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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 52 43 62
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +19
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 6 21 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 1.147% 3.355% 0.169%
As % of the Application Development category 2.632% 7.664% 0.299%
Number of salaries quoted 5 21 1
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Sheffield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
228 274 334
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sheffield 43.59% 43.77% 56.51%
Number of salaries quoted 208 238 298
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
South Yorkshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sheffield 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 Sheffield region.

Sheffield LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 19 (100.00%) C#
1 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
3 15 (78.95%) SQL
3 15 (78.95%) MVC
3 15 (78.95%) jQuery
4 13 (68.42%) SOAP
4 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
5 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
6 11 (57.89%) HTML
6 11 (57.89%) XML
6 11 (57.89%) CSS
7 10 (52.63%) SQL Server 2005
7 10 (52.63%) SQL Server 2008
8 9 (47.37%) WCF
9 8 (42.11%) LINQ to SQL
10 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET MVC
10 7 (36.84%) Visual Studio
11 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
11 6 (31.58%) QA
11 6 (31.58%) TDD
12 5 (26.32%) Subversion
12 5 (26.32%) .NET Framework
12 5 (26.32%) Ajax
12 5 (26.32%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
12 5 (26.32%) PHP
12 5 (26.32%) Web Services
13 4 (21.05%) REST
13 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (15.79%) VB.NET

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sheffield 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 19 (100.00%) .NET
2 17 (89.47%) ASP.NET
3 15 (78.95%) jQuery
4 13 (68.42%) SOAP
5 11 (57.89%) XML
5 11 (57.89%) CSS
5 11 (57.89%) HTML
6 9 (47.37%) WCF
7 8 (42.11%) LINQ to SQL
8 7 (36.84%) ASP.NET MVC
9 5 (26.32%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 5 (26.32%) .NET Framework
9 5 (26.32%) Ajax
9 5 (26.32%) Web Services
10 4 (21.05%) REST
11 3 (15.79%) ASP
12 2 (10.53%) WinForms
12 2 (10.53%) JSON
13 1 (5.263%) NHibernate
13 1 (5.263%) XHTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (63.16%) SQL Server
2 10 (52.63%) SQL Server 2005
2 10 (52.63%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) Visual Studio
2 5 (26.32%) Subversion
3 1 (5.263%) NUnit
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (100.00%) Developer
2 15 (78.95%) .NET Developer
3 13 (68.42%) ASP.NET Developer
4 9 (47.37%) C# Developer
4 9 (47.37%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (36.84%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (36.84%) Web Developer
6 4 (21.05%) Applications Developer
6 4 (21.05%) Web Applications Developer
6 4 (21.05%) .NET Web Developer
6 4 (21.05%) C# Web Developer
6 4 (21.05%) C# Application Developer
6 4 (21.05%) .NET Applications Developer
7 1 (5.263%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (5.263%) .NET Software Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Software Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Junior
7 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
7 1 (5.263%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Smartphone
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) MVC
2 6 (31.58%) TDD
3 3 (15.79%) OO
4 1 (5.263%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (100.00%) C#
2 15 (78.95%) SQL
3 13 (68.42%) JavaScript
4 5 (26.32%) PHP
5 3 (15.79%) VB.NET
6 2 (10.53%) T-SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
C# Web Application Developer - Sheffield - £25k - £40k + Benefits - Latest technologies - .NET 4.5 / MVC / ASP.NET / C# / LINQ / JavaScript / HTML / CSS / IIS7 / SQL Server 2012... C# Web Application...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
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Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Including Windows 7 and 8 based development systems, Visual Studio 2010/2012, SQL Server 2008/2012, .NET 2/3/4 and IIS7... - C# - HTTP. - .NET Framework. - LINQ. - JavaScript. -...
Hamlin Knight
Salary: From £28,000 to £38,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013