LINQ Contracts in England

Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for LINQ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LINQ over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 528 613 694
Rank change year-on-year +85 +81 -99
Contract jobs citing LINQ 15 35 89
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.040% 0.069% 0.13%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.20% 0.30% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 29 65
10th Percentile £314 £505 £385
25th Percentile £325 £525 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £725 £750
Median % change year-on-year -44.83% -3.33% +106.90%
75th Percentile £448 £800 £800
90th Percentile £474 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £625 £725
% change year-on-year -36.00% -13.79% +100.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

LINQ is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,524 11,672 19,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.21% 23.13% 27.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,350 8,631 14,427
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 216 138 213
10th Percentile £22.12 £28.73 £22.50
25th Percentile £42.81 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing LINQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for LINQ in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LINQ in England.

Daily rate trend for LINQ in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LINQ in England over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LINQ in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LINQ in England.

Hourly rate trend for LINQ in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the England region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +90 12 £400 -47.54% 19
North of England +30 2 £338 - 19
North West +24 1 £325 - 6
East of England +13 1 £325 -45.83% 7
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 4
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) CMS
2 2 (13.33%) EPiServer
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (93.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Visual Studio
2 5 (33.33%) MSI
2 5 (33.33%) WiX
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) Jasmine
3 4 (26.67%) Selenium
3 4 (26.67%) SpecFlow
4 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (13.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (6.67%) MSTest
6 1 (6.67%) NUnit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Senior
5 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Angular Developer
7 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
7 1 (6.67%) HTML Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) Entity Framework
3 10 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (66.67%) REST
4 8 (53.33%) .NET Core
5 6 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 5 (33.33%) JSON
6 5 (33.33%) NHibernate
6 5 (33.33%) XML
6 5 (33.33%) XSLT
7 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
8 3 (20.00%) HTML
8 3 (20.00%) jQuery
8 3 (20.00%) React
9 2 (13.33%) CSS
9 2 (13.33%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (13.33%) SOAP
9 2 (13.33%) Swagger
9 2 (13.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 5 (33.33%) Web 2.0
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) MVC
1 8 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) OO
3 6 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) TDD
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (13.33%) Microservices
7 2 (13.33%) OOP
8 1 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
8 1 (6.67%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) C#
2 10 (66.67%) SQL
3 9 (60.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Optimizely
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft