LINQ Contracts in London

Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring LINQ skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited LINQ over the 6 months leading up to 16 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 366 457
Rank change year-on-year +6 +91 +77
Contract jobs citing LINQ 8 18 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.059% 0.11% 0.055%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.23% 0.41% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 11
10th Percentile - £375 £505
25th Percentile - £384 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £680 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +43.16% -26.92% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £588 £738
90th Percentile - £680 -
England median daily rate £680 £469 £600
% change year-on-year +45.07% -21.88% -10.45%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

LINQ falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 3,518 4,438 6,068
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.94% 27.45% 25.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,445 3,168 4,561
10th Percentile £363 £377 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £695 £725 £725
90th Percentile £825 £850 £810
England median daily rate £514 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 24 39
10th Percentile £32.25 £16.25 £30.60
25th Percentile £33.87 £23.80 £41.40
Median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £67.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -44.03% +16.52%
75th Percentile £63.13 £50.19 £75.50
90th Percentile £78.20 £72.01 £87.25
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -2.22% -6.25% -

LINQ
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for LINQ in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for LINQ in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for LINQ in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the London region over the 6 months to 16 August 2025. 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
Central London -5 2 - - 9
LINQ
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
1 5 (62.50%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Boomi
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Git
1 2 (25.00%) NUnit
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (12.50%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Angular Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (87.50%) .NET Framework
2 7 (87.50%) Entity Framework
3 5 (62.50%) Dapper ORM
3 5 (62.50%) REST
3 5 (62.50%) SOAP
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 2 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 2 (25.00%) Bootstrap
4 2 (25.00%) HTML
4 2 (25.00%) jQuery
4 2 (25.00%) LINQ to SQL
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Fixed Income
1 5 (62.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) CI/CD
1 5 (62.50%) Containerisation
1 5 (62.50%) Data Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Investment Management
1 5 (62.50%) Software Engineering
1 5 (62.50%) SOLID
1 5 (62.50%) TDD
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) MVC
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Clean Code
4 1 (12.50%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) C#
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
3 3 (37.50%) Python
4 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Murex
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft