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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank - 18 -
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 0 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham - 10.00% -
As % of the Application Development category - 14.71% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 0
Average salary - £25,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Oldham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
30 34 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oldham 63.83% 68.00% 57.58%
Number of salaries quoted 19 34 19
Average salary £32,500 £26,500 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.64% +10.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £39,246 £37,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Manchester

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oldham 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 Oldham region.

Oldham LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) MCAD
1 2 (100.00%) MCSD
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) MCTS
1 2 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Web Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Moq
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (50.00%) MonoRail
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Social Network
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oldham 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 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 2 (100.00%) WCF
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Razor View Engine
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (50.00%) HTML5
2 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (50.00%) MonoRail
2 1 (50.00%) Ajax
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) Moq
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) MCP
1 2 (100.00%) MCAD
1 2 (100.00%) MCSD
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MCTS