The first table below looks at the demand for ADO.NET Entity Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 61 66 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework 2 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.314% 0.409% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.939% 1.413% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £400 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.45% -
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
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
213 283 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 33.44% 28.97% 24.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 121 92
Average daily rate £400 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £275 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £490 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 24
Average hourly rate £20.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £23.30 £33.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.50 £36.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ADO.NET Entity Framework
East of 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 Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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
St Albans - 1 £400 -
ADO.NET Entity Framework
East of England

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (80.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
3 3 (60.00%) SOA
3 3 (60.00%) MVC
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (60.00%) WCF
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) Automated Testing
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Scrum
3 3 (60.00%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (40.00%) LINQ
4 2 (40.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (20.00%) VB
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) SOAP
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) B2B

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (80.00%) XML
3 3 (60.00%) WCF
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (60.00%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (40.00%) LINQ
4 2 (40.00%) CSS
4 2 (40.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) SOAP
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) XHTML
5 1 (20.00%) jQuery
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (80.00%) Senior Developer
2 4 (80.00%) .NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (60.00%) Agile .NET Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) E-Commerce
1 3 (60.00%) SOA
1 3 (60.00%) MVC
1 3 (60.00%) TDD
1 3 (60.00%) Automated Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) B2B
3 1 (20.00%) Web Development
3 1 (20.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (20.00%) VB
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft