The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 23 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 Portsmouth region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 27 24 -
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 9 12 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 4.286% 5.970% -
As % of the Application Development category 9.000% 11.88% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 12 0
Average salary £44,000 £30,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.66% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
100 101 97
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 47.62% 50.25% 45.33%
Number of salaries quoted 97 94 96
Average salary £33,500 £31,500 £33,592
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.34% -6.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £26,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Hampshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Portsmouth LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 12 (100.00%) C#
1 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 10 (83.33%) MVC
4 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
5 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (58.33%) XSLT
5 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (58.33%) WCF
6 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 5 (41.67%) OO
7 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
7 5 (41.67%) SOAP
7 5 (41.67%) Web Services
7 5 (41.67%) XML
7 5 (41.67%) .NET Framework
7 5 (41.67%) Scrum
7 5 (41.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 5 (41.67%) REST
8 4 (33.33%) XPath
8 4 (33.33%) HTML
9 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
9 3 (25.00%) SQL
9 3 (25.00%) XSD
9 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
9 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
9 3 (25.00%) UML
9 3 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
9 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 3 (25.00%) Web Application Development

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 12 (100.00%) .NET
2 11 (91.67%) ASP.NET
3 7 (58.33%) XSLT
3 7 (58.33%) WCF
4 6 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 5 (41.67%) SOAP
5 5 (41.67%) Web Services
5 5 (41.67%) XML
5 5 (41.67%) .NET Framework
5 5 (41.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 5 (41.67%) REST
6 4 (33.33%) HTML
7 3 (25.00%) XSD
7 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 3 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 2 (16.67%) WPF
9 1 (8.333%) CSS
9 1 (8.333%) jQuery
9 1 (8.333%) Razor View Engine
Application Platforms
1 1 (8.333%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (8.333%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 11 (91.67%) Developer
2 6 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 6 (50.00%) Senior Developer
3 5 (41.67%) .NET Developer
3 5 (41.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 5 (41.67%) C# .NET Developer
3 5 (41.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Software Developer
4 3 (25.00%) .NET Team Leader
4 3 (25.00%) Team Leader
4 3 (25.00%) Agile .NET Developer
4 3 (25.00%) Agile C# Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior C# Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior .NET Developer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 2 (16.67%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
6 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
6 1 (8.333%) C# Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) MVC
2 7 (58.33%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (41.67%) OO
3 5 (41.67%) Scrum
4 3 (25.00%) UML
4 3 (25.00%) OOA/OOD
4 3 (25.00%) Web Application Development
5 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 12 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (58.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (33.33%) XPath
4 3 (25.00%) VB.NET
4 3 (25.00%) SQL
5 2 (16.67%) C++
6 1 (8.333%) VB
6 1 (8.333%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (8.333%) ISEB
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle
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