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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank - 34 38
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 0 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames - 3.191% 2.907%
As % of the Application Development category - 4.959% 4.386%
Number of salaries quoted 0 6 5
Average salary - £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Kingston Upon Thames
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
89 121 114
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 53.29% 64.36% 66.28%
Number of salaries quoted 81 120 114
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £54,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
London

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) AppFabric
1 1 (100.00%) Rational Rhapsody

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) Ajax
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) jQuery
1 1 (100.00%) AppFabric
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (100.00%) Rational Rhapsody
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle