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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 36 36 26
Rank change year-on-year
0 -10
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 8 4 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 3.922% 1.905% 7.345%
As % of the Application Development category 5.229% 3.571% 11.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 13
Average salary £36,000 £32,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.76% +30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Stockport
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
153 112 109
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stockport 75.00% 53.33% 61.58%
Number of salaries quoted 153 100 101
Average salary £32,500 £32,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.56% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £19,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Manchester

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stockport 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 Stockport region.

Stockport LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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%) .NET Framework
1 10 (100.00%) WCF
2 9 (90.00%) SQL Server
3 8 (80.00%) CSS
4 7 (70.00%) Web Services
4 7 (70.00%) Infragistics
4 7 (70.00%) Crystal Reports
4 7 (70.00%) HTML
4 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
4 7 (70.00%) SQL
4 7 (70.00%) T-SQL
4 7 (70.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (70.00%) DevExpress
4 7 (70.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (30.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (20.00%) WinForms
6 2 (20.00%) TDD
7 1 (10.00%) Telerik
7 1 (10.00%) Subversion
7 1 (10.00%) Ajax
7 1 (10.00%) Web Development
7 1 (10.00%) Windows Azure
7 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
7 1 (10.00%) MVVM
7 1 (10.00%) WPF
7 1 (10.00%) WF
7 1 (10.00%) MVC

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stockport 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%) .NET Framework
1 10 (100.00%) WCF
2 8 (80.00%) CSS
3 7 (70.00%) Web Services
3 7 (70.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) ASP.NET
4 3 (30.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (20.00%) WinForms
6 1 (10.00%) Ajax
6 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (10.00%) WPF
6 1 (10.00%) WF
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (90.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (70.00%) Crystal Reports
2 7 (70.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (70.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Developer
2 7 (70.00%) .NET Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 1 (10.00%) C# Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) TDD
2 1 (10.00%) Web Development
2 1 (10.00%) MVVM
2 1 (10.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C#
2 7 (70.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 7 (70.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Infragistics
1 7 (70.00%) DevExpress
2 1 (10.00%) Telerik
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft