Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
UK

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 647 890 877
Rank change year-on-year +243 -13 -151
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 264 56 400
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.059% 0.24%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.22% 0.20% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 256 46 148
10th Percentile £36,250 £47,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,813 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +13.99%
75th Percentile £63,750 £66,563 £63,750
90th Percentile £70,000 £81,250 £75,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +22.22%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,566 27,616 70,286
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 20.49% 29.13% 41.57%
Number of salaries quoted 16,031 17,933 29,817
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,834 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +3.85% +18.18%
75th Percentile £78,750 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,650 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LINQ.

Salary trend for LINQ in the UK

LINQ
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LINQ over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for LINQ in the UK

LINQ
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +259 252 £52,500 -4.55% 66
UK excluding London +141 217 £50,000 -9.09% 46
Work from Home +222 207 £52,500 -6.67% 56
South East +55 70 £50,000 -9.09% 7
North of England +72 51 £55,000 - 22
Midlands +24 49 £50,000 -9.09% 8
London +140 46 £60,000 -9.09% 20
East of England +27 36 £50,000 +11.11% 7
East Midlands +5 32 £37,500 -33.33% 5
North West +7 31 £55,000 - 10
West Midlands +5 17 £55,000 +7.32% 3
Yorkshire - 10 £48,750 - 4
North East - 10 £52,500 - 9
Scotland -62 6 - -
Wales - 5 £50,000 - 1

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 6 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.89%) IIS
3 3 (1.14%) CMS
3 3 (1.14%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.76%) Liferay
4 2 (0.76%) Magnolia
5 1 (0.38%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.52%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 196 (74.24%) Azure
2 18 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (5.30%) GitHub
4 10 (3.79%) Power Platform
5 5 (1.89%) AWS
6 2 (0.76%) npm
6 2 (0.76%) PaaS
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.38%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (0.38%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.38%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 33 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 246 (93.18%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.58%) NonStop SQL
3 13 (4.92%) Azure SQL Database
4 10 (3.79%) Oracle Database
4 10 (3.79%) Power BI
5 6 (2.27%) Elasticsearch
5 6 (2.27%) Redis
6 3 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 3 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.76%) Crystal Reports
7 2 (0.76%) DB2
7 2 (0.76%) DTS
7 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.38%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (10.98%) Moq
1 29 (10.98%) NUnit
2 28 (10.61%) Visual Studio
3 21 (7.95%) Git
4 11 (4.17%) Team Foundation Server
5 8 (3.03%) MSTest
6 4 (1.52%) Octopus Deploy
6 4 (1.52%) Selenium
6 4 (1.52%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.14%) FitNesse
7 3 (1.14%) JIRA
7 3 (1.14%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.14%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.76%) Bower
8 2 (0.76%) gulp
8 2 (0.76%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (0.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.38%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 48 (18.18%) Finance
2 26 (9.85%) Music Industry
3 21 (7.95%) Advertising
4 20 (7.58%) Games
5 15 (5.68%) Banking
6 11 (4.17%) Social Skills
7 9 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.27%) Investment Banking
8 6 (2.27%) Law
8 6 (2.27%) Private Banking
9 5 (1.89%) Retail
10 4 (1.52%) Aviation
10 4 (1.52%) Legal
11 1 (0.38%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 249 (94.32%) Developer
2 194 (73.48%) .NET Developer
3 103 (39.02%) C# Developer
4 81 (30.68%) C# .NET Developer
5 22 (8.33%) Full Stack Developer
6 20 (7.58%) Games Developer
6 20 (7.58%) Internet Developer
7 18 (6.82%) Agile .NET Developer
7 18 (6.82%) Agile C# Developer
7 18 (6.82%) Agile Developer
8 14 (5.30%) Software Developer
9 13 (4.92%) Senior
10 11 (4.17%) .NET Applications Developer
10 11 (4.17%) Applications Developer
10 11 (4.17%) C# Application Developer
10 11 (4.17%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.17%) Software Engineer
11 10 (3.79%) Full-Stack C# Developer
11 10 (3.79%) Lead
11 10 (3.79%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 264 (100.00%) .NET
2 220 (83.33%) ASP.NET
3 200 (75.76%) HTML
4 198 (75.00%) AngularJS
5 195 (73.86%) .NET Core
6 189 (71.59%) ASP.NET Web API
7 187 (70.83%) ASP.NET MVC
8 171 (64.77%) HTML5
8 171 (64.77%) RESTful
9 74 (28.03%) .NET Framework
10 42 (15.91%) jQuery
11 39 (14.77%) Entity Framework
12 27 (10.23%) CSS
12 27 (10.23%) Web Services
13 25 (9.47%) WinForms
13 25 (9.47%) WPF
14 24 (9.09%) Razor View Engine
15 17 (6.44%) LINQ to SQL
15 17 (6.44%) WCF
16 16 (6.06%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.29%) Enterprise Software
2 31 (11.74%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (3.79%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.27%) Algorithms
4 6 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 3 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.14%) Management Information System
5 3 (1.14%) Tandem
6 2 (0.76%) Client/Server
6 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.38%) PlayStation
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 224 (84.85%) MVC
2 220 (83.33%) Agile
3 190 (71.97%) Full Stack Development
4 173 (65.53%) Microservices
5 169 (64.02%) Multithreading
6 168 (63.64%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 26 (9.85%) High Availability
8 24 (9.09%) Computer Science
9 22 (8.33%) DevOps
9 22 (8.33%) Unit Testing
10 21 (7.95%) OO
10 21 (7.95%) Web Development
11 17 (6.44%) Scrum
11 17 (6.44%) SDLC
12 16 (6.06%) UML
13 15 (5.68%) Software Engineering
14 14 (5.30%) SOLID
14 14 (5.30%) TDD
15 13 (4.92%) Continuous Improvement
16 10 (3.79%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 264 (100.00%) C#
2 218 (82.58%) JavaScript
3 48 (18.18%) SQL
4 18 (6.82%) PowerShell
5 13 (4.92%) T-SQL
6 10 (3.79%) Delphi
6 10 (3.79%) TypeScript
7 9 (3.41%) VB
7 9 (3.41%) VB.NET
8 8 (3.03%) Java
9 7 (2.65%) C++
10 6 (2.27%) XAML
11 2 (0.76%) C
11 2 (0.76%) Go
11 2 (0.76%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.76%) PHP
11 2 (0.76%) Python
12 1 (0.38%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 24 (9.09%) Degree
2 21 (7.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.52%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.52%) QA
System Software
1 6 (2.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.14%) Control-M
Vendors
1 205 (77.65%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.95%) Facebook
2 21 (7.95%) YouTube
3 12 (4.55%) Oracle
4 3 (1.14%) Sitecore
5 2 (0.76%) MuleSoft
5 2 (0.76%) OpenText
5 2 (0.76%) Pega
6 1 (0.38%) Atlassian