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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 84 56 65
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +9
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 3 6 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.290% 0.946% 1.375%
As % of the Application Development category 0.699% 2.198% 2.439%
Number of salaries quoted 3 6 11
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £40,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £46,250 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
429 273 451
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 41.53% 43.06% 56.38%
Number of salaries quoted 372 242 435
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Oxfordshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

Oxford LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 33 (100.00%) .NET
1 33 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 33 (100.00%) C#
2 31 (93.94%) Microsoft
2 31 (93.94%) JavaScript
2 31 (93.94%) SQL
2 31 (93.94%) WCF
2 31 (93.94%) .NET Framework
3 29 (87.88%) WPF
4 27 (81.82%) AMQP
4 27 (81.82%) Ruby
4 27 (81.82%) T-SQL
4 27 (81.82%) C
4 27 (81.82%) Linux
5 17 (51.52%) SQL Server 2008
6 16 (48.48%) OO
7 15 (45.45%) CRM
8 14 (42.42%) RabbitMQ
9 11 (33.33%) Finance
10 7 (21.21%) HTML
11 6 (18.18%) Web Development
12 5 (15.15%) TDD
12 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET
13 4 (12.12%) XML
13 4 (12.12%) IIS
13 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2005
14 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (9.091%) XSL
14 3 (9.091%) Windows
14 3 (9.091%) MVC

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 33 (100.00%) .NET
2 31 (93.94%) WCF
2 31 (93.94%) .NET Framework
3 29 (87.88%) WPF
4 7 (21.21%) HTML
5 5 (15.15%) ASP.NET
6 4 (12.12%) XML
7 3 (9.091%) XSL
7 3 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC 2
8 2 (6.061%) CSS
9 1 (3.030%) XSLT
9 1 (3.030%) jQuery
9 1 (3.030%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 1 (3.030%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 14 (42.42%) RabbitMQ
2 4 (12.12%) IIS
3 1 (3.030%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.030%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 27 (81.82%) AMQP
2 3 (9.091%) TCP/IP
2 3 (9.091%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 17 (51.52%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (12.12%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 1 (3.030%) Visual Studio
1 1 (3.030%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 11 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 33 (100.00%) Developer
2 22 (66.67%) .NET Developer
3 14 (42.42%) Senior Developer
4 5 (15.15%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (9.091%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Web Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Applications Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Software Developer
7 1 (3.030%) .NET Applications Developer
7 1 (3.030%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (3.030%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Agile .NET Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Agile C# Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Senior Software Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Web Applications Developer
7 1 (3.030%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (3.030%) Senior C# Developer
7 1 (3.030%) C# Developer
7 1 (3.030%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.091%) Client/Server
1 3 (9.091%) N-Tier
2 1 (3.030%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 27 (81.82%) Linux
2 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (9.091%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (48.48%) OO
2 15 (45.45%) CRM
3 6 (18.18%) Web Development
4 5 (15.15%) TDD
5 3 (9.091%) MVC
6 2 (6.061%) OOP
7 1 (3.030%) Web Application Development
7 1 (3.030%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.030%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (100.00%) C#
2 31 (93.94%) JavaScript
2 31 (93.94%) SQL
3 27 (81.82%) Ruby
3 27 (81.82%) T-SQL
3 27 (81.82%) C
4 1 (3.030%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 31 (93.94%) Microsoft
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Net Developer with C#, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Agile and OOP (Object Orientated Programming) Our client, a leading consultancy company who build desktop and web portal solutions that...
Pertemps IT
Salary: £30,000 - £35,000
Posted: 21 May 2013