Hybrid/Remote LINQ Contract Job Trends

Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring LINQ skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 312 306 385
Rank change year-on-year -6 +79 +114
Contract jobs citing LINQ 6 10 6
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.059% 0.082% 0.034%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.22% 0.34% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £483 £198
25th Percentile - £631 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £700 £210
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +233.33% -73.75%
75th Percentile - - £481
90th Percentile - - £598
UK median daily rate £600 £628 £575
% change year-on-year -4.38% +9.13% -24.34%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,671 2,983 4,341
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.23% 24.59% 24.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,743 1,962 3,140
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £418 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.14% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 28 48
10th Percentile £31.00 £21.78 £40.22
25th Percentile £40.56 £32.88 £55.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.25 £66.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% -7.55% +1.92%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.50 £77.50
90th Percentile - £89.38 £90.25
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.50 £54.78
% change year-on-year -12.00% +14.09% -15.72%

LINQ
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing LINQ and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

LINQ job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

LINQ
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LINQ.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LINQ

LINQ
Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LINQ.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing LINQ

LINQ
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Azure
1 6 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead .NET Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead C# Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) .NET Framework
2 5 (83.33%) Entity Framework
3 4 (66.67%) Dapper ORM
3 4 (66.67%) REST
3 4 (66.67%) SOAP
4 2 (33.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (33.33%) RESTful
5 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
5 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (16.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) Fixed Income
1 4 (66.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 6 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 6 (100.00%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Data Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) Investment Management
2 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 4 (66.67%) SOLID
2 4 (66.67%) TDD
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) API Design
4 1 (16.67%) API Development
4 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Front End Development
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (16.67%) Software Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (33.33%) Python
4 1 (16.67%) Korn
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Murex
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle