Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for LINQ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited LINQ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 674 754
Rank change year-on-year +91 +80 -103
Contract jobs citing LINQ 15 45 95
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.075% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.17% 0.32% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 38 68
10th Percentile £314 £400 £385
25th Percentile £325 £505 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £625 £738
Median % change year-on-year -36.00% -15.25% +103.45%
75th Percentile £448 £800 £800
90th Percentile £474 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £458 £390
% change year-on-year -28.96% +17.31% +7.59%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

LINQ is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

LINQ
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LINQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LINQ in the UK

LINQ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing LINQ.

Daily rate trend for LINQ in the UK

LINQ
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing LINQ over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for LINQ in the UK

LINQ
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing LINQ.

Hourly rate trend for LINQ in the UK

LINQ
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +108 15 £400 -44.83% 65
London +84 12 £400 -47.54% 16
Work from Home +112 9 £388 -51.56% 91
UK excluding London +55 3 £325 -28.96% 50
North of England +34 2 £338 - 18
East of England +17 1 £325 -45.83% 9
North West +16 1 £325 - 5
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 4

LINQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) CMS
2 2 (13.33%) EPiServer
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (93.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) Visual Studio
2 5 (33.33%) MSI
2 5 (33.33%) WiX
3 4 (26.67%) Git
3 4 (26.67%) Jasmine
3 4 (26.67%) Selenium
3 4 (26.67%) SpecFlow
4 3 (20.00%) TeamCity
5 2 (13.33%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (6.67%) MSTest
6 1 (6.67%) NUnit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Banking
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (66.67%) Developer
2 9 (60.00%) .NET Developer
3 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Full Stack Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 3 (20.00%) Senior
5 3 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
6 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack C# Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Angular Developer
7 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET MVC Developer
7 1 (6.67%) HTML Developer
7 1 (6.67%) Systems Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) Entity Framework
3 10 (66.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (66.67%) REST
4 8 (53.33%) .NET Core
5 6 (40.00%) ASP.NET Web API
6 5 (33.33%) .NET Framework
6 5 (33.33%) JSON
6 5 (33.33%) NHibernate
6 5 (33.33%) XML
6 5 (33.33%) XSLT
7 4 (26.67%) AngularJS
8 3 (20.00%) HTML
8 3 (20.00%) jQuery
8 3 (20.00%) React
9 2 (13.33%) CSS
9 2 (13.33%) Lambda Expressions
9 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
9 2 (13.33%) SOAP
9 2 (13.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Client/Server
1 5 (33.33%) Web 2.0
2 1 (6.67%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) MVC
1 8 (53.33%) Software Engineering
2 7 (46.67%) OO
3 6 (40.00%) Design Patterns
4 5 (33.33%) Agile
4 5 (33.33%) Configuration Management
4 5 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
4 5 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
4 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (33.33%) TDD
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
6 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Unit Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 2 (13.33%) Microservices
7 2 (13.33%) OOP
8 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
8 1 (6.67%) Continuous Delivery
8 1 (6.67%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) C#
2 10 (66.67%) SQL
3 9 (60.00%) T-SQL
4 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) TypeScript
5 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Optimizely
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft