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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 61 64 59
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -5
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 11 7 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 1.667% 0.917% 1.966%
As % of the Application Development category 4.382% 2.121% 4.408%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 16
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +28.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £40,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
251 330 363
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 38.03% 43.25% 44.59%
Number of salaries quoted 234 313 336
Average salary £35,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £19,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,000 £42,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
East Midlands

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

Northamptonshire LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Northampton -3 7 £41,000 -8.88%
Corby - 1 £37,500 -
LINQ
East Midlands

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 10 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
4 9 (60.00%) SQL
4 9 (60.00%) VBScript
4 9 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 9 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 9 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 8 (53.33%) Ajax
5 8 (53.33%) N-Tier
6 7 (46.67%) VB
6 7 (46.67%) C++
6 7 (46.67%) C
7 6 (40.00%) Retail
7 6 (40.00%) ASP
8 4 (26.67%) WPF
8 4 (26.67%) Silverlight
9 3 (20.00%) WCF
9 3 (20.00%) Smartphone
9 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
9 3 (20.00%) WinForms
9 3 (20.00%) Web Services
9 3 (20.00%) UNIX
9 3 (20.00%) Linux
10 2 (13.33%) Windows
10 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
10 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
10 2 (13.33%) DTS

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 12 (80.00%) ASP.NET
3 8 (53.33%) Ajax
4 6 (40.00%) ASP
5 4 (26.67%) WPF
5 4 (26.67%) Silverlight
6 3 (20.00%) WinForms
6 3 (20.00%) WCF
6 3 (20.00%) Web Services
7 2 (13.33%) REST
8 1 (6.667%) XML
8 1 (6.667%) CSS
8 1 (6.667%) HTML
8 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET
8 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
8 1 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (6.667%) Castle Windsor
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) IIS
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
1 2 (13.33%) Windows Azure
2 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 9 (60.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 9 (60.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 9 (60.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (13.33%) DTS
4 1 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (6.667%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Subversion
1 2 (13.33%) Git (software)
1 2 (13.33%) Hudson
1 2 (13.33%) Trac
2 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.667%) NUnit
General
1 6 (40.00%) Retail
2 1 (6.667%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Developer
2 11 (73.33%) Senior Developer
3 9 (60.00%) .NET Developer
4 7 (46.67%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Software Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Software Architect
6 1 (6.667%) Software Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Architect
6 1 (6.667%) Software Engineer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst Developer
6 1 (6.667%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM Developer
6 1 (6.667%) CRM Developer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (53.33%) N-Tier
2 3 (20.00%) Smartphone
3 2 (13.33%) PaaS
4 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (6.667%) Blog
4 1 (6.667%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (6.667%) Biometrics
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) UNIX
1 3 (20.00%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (13.33%) MVVM
3 1 (6.667%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (6.667%) CRM
3 1 (6.667%) MVC
3 1 (6.667%) Scrum
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) TDD
3 1 (6.667%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 10 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 9 (60.00%) SQL
3 9 (60.00%) VBScript
4 7 (46.67%) VB
4 7 (46.67%) C++
4 7 (46.67%) C
5 1 (6.667%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Xamarin