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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 105 117 108
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -9
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 35 33 58
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.420% 1.310% 1.720%
As % of the Application Development category 4.103% 3.078% 5.066%
Number of salaries quoted 34 33 50
Average salary £43,500 £60,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.50% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £35,000 £38,850
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £65,000 £52,250
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
853 1072 1145
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 34.60% 42.56% 33.95%
Number of salaries quoted 712 882 970
Average salary £42,000 £42,500 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.17% +1.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £58,350 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
East of England

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Watford +19 8 £32,500 -18.75%
St Albans -7 8 £45,000 -30.76%
Welwyn Garden City -24 2 £47,500 +35.71%
Rickmansworth - 2 £42,500 -
LINQ
East of England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 86 (100.00%) C#
1 86 (100.00%) .NET
2 70 (81.40%) MVC
3 65 (75.58%) ASP.NET
4 60 (69.77%) .NET Framework
5 50 (58.14%) WCF
6 45 (52.33%) SQL
7 44 (51.16%) SQL Server
7 44 (51.16%) ASP.NET MVC
8 42 (48.84%) Finance
9 41 (47.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 40 (46.51%) Microsoft
11 39 (45.35%) NHibernate
12 33 (38.37%) CSS
13 32 (37.21%) SQL Server 2008
14 31 (36.05%) Windows
14 31 (36.05%) OO
15 27 (31.40%) JavaScript
16 24 (27.91%) ASP.NET MVC 3
17 23 (26.74%) TDD
17 23 (26.74%) XML
18 22 (25.58%) Web Application Development
19 20 (23.26%) NUnit
19 20 (23.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
20 19 (22.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
20 19 (22.09%) Scrum
20 19 (22.09%) BizTalk Server
21 18 (20.93%) Replication
22 17 (19.77%) Ajax
23 16 (18.60%) Silverlight

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 86 (100.00%) .NET
2 65 (75.58%) ASP.NET
3 60 (69.77%) .NET Framework
4 50 (58.14%) WCF
5 44 (51.16%) ASP.NET MVC
6 41 (47.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 39 (45.35%) NHibernate
8 33 (38.37%) CSS
9 24 (27.91%) ASP.NET MVC 3
10 23 (26.74%) XML
11 17 (19.77%) Ajax
12 16 (18.60%) Silverlight
13 15 (17.44%) Castle Windsor
13 15 (17.44%) Lucene
13 15 (17.44%) HTML
14 14 (16.28%) XHTML
15 13 (15.12%) jQuery
16 12 (13.95%) Razor View Engine
17 9 (10.47%) SOAP
17 9 (10.47%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 19 (22.09%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.326%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.326%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (2.326%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.163%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.651%) Internet
2 1 (1.163%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (51.16%) SQL Server
2 32 (37.21%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (23.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 19 (22.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 12 (13.95%) SQL Server 2005
6 6 (6.977%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 20 (23.26%) NUnit
2 15 (17.44%) Selenium
2 15 (17.44%) Cucumber
2 15 (17.44%) Rhino Mocks
3 7 (8.140%) Expression Blend
4 3 (3.488%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.163%) CruiseControl
5 1 (1.163%) ReSharper
5 1 (1.163%) MSBuild
5 1 (1.163%) FxCop
5 1 (1.163%) StyleCop
5 1 (1.163%) MSTest
5 1 (1.163%) Moq
5 1 (1.163%) WatiN
General
1 42 (48.84%) Finance
2 12 (13.95%) Banking
3 2 (2.326%) Retail
4 1 (1.163%) Advertising
4 1 (1.163%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (97.67%) Developer
2 70 (81.40%) .NET Developer
3 24 (27.91%) Senior Developer
4 21 (24.42%) C# Developer
5 19 (22.09%) C# .NET Developer
6 17 (19.77%) Senior .NET Developer
7 13 (15.12%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 9 (10.47%) ASP.NET Developer
9 6 (6.977%) Web Developer
10 5 (5.814%) Lead Developer
11 4 (4.651%) Agile C# Developer
11 4 (4.651%) .NET Web Developer
11 4 (4.651%) Senior C# Developer
12 1 (1.163%) Software Developer
12 1 (1.163%) Technical Consultant
12 1 (1.163%) Consultant
12 1 (1.163%) Applications Developer
12 1 (1.163%) Microsoft Consultant
12 1 (1.163%) Team Leader
12 1 (1.163%) Senior Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.93%) Replication
2 15 (17.44%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (4.651%) BBC
Operating Systems
1 31 (36.05%) Windows
2 7 (8.140%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (81.40%) MVC
2 31 (36.05%) OO
3 23 (26.74%) TDD
4 22 (25.58%) Web Application Development
5 19 (22.09%) Scrum
6 16 (18.60%) BDD
7 15 (17.44%) Scrum-ban
7 15 (17.44%) Kanban
7 15 (17.44%) E-Commerce
8 14 (16.28%) OOD
9 11 (12.79%) Wealth Management
10 9 (10.47%) Web Development
11 8 (9.302%) Agile Software Development
12 7 (8.140%) Software Engineering
13 5 (5.814%) Unit Testing
14 4 (4.651%) Waterfall
14 4 (4.651%) Risk Management
15 2 (2.326%) B2B
15 2 (2.326%) Workflow
16 1 (1.163%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 86 (100.00%) C#
2 45 (52.33%) SQL
3 27 (31.40%) JavaScript
4 7 (8.140%) C++
4 7 (8.140%) PHP
5 4 (4.651%) T-SQL
6 3 (3.488%) VB
7 1 (1.163%) VB6
7 1 (1.163%) VBScript
7 1 (1.163%) Java
Qualifications
1 15 (17.44%) MCTS
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft Certification
1 15 (17.44%) MCP
1 15 (17.44%) MCAD
1 15 (17.44%) MCSD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.326%) PCI DSS
1 2 (2.326%) QA
2 1 (1.163%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.163%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 40 (46.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.651%) Razor Risk
3 1 (1.163%) Telerik
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