LINQ Contracts with Work from Home Options

Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 450 572
Rank change year-on-year +111 +122 -100
Contract jobs citing LINQ 9 26 50
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.059% 0.10% 0.11%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.25% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 28
10th Percentile £313 £507 -
25th Percentile £317 £563 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -46.55% +20.83% +64.38%
75th Percentile £425 £800 £672
90th Percentile £440 - £800
UK median daily rate £400 £600 £715
% change year-on-year -33.33% -16.08% +97.24%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 3,622 6,458 13,219
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 23.90% 25.29% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,541 4,803 9,764
10th Percentile £331 £394 £400
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £549
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.55% +13.09%
75th Percentile £650 £656 £638
90th Percentile £775 £750 £726
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 80 120
10th Percentile £28.00 £22.50 £21.00
25th Percentile - £43.60 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +27.55% +8.89%
75th Percentile £62.00 £75.00 £61.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £46.84 £65.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -27.94% +30.65% +10.56%

LINQ
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing LINQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

LINQ trend for jobs with a WFH option

LINQ
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing LINQ.

LINQ daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

LINQ
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing LINQ over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

LINQ daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

LINQ
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing LINQ.

LINQ hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

LINQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) EPiServer
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Serverless
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) Visual Studio
2 5 (55.56%) MSI
2 5 (55.56%) WiX
3 2 (22.22%) TeamCity
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) Jasmine
4 1 (11.11%) MSTest
4 1 (11.11%) NUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (11.11%) Selenium
4 1 (11.11%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Developer
3 3 (33.33%) .NET Developer
3 3 (33.33%) Senior
3 3 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full Stack .NET Developer
5 1 (11.11%) Full-Stack C# Developer
5 1 (11.11%) HTML Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (100.00%) .NET
1 9 (100.00%) Entity Framework
2 8 (88.89%) ASP.NET
3 7 (77.78%) REST
4 6 (66.67%) ASP.NET Web API
5 5 (55.56%) JSON
5 5 (55.56%) NHibernate
5 5 (55.56%) XML
5 5 (55.56%) XSLT
6 3 (33.33%) .NET Core
6 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
7 2 (22.22%) jQuery
7 2 (22.22%) Lambda Expressions
7 2 (22.22%) OpenAPI
7 2 (22.22%) SOAP
7 2 (22.22%) Swagger
7 2 (22.22%) Web Services
8 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (11.11%) HTML
8 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Client/Server
1 5 (55.56%) Web 2.0
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) OO
2 6 (66.67%) Design Patterns
2 6 (66.67%) Software Engineering
3 5 (55.56%) Configuration Management
3 5 (55.56%) Performance Tuning
3 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (44.44%) MVC
5 2 (22.22%) Full Stack Development
5 2 (22.22%) OOP
6 1 (11.11%) Agile
6 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
6 1 (11.11%) DevOps
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Microservices
6 1 (11.11%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) Software Architecture
6 1 (11.11%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (77.78%) SQL
3 6 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
1 1 (11.11%) Optimizely