The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 20 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the Bracknell region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 70 49 31
Rank change year-on-year
-21 -18
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 7 1 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 1.333% 0.257% 4.384%
As % of the Application Development category 5.512% 0.885% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 16
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +28.57%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Bracknell
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
127 113 144
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 24.19% 29.05% 39.45%
Number of salaries quoted 108 102 137
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Berkshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LINQ across the Bracknell region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Bracknell LINQ Jobs Demand Trend

LINQ
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LINQ across the Bracknell region.

Bracknell LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing LINQ also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LINQ.

1 19 (100.00%) C#
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (89.47%) Scrum
2 17 (89.47%) TDD
3 13 (68.42%) Silverlight
4 12 (63.16%) ASP.NET
4 12 (63.16%) SQL Server 2008
5 10 (52.63%) ASP.NET MVC
5 10 (52.63%) BDD
5 10 (52.63%) Castle Windsor
5 10 (52.63%) WCF
5 10 (52.63%) NHibernate
5 10 (52.63%) NUnit
5 10 (52.63%) MVC
6 9 (47.37%) IIS
7 7 (36.84%) Finance
8 6 (31.58%) Games
8 6 (31.58%) Ajax
8 6 (31.58%) MCTS
8 6 (31.58%) Subversion
8 6 (31.58%) Web Services
8 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
8 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (31.58%) Internet
8 6 (31.58%) MCP
8 6 (31.58%) MCAD
8 6 (31.58%) MCSD
8 6 (31.58%) MS Excel
8 6 (31.58%) Rhino Mocks

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing LINQ also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited LINQ. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 13 (68.42%) Silverlight
3 12 (63.16%) ASP.NET
4 10 (52.63%) ASP.NET MVC
4 10 (52.63%) NHibernate
4 10 (52.63%) WCF
4 10 (52.63%) Castle Windsor
5 6 (31.58%) Razor View Engine
5 6 (31.58%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 6 (31.58%) MonoRail
5 6 (31.58%) Ajax
5 6 (31.58%) Web Services
6 5 (26.32%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 5 (26.32%) .NET Framework
7 4 (21.05%) WPF
7 4 (21.05%) XML
7 4 (21.05%) XSD
7 4 (21.05%) XSLT
7 4 (21.05%) WinForms
7 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 9 (47.37%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (63.16%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (10.53%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) NUnit
2 6 (31.58%) Subversion
2 6 (31.58%) Rhino Mocks
3 4 (21.05%) Visual Studio
3 4 (21.05%) Selenium
3 4 (21.05%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Games
3 2 (10.53%) Retail
4 1 (5.263%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (78.95%) .NET Developer
3 12 (63.16%) C# Developer
4 9 (47.37%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET Programmer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Programmer
5 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) Programmer
5 4 (21.05%) C# Software Engineer
5 4 (21.05%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (21.05%) .NET Programmer
5 4 (21.05%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 2 (10.53%) VB.NET Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Web Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Graduate
7 1 (5.263%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Junior
7 1 (5.263%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Graduate .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (89.47%) Scrum
1 17 (89.47%) TDD
2 10 (52.63%) MVC
2 10 (52.63%) BDD
3 6 (31.58%) Web Application Development
4 4 (21.05%) Kanban
5 3 (15.79%) Analytics
5 3 (15.79%) Refactoring
5 3 (15.79%) Unit Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) Automated Testing
6 2 (10.53%) Software Engineering
6 2 (10.53%) Asset Management
6 2 (10.53%) Risk Management
6 2 (10.53%) OOA/OOD
6 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
7 1 (5.263%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) C#
2 5 (26.32%) C
3 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
3 2 (10.53%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) MCP
1 6 (31.58%) MCAD
1 6 (31.58%) MCSD
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
1 6 (31.58%) MCTS
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft