The first table below looks at the demand for ADO.NET Entity Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 18 June 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 Leeds 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ADO.NET Entity Framework
Rank 64 62 39
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -23
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework 11 13 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.375% 1.307% 3.003%
As % of the Application Development category 4.044% 4.140% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 5
Average daily rate £290 £350 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14% +55.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £320 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year
-2.00% -
All Application Development
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
272 314 190
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 34.00% 31.56% 28.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 200 106
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £380 £376
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 5
Average hourly rate £38.00 £17.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+117.14% -22.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
ADO.NET Entity Framework
West Yorkshire

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 Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds ADO.NET Entity Framework Daily Rate Trend

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 25 (100.00%) C#
1 25 (100.00%) .NET
1 25 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 25 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 20 (80.00%) MVC
3 18 (72.00%) JavaScript
4 17 (68.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 16 (64.00%) Web Services
6 13 (52.00%) HTML
7 12 (48.00%) CSS
7 12 (48.00%) XAML
7 12 (48.00%) WPF
7 12 (48.00%) Silverlight
8 8 (32.00%) E-Commerce
8 8 (32.00%) Visual Studio
9 7 (28.00%) SQL
9 7 (28.00%) jQuery
9 7 (28.00%) Scrum
10 5 (20.00%) NHibernate
10 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
10 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
11 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
11 4 (16.00%) Migration
11 4 (16.00%) NUnit
11 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
11 4 (16.00%) SQL Server 2008
11 4 (16.00%) Software Architecture
11 4 (16.00%) SharePoint 2010
11 4 (16.00%) REST
12 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 25 (100.00%) .NET
1 25 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 25 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 17 (68.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 16 (64.00%) Web Services
4 13 (52.00%) HTML
5 12 (48.00%) CSS
5 12 (48.00%) WPF
5 12 (48.00%) Silverlight
6 7 (28.00%) jQuery
7 5 (20.00%) NHibernate
8 4 (16.00%) REST
9 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 2 (8.000%) DHTML
11 1 (4.000%) ADO.NET
11 1 (4.000%) XML
11 1 (4.000%) Ajax
11 1 (4.000%) RESTful
11 1 (4.000%) ASP.NET MVC 2
11 1 (4.000%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (16.00%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (8.000%) IIS
4 1 (4.000%) CMS
4 1 (4.000%) DotNetNuke
4 1 (4.000%) Umbraco
4 1 (4.000%) Sitecore CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (16.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (8.000%) MySQL
3 2 (8.000%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (8.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (8.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 8 (32.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (16.00%) NUnit
3 2 (8.000%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 25 (100.00%) Developer
2 21 (84.00%) .NET Developer
3 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 4 (16.00%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (12.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (12.00%) Applications Developer
5 1 (4.000%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (4.000%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (4.000%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.000%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) NHS
1 2 (8.000%) Mathematics
1 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (80.00%) MVC
2 8 (32.00%) E-Commerce
3 7 (28.00%) Scrum
4 4 (16.00%) Business Intelligence
4 4 (16.00%) Migration
4 4 (16.00%) Unit Testing
4 4 (16.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (12.00%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (12.00%) TDD
6 2 (8.000%) Kanban
6 2 (8.000%) Web Development
7 1 (4.000%) DSDM
7 1 (4.000%) Test Management
7 1 (4.000%) Dependency Injection
7 1 (4.000%) BDD
7 1 (4.000%) Automated Testing
7 1 (4.000%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (100.00%) C#
2 18 (72.00%) JavaScript
3 12 (48.00%) XAML
4 7 (28.00%) SQL
5 1 (4.000%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (8.000%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.000%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (4.000%) Oracle
1 1 (4.000%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.000%) EPiServer
1 1 (4.000%) Sitecore