The first table below looks at the demand for ADO.NET Entity Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottingham 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 20 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 Nottingham 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ADO.NET Entity Framework
Rank 38 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework 1 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.348% 2.691% -
As % of the Application Development category 1.190% 6.897% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £280 £273 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.75% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £323 £313
% change year-on-year
-3.10% +3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.50 £25.00 -
% change year-on-year
+10.00% -
All Application Development
Nottingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
84 87 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottingham 29.27% 39.01% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 52 22
Average daily rate £325 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.83% -4.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 3
Average hourly rate £28.25 £8.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+232.35% -78.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ADO.NET Entity Framework
Nottinghamshire

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham ADO.NET Entity Framework Daily Rate Trend

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (66.67%) WCF
2 4 (66.67%) LINQ
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (50.00%) IIS
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) SOA
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) WPF
3 3 (50.00%) MVVM
4 2 (33.33%) Sitefinity
4 2 (33.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
4 2 (33.33%) MSTest
4 2 (33.33%) Intranet
4 2 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
4 2 (33.33%) Telerik
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) NUnit
4 2 (33.33%) MVC
4 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Windows

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottingham 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (66.67%) WCF
2 4 (66.67%) LINQ
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (50.00%) WPF
4 2 (33.33%) Ajax
4 2 (33.33%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) jQuery
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (33.33%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (33.33%) Unity DI Container
5 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (33.33%) MSMQ
2 2 (33.33%) Sitefinity
3 1 (16.67%) BizTalk Server
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Intranet
2 1 (16.67%) SNMP
2 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) NUnit
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (33.33%) MSTest
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 4 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 3 (50.00%) C# Developer
4 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (33.33%) WPF Developer
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (16.67%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) SOA
1 3 (50.00%) MVVM
2 2 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) OO
2 2 (33.33%) OOD
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum
3 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Telerik