The first table below looks at the demand for ADO.NET Entity Framework skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire 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 17 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 Staffordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
ADO.NET Entity Framework
Rank 17 32 34
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +2
Contract jobs citing ADO.NET Entity Framework 2 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 2.299% 0.913% 2.232%
As % of the Application Development category 7.407% 2.740% 4.505%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
Average daily rate £240 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% -4.76%
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £323 £306
% change year-on-year
-3.10% +5.30%
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
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
27 73 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 31.03% 33.33% 49.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 67
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £275 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £397 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £15.31 £16.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-4.31% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ADO.NET Entity Framework
West Midlands

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Stoke-on-Trent - 2 £240 -
ADO.NET Entity Framework
West Midlands

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) .NET Framework
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
3 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
3 3 (60.00%) C#
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) WCF
4 2 (40.00%) MVC
4 2 (40.00%) OO
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) WPF
4 2 (40.00%) Telerik
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 2 (40.00%) C++
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) MS Office
4 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (40.00%) VBA
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
4 2 (40.00%) LINQ
4 2 (40.00%) RIA
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (40.00%) MVVM
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services

ADO.NET Entity Framework
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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%) .NET Framework
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
2 4 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 3 (60.00%) WCF
4 2 (40.00%) WPF
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
4 2 (40.00%) LINQ
4 2 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (20.00%) HTML5
5 1 (20.00%) REST
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET
5 1 (20.00%) XML
5 1 (20.00%) XSD
5 1 (20.00%) WinForms
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) WF
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (60.00%) Applications Developer
3 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Web Applications Developer
3 2 (40.00%) Web Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Applications Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Mobile Developer
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Mobile Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) N-Tier
2 2 (40.00%) RIA
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
1 1 (20.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (20.00%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) OO
1 2 (40.00%) MVC
1 2 (40.00%) MVVM
2 1 (20.00%) OOP
2 1 (20.00%) Workflow
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
2 1 (20.00%) OOD
2 1 (20.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 2 (40.00%) VBA
3 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Telerik
2 1 (20.00%) DevExpress