The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 23 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 49 27 45
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +18
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 5 17 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 1.529% 6.589% 2.990%
As % of the Application Development category 2.525% 16.35% 4.762%
Number of salaries quoted 5 17 9
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
198 104 189
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 60.55% 40.31% 62.79%
Number of salaries quoted 189 100 180
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Suffolk

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (85.71%) C#
2 6 (85.71%) WCF
3 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (71.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (71.43%) CSS
4 4 (57.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 4 (57.14%) Windows
4 4 (57.14%) OLAP
4 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (57.14%) Automated Testing
5 3 (42.86%) jQuery
5 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
6 2 (28.57%) HTML
6 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (28.57%) Ajax
6 2 (28.57%) NHibernate
7 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
7 1 (14.29%) Degree
7 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
7 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
7 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 1 (14.29%) WF
7 1 (14.29%) Silverlight

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 6 (85.71%) WCF
3 5 (71.43%) CSS
4 3 (42.86%) jQuery
4 3 (42.86%) Hibernate
5 2 (28.57%) HTML
5 2 (28.57%) Ajax
5 2 (28.57%) NHibernate
6 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
6 1 (14.29%) WF
6 1 (14.29%) Silverlight
6 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (14.29%) ASP
6 1 (14.29%) SOAP
6 1 (14.29%) Web Services
6 1 (14.29%) XML
6 1 (14.29%) XSLT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (71.43%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (57.14%) OLAP
4 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (57.14%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 1 (14.29%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) .NET Developer
3 4 (57.14%) C# Developer
3 4 (57.14%) Lead Developer
3 4 (57.14%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (42.86%) Lead C# Developer
4 3 (42.86%) Lead .NET Developer
4 3 (42.86%) Lead SQL Server Developer
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Developer
4 3 (42.86%) SQL Server Developer
5 1 (14.29%) .NET Programmer
5 1 (14.29%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Lead Programmer
5 1 (14.29%) Software Developer
5 1 (14.29%) VB.NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (14.29%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Automated Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Unit Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Web Application Development
2 1 (14.29%) TDD
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Risk Management
2 1 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) VBScript
3 1 (14.29%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) VMware
Ipswich, Suffolk
The technology is focused on the latest .NET stack including MVC 4, WCF, ORMs such as nHibernate and Entity Framework, unit testing and TFS... Experience Sought: * C#, ASP...
TRG
Salary: £45000 Per Annum Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013