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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 71 110 94
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -16
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 50 11 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.809% 0.564% 1.289%
As % of the Application Development category 6.297% 1.046% 2.462%
Number of salaries quoted 50 11 21
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +66.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,600 £30,000 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £47,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
794 1052 853
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 44.61% 53.89% 52.36%
Number of salaries quoted 655 941 776
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £46,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
North West

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Wilmslow - 12 £34,750 -
Chester - 9 £35,000 -
Warrington +20 5 £30,000 -11.11%
Crewe +4 5 £30,000 -33.33%
Congleton - 1 £24,000 -
LINQ
North West

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 95 (98.96%) C#
3 84 (87.50%) ASP.NET
4 66 (68.75%) SQL Server
4 66 (68.75%) MVC
5 52 (54.17%) jQuery
6 50 (52.08%) SQL
7 48 (50.00%) JavaScript
7 48 (50.00%) CSS
8 47 (48.96%) HTML
9 41 (42.71%) WCF
10 40 (41.67%) Web Services
11 35 (36.46%) .NET Framework
11 35 (36.46%) ASP.NET MVC
12 33 (34.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 33 (34.38%) XML
13 26 (27.08%) Visual Studio
14 23 (23.96%) OO
15 20 (20.83%) Ajax
15 20 (20.83%) VB.NET
16 19 (19.79%) HTML5
17 18 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
17 18 (18.75%) CSS3
17 18 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
18 16 (16.67%) XHTML
19 15 (15.63%) WinForms
19 15 (15.63%) Degree
20 14 (14.58%) Subversion
20 14 (14.58%) TDD

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 96 (100.00%) .NET
2 84 (87.50%) ASP.NET
3 52 (54.17%) jQuery
4 48 (50.00%) CSS
5 47 (48.96%) HTML
6 41 (42.71%) WCF
7 40 (41.67%) Web Services
8 35 (36.46%) .NET Framework
8 35 (36.46%) ASP.NET MVC
9 33 (34.38%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 33 (34.38%) XML
10 20 (20.83%) Ajax
11 19 (19.79%) HTML5
12 18 (18.75%) CSS3
13 16 (16.67%) XHTML
14 15 (15.63%) WinForms
15 10 (10.42%) ASP.NET 2.0
15 10 (10.42%) Silverlight
16 7 (7.292%) ASP.NET MVC 4
16 7 (7.292%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 11 (11.46%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (14.58%) Photoshop
1 14 (14.58%) Fireworks
2 9 (9.375%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.250%) Intranet
2 1 (1.042%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (68.75%) SQL Server
2 18 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 18 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
4 7 (7.292%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (6.250%) SQL Server 2005
6 5 (5.208%) MySQL
7 1 (1.042%) Crystal Reports
7 1 (1.042%) MS Access
7 1 (1.042%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 26 (27.08%) Visual Studio
2 14 (14.58%) Subversion
3 13 (13.54%) NUnit
4 12 (12.50%) Rhino Mocks
5 7 (7.292%) Moq
5 7 (7.292%) Team Foundation Server
6 5 (5.208%) Selenium
6 5 (5.208%) Git (software)
7 2 (2.083%) MSTest
8 1 (1.042%) Dreamweaver
General
1 4 (4.167%) Marketing
2 3 (3.125%) Finance
3 2 (2.083%) Manufacturing
3 2 (2.083%) Retail
3 2 (2.083%) Local Government
3 2 (2.083%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 88 (91.67%) Developer
2 62 (64.58%) .NET Developer
3 35 (36.46%) C# Developer
4 34 (35.42%) C# .NET Developer
5 24 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
6 21 (21.88%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 18 (18.75%) Web Developer
8 14 (14.58%) Software Developer
9 12 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
10 11 (11.46%) Senior Developer
11 10 (10.42%) .NET Web Developer
12 7 (7.292%) Junior Developer
12 7 (7.292%) Junior
12 7 (7.292%) C# Software Developer
12 7 (7.292%) C# Web Developer
13 5 (5.208%) Senior .NET Developer
14 2 (2.083%) Senior C# Developer
14 2 (2.083%) SQL Server Developer
14 2 (2.083%) SQL Developer
15 1 (1.042%) Graduate Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.333%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.208%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (68.75%) MVC
2 23 (23.96%) OO
3 14 (14.58%) TDD
4 13 (13.54%) Scrum
5 11 (11.46%) Agile Software Development
5 11 (11.46%) Web Application Development
6 8 (8.333%) Kanban
6 8 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
7 7 (7.292%) Web Development
7 7 (7.292%) BDD
8 4 (4.167%) Data Management
8 4 (4.167%) CRM
9 2 (2.083%) E-Commerce
9 2 (2.083%) Business Analysis
9 2 (2.083%) Integration Testing
10 1 (1.042%) OOP
10 1 (1.042%) Problem Management
10 1 (1.042%) Release Management
10 1 (1.042%) User Acceptance Testing
10 1 (1.042%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 95 (98.96%) C#
2 50 (52.08%) SQL
3 48 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 20 (20.83%) VB.NET
5 9 (9.375%) T-SQL
6 5 (5.208%) VB
7 4 (4.167%) VB6
8 2 (2.083%) Perl
8 2 (2.083%) PHP
9 1 (1.042%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (15.63%) Degree
2 13 (13.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (7.292%) MCTS
3 7 (7.292%) MCP
3 7 (7.292%) MCAD
3 7 (7.292%) MCSD
Vendors
1 16 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.083%) Twitter
3 1 (1.042%) Infragistics
3 1 (1.042%) DevExpress
Chester, North West
My client is looking for someone that has solid experience and would be able to lead the development cycle and mentor junior teams members. This is a great...
Computer Futures
Salary: £37000 - £40000 per annum + Pension, Car Park, Health Care
Posted: 15 May 2013
Chester, North West
Our client can provide training into: .NET 4.5, ASP.NET MVC 4, SQL Server 2012, Agile (Scrum, Kanban), TDD (NUnit, RhinoMocks, Moq), BDD, ORM, LINQ and NHibernate... (...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
Senior C# Developer - £35000 - £42000The company is a global Sports Event Management and Consultancy They operate a bespoke Invoicing system, called "Pipeline", that interfaces it operational event systems...
Salary: £35000.00 - £42000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 24 April 2013
Wilmslow, North West
Our client based in Wilmslow is currently looking for a ASP.NET / C# Web Developer... We need someone who is enthused by the development industry and will bring...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Wilmslow, Cheshire
Our client based in Wilmslow is currently looking for a ASP.NET / C# Web Developer... Responsibilities: * Maintaining existing web-based applications and developing new systems, in ASP.NET ,...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £28000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Wilmslow, Cheshire
Working with MVC, linq to SQL, SSRS, C# technologies, you will have the interpersonal skills to articulate technology to the wider business team in a language they understand.
I4 Recruitment
Salary: £30k - 32k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Wilmslow, North West
My client, launched in April 2007, is set to become Cheshire’s fastest growing business.Working for some of the UK’s largest blue chip organisations they provide...
i4 Recruitment
Salary: £30k - 32k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Runcorn, WA7 1TN, North West
The bulk of work is around web forms and general back-end business logic, which will often require refactoring and optimising, however there will be elements of DBA...
Centrica
Salary: Salary Range: £25,000 - £28,000 (depending on experience)
Posted: 20 May 2013