The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 17 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 77 64 48
Rank change year-on-year
-13 -16
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 25 27 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.939% 2.547% 4.021%
As % of the Application Development category 4.780% 6.870% 8.137%
Number of salaries quoted 22 27 36
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £22,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £33,000 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
523 393 467
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 40.57% 37.08% 49.42%
Number of salaries quoted 474 364 442
Average salary £41,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.57% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £22,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Buckinghamshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Milton Keynes LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 54 (100.00%) C#
1 54 (100.00%) .NET
2 51 (94.44%) SQL Server
3 49 (90.74%) ASP.NET
3 49 (90.74%) WCF
4 43 (79.63%) TDD
5 37 (68.52%) NUnit
6 32 (59.26%) .NET Framework
6 32 (59.26%) Scrum
7 31 (57.41%) WPF
7 31 (57.41%) Microsoft
7 31 (57.41%) Microsoft Certification
7 31 (57.41%) MCP
7 31 (57.41%) MCAD
7 31 (57.41%) MCSD
8 25 (46.30%) Degree
9 24 (44.44%) Visual Studio
10 23 (42.59%) WinForms
11 20 (37.04%) Ajax
12 19 (35.19%) SQL
13 18 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
14 17 (31.48%) MVC
15 15 (27.78%) Web Services
16 14 (25.93%) OO
17 12 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
17 12 (22.22%) Rhino Mocks
17 12 (22.22%) NHibernate
17 12 (22.22%) Social Network
17 12 (22.22%) MonoRail
17 12 (22.22%) MCTS

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 54 (100.00%) .NET
2 49 (90.74%) ASP.NET
2 49 (90.74%) WCF
3 32 (59.26%) .NET Framework
4 31 (57.41%) WPF
5 23 (42.59%) WinForms
6 20 (37.04%) Ajax
7 15 (27.78%) Web Services
8 12 (22.22%) NHibernate
8 12 (22.22%) MonoRail
8 12 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC
8 12 (22.22%) Castle Windsor
8 12 (22.22%) Razor View Engine
8 12 (22.22%) ASP.NET MVC 4
9 11 (20.37%) jQuery
10 10 (18.52%) HTML
11 8 (14.81%) XML
11 8 (14.81%) CSS
12 6 (11.11%) Unity DI Container
13 3 (5.556%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.704%) CMS
1 2 (3.704%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.852%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (94.44%) SQL Server
2 18 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (14.81%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 37 (68.52%) NUnit
2 24 (44.44%) Visual Studio
3 12 (22.22%) Subversion
3 12 (22.22%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 6 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 54 (100.00%) Developer
2 49 (90.74%) .NET Developer
3 31 (57.41%) C# Developer
4 28 (51.85%) C# .NET Developer
5 10 (18.52%) Senior Developer
5 10 (18.52%) Senior C# Developer
6 9 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
7 7 (12.96%) Junior .NET Developer
7 7 (12.96%) Junior C# Developer
7 7 (12.96%) ASP.NET Developer
7 7 (12.96%) Junior Developer
7 7 (12.96%) Junior C# .NET Developer
7 7 (12.96%) Junior
8 5 (9.259%) Graduate
8 5 (9.259%) Graduate .NET Developer
8 5 (9.259%) Graduate C# Developer
8 5 (9.259%) Graduate Developer
9 4 (7.407%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.704%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 2 (3.704%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (22.22%) Social Network
2 1 (1.852%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 5 (9.259%) Android
3 2 (3.704%) Linux
4 1 (1.852%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (79.63%) TDD
2 32 (59.26%) Scrum
3 17 (31.48%) MVC
4 14 (25.93%) OO
5 12 (22.22%) Web Application Development
6 6 (11.11%) Waterfall
6 6 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (11.11%) Unit Testing
7 4 (7.407%) User Stories
8 2 (3.704%) Time Management
8 2 (3.704%) UML
9 1 (1.852%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 54 (100.00%) C#
2 19 (35.19%) SQL
3 11 (20.37%) JavaScript
4 8 (14.81%) VB.NET
5 6 (11.11%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (57.41%) MCP
1 31 (57.41%) MCAD
1 31 (57.41%) MCSD
1 31 (57.41%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (46.30%) Degree
3 12 (22.22%) MCTS
Vendors
1 31 (57.41%) Microsoft
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Posted: 15 May 2013