The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 253 234 239
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +5
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 65 90 95
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.552% 0.685% 0.627%
As % of the Application Development category 1.444% 1.838% 1.708%
Number of salaries quoted 56 88 90
Average salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £42,250 £37,500 £39,850
10% offered a salary of more than £87,500 £70,750 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
4500 4897 5563
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 38.25% 37.28% 36.71%
Number of salaries quoted 3964 4592 5122
Average salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £80,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
London

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 165 (98.80%) C#
2 151 (90.42%) .NET
3 112 (67.07%) SQL Server
4 90 (53.89%) ASP.NET
5 88 (52.69%) .NET Framework
6 86 (51.50%) SQL
7 80 (47.90%) WCF
8 76 (45.51%) WPF
9 75 (44.91%) JavaScript
10 68 (40.72%) MVC
11 67 (40.12%) HTML
12 66 (39.52%) CSS
13 63 (37.72%) Microsoft
14 55 (32.93%) OO
14 55 (32.93%) Agile Software Development
15 51 (30.54%) jQuery
16 50 (29.94%) Finance
17 44 (26.35%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
18 42 (25.15%) ASP.NET MVC
18 42 (25.15%) TDD
19 41 (24.55%) SQL Server 2008
20 40 (23.95%) Scrum
21 38 (22.75%) XML
22 37 (22.16%) Visual Studio
23 36 (21.56%) Web Services
24 32 (19.16%) MVVM
25 29 (17.37%) Windows
26 26 (15.57%) T-SQL
27 25 (14.97%) Multithreading
28 24 (14.37%) Subversion

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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
1 151 (90.42%) .NET
2 90 (53.89%) ASP.NET
3 88 (52.69%) .NET Framework
4 80 (47.90%) WCF
5 76 (45.51%) WPF
6 67 (40.12%) HTML
7 66 (39.52%) CSS
8 51 (30.54%) jQuery
9 44 (26.35%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 42 (25.15%) ASP.NET MVC
11 38 (22.75%) XML
12 36 (21.56%) Web Services
13 24 (14.37%) Ajax
14 21 (12.57%) LINQ to SQL
15 20 (11.98%) Reactive Extensions
15 20 (11.98%) Silverlight
16 18 (10.78%) NHibernate
17 16 (9.581%) HTML5
18 14 (8.383%) XSLT
19 13 (7.784%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 18 (10.78%) IIS
2 16 (9.581%) CMS
3 15 (8.982%) SharePoint
4 14 (8.383%) Umbraco
5 11 (6.587%) TIBCO EMS
6 10 (5.988%) Sitecore CMS
7 5 (2.994%) MSMQ
8 2 (1.198%) SharePoint 2013
8 2 (1.198%) Orchard CMS
8 2 (1.198%) Immediacy CMS
8 2 (1.198%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 14 (8.383%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.198%) Fireworks
2 2 (1.198%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.599%) MS Office
3 1 (0.599%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.599%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 10 (5.988%) RMDS
2 2 (1.198%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.599%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.790%) DNS
2 3 (1.796%) HTTP
2 3 (1.796%) Internet
3 2 (1.198%) NFC
4 1 (0.599%) SMTP
4 1 (0.599%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (67.07%) SQL Server
2 41 (24.55%) SQL Server 2008
3 17 (10.18%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (6.587%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 8 (4.790%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 7 (4.192%) SQL Server 2000
6 7 (4.192%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (3.593%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.796%) MySQL
9 2 (1.198%) Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.599%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.599%) Crystal Reports
10 1 (0.599%) OLAP
10 1 (0.599%) Oracle 10g
10 1 (0.599%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (0.599%) Oracle OLAP
10 1 (0.599%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 37 (22.16%) Visual Studio
2 24 (14.37%) Subversion
3 10 (5.988%) ReSharper
3 10 (5.988%) TeamCity
3 10 (5.988%) Team Foundation Server
4 9 (5.389%) CodeRush
5 8 (4.790%) Expression Blend
6 5 (2.994%) SpecFlow
7 3 (1.796%) Moq
7 3 (1.796%) Git (software)
7 3 (1.796%) NUnit
8 2 (1.198%) Jenkins
8 2 (1.198%) Hudson
8 2 (1.198%) FinalBuilder
8 2 (1.198%) MSBuild
8 2 (1.198%) Maven
8 2 (1.198%) Mercurial
8 2 (1.198%) JUnit
8 2 (1.198%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.599%) MSTest
General
1 50 (29.94%) Finance
2 22 (13.17%) Front Office
3 14 (8.383%) Banking
4 10 (5.988%) Marketing
4 10 (5.988%) Games
5 7 (4.192%) Investment Banking
6 5 (2.994%) Back Office
6 5 (2.994%) Legal
7 2 (1.198%) Law
8 1 (0.599%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.599%) Advertising
8 1 (0.599%) Publishing
8 1 (0.599%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.599%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 132 (79.04%) Developer
2 81 (48.50%) C# Developer
3 65 (38.92%) .NET Developer
4 53 (31.74%) C# .NET Developer
5 41 (24.55%) C# ASP.NET Developer
6 40 (23.95%) ASP.NET Developer
7 33 (19.76%) Senior Developer
8 17 (10.18%) WPF Developer
9 16 (9.581%) Senior C# Developer
10 15 (8.982%) Senior .NET Developer
11 12 (7.186%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
12 10 (5.988%) Software Developer
13 9 (5.389%) Lead Developer
14 8 (4.790%) Lead C# Developer
14 8 (4.790%) C# Software Developer
14 8 (4.790%) Lead .NET Developer
14 8 (4.790%) Web Developer
15 7 (4.192%) Front Office Developer
15 7 (4.192%) C++ Developer
16 6 (3.593%) Senior Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 18 (10.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (4.790%) Computer Science
2 8 (4.790%) Hedge funds
3 7 (4.192%) RIA
3 7 (4.192%) Derivative
4 6 (3.593%) Open Source
4 6 (3.593%) N-Tier
4 6 (3.593%) Client/Server
5 4 (2.395%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.395%) Visualisation
6 3 (1.796%) Clustering
6 3 (1.796%) W3C
6 3 (1.796%) Social Media
6 3 (1.796%) Inversion of Control
6 3 (1.796%) SaaS
6 3 (1.796%) Social Network
6 3 (1.796%) Mathematics
6 3 (1.796%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.198%) Equity Derivative
7 2 (1.198%) Cryptography
Operating Systems
1 29 (17.37%) Windows
2 4 (2.395%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.395%) Android
2 4 (2.395%) Linux
3 3 (1.796%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (1.796%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (1.198%) Windows Phone 8
4 2 (1.198%) Windows Phone
4 2 (1.198%) MVS
5 1 (0.599%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (40.72%) MVC
2 55 (32.93%) OO
2 55 (32.93%) Agile Software Development
3 42 (25.15%) TDD
4 40 (23.95%) Scrum
5 32 (19.16%) MVVM
6 25 (14.97%) Multithreading
7 21 (12.57%) SOA
8 17 (10.18%) OOP
8 17 (10.18%) Continuous Integration
8 17 (10.18%) Dependency Injection
9 15 (8.982%) BDD
10 12 (7.186%) Unit Testing
11 10 (5.988%) Technical Architecture
11 10 (5.988%) Asset Management
11 10 (5.988%) Electronic Trading
11 10 (5.988%) Web Application Development
12 9 (5.389%) Memory Management
13 8 (4.790%) Web Development
13 8 (4.790%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 165 (98.80%) C#
2 86 (51.50%) SQL
3 75 (44.91%) JavaScript
4 26 (15.57%) T-SQL
5 12 (7.186%) C++
6 10 (5.988%) VB.NET
7 8 (4.790%) PL/SQL
8 7 (4.192%) Java
8 7 (4.192%) XAML
9 3 (1.796%) XPath
10 2 (1.198%) VBScript
11 1 (0.599%) C
11 1 (0.599%) PHP
11 1 (0.599%) F#
Qualifications
1 16 (9.581%) Degree
2 3 (1.796%) PhD
3 2 (1.198%) MCPD
3 2 (1.198%) MCTS
4 1 (0.599%) MCP
4 1 (0.599%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.994%) QA
2 1 (0.599%) Basel III
System Software
1 5 (2.994%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (5.389%) MOM
Vendors
1 63 (37.72%) Microsoft
2 20 (11.98%) Oracle
3 13 (7.784%) Infragistics
4 11 (6.587%) TIBCO
4 11 (6.587%) Sitecore
5 9 (5.389%) 29West
5 9 (5.389%) Google
6 5 (2.994%) Telerik
7 3 (1.796%) Facebook
7 3 (1.796%) Twitter
8 2 (1.198%) EPiServer
8 2 (1.198%) Calypso
9 1 (0.599%) IBM
9 1 (0.599%) Business Objects
9 1 (0.599%) Fidessa
9 1 (0.599%) CA
9 1 (0.599%) Sun
9 1 (0.599%) Sage
9 1 (0.599%) NYFIX
9 1 (0.599%) EasyScreen
City of London
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Salary: Competitive Salary and Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
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City of London
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City, London
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City, London
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Salary: £40k to £55k + bonus (c50%) + benefits
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Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £55000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £70000 per annum + + Stock Options
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