The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 24 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 83 74 54
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -20
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 2 12 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 0.255% 1.569% 3.448%
As % of the Application Development category 0.408% 2.661% 6.159%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 17
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% +14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
490 451 276
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 62.50% 58.95% 55.98%
Number of salaries quoted 446 403 266
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
East Sussex

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (100.00%) C#
1 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (60.00%) NUnit
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
3 3 (60.00%) SOAP
3 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) XHTML
4 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 2 (40.00%) VBScript
4 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (40.00%) VBA
4 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (40.00%) ReSharper
4 2 (40.00%) XAML
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
5 1 (20.00%) NHibernate

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 5 (100.00%) .NET
1 5 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (80.00%) CSS
2 4 (80.00%) HTML
2 4 (80.00%) jQuery
3 3 (60.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 3 (60.00%) SOAP
4 2 (40.00%) XHTML
4 2 (40.00%) Web Services
4 2 (40.00%) Silverlight
5 1 (20.00%) NHibernate
5 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 1 (20.00%) Ajax
5 1 (20.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (80.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (40.00%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) NUnit
2 2 (40.00%) ReSharper
3 1 (20.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Lead Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (40.00%) C# Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Umbraco Developer
3 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Applications Developer
3 1 (20.00%) C# Application Developer
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) BBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) MVC
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (40.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) VBScript
4 2 (40.00%) VB.NET
4 2 (40.00%) VBA
4 2 (40.00%) XAML
5 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft