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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 159 151 166
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +15
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 51 64 39
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.972% 1.160% 0.665%
As % of the Application Development category 2.087% 2.529% 1.639%
Number of salaries quoted 39 63 37
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,700 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £41,200 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2444 2531 2380
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 46.59% 45.88% 40.60%
Number of salaries quoted 2219 2269 2127
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,700 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

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

South West 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 South West 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
Bristol +3 18 £35,000 -
Wiltshire +23 16 £36,000 +14.28%
Gloucestershire 0 9 £40,000 -
Devon +4 6 £26,250 -4.54%
Somerset -20 2 £40,000 +14.28%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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.

1 105 (100.00%) .NET
2 92 (87.62%) SQL Server
3 91 (86.67%) C#
4 86 (81.90%) ASP.NET
5 59 (56.19%) MVC
6 58 (55.24%) JavaScript
7 55 (52.38%) WCF
8 53 (50.48%) ASP.NET MVC
9 49 (46.67%) jQuery
10 45 (42.86%) TDD
11 38 (36.19%) NUnit
11 38 (36.19%) SQL
12 36 (34.29%) CSS
12 36 (34.29%) Microsoft
12 36 (34.29%) Scrum
12 36 (34.29%) .NET Framework
13 35 (33.33%) Web Application Development
13 35 (33.33%) HTML
14 31 (29.52%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
15 30 (28.57%) Ajax
16 28 (26.67%) NHibernate
16 28 (26.67%) Unit Testing
17 27 (25.71%) MS Excel
18 26 (24.76%) XML
18 26 (24.76%) Razor View Engine
19 25 (23.81%) ASP.NET MVC 4
19 25 (23.81%) MCSD
19 25 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
20 24 (22.86%) Kanban
20 24 (22.86%) Rhino Mocks

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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
1 105 (100.00%) .NET
2 86 (81.90%) ASP.NET
3 55 (52.38%) WCF
4 53 (50.48%) ASP.NET MVC
5 49 (46.67%) jQuery
6 36 (34.29%) .NET Framework
6 36 (34.29%) CSS
7 35 (33.33%) HTML
8 31 (29.52%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 30 (28.57%) Ajax
10 28 (26.67%) NHibernate
11 26 (24.76%) XML
11 26 (24.76%) Razor View Engine
12 25 (23.81%) ASP.NET MVC 4
13 17 (16.19%) ASP.NET MVC 2
14 15 (14.29%) Web Services
14 15 (14.29%) HTML5
15 12 (11.43%) RESTful
16 9 (8.571%) XHTML
16 9 (8.571%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 6 (5.714%) WordPress
2 5 (4.762%) Windows Azure
2 5 (4.762%) IIS
3 3 (2.857%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (25.71%) MS Excel
2 8 (7.619%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.952%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.857%) Dynamics CRM
1 3 (2.857%) Google Analytics
2 2 (1.905%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.857%) Internet
2 2 (1.905%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (87.62%) SQL Server
2 19 (18.10%) SQL Server 2008
2 19 (18.10%) SQL Server 2012
3 13 (12.38%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (6.667%) MySQL
5 6 (5.714%) SQLite
6 2 (1.905%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.952%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (36.19%) NUnit
2 24 (22.86%) Rhino Mocks
3 21 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 20 (19.05%) Moq
5 19 (18.10%) Visual Studio
6 10 (9.524%) Subversion
7 6 (5.714%) Eclipse
7 6 (5.714%) Xcode
8 5 (4.762%) Selenium
8 5 (4.762%) Cucumber
9 4 (3.810%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 3 (2.857%) Dreamweaver
10 3 (2.857%) ReSharper
10 3 (2.857%) Jenkins
11 2 (1.905%) CruiseControl
12 1 (0.952%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
12 1 (0.952%) StyleCop
General
1 22 (20.95%) Marketing
2 16 (15.24%) Legal
3 9 (8.571%) Finance
4 7 (6.667%) Games
5 4 (3.810%) Retail
5 4 (3.810%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.952%) Music
Job Titles
1 86 (81.90%) Developer
2 52 (49.52%) .NET Developer
3 23 (21.90%) Web Developer
4 20 (19.05%) Senior Developer
5 15 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 13 (12.38%) Senior Software Engineer
7 10 (9.524%) Team Leader
7 10 (9.524%) Senior .NET Developer
8 8 (7.619%) C# Developer
9 7 (6.667%) Software Developer
9 7 (6.667%) .NET Team Leader
9 7 (6.667%) ScrumMaster
10 6 (5.714%) Agile .NET Developer
10 6 (5.714%) C# .NET Developer
11 5 (4.762%) Senior Web Developer
11 5 (4.762%) ASP.NET Developer
12 3 (2.857%) VB.NET Developer
12 3 (2.857%) Applications Developer
12 3 (2.857%) .NET Software Developer
12 3 (2.857%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.38%) DTV
1 13 (12.38%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.667%) Social Media
3 6 (5.714%) Social Network
4 4 (3.810%) Digital Media
4 4 (3.810%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.810%) N-Tier
5 2 (1.905%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (0.952%) Visualisation
6 1 (0.952%) Open Source
6 1 (0.952%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (14.29%) Windows
2 6 (5.714%) Android
2 6 (5.714%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.810%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (2.857%) Linux
4 3 (2.857%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (56.19%) MVC
2 45 (42.86%) TDD
3 36 (34.29%) Scrum
4 35 (33.33%) Web Application Development
5 28 (26.67%) Unit Testing
6 24 (22.86%) Kanban
6 24 (22.86%) BDD
7 20 (19.05%) Automated Testing
8 14 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
8 14 (13.33%) Project Management
9 13 (12.38%) PRINCE
9 13 (12.38%) Software Engineering
10 12 (11.43%) Web Development
11 11 (10.48%) Business Analysis
12 10 (9.524%) Continuous Integration
12 10 (9.524%) OO
13 7 (6.667%) Requirements Analysis
14 6 (5.714%) Digital Marketing
14 6 (5.714%) SEO
14 6 (5.714%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 91 (86.67%) C#
2 58 (55.24%) JavaScript
3 38 (36.19%) SQL
4 19 (18.10%) VB.NET
5 16 (15.24%) T-SQL
6 7 (6.667%) Java
7 6 (5.714%) PHP
7 6 (5.714%) VB
8 2 (1.905%) Objective-C
8 2 (1.905%) VB6
8 2 (1.905%) XPath
8 2 (1.905%) VBScript
8 2 (1.905%) XQuery
9 1 (0.952%) XAML
9 1 (0.952%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 25 (23.81%) MCSD
1 25 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 23 (21.90%) MCTS
2 23 (21.90%) MCP
2 23 (21.90%) MCAD
3 21 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (1.905%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (1.905%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.38%) SLA
2 2 (1.905%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (1.905%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 36 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.762%) Adobe
3 3 (2.857%) Google
4 2 (1.905%) VMware
4 2 (1.905%) Apple
5 1 (0.952%) Infragistics
5 1 (0.952%) Oracle
5 1 (0.952%) Razor Risk
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Posted: 16 May 2013
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Noir Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
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