The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 22 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 79 90 52
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -38
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 9 6 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 1.075% 0.640% 2.627%
As % of the Application Development category 2.647% 1.729% 6.375%
Number of salaries quoted 9 6 16
Average salary £35,000 £33,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.47% -1.47%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
340 347 251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 40.62% 37.03% 41.22%
Number of salaries quoted 316 333 235
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £46,750 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Hampshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 15 (100.00%) C#
1 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
1 15 (100.00%) MVC
2 14 (93.33%) WCF
3 11 (73.33%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (73.33%) ADO.NET
3 11 (73.33%) HTML
3 11 (73.33%) WPF
4 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
4 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
4 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
5 3 (20.00%) Selenium
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 3 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum-ban
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 3 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (20.00%) Web Application Development
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 3 (20.00%) Kanban
5 3 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
5 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (20.00%) BDD
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) NHibernate
5 3 (20.00%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) NUnit

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 15 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 15 (100.00%) .NET
2 14 (93.33%) WCF
3 11 (73.33%) ADO.NET
3 11 (73.33%) HTML
3 11 (73.33%) WPF
4 4 (26.67%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
5 3 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
5 3 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
5 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
5 3 (20.00%) NHibernate
5 3 (20.00%) Lucene
6 1 (6.667%) Ajax
6 1 (6.667%) jQuery
6 1 (6.667%) CSS
6 1 (6.667%) CSS3
6 1 (6.667%) HTML5
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (20.00%) Selenium
1 3 (20.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (6.667%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 15 (100.00%) Developer
2 14 (93.33%) .NET Developer
2 14 (93.33%) C# Developer
2 14 (93.33%) C# Software Engineer
2 14 (93.33%) .NET Software Engineer
2 14 (93.33%) Software Engineer
2 14 (93.33%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) C# Programmer
3 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET Programmer
3 3 (20.00%) Programmer
3 3 (20.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (20.00%) .NET Programmer
3 3 (20.00%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) MVC
2 3 (20.00%) Scrum-ban
2 3 (20.00%) Web Application Development
2 3 (20.00%) Kanban
2 3 (20.00%) BDD
2 3 (20.00%) Scrum
2 3 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (6.667%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (6.667%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.667%) VB.NET
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft