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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 123 110 125
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +15
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 16 41 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.623% 1.426% 0.668%
As % of the Application Development category 1.328% 2.820% 1.333%
Number of salaries quoted 15 40 20
Average salary £30,500 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.22% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1205 1454 1500
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 46.92% 50.56% 50.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1115 1264 1307
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% +10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
East of England

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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
Cambridge -15 13 £30,500 -32.22%
Huntingdon -13 2 £35,000 -20.00%
LINQ
East of England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 21 (100.00%) C#
1 21 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (95.24%) ASP.NET
3 19 (90.48%) SQL Server
3 19 (90.48%) HTML
3 19 (90.48%) JavaScript
4 18 (85.71%) WCF
5 16 (76.19%) ASP.NET MVC
5 16 (76.19%) SQL
5 16 (76.19%) MVC
6 14 (66.67%) Ajax
6 14 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 14 (66.67%) Web Application Development
6 14 (66.67%) TDD
6 14 (66.67%) Scrum
7 13 (61.90%) ADO.NET
7 13 (61.90%) Windows Azure
7 13 (61.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 13 (61.90%) SQL Server 2005
7 13 (61.90%) .NET Framework
7 13 (61.90%) Requirements Analysis
8 6 (28.57%) jQuery
8 6 (28.57%) CSS
8 6 (28.57%) Web Services
9 5 (23.81%) SharePoint
9 5 (23.81%) NUnit
10 4 (19.05%) Finance
10 4 (19.05%) OO
10 4 (19.05%) CAML
10 4 (19.05%) SharePoint 2010

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 21 (100.00%) .NET
2 20 (95.24%) ASP.NET
3 19 (90.48%) HTML
4 18 (85.71%) WCF
5 16 (76.19%) ASP.NET MVC
6 14 (66.67%) Ajax
7 13 (61.90%) ADO.NET
7 13 (61.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 13 (61.90%) .NET Framework
8 6 (28.57%) jQuery
8 6 (28.57%) CSS
8 6 (28.57%) Web Services
9 4 (19.05%) CAML
10 3 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 2 (9.524%) CGI
11 2 (9.524%) REST
12 1 (4.762%) MonoRail
12 1 (4.762%) NHibernate
12 1 (4.762%) Razor View Engine
12 1 (4.762%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 13 (61.90%) Windows Azure
2 5 (23.81%) SharePoint
3 4 (19.05%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (90.48%) SQL Server
2 14 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 13 (61.90%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) NUnit
2 1 (4.762%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (4.762%) Subversion
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
Job Titles
1 21 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (71.43%) C# Developer
2 15 (71.43%) C# .NET Developer
2 15 (71.43%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (19.05%) SharePoint Developer
4 3 (14.29%) .NET Developer
5 2 (9.524%) ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (4.762%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Wiki
1 1 (4.762%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) MVC
2 14 (66.67%) Web Application Development
2 14 (66.67%) TDD
2 14 (66.67%) Scrum
3 13 (61.90%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) OO
5 3 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (9.524%) OOP
6 2 (9.524%) Web Development
7 1 (4.762%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (100.00%) C#
2 19 (90.48%) JavaScript
3 16 (76.19%) SQL
4 1 (4.762%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.762%) VB
4 1 (4.762%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) Degree
1 1 (4.762%) MCTS
1 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (4.762%) MCP
1 1 (4.762%) MCAD
1 1 (4.762%) MCSD
Vendors
1 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge and experience of C#, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Object Oriented Programming. It would be helpful and important to...
Focus IT Recruitment
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum + Great Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Practical knowledge of design patterns and avoidance of anti-patterns is a must.Applicants must have at least 4 years of commercial software development or equivalent open source...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Extensive Benefits Package
Posted: 25 May 2013