LINQ Contracts in the West Midlands

Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 - 128
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing LINQ 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.061% - 0.090%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.39% - 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £468
25th Percentile - - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £500
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - £533
England median daily rate £680 £439 £563
% change year-on-year +54.99% -22.00% -13.53%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 256 286 353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.58% 14.90% 15.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 190 238
10th Percentile £363 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.81% +5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £575 £635 £634
90th Percentile £686 £725 £704
England median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 9 1
10th Percentile - £14.23 -
25th Percentile £33.91 £39.92 £41.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.88% -26.72%
75th Percentile - £56.25 £43.75
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £56.25 £62.50
% change year-on-year -2.22% -10.00% +12.61%

LINQ
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing LINQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for LINQ in the West Midlands

LINQ
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for LINQ in the West Midlands

LINQ
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 July 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
Shropshire - 1 - - 1
LINQ
England

LINQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes