The first table below looks at the demand for ADO.NET Entity Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 23 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 North West 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ADO.NET Entity Framework
Rank 85 90 120
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +30
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework 33 39 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 1.408% 1.249% 0.226%
As % of the Application Development category 5.156% 4.295% 0.921%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 3
Average daily rate £300 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £318 £315
% change year-on-year
-1.57% +0.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £33.30 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year
+4.00% -
All Application Development
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
640 908 760
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.30% 29.08% 24.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 491 434
Average daily rate £300 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £230
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 33 21
Average hourly rate £33.00 £17.51 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+88.46% -36.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.50 £17.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.31 £37.50
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 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
Cheshire +19 16 £384 +39.72%
Manchester -1 12 £275 +15.78%
Lancashire +10 2 £275 -15.38%
Merseyside -3 1 £263 -9.48%
ADO.NET Entity Framework
England

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 50 (100.00%) C#
1 50 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (98.00%) .NET Framework
3 46 (92.00%) SQL Server
4 39 (78.00%) ASP.NET
5 34 (68.00%) JavaScript
6 33 (66.00%) WCF
7 32 (64.00%) MVC
8 30 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
9 28 (56.00%) HTML
10 23 (46.00%) CSS
11 22 (44.00%) LINQ
11 22 (44.00%) jQuery
11 22 (44.00%) SQL Server 2005
12 20 (40.00%) Visual Studio
12 20 (40.00%) Web Services
13 19 (38.00%) XML
14 18 (36.00%) TDD
14 18 (36.00%) Ajax
15 17 (34.00%) SQL
16 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
17 13 (26.00%) IIS
17 13 (26.00%) ASP.NET MVC
18 12 (24.00%) LINQ to SQL
19 11 (22.00%) Telerik
19 11 (22.00%) NHibernate
20 10 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
20 10 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
21 9 (18.00%) Windows
21 9 (18.00%) SharePoint

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 50 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (98.00%) .NET Framework
3 39 (78.00%) ASP.NET
4 33 (66.00%) WCF
5 28 (56.00%) HTML
6 23 (46.00%) CSS
7 22 (44.00%) LINQ
7 22 (44.00%) jQuery
8 20 (40.00%) Web Services
9 19 (38.00%) XML
10 18 (36.00%) Ajax
11 13 (26.00%) ASP.NET MVC
12 12 (24.00%) LINQ to SQL
13 11 (22.00%) NHibernate
14 8 (16.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
15 7 (14.00%) Razor View Engine
16 6 (12.00%) Ninject
16 6 (12.00%) WPF
16 6 (12.00%) JSON
17 5 (10.00%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 13 (26.00%) IIS
2 9 (18.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.000%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.000%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 46 (92.00%) SQL Server
2 30 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 22 (44.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 9 (18.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 8 (16.00%) SQL Server 2012
7 4 (8.000%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 7
9 1 (2.000%) MySQL
9 1 (2.000%) InterSystems Cache
9 1 (2.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 20 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 10 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (10.00%) Subversion
3 5 (10.00%) Visual Studio Team System
4 4 (8.000%) Git (software)
5 2 (4.000%) Redmine
5 2 (4.000%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 7 (14.00%) Retail
2 3 (6.000%) Finance
2 3 (6.000%) Banking
3 1 (2.000%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 49 (98.00%) Developer
2 21 (42.00%) .NET Developer
3 12 (24.00%) C# Developer
4 8 (16.00%) Agile C# Developer
5 6 (12.00%) CRM Developer
5 6 (12.00%) Software Developer
6 5 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 5 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM Developer
7 4 (8.000%) MI Developer
7 4 (8.000%) Microsoft Developer
7 4 (8.000%) ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (6.000%) Lead Developer
8 3 (6.000%) .NET Software Developer
9 2 (4.000%) C# .NET Developer
9 2 (4.000%) Lead .NET Developer
9 2 (4.000%) SQL Developer
9 2 (4.000%) Web Developer
10 1 (2.000%) C# Web Developer
10 1 (2.000%) WPF Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (10.00%) N-Tier
3 4 (8.000%) iPad
3 4 (8.000%) Mobile App
4 3 (6.000%) NHS
5 2 (4.000%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.000%) Mathematics
6 1 (2.000%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.000%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Windows
2 4 (8.000%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (64.00%) MVC
2 18 (36.00%) TDD
3 8 (16.00%) Dependency Injection
3 8 (16.00%) MVVM
4 7 (14.00%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (12.00%) CRM
5 6 (12.00%) SOA
6 5 (10.00%) Workflow
7 4 (8.000%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.000%) Analytics
7 4 (8.000%) Mobile Application Development
7 4 (8.000%) Document Management
7 4 (8.000%) Contact Management
7 4 (8.000%) Service Management
7 4 (8.000%) Data Modelling
8 3 (6.000%) OO
9 2 (4.000%) Requirements Analysis
9 2 (4.000%) UML
10 1 (2.000%) OOP
10 1 (2.000%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 50 (100.00%) C#
2 34 (68.00%) JavaScript
3 17 (34.00%) SQL
4 6 (12.00%) VB.NET
4 6 (12.00%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.000%) VB6
5 2 (4.000%) VB
6 1 (2.000%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.000%) XPath
Qualifications
1 6 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (10.00%) MCAD
2 5 (10.00%) MCSD
2 5 (10.00%) MCPD
2 5 (10.00%) MCTS
3 2 (4.000%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.000%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.000%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (2.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (28.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.00%) Telerik
3 2 (4.000%) Razor Risk
4 1 (2.000%) Oracle