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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 136 131 139
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +8
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 21 23 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.671% 0.669% 0.494%
As % of the Application Development category 1.591% 1.891% 1.441%
Number of salaries quoted 19 22 16
Average salary £42,500 £36,250 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.24% -36.95%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1320 1216 1180
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 42.17% 35.36% 34.32%
Number of salaries quoted 799 987 870
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -2.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
UK

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland LINQ Salary Histogram

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -16 12 £45,000 +28.57%
Edinburgh -4 4 £37,500 -6.25%
Aberdeen - 4 £36,750 -
Aberdeenshire - 1 - -
LINQ
UK

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 38 (100.00%) C#
2 28 (73.68%) .NET
2 28 (73.68%) WPF
3 26 (68.42%) ASP.NET
4 24 (63.16%) SQL Server
5 23 (60.53%) WCF
6 19 (50.00%) .NET Framework
6 19 (50.00%) JavaScript
6 19 (50.00%) MVC
7 16 (42.11%) ASP.NET MVC
8 15 (39.47%) WinForms
8 15 (39.47%) Microsoft
9 14 (36.84%) jQuery
10 12 (31.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
11 10 (26.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 9 (23.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (23.68%) Windows
13 8 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
13 8 (21.05%) Electronic Trading
13 8 (21.05%) Derivative
13 8 (21.05%) Java
13 8 (21.05%) SQL
13 8 (21.05%) C++
13 8 (21.05%) TDD
13 8 (21.05%) Front Office
14 7 (18.42%) Agile Software Development
15 6 (15.79%) HTML
15 6 (15.79%) CSS
15 6 (15.79%) Finance

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 28 (73.68%) .NET
1 28 (73.68%) WPF
2 26 (68.42%) ASP.NET
3 23 (60.53%) WCF
4 19 (50.00%) .NET Framework
5 16 (42.11%) ASP.NET MVC
6 15 (39.47%) WinForms
7 14 (36.84%) jQuery
8 12 (31.58%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 6 (15.79%) HTML
9 6 (15.79%) CSS
10 5 (13.16%) LINQ to SQL
10 5 (13.16%) Silverlight
11 3 (7.895%) ASP.NET MVC 3
12 2 (5.263%) Reactive Extensions
12 2 (5.263%) Unity DI Container
12 2 (5.263%) Ninject
12 2 (5.263%) StructureMap
12 2 (5.263%) NHibernate
13 1 (2.632%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.16%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.895%) IIS
2 3 (7.895%) MSMQ
3 2 (5.263%) Windows Azure
4 1 (2.632%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.895%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (10.53%) Subversion
3 2 (5.263%) Git (software)
3 2 (5.263%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 2 (5.263%) NUnit
3 2 (5.263%) Mercurial
3 2 (5.263%) MSTest
3 2 (5.263%) Rhino Mocks
3 2 (5.263%) Moq
4 1 (2.632%) Visual Studio
General
1 8 (21.05%) Front Office
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 3 (7.895%) Banking
3 3 (7.895%) Back Office
4 2 (5.263%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.632%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 33 (86.84%) Developer
2 17 (44.74%) .NET Developer
3 13 (34.21%) C# Developer
4 9 (23.68%) WPF Developer
5 7 (18.42%) Front Office Developer
6 5 (13.16%) Software Developer
7 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
7 4 (10.53%) C# .NET Developer
8 3 (7.895%) Programmer
8 3 (7.895%) Agile .NET Developer
8 3 (7.895%) Technical Leader
8 3 (7.895%) .NET Software Engineer
9 2 (5.263%) Senior Developer
9 2 (5.263%) Analyst Programmer
9 2 (5.263%) Analyst
10 1 (2.632%) Systems Analyst
10 1 (2.632%) Web Developer
10 1 (2.632%) Systems Programmer
10 1 (2.632%) Senior Programmer
10 1 (2.632%) .NET Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (26.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (21.05%) Derivative
3 4 (10.53%) SaaS
4 3 (7.895%) Replication
4 3 (7.895%) Graphic Design
5 2 (5.263%) Computer Science
6 1 (2.632%) NHS
6 1 (2.632%) DTV
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (50.00%) MVC
2 10 (26.32%) Software Engineering
3 8 (21.05%) TDD
3 8 (21.05%) Electronic Trading
4 7 (18.42%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (15.79%) Scrum
6 4 (10.53%) B2B
6 4 (10.53%) Unit Testing
7 3 (7.895%) Financial Modelling
7 3 (7.895%) Workflow
7 3 (7.895%) Requirements Analysis
8 1 (2.632%) Parallel Programming
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) C#
2 19 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 8 (21.05%) SQL
3 8 (21.05%) C++
3 8 (21.05%) Java
4 3 (7.895%) F#
5 2 (5.263%) Python
6 1 (2.632%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (10.53%) MCP
3 2 (5.263%) Degree
Vendors
1 15 (39.47%) Microsoft
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