6 1 (6.250%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (6.250%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (6.250%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Windows 7
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) MVC
2 7 (43.75%) Unit Testing
3 5 (31.25%) SOA
3 5 (31.25%) TDD
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
4 4 (25.00%) OOP
4 4 (25.00%) OO
5 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
5 3 (18.75%) Automated Testing
5 3 (18.75%) Web Development
6 2 (12.50%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
6 2 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (12.50%) CRM
6 2 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (12.50%) Project Management
7 1 (6.250%) SSADM
7 1 (6.250%) B2B
7 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (6.250%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 14 (87.50%) C#
2 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 6 (37.50%) T-SQL
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 2 (12.50%) VB
5 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
6 1 (6.250%) VBA
6 1 (6.250%) VB6
6 1 (6.250%) XAML
6 1 (6.250%) XPath
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) Telerik
2 1 (6.250%) Google
2 1 (6.250%) Adobe