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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 47 50 61
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +11
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 7 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 1.777% 1.310% 0.422%
As % of the Application Development category 4.294% 3.529% 0.930%
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 2
Average salary £41,000 £45,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.88% +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
163 170 215
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 41.37% 37.12% 45.36%
Number of salaries quoted 150 168 201
Average salary £34,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £20,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Northamptonshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

Northampton LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 11 (100.00%) C#
1 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET
3 8 (72.73%) SQL
4 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
4 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
5 6 (54.55%) C
5 6 (54.55%) C++
5 6 (54.55%) VBScript
5 6 (54.55%) VB
5 6 (54.55%) ASP
5 6 (54.55%) N-Tier
5 6 (54.55%) Retail
5 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (54.55%) Ajax
5 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
6 3 (27.27%) WPF
6 3 (27.27%) Silverlight
7 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (18.18%) WinForms
7 2 (18.18%) WCF
7 2 (18.18%) Smartphone
7 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
7 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
7 2 (18.18%) Linux
7 2 (18.18%) Web Services
7 2 (18.18%) UNIX
8 1 (9.091%) Windows
8 1 (9.091%) XML

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 11 (100.00%) .NET
2 9 (81.82%) ASP.NET
3 6 (54.55%) ASP
3 6 (54.55%) Ajax
4 3 (27.27%) WPF
4 3 (27.27%) Silverlight
5 2 (18.18%) WinForms
5 2 (18.18%) WCF
5 2 (18.18%) Web Services
6 1 (9.091%) XML
6 1 (9.091%) CSS
6 1 (9.091%) HTML
6 1 (9.091%) .NET Framework
6 1 (9.091%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (9.091%) Castle Windsor
6 1 (9.091%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (9.091%) Windows Azure
2 1 (9.091%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (63.64%) SQL Server
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (54.55%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
1 1 (9.091%) Subversion
1 1 (9.091%) NUnit
1 1 (9.091%) Git (software)
1 1 (9.091%) Hudson
1 1 (9.091%) Trac
General
1 6 (54.55%) Retail
2 1 (9.091%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Developer
2 8 (72.73%) Senior Developer
3 7 (63.64%) .NET Developer
4 6 (54.55%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (18.18%) C# Developer
5 2 (18.18%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Software Architect
6 1 (9.091%) Architect
6 1 (9.091%) Software Engineer
6 1 (9.091%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (9.091%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 1 (9.091%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) N-Tier
2 2 (18.18%) Smartphone
3 1 (9.091%) Blog
3 1 (9.091%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (9.091%) PaaS
3 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX
2 1 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (9.091%) MVC
2 1 (9.091%) Scrum
2 1 (9.091%) CRM
2 1 (9.091%) TDD
2 1 (9.091%) Unit Testing
2 1 (9.091%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (9.091%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 11 (100.00%) C#
2 8 (72.73%) SQL
3 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
4 6 (54.55%) C
4 6 (54.55%) C++
4 6 (54.55%) VBScript
4 6 (54.55%) VB
5 1 (9.091%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.091%) Xamarin