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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank - 45 47
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 0 13 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset - 2.832% 2.414%
As % of the Application Development category - 4.762% 5.000%
Number of salaries quoted 0 13 12
Average salary - £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
248 273 240
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 39.62% 59.48% 48.29%
Number of salaries quoted 230 264 226
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £42,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
South West

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 10 (100.00%) C#
1 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 10 (100.00%) WCF
2 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (80.00%) TDD
2 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (70.00%) Scrum
3 7 (70.00%) Automated Testing
4 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (50.00%) WinForms
5 5 (50.00%) Degree
6 3 (30.00%) MVC
6 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (30.00%) SQL
7 2 (20.00%) HTML
7 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
7 2 (20.00%) XML
7 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
7 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (10.00%) RESTful
8 1 (10.00%) LINQ to SQL
8 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
8 1 (10.00%) XPath
8 1 (10.00%) COBIT
8 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 1 (10.00%) Silverlight
8 1 (10.00%) jQuery

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 10 (100.00%) .NET
1 10 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 10 (100.00%) WCF
2 5 (50.00%) WinForms
3 2 (20.00%) HTML
3 2 (20.00%) XML
3 2 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 2 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (10.00%) RESTful
4 1 (10.00%) LINQ to SQL
4 1 (10.00%) Silverlight
4 1 (10.00%) jQuery
4 1 (10.00%) Ajax
4 1 (10.00%) NHibernate
4 1 (10.00%) XSLT
4 1 (10.00%) ADO.NET
4 1 (10.00%) CSS
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (10.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) Senior Developer
2 7 (70.00%) .NET Developer
2 7 (70.00%) ScrumMaster
3 6 (60.00%) .NET Team Leader
3 6 (60.00%) Agile .NET Developer
3 6 (60.00%) Team Leader
3 6 (60.00%) Senior .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (80.00%) TDD
1 8 (80.00%) Continuous Integration
2 7 (70.00%) Scrum
2 7 (70.00%) Automated Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (30.00%) MVC
5 1 (10.00%) Unit Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) Process Management
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Workflow
5 1 (10.00%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) SQL
3 1 (10.00%) XPath
3 1 (10.00%) XQuery
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) MCSD
2 1 (10.00%) ISEB
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) VMware
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft