The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 110 79 92
Rank change year-on-year
-31 +13
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 24 47 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.180% 2.452% 2.046%
As % of the Application Development category 2.867% 6.160% 4.447%
Number of salaries quoted 21 47 41
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £22,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Buckinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
837 763 967
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 41.15% 39.80% 46.00%
Number of salaries quoted 764 702 911
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,550 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes -20 24 £35,000 +16.66%
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 56 (100.00%) C#
1 56 (100.00%) .NET
2 52 (92.86%) SQL Server
3 51 (91.07%) ASP.NET
4 49 (87.50%) WCF
5 42 (75.00%) TDD
6 36 (64.29%) NUnit
7 34 (60.71%) .NET Framework
8 32 (57.14%) WPF
8 32 (57.14%) Microsoft
9 31 (55.36%) Scrum
10 30 (53.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (53.57%) MCP
10 30 (53.57%) MCAD
10 30 (53.57%) MCSD
11 26 (46.43%) Degree
12 24 (42.86%) WinForms
12 24 (42.86%) Visual Studio
13 22 (39.29%) SQL
14 19 (33.93%) Ajax
15 18 (32.14%) SQL Server 2008
16 17 (30.36%) MVC
17 16 (28.57%) Web Services
18 13 (23.21%) OO
18 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
18 13 (23.21%) jQuery
19 12 (21.43%) HTML
20 11 (19.64%) MonoRail
20 11 (19.64%) NHibernate
20 11 (19.64%) Social Network

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 56 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (91.07%) ASP.NET
3 49 (87.50%) WCF
4 34 (60.71%) .NET Framework
5 32 (57.14%) WPF
6 24 (42.86%) WinForms
7 19 (33.93%) Ajax
8 16 (28.57%) Web Services
9 13 (23.21%) jQuery
10 12 (21.43%) HTML
11 11 (19.64%) MonoRail
11 11 (19.64%) NHibernate
11 11 (19.64%) ASP.NET MVC
11 11 (19.64%) Castle Windsor
11 11 (19.64%) Razor View Engine
11 11 (19.64%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 9 (16.07%) CSS
12 9 (16.07%) XML
13 6 (10.71%) Unity DI Container
14 4 (7.143%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.571%) Umbraco
1 2 (3.571%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.571%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (92.86%) SQL Server
2 18 (32.14%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 36 (64.29%) NUnit
2 24 (42.86%) Visual Studio
3 11 (19.64%) Subversion
3 11 (19.64%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 6 (10.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 56 (100.00%) Developer
2 50 (89.29%) .NET Developer
3 31 (55.36%) C# Developer
4 28 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
5 11 (19.64%) Senior Developer
6 10 (17.86%) Senior C# Developer
6 10 (17.86%) Senior .NET Developer
7 7 (12.50%) Junior .NET Developer
7 7 (12.50%) Junior
7 7 (12.50%) Junior C# Developer
7 7 (12.50%) ASP.NET Developer
7 7 (12.50%) Junior Developer
7 7 (12.50%) Junior C# .NET Developer
8 6 (10.71%) Software Developer
9 5 (8.929%) Graduate .NET Developer
9 5 (8.929%) Graduate C# Developer
9 5 (8.929%) Graduate Developer
9 5 (8.929%) Graduate
10 3 (5.357%) .NET Software Developer
11 2 (3.571%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Social Network
2 1 (1.786%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Apple iOS
2 6 (10.71%) Android
3 2 (3.571%) Linux
4 1 (1.786%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (75.00%) TDD
2 31 (55.36%) Scrum
3 17 (30.36%) MVC
4 13 (23.21%) OO
5 11 (19.64%) Web Application Development
6 6 (10.71%) Waterfall
6 6 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (10.71%) Unit Testing
7 4 (7.143%) User Stories
7 4 (7.143%) Time Management
8 3 (5.357%) UML
9 1 (1.786%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 56 (100.00%) C#
2 22 (39.29%) SQL
3 13 (23.21%) JavaScript
4 10 (17.86%) VB.NET
5 7 (12.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (53.57%) Microsoft Certification
1 30 (53.57%) MCP
1 30 (53.57%) MCAD
1 30 (53.57%) MCSD
2 26 (46.43%) Degree
3 11 (19.64%) MCTS
Vendors
1 32 (57.14%) Microsoft
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
NET under the Microsoft ... NET (3.5 & 4.0), HTML, JavaScript (not just JQuery), AJAX , CSS , etc.; Ideally you will have practical experience with XML and a Demonstrable...
Quindell Plc - Metaskil
Salary: From £28,000 to £37,500 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
ASP.NET, C#, HTML, JavaScript (not just JQuery), CSS, AJAX etc... The successful candidates will be able to demonstrate the following; (i) Proven experience developing robust multi-tier...
IT Executive Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £34000 per annum + Dependent on experience
Posted: 24 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, SQL, Developer, Mid Level, Software house, Milton Keynes... Experience using LINQ, SQL, ADO.NET Datasets for accessing database storage Knowledge of manipulating XML,...
Spring Technology
Salary: £24000.00 - £35000.00 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013