The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Solihull region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 24 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 Solihull region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank - 35 14
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 0 2 21
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull - 1.235% 10.71%
As % of the Application Development category - 2.564% 25.61%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 21
Average salary - £35,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +27.27%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Solihull
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
112 78 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 45.34% 48.15% 41.84%
Number of salaries quoted 107 61 79
Average salary £38,500 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
West Midlands

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 4 (100.00%) HTML
1 4 (100.00%) .NET
1 4 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 4 (100.00%) CSS
1 4 (100.00%) WCF
1 4 (100.00%) WPF
1 4 (100.00%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Junior
2 2 (50.00%) Graduate .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Junior Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Graduate Developer
2 2 (50.00%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) C#
1 4 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Oracle
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft