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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 93 107 120
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +13
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 78 60 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 2.563% 1.763% 1.435%
As % of the Application Development category 5.954% 3.822% 3.627%
Number of salaries quoted 76 60 51
Average salary £34,000 £36,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.20% +3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,750 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
East Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1310 1570 1406
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East Midlands 43.05% 46.12% 39.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1184 1450 1269
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% +0.74%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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
Nottinghamshire +10 29 £32,500 -
Derbyshire +11 27 £34,000 -15.00%
Northamptonshire +11 11 £40,000 -11.11%
Leicestershire -15 11 £36,000 -0.68%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 131 (97.04%) .NET
2 127 (94.07%) C#
3 121 (89.63%) SQL Server
4 111 (82.22%) ASP.NET
5 69 (51.11%) WPF
6 65 (48.15%) JavaScript
7 58 (42.96%) MVC
8 55 (40.74%) Ajax
9 51 (37.78%) HTML
9 51 (37.78%) WCF
10 45 (33.33%) CSS
11 44 (32.59%) jQuery
12 42 (31.11%) SQL
13 37 (27.41%) SQL Server 2008
14 36 (26.67%) XML
15 34 (25.19%) Silverlight
15 34 (25.19%) .NET Framework
16 32 (23.70%) ASP.NET MVC
17 29 (21.48%) Microsoft
18 26 (19.26%) Web Application Development
19 25 (18.52%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
19 25 (18.52%) Windows
20 21 (15.56%) Visual Studio
20 21 (15.56%) Mobile App
21 20 (14.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
21 20 (14.81%) TDD
22 19 (14.07%) WinForms
23 18 (13.33%) QA
23 18 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
23 18 (13.33%) Web Services

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the East Midlands 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
1 131 (97.04%) .NET
2 111 (82.22%) ASP.NET
3 69 (51.11%) WPF
4 55 (40.74%) Ajax
5 51 (37.78%) HTML
5 51 (37.78%) WCF
6 45 (33.33%) CSS
7 44 (32.59%) jQuery
8 36 (26.67%) XML
9 34 (25.19%) .NET Framework
9 34 (25.19%) Silverlight
10 32 (23.70%) ASP.NET MVC
11 25 (18.52%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 19 (14.07%) WinForms
13 18 (13.33%) Web Services
13 18 (13.33%) ASP.NET MVC 4
14 17 (12.59%) XSLT
15 14 (10.37%) XHTML
16 12 (8.889%) JSON
16 12 (8.889%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 17 (12.59%) IIS
2 12 (8.889%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.444%) Apache
3 6 (4.444%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.222%) Windows Azure
5 2 (1.481%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (1.481%) CMS
6 1 (0.741%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.741%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 8 (5.926%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.741%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.444%) HTTP
2 5 (3.704%) Internet
3 2 (1.481%) VoIP
3 2 (1.481%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 121 (89.63%) SQL Server
2 37 (27.41%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (14.81%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 16 (11.85%) SQL Server 2005
5 14 (10.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (5.185%) SQL Server 2012
7 4 (2.963%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.222%) DTS
8 3 (2.222%) Apache Hive
9 2 (1.481%) Data Mining
9 2 (1.481%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (1.481%) Informix
10 1 (0.741%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 21 (15.56%) Visual Studio
2 15 (11.11%) NUnit
2 15 (11.11%) Subversion
3 12 (8.889%) WatiN
4 11 (8.148%) Rhino Mocks
5 9 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
5 9 (6.667%) LoadRunner
6 7 (5.185%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (4.444%) MSBuild
7 6 (4.444%) FishEye
8 4 (2.963%) Moq
9 2 (1.481%) Hudson
9 2 (1.481%) Git (software)
9 2 (1.481%) NCover
9 2 (1.481%) Trac
10 1 (0.741%) GitHub
10 1 (0.741%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 1 (0.741%) ReSharper
10 1 (0.741%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (11.11%) Finance
2 12 (8.889%) Telecoms
3 8 (5.926%) Electronics
4 7 (5.185%) Retail
5 5 (3.704%) Games
6 3 (2.222%) Advertising
7 2 (1.481%) Military
7 2 (1.481%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.741%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 116 (85.93%) Developer
2 55 (40.74%) .NET Developer
3 32 (23.70%) C# Developer
4 31 (22.96%) Web Developer
5 22 (16.30%) Software Developer
6 21 (15.56%) C# .NET Developer
7 19 (14.07%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 18 (13.33%) Senior Developer
9 16 (11.85%) C# Web Developer
10 15 (11.11%) Applications Developer
11 13 (9.630%) ASP.NET Developer
11 13 (9.630%) Web Applications Developer
12 12 (8.889%) C# Application Developer
13 11 (8.148%) .NET Web Developer
13 11 (8.148%) Senior .NET Developer
13 11 (8.148%) Architect
14 10 (7.407%) .NET Applications Developer
15 7 (5.185%) Software Architect
16 6 (4.444%) Software Engineer
17 5 (3.704%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 21 (15.56%) Mobile App
2 16 (11.85%) N-Tier
3 14 (10.37%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (8.889%) Digital Media
5 5 (3.704%) Computer Science
6 4 (2.963%) Tandem
7 3 (2.222%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.481%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.481%) Blog
8 2 (1.481%) Inversion of Control
8 2 (1.481%) PaaS
9 1 (0.741%) PMI
9 1 (0.741%) W3C
9 1 (0.741%) Biometrics
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.52%) Windows
2 3 (2.222%) Linux
2 3 (2.222%) UNIX
3 2 (1.481%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (42.96%) MVC
2 26 (19.26%) Web Application Development
3 20 (14.81%) TDD
4 17 (12.59%) Scrum
5 14 (10.37%) Multithreading
6 13 (9.630%) OO
6 13 (9.630%) MVVM
7 12 (8.889%) Test Automation
7 12 (8.889%) Automated Testing
8 9 (6.667%) Test Scripting
8 9 (6.667%) OOP
8 9 (6.667%) SOA
9 7 (5.185%) Unit Testing
10 6 (4.444%) Agile Software Development
10 6 (4.444%) Web Development
10 6 (4.444%) Identity Management
10 6 (4.444%) BDD
11 5 (3.704%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (2.963%) Kanban
13 3 (2.222%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 127 (94.07%) C#
2 65 (48.15%) JavaScript
3 42 (31.11%) SQL
4 13 (9.630%) XAML
5 12 (8.889%) VB
5 12 (8.889%) VB.NET
6 11 (8.148%) Java
7 9 (6.667%) T-SQL
7 9 (6.667%) VBScript
8 7 (5.185%) C
8 7 (5.185%) C++
9 6 (4.444%) PHP
9 6 (4.444%) Python
9 6 (4.444%) PowerShell
10 2 (1.481%) Progress 4GL
Qualifications
1 17 (12.59%) Degree
2 12 (8.889%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (5.926%) MCTS
3 8 (5.926%) MCP
3 8 (5.926%) MCAD
3 8 (5.926%) MCSD
4 2 (1.481%) MCSE
4 2 (1.481%) MCITP
5 1 (0.741%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (0.741%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (7.407%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.444%) Shibboleth
3 2 (1.481%) XenApp
3 2 (1.481%) XenServer
3 2 (1.481%) VMware ESX
3 2 (1.481%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.741%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 29 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.148%) HP
3 6 (4.444%) Red Gate
4 4 (2.963%) Capita
5 2 (1.481%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.481%) Veeam
5 2 (1.481%) Cisco
5 2 (1.481%) Citrix
5 2 (1.481%) VMware
5 2 (1.481%) Facebook
5 2 (1.481%) Twitter
5 2 (1.481%) Xamarin
6 1 (0.741%) Oracle
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
You will have skills in C#, ASP.Net, MVC, Visual Studio, LINQ and SQL Server with the desire to work with the latest versions of .Net as they...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Chesterfield, East Midlands
The role ideally calls for commercial experience with C# ASP.Net, JavaScript and SQL server.You will be involved with client facing based web applications for a bespoke...
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Chesterfield, Derbyshire
Essential Skills: + C# ASP.Net (3.5/4.0) + LINQ + JavaScript + Visual Studios 2008/2010 Fantastic opportunity for a C#.Net developer with 2-4 years experience in...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £30000 - £38000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Leicestershire
Web Developer/.NET Developer (Version 3.5/4) - C# or VB.NET/ASP.NET/Microsoft SQL Server/LINQ using Microsoft Visual Studio. A growing business requires a .NET...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Leicester, Leicestershire
C# .NET 4.0+ ASP.NET MVC with Razor Entity Framework and LINQ HTML Javascript/jQuery CSS Experience in the following areas will also be beneficial: ASP.NET...
Topps Tiles
Salary: Up to £22,000 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Derby, Derbyshire
C# Web Application Developer - Derby - £25k - £40k + Benefits - Latest technologies - .NET 4.5 / MVC / ASP.NET / C# / LINQ / JavaScript / HTML / CSS / IIS7 / SQL Server 2012... C# Web Application...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Derby, East Midlands
C# Web Application Developer - Derby - £25k - £40k + Benefits - Latest technologies - .NET 4.5 / MVC / ASP.NET / C# / LINQ / JavaScript / HTML / CSS / IIS7 / SQL Server 2012How would you like...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Derbyshire
Commutable from Sheffield, Woking, Chesterfield and Mansfield the company offer a fantastic opportunity to progress an already established career in the area of C# ASP.NET Web Applications...
IT Connections
Salary: £30,000-£40,000 dependant on experience plus excel
Posted: 17 May 2013
Nottingham, East Midlands
Sound knowledge of C#, ASP .NET / SQL Server Web application design and programming is also essential along with experience in developing test scripts using HP Testing tools such...
Novate IT
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Nottingham, Nottinghamshire
Sound knowledge of C#, ASP .NET / SQL Server Web application design and programming is also essential along with experience in developing test scripts using HP Testing tools such...
Novate IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + bonus + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013