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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 59 57 47
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -10
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 26 21 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 2.870% 2.925% 2.517%
As % of the Application Development category 5.778% 5.085% 5.023%
Number of salaries quoted 23 21 11
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +7.59%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £35,000 £37,700
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
450 413 219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 49.67% 57.52% 50.11%
Number of salaries quoted 399 400 203
Average salary £36,500 £42,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.11% +16.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,750 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Surrey

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

Guildford LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 41 (100.00%) .NET
1 41 (100.00%) C#
2 40 (97.56%) ASP.NET
3 39 (95.12%) SQL Server
4 35 (85.37%) SQL Server 2008
5 34 (82.93%) jQuery
6 32 (78.05%) HTML
6 32 (78.05%) JavaScript
6 32 (78.05%) CSS
6 32 (78.05%) XSLT
7 28 (68.29%) XSL
8 26 (63.41%) SQL Server 2000
9 21 (51.22%) VB.NET
9 21 (51.22%) SQL
9 21 (51.22%) ASP.NET 2.0
10 18 (43.90%) .NET Framework
11 17 (41.46%) T-SQL
12 14 (34.15%) Degree
13 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
14 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
14 9 (21.95%) Legal
15 8 (19.51%) Computer Science
16 7 (17.07%) Agile Software Development
16 7 (17.07%) TDD
16 7 (17.07%) MVC
16 7 (17.07%) MS Excel
16 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC
16 7 (17.07%) Razor View Engine
16 7 (17.07%) NHibernate
17 5 (12.20%) Web Application Development

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 41 (100.00%) .NET
2 40 (97.56%) ASP.NET
3 34 (82.93%) jQuery
4 32 (78.05%) HTML
4 32 (78.05%) CSS
4 32 (78.05%) XSLT
5 28 (68.29%) XSL
6 21 (51.22%) ASP.NET 2.0
7 18 (43.90%) .NET Framework
8 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC
8 7 (17.07%) Razor View Engine
8 7 (17.07%) NHibernate
9 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 5 (12.20%) Castle Windsor
9 5 (12.20%) Lucene
9 5 (12.20%) WCF
10 2 (4.878%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (17.07%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.878%) MPLS
1 2 (4.878%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (95.12%) SQL Server
2 35 (85.37%) SQL Server 2008
3 26 (63.41%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (4.878%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Rhino Mocks
1 5 (12.20%) Cucumber
1 5 (12.20%) WebDriver
1 5 (12.20%) NUnit
1 5 (12.20%) Selenium
2 2 (4.878%) Visual Studio
General
1 9 (21.95%) Legal
2 3 (7.317%) Finance
3 2 (4.878%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 41 (100.00%) Developer
2 27 (65.85%) .NET Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Software Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Junior
3 8 (19.51%) Junior Developer
3 8 (19.51%) Junior .NET Developer
4 5 (12.20%) C# Programmer
4 5 (12.20%) ASP.NET Programmer
4 5 (12.20%) Programmer
4 5 (12.20%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) .NET Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) C# Software Engineer
4 5 (12.20%) .NET Programmer
5 4 (9.756%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (9.756%) C# Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Senior Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (9.756%) Graduate
5 4 (9.756%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.878%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.878%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (21.95%) Business Intelligence
2 7 (17.07%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (17.07%) TDD
2 7 (17.07%) MVC
3 5 (12.20%) Web Application Development
3 5 (12.20%) BDD
3 5 (12.20%) Scrum-ban
3 5 (12.20%) Scrum
3 5 (12.20%) Kanban
4 4 (9.756%) Performance Management
5 2 (4.878%) Data Analysis
6 1 (2.439%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 41 (100.00%) C#
2 32 (78.05%) JavaScript
3 21 (51.22%) VB.NET
3 21 (51.22%) SQL
4 17 (41.46%) T-SQL
5 2 (4.878%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 14 (34.15%) Degree
Vendors
1 13 (31.71%) Microsoft
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