The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Crewe region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 22 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 Crewe region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 31 40 34
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -6
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 5 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crewe 3.311% 0.813% 1.149%
As % of the Application Development category 7.692% 1.709% 1.942%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 2
Average salary £30,000 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.33% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Crewe
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
65 117 103
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crewe 43.05% 47.56% 59.20%
Number of salaries quoted 59 95 99
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £22,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £70,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Cheshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crewe 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 Crewe region.

Crewe LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the Crewe region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Crewe LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crewe 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 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 7 (70.00%) Web Development
3 6 (60.00%) WCF
3 6 (60.00%) jQuery
3 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
3 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET
3 6 (60.00%) CSS
3 6 (60.00%) HTML
3 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (50.00%) VB
4 5 (50.00%) VB.NET
4 5 (50.00%) Visual Studio
4 5 (50.00%) XML
4 5 (50.00%) HTML5
4 5 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 5 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 5 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (40.00%) CSS3
5 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (40.00%) XSLT
5 4 (40.00%) Web Services
5 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (40.00%) VB6
5 4 (40.00%) Ajax
6 3 (30.00%) Windows
7 2 (20.00%) Local Government
7 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crewe 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
2 6 (60.00%) WCF
2 6 (60.00%) jQuery
2 6 (60.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (60.00%) CSS
2 6 (60.00%) HTML
3 5 (50.00%) XML
3 5 (50.00%) HTML5
3 5 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 5 (50.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (40.00%) CSS3
4 4 (40.00%) XSLT
4 4 (40.00%) Web Services
4 4 (40.00%) Ajax
5 1 (10.00%) WPF
5 1 (10.00%) Silverlight
5 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby on Rails
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (10.00%) Dreamweaver
General
1 2 (20.00%) Local Government
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (60.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Developer
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior .NET Developer
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Web Development
2 4 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) MVC
3 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (50.00%) VB
3 5 (50.00%) VB.NET
4 4 (40.00%) VB6
5 1 (10.00%) Ruby
5 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (10.00%) PHP
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft