The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 46 52 60
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +8
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 14 10 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 2.682% 1.639% 0.386%
As % of the Application Development category 6.573% 4.082% 0.948%
Number of salaries quoted 14 10 2
Average salary £40,500 £30,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.00% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £26,950 £28,750
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £36,650 £38,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
All Application Development
Tyne and Wear
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
213 245 211
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 40.80% 40.16% 40.73%
Number of salaries quoted 193 201 191
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £24,500 £19,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
LINQ
North East

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne +4 13 £40,000 +33.33% 5
Sunderland -6 1 £45,000 +50.00%
LINQ
North East

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 25 (100.00%) .NET
1 25 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 24 (96.00%) MVC
2 24 (96.00%) C#
3 22 (88.00%) SQL Server
4 21 (84.00%) ASP.NET MVC
5 14 (56.00%) Scrum
5 14 (56.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 14 (56.00%) WCF
5 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
6 12 (48.00%) TDD
7 11 (44.00%) Web Application Development
8 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 10 (40.00%) BDD
8 10 (40.00%) Razor View Engine
8 10 (40.00%) NUnit
8 10 (40.00%) MCTS
8 10 (40.00%) NHibernate
8 10 (40.00%) Kanban
8 10 (40.00%) Rhino Mocks
8 10 (40.00%) Moq
8 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (40.00%) DTV
8 10 (40.00%) MCP
8 10 (40.00%) MCAD
8 10 (40.00%) MCSD
8 10 (40.00%) JavaScript
9 9 (36.00%) .NET Framework
10 8 (32.00%) XML
11 7 (28.00%) SQL

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 25 (100.00%) .NET
1 25 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 21 (84.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 14 (56.00%) WCF
4 10 (40.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
4 10 (40.00%) Razor View Engine
4 10 (40.00%) NHibernate
5 9 (36.00%) .NET Framework
6 8 (32.00%) XML
7 6 (24.00%) Web Services
8 5 (20.00%) jQuery
8 5 (20.00%) Ajax
8 5 (20.00%) HTML
8 5 (20.00%) CSS
9 4 (16.00%) JSON
9 4 (16.00%) WPF
9 4 (16.00%) KnockoutJS
10 1 (4.000%) CSLA
10 1 (4.000%) HTML5
10 1 (4.000%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (16.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (88.00%) SQL Server
2 14 (56.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (16.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (8.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (40.00%) NUnit
1 10 (40.00%) Rhino Mocks
1 10 (40.00%) Moq
2 2 (8.000%) Visual Studio
2 2 (8.000%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.000%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (16.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 25 (100.00%) Developer
2 16 (64.00%) .NET Developer
3 9 (36.00%) Software Developer
4 6 (24.00%) C# Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (16.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (16.00%) ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior C# Developer
5 4 (16.00%) Senior .NET Developer
5 4 (16.00%) C# .NET Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Lead Developer
6 2 (8.000%) Lead Software Developer
6 2 (8.000%) C# Software Developer
7 1 (4.000%) .NET Web Developer
7 1 (4.000%) Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) DTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (96.00%) MVC
2 14 (56.00%) Scrum
3 12 (48.00%) TDD
4 11 (44.00%) Web Application Development
5 10 (40.00%) BDD
5 10 (40.00%) Kanban
6 5 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (16.00%) Waterfall
7 4 (16.00%) MVVM
8 3 (12.00%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (12.00%) OO
9 2 (8.000%) CRM
10 1 (4.000%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 24 (96.00%) C#
2 10 (40.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) SQL
4 6 (24.00%) T-SQL
5 4 (16.00%) PL/SQL
5 4 (16.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (40.00%) MCTS
1 10 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (40.00%) MCP
1 10 (40.00%) MCAD
1 10 (40.00%) MCSD
2 1 (4.000%) Degree
Vendors
1 14 (56.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (16.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.000%) Sage
3 1 (4.000%) Twitter
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