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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 107 102 59
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -43
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 25 31 57
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.187% 1.372% 3.061%
As % of the Application Development category 3.981% 3.253% 7.917%
Number of salaries quoted 24 31 43
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +10.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £77,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
628 953 720
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 29.82% 42.19% 38.67%
Number of salaries quoted 552 867 628
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Berkshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

Reading LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 41 (100.00%) .NET
2 37 (90.24%) ASP.NET
3 34 (82.93%) SQL Server
4 30 (73.17%) C#
4 30 (73.17%) JavaScript
4 30 (73.17%) jQuery
5 27 (65.85%) SQL
6 25 (60.98%) WCF
7 22 (53.66%) VB.NET
8 19 (46.34%) MVC
9 16 (39.02%) Scrum
9 16 (39.02%) MS Excel
9 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
9 16 (39.02%) SQL Server 2008
10 15 (36.59%) ASP.NET MVC
11 13 (31.71%) HTML
12 12 (29.27%) Razor View Engine
13 11 (26.83%) CSS
14 9 (21.95%) Ajax
14 9 (21.95%) TDD
14 9 (21.95%) T-SQL
14 9 (21.95%) SQL Server 2012
15 7 (17.07%) Firebug
15 7 (17.07%) Waterfall
15 7 (17.07%) RESTful
15 7 (17.07%) Digital Media
15 7 (17.07%) New Media
15 7 (17.07%) BDD
15 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC 3
15 7 (17.07%) C

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 41 (100.00%) .NET
2 37 (90.24%) ASP.NET
3 30 (73.17%) jQuery
4 25 (60.98%) WCF
5 15 (36.59%) ASP.NET MVC
6 13 (31.71%) HTML
7 12 (29.27%) Razor View Engine
8 11 (26.83%) CSS
9 9 (21.95%) Ajax
10 7 (17.07%) RESTful
10 7 (17.07%) JSON
10 7 (17.07%) Web Services
10 7 (17.07%) J2EE
10 7 (17.07%) ASP.NET MVC 3
11 6 (14.63%) ASP.NET MVC 4
11 6 (14.63%) Castle Windsor
11 6 (14.63%) NHibernate
12 5 (12.20%) Silverlight
12 5 (12.20%) Lucene
13 4 (9.756%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.878%) IIS
1 2 (4.878%) SharePoint
1 2 (4.878%) CMS
1 2 (4.878%) Umbraco
1 2 (4.878%) Sitecore CMS
1 2 (4.878%) Windows Azure
1 2 (4.878%) SharePoint 2013
2 1 (2.439%) Kentico
Applications
1 16 (39.02%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.878%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (82.93%) SQL Server
2 16 (39.02%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (21.95%) SQL Server 2012
4 7 (17.07%) Data Mining
5 2 (4.878%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (2.439%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Firebug
2 6 (14.63%) NUnit
2 6 (14.63%) Selenium
2 6 (14.63%) Cucumber
3 5 (12.20%) Rhino Mocks
4 1 (2.439%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.439%) Git (software)
4 1 (2.439%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.439%) MSTest
4 1 (2.439%) MSBuild
General
1 7 (17.07%) Publishing
2 2 (4.878%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (2.439%) Finance
Job Titles
1 39 (95.12%) Developer
2 25 (60.98%) .NET Developer
3 14 (34.15%) C# Developer
3 14 (34.15%) Senior Developer
4 13 (31.71%) Programmer
4 13 (31.71%) C# .NET Developer
5 12 (29.27%) .NET Programmer
6 11 (26.83%) Web Developer
7 10 (24.39%) VB.NET Developer
8 9 (21.95%) .NET Web Developer
8 9 (21.95%) C# Web Developer
8 9 (21.95%) VB.NET Programmer
9 7 (17.07%) Senior .NET Web Developer
9 7 (17.07%) Senior C# Developer
9 7 (17.07%) Senior .NET Developer
9 7 (17.07%) Senior Web Developer
10 6 (14.63%) ASP.NET Developer
10 6 (14.63%) C# ASP.NET Developer
11 5 (12.20%) Software Developer
12 4 (9.756%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.07%) Digital Media
1 7 (17.07%) New Media
2 5 (12.20%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (12.20%) Social Media
3 2 (4.878%) iPad
3 2 (4.878%) Computer Science
3 2 (4.878%) FMCG
4 1 (2.439%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.878%) Android
2 1 (2.439%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (46.34%) MVC
2 16 (39.02%) Scrum
3 9 (21.95%) TDD
4 7 (17.07%) Web Development
4 7 (17.07%) Waterfall
4 7 (17.07%) BDD
5 6 (14.63%) OO
6 5 (12.20%) Scrum-ban
6 5 (12.20%) Web Application Development
6 5 (12.20%) Kanban
7 2 (4.878%) Information Architecture
7 2 (4.878%) Unit Testing
7 2 (4.878%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (4.878%) Content Management
8 1 (2.439%) Automated Testing
8 1 (2.439%) Data Management
8 1 (2.439%) Migration
8 1 (2.439%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 30 (73.17%) C#
1 30 (73.17%) JavaScript
2 27 (65.85%) SQL
3 22 (53.66%) VB.NET
4 9 (21.95%) T-SQL
5 7 (17.07%) C
5 7 (17.07%) Java
6 1 (2.439%) C++
6 1 (2.439%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.878%) Degree
2 1 (2.439%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.439%) ISEB
2 1 (2.439%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.439%) QA
Vendors
1 16 (39.02%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.317%) Oracle
3 2 (4.878%) Sitecore
3 2 (4.878%) Interwoven
3 2 (4.878%) Lotus
4 1 (2.439%) EPiServer
Reading, Berkshire
At this forward thinking company you will be happy at all stages of the development lifecycle using C# as a primary language and looking to progress your career...
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Salary: c. 45,000
Posted: 13 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
A C# ASP.Net Developer interested in joining a development team in small but well established software company, to contribute towards all stages of software lifecycle of web-...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Technical:The primary development language is C#... Experience designing and coding complex distributed desktop and web (preferably ASP.Net) applications.Good experience with .Net 3.5.C++ competence...
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 24 April 2013