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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 117 93 80
Rank change year-on-year
-24 -13
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 5 15 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.273% 1.019% 1.605%
As % of the Application Development category 0.699% 2.235% 3.070%
Number of salaries quoted 5 15 25
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £33,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £40,000 £48,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
715 671 847
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 39.01% 45.58% 52.28%
Number of salaries quoted 629 592 793
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,865 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire LINQ Salary Trend

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 Oxfordshire 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
Oxford -20 2 £42,500 +6.25%
LINQ
South East

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 55 (100.00%) C#
1 55 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 55 (100.00%) .NET
2 46 (83.64%) JavaScript
2 46 (83.64%) WPF
3 45 (81.82%) WCF
4 38 (69.09%) Microsoft
5 36 (65.45%) SQL
6 34 (61.82%) SQL Server 2008
6 34 (61.82%) .NET Framework
7 31 (56.36%) C
8 30 (54.55%) T-SQL
9 29 (52.73%) Linux
9 29 (52.73%) Ruby
9 29 (52.73%) AMQP
10 25 (45.45%) ASP.NET
11 21 (38.18%) TDD
12 19 (34.55%) HTML
13 18 (32.73%) OO
14 17 (30.91%) CRM
15 16 (29.09%) Scrum
15 16 (29.09%) RabbitMQ
16 15 (27.27%) Rhino Mocks
16 15 (27.27%) NHibernate
16 15 (27.27%) NUnit
16 15 (27.27%) MVC
17 14 (25.45%) Finance
17 14 (25.45%) CSS
17 14 (25.45%) ASP.NET MVC
18 13 (23.64%) Web Application Development

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 55 (100.00%) .NET
2 46 (83.64%) WPF
3 45 (81.82%) WCF
4 34 (61.82%) .NET Framework
5 25 (45.45%) ASP.NET
6 19 (34.55%) HTML
7 15 (27.27%) NHibernate
8 14 (25.45%) ASP.NET MVC
8 14 (25.45%) CSS
9 11 (20.00%) Silverlight
9 11 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
10 10 (18.18%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 9 (16.36%) Castle Windsor
11 9 (16.36%) MonoRail
12 6 (10.91%) WinForms
12 6 (10.91%) Ajax
13 5 (9.091%) XML
14 3 (5.455%) XSL
14 3 (5.455%) JSON
14 3 (5.455%) ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
1 16 (29.09%) RabbitMQ
2 7 (12.73%) IIS
3 5 (9.091%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.818%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (1.818%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 5 (9.091%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 29 (52.73%) AMQP
2 4 (7.273%) Internet
2 4 (7.273%) Broadband
3 3 (5.455%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.455%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 34 (61.82%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (16.36%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (5.455%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.818%) DTS
Development Applications
1 15 (27.27%) NUnit
1 15 (27.27%) Rhino Mocks
2 6 (10.91%) Moq
3 5 (9.091%) Subversion
3 5 (9.091%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.636%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 14 (25.45%) Finance
2 9 (16.36%) Games
3 5 (9.091%) Music
4 4 (7.273%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.818%) Back Office
5 1 (1.818%) Music Industry
Job Titles
1 55 (100.00%) Developer
2 31 (56.36%) .NET Developer
3 14 (25.45%) Senior Developer
4 13 (23.64%) C# Developer
5 9 (16.36%) C# .NET Developer
6 6 (10.91%) ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (9.091%) Senior .NET Developer
7 5 (9.091%) Agile C# Developer
8 4 (7.273%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 4 (7.273%) WinForms Developer
8 4 (7.273%) Applications Developer
9 3 (5.455%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 2 (3.636%) Web Applications Developer
10 2 (3.636%) .NET Web Developer
10 2 (3.636%) Web Developer
10 2 (3.636%) Software Developer
10 2 (3.636%) C# Application Developer
10 2 (3.636%) .NET Applications Developer
11 1 (1.818%) C# Software Developer
11 1 (1.818%) Agile .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.455%) Client/Server
1 3 (5.455%) N-Tier
2 2 (3.636%) NHS
3 1 (1.818%) W3C
3 1 (1.818%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 29 (52.73%) Linux
2 7 (12.73%) Windows
3 3 (5.455%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) TDD
2 18 (32.73%) OO
3 17 (30.91%) CRM
4 16 (29.09%) Scrum
5 15 (27.27%) MVC
6 13 (23.64%) Web Application Development
7 7 (12.73%) Web Development
8 6 (10.91%) BDD
8 6 (10.91%) Kanban
9 4 (7.273%) MVVM
9 4 (7.273%) E-Commerce
10 3 (5.455%) Project Management
11 2 (3.636%) OOP
12 1 (1.818%) Agile Software Development
12 1 (1.818%) Configuration Management
12 1 (1.818%) Unit Testing
12 1 (1.818%) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages
1 55 (100.00%) C#
2 46 (83.64%) JavaScript
3 36 (65.45%) SQL
4 31 (56.36%) C
5 30 (54.55%) T-SQL
6 29 (52.73%) Ruby
7 11 (20.00%) VB.NET
8 4 (7.273%) VB
8 4 (7.273%) C++
9 1 (1.818%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.00%) MCP
1 11 (20.00%) MCAD
1 11 (20.00%) MCSD
1 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 11 (20.00%) MCTS
2 1 (1.818%) Degree
Vendors
1 38 (69.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.818%) Oracle
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