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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 82 46 31
Rank change year-on-year
-36 -15
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 13 28 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.127% 3.966% 8.294%
As % of the Application Development category 2.895% 9.365% 16.14%
Number of salaries quoted 13 22 87
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £32,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £39,500 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
449 299 539
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 38.91% 42.35% 51.38%
Number of salaries quoted 383 270 505
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

Kent 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 Kent region over the 3 months to 21 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
Rochester - 6 £25,000 -
Chatham +7 2 £40,000 +6.66%
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 30 (100.00%) C#
1 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (93.33%) SQL Server
3 27 (90.00%) ASP.NET
4 18 (60.00%) SQL
5 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
6 16 (53.33%) CSS
7 15 (50.00%) HTML
8 12 (40.00%) Visual Studio
8 12 (40.00%) TDD
8 12 (40.00%) MVC
9 11 (36.67%) XML
9 11 (36.67%) .NET Framework
9 11 (36.67%) WCF
9 11 (36.67%) SQL Server 2008
10 10 (33.33%) T-SQL
10 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (26.67%) NUnit
11 8 (26.67%) VB.NET
11 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
11 8 (26.67%) Unit Testing
11 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
11 8 (26.67%) NHibernate
11 8 (26.67%) Rhino Mocks
11 8 (26.67%) Razor View Engine
11 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
12 7 (23.33%) ASP
12 7 (23.33%) Web Services
12 7 (23.33%) Scrum
12 7 (23.33%) W3C

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 30 (100.00%) .NET
2 27 (90.00%) ASP.NET
3 16 (53.33%) CSS
4 15 (50.00%) HTML
5 11 (36.67%) XML
5 11 (36.67%) .NET Framework
5 11 (36.67%) WCF
6 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
6 8 (26.67%) NHibernate
6 8 (26.67%) Razor View Engine
6 8 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC 4
7 7 (23.33%) ASP
7 7 (23.33%) Web Services
8 5 (16.67%) Castle Windsor
8 5 (16.67%) Lucene
8 5 (16.67%) HTML5
9 4 (13.33%) XSLT
9 4 (13.33%) jQuery
9 4 (13.33%) Ajax
9 4 (13.33%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) IIS
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 3 (10.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (6.667%) MSMQ
3 2 (6.667%) CMS
3 2 (6.667%) Umbraco
3 2 (6.667%) DotNetNuke
3 2 (6.667%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 2 (6.667%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Internet
2 1 (3.333%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (93.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (36.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (13.33%) DTS
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (6.667%) Hadoop
4 2 (6.667%) MongoDB
4 2 (6.667%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (6.667%) NoSQL
4 2 (6.667%) StreamInsight
4 2 (6.667%) Redis
4 2 (6.667%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 8 (26.67%) NUnit
2 8 (26.67%) Rhino Mocks
3 5 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 5 (16.67%) Selenium
4 3 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (13.33%) Legal
2 3 (10.00%) Law
3 2 (6.667%) Advertising
3 2 (6.667%) Games
3 2 (6.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 30 (100.00%) Developer
2 23 (76.67%) .NET Developer
3 11 (36.67%) Web Developer
4 7 (23.33%) ASP.NET Developer
5 6 (20.00%) C# Developer
5 6 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 5 (16.67%) .NET Web Developer
7 4 (13.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (10.00%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
8 3 (10.00%) .NET Software Engineer
8 3 (10.00%) .NET Programmer
8 3 (10.00%) VB.NET Programmer
8 3 (10.00%) ASP.NET Programmer
8 3 (10.00%) VB.NET Developer
8 3 (10.00%) Programmer
8 3 (10.00%) Software Engineer
9 2 (6.667%) Senior .NET Developer
9 2 (6.667%) Senior Developer
10 1 (3.333%) Junior Technical Architect
10 1 (3.333%) Web Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) W3C
2 4 (13.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.667%) Social Media
3 2 (6.667%) SaaS
3 2 (6.667%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (6.667%) Social Gaming
4 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (40.00%) TDD
1 12 (40.00%) MVC
2 8 (26.67%) Unit Testing
3 7 (23.33%) Scrum
4 5 (16.67%) Scrum-ban
4 5 (16.67%) Kanban
4 5 (16.67%) BDD
4 5 (16.67%) Web Application Development
5 4 (13.33%) Mobile Application Development
6 3 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (10.00%) System Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
6 3 (10.00%) Change Management
6 3 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (10.00%) OO
7 2 (6.667%) CRM
7 2 (6.667%) Content Management
7 2 (6.667%) Multithreading
8 1 (3.333%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (100.00%) C#
2 18 (60.00%) SQL
3 10 (33.33%) T-SQL
4 8 (26.67%) VB.NET
4 8 (26.67%) JavaScript
5 5 (16.67%) VB
6 4 (13.33%) PL/SQL
7 2 (6.667%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (16.67%) MCTS
2 5 (16.67%) MCP
2 5 (16.67%) MCAD
2 5 (16.67%) MCSD
3 2 (6.667%) PhD
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) Razor Risk
4 2 (6.667%) Salesforce.com
4 2 (6.667%) Facebook
4 2 (6.667%) Twitter
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