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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 80 82 100
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +18
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 4 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.373% 0.587% 0.064%
As % of the Application Development category 0.885% 1.754% 0.200%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 1
Average salary £37,500 £38,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.22% -3.12%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
452 456 499
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 42.20% 33.48% 31.80%
Number of salaries quoted 288 359 369
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,400 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £43,500 £44,100
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Scotland

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) B2B
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
1 4 (100.00%) WinForms
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (50.00%) NUnit
3 2 (50.00%) Subversion
3 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 2 (50.00%) WPF
3 2 (50.00%) Ninject
3 2 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
3 2 (50.00%) MSTest
3 2 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (50.00%) Moq
3 2 (50.00%) StructureMap
3 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
3 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) WinForms
1 4 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) jQuery
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 4 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (50.00%) NHibernate
2 2 (50.00%) WPF
2 2 (50.00%) Ninject
2 2 (50.00%) Unity DI Container
2 2 (50.00%) StructureMap
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Subversion
1 2 (50.00%) MSTest
1 2 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (50.00%) Moq
1 2 (50.00%) Git (software)
1 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (50.00%) Mercurial
General
1 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (75.00%) Agile .NET Developer
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) B2B
1 4 (100.00%) MVC
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Python