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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 59 62 65
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +3
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 12 11 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 1.739% 1.278% 0.546%
As % of the Application Development category 4.286% 3.729% 1.356%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 4
Average salary £40,500 £33,750 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.62%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
North East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
280 295 295
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North East 40.58% 34.26% 40.30%
Number of salaries quoted 258 240 255
Average salary £33,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.71% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,600 £23,900 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East 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 North East region.

North East LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

North East 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 North East 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
Tyne and Wear -1 11 £41,000 +17.14%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 31 (100.00%) .NET
2 30 (96.77%) C#
3 28 (90.32%) SQL Server
3 28 (90.32%) ASP.NET
4 27 (87.10%) MVC
5 21 (67.74%) ASP.NET MVC
6 18 (58.06%) WCF
7 17 (54.84%) Scrum
8 16 (51.61%) SQL Server 2008
9 15 (48.39%) TDD
10 14 (45.16%) Microsoft
10 14 (45.16%) Web Application Development
11 13 (41.94%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 13 (41.94%) Razor View Engine
11 13 (41.94%) Rhino Mocks
11 13 (41.94%) Moq
11 13 (41.94%) BDD
11 13 (41.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 13 (41.94%) DTV
11 13 (41.94%) MCP
11 13 (41.94%) MCAD
11 13 (41.94%) MCSD
11 13 (41.94%) NUnit
11 13 (41.94%) MCTS
11 13 (41.94%) NHibernate
11 13 (41.94%) .NET Framework
11 13 (41.94%) Kanban
12 11 (35.48%) CSS
13 10 (32.26%) XML
14 9 (29.03%) HTML

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North East 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 31 (100.00%) .NET
2 28 (90.32%) ASP.NET
3 21 (67.74%) ASP.NET MVC
4 18 (58.06%) WCF
5 13 (41.94%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 13 (41.94%) Razor View Engine
5 13 (41.94%) NHibernate
5 13 (41.94%) .NET Framework
6 11 (35.48%) CSS
7 10 (32.26%) XML
8 9 (29.03%) HTML
8 9 (29.03%) jQuery
8 9 (29.03%) Ajax
9 6 (19.35%) XHTML
10 5 (16.13%) JSON
11 4 (12.90%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 4 (12.90%) KnockoutJS
11 4 (12.90%) WPF
11 4 (12.90%) XSLT
11 4 (12.90%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.226%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 2 (6.452%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.226%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (90.32%) SQL Server
2 16 (51.61%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (12.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.226%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.226%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (3.226%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 13 (41.94%) Rhino Mocks
1 13 (41.94%) Moq
1 13 (41.94%) NUnit
2 3 (9.677%) Visual Studio
2 3 (9.677%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.226%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (6.452%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 30 (96.77%) Developer
2 23 (74.19%) .NET Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Software Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior Developer
3 5 (16.13%) C# Developer
3 5 (16.13%) Senior .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior C# Developer
4 4 (12.90%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (12.90%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Technical Developer
5 2 (6.452%) Web Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Lead Developer
6 1 (3.226%) .NET Web Developer
6 1 (3.226%) C# Software Developer
6 1 (3.226%) Lead Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) DTV
2 1 (3.226%) SaaS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (87.10%) MVC
2 17 (54.84%) Scrum
3 15 (48.39%) TDD
4 14 (45.16%) Web Application Development
5 13 (41.94%) BDD
5 13 (41.94%) Kanban
6 5 (16.13%) Agile Software Development
6 5 (16.13%) Waterfall
7 4 (12.90%) MVVM
8 3 (9.677%) OO
9 2 (6.452%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (6.452%) Content Management
10 1 (3.226%) Unit Testing
10 1 (3.226%) CRM
10 1 (3.226%) OOD
10 1 (3.226%) UML
10 1 (3.226%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (96.77%) C#
2 9 (29.03%) JavaScript
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) T-SQL
4 4 (12.90%) PL/SQL
5 3 (9.677%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 13 (41.94%) Microsoft Certification
1 13 (41.94%) MCP
1 13 (41.94%) MCAD
1 13 (41.94%) MCSD
1 13 (41.94%) MCTS
2 1 (3.226%) Degree
Vendors
1 14 (45.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.13%) Oracle
3 1 (3.226%) Sage
3 1 (3.226%) Twitter
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