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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 147 150 109
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -41
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 57 34 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.138% 0.749% 1.516%
As % of the Application Development category 2.805% 1.748% 4.046%
Number of salaries quoted 55 32 62
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +33.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £32,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2032 1945 1582
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.58% 42.84% 37.46%
Number of salaries quoted 1815 1745 1445
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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
Coventry 0 15 £45,000 +50.00%
Worcestershire +18 14 £40,000 +23.07%
Staffordshire +5 7 £37,500 +31.57%
Warwickshire +9 6 £30,000 -20.00%
Birmingham -12 6 £40,000 -
Walsall - 5 £25,000 -
Herefordshire +11 2 £40,000 +15.94%
Shropshire -3 2 £32,500 -14.47%
LINQ
England

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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.

1 102 (100.00%) .NET
2 89 (87.25%) SQL Server
3 88 (86.27%) C#
4 83 (81.37%) ASP.NET
5 79 (77.45%) MVC
6 67 (65.69%) JavaScript
7 62 (60.78%) WCF
8 60 (58.82%) CSS
9 55 (53.92%) .NET Framework
10 50 (49.02%) SQL
10 50 (49.02%) jQuery
11 48 (47.06%) Web Services
12 43 (42.16%) WPF
13 41 (40.20%) HTML
14 38 (37.25%) Silverlight
15 37 (36.27%) ASP.NET MVC
15 37 (36.27%) Microsoft
16 33 (32.35%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
17 30 (29.41%) CSS3
18 27 (26.47%) SQL Server 2008
19 26 (25.49%) Scrum
19 26 (25.49%) NUnit
20 25 (24.51%) NHibernate
20 25 (24.51%) XML
21 24 (23.53%) XHTML
21 24 (23.53%) SharePoint
21 24 (23.53%) Ajax
21 24 (23.53%) TDD
22 23 (22.55%) T-SQL
23 21 (20.59%) Visual Studio

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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
1 102 (100.00%) .NET
2 83 (81.37%) ASP.NET
3 62 (60.78%) WCF
4 60 (58.82%) CSS
5 55 (53.92%) .NET Framework
6 50 (49.02%) jQuery
7 48 (47.06%) Web Services
8 43 (42.16%) WPF
9 41 (40.20%) HTML
10 38 (37.25%) Silverlight
11 37 (36.27%) ASP.NET MVC
12 33 (32.35%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 30 (29.41%) CSS3
14 25 (24.51%) NHibernate
14 25 (24.51%) XML
15 24 (23.53%) XHTML
15 24 (23.53%) Ajax
16 21 (20.59%) WinForms
16 21 (20.59%) Razor View Engine
16 21 (20.59%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 24 (23.53%) SharePoint
2 14 (13.73%) IIS
3 12 (11.76%) BizTalk Server
4 10 (9.804%) SharePoint Server
4 10 (9.804%) SharePoint 2010
5 7 (6.863%) Sitecore CMS
5 7 (6.863%) CMS
6 4 (3.922%) Umbraco
7 3 (2.941%) Windows Azure
7 3 (2.941%) ESB
8 2 (1.961%) SugarCRM
9 1 (0.980%) Amazon AWS
9 1 (0.980%) MSMQ
9 1 (0.980%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 10 (9.804%) InfoPath
1 10 (9.804%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.980%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 9 (8.824%) SAP Business One
2 8 (7.843%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (6.863%) Dynamics NAV
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (87.25%) SQL Server
2 27 (26.47%) SQL Server 2008
3 16 (15.69%) SQL Server 2012
4 13 (12.75%) SQL Server 2005
5 9 (8.824%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (6.863%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 3 (2.941%) MySQL
8 1 (0.980%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.980%) OLAP
8 1 (0.980%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.980%) Oracle OLAP
8 1 (0.980%) Firebird
Development Applications
1 26 (25.49%) NUnit
2 21 (20.59%) Visual Studio
3 18 (17.65%) Rhino Mocks
4 17 (16.67%) Subversion
5 13 (12.75%) Team Foundation Server
6 7 (6.863%) TeamCity
6 7 (6.863%) NCover
6 7 (6.863%) GitHub
6 7 (6.863%) ReSharper
7 5 (4.902%) Cucumber
7 5 (4.902%) Selenium
8 2 (1.961%) JIRA
8 2 (1.961%) Git (software)
General
1 11 (10.78%) Finance
2 1 (0.980%) Telecoms
2 1 (0.980%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (0.980%) Aerospace
2 1 (0.980%) Legal
2 1 (0.980%) Manufacturing
2 1 (0.980%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 100 (98.04%) Developer
2 61 (59.80%) .NET Developer
3 33 (32.35%) C# Developer
4 24 (23.53%) C# .NET Developer
5 17 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
5 17 (16.67%) Senior Developer
6 16 (15.69%) Web Developer
7 13 (12.75%) Software Developer
8 10 (9.804%) .NET Web Developer
8 10 (9.804%) Senior .NET Developer
8 10 (9.804%) SharePoint Developer
8 10 (9.804%) Senior SharePoint Developer
9 9 (8.824%) C# ASP.NET Developer
9 9 (8.824%) WPF Developer
10 8 (7.843%) VB.NET Developer
10 8 (7.843%) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer
11 4 (3.922%) Junior Developer
11 4 (3.922%) C# Web Developer
11 4 (3.922%) Junior
11 4 (3.922%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.76%) Social Network
2 7 (6.863%) W3C
3 4 (3.922%) Computer Science
4 3 (2.941%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (1.961%) Pocket PC
5 2 (1.961%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.980%) Inversion of Control
6 1 (0.980%) Visualisation
6 1 (0.980%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.980%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.824%) OpenVMS
1 9 (8.824%) Solaris
1 9 (8.824%) UNIX
2 8 (7.843%) Apple iOS
3 7 (6.863%) Windows
4 3 (2.941%) Windows 8
5 2 (1.961%) Windows Mobile
5 2 (1.961%) Windows CE
5 2 (1.961%) Windows Phone 8
5 2 (1.961%) Windows Phone
6 1 (0.980%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (77.45%) MVC
2 26 (25.49%) Scrum
3 24 (23.53%) TDD
4 19 (18.63%) MVVM
4 19 (18.63%) Web Development
5 18 (17.65%) Web Application Development
6 17 (16.67%) CRM
7 16 (15.69%) OO
7 16 (15.69%) Agile Software Development
8 15 (14.71%) Automation Testing
8 15 (14.71%) Multithreading
8 15 (14.71%) PRINCE
9 8 (7.843%) BDD
9 8 (7.843%) Unit Testing
10 7 (6.863%) SEO
11 6 (5.882%) Kanban
12 5 (4.902%) Scrum-ban
13 4 (3.922%) Continuous Integration
14 2 (1.961%) Validation
14 2 (1.961%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 88 (86.27%) C#
2 67 (65.69%) JavaScript
3 50 (49.02%) SQL
4 23 (22.55%) T-SQL
5 17 (16.67%) VB.NET
6 16 (15.69%) PL/SQL
7 11 (10.78%) VB
8 7 (6.863%) VB6
9 3 (2.941%) PHP
10 2 (1.961%) C++
10 2 (1.961%) Embedded C++
11 1 (0.980%) XAML
11 1 (0.980%) Delphi
11 1 (0.980%) XPath
Qualifications
1 17 (16.67%) MCTS
1 17 (16.67%) MCP
1 17 (16.67%) MCAD
1 17 (16.67%) MCSD
1 17 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (6.863%) Degree
Vendors
1 37 (36.27%) Microsoft
2 11 (10.78%) SAP
3 7 (6.863%) Sitecore
3 7 (6.863%) Adobe
4 5 (4.902%) Oracle
5 3 (2.941%) Telerik
6 1 (0.980%) Epicor
Coventry, West Midlands
Essential experience and skills: 4 years hands on development working with - .Net Visual Studio C# (web and desktop) Linq SQL SQL Server The development team are enthusiastic professionals...
Computer Futures
Salary: £46000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Stoke-On-Trent, Staffordshire
ASP.Net Developer (ASP.NET/SQL/MVC) - London... Your primary focus will be on building a new application for online reporting using ASP.Net with Visual Studio 2010/...
Ashdown IT
Salary: £22000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Walsall, West Midlands
.NET Developer, ASP.NET, C#, C#.NET, dot NET, Web Application Development, .NET 4.5, WCF, ASP.NET MVC 4, Razor, SQL Server 2012, Subversion, SVN, AJAX, Agile,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £20000 - £30000 per annum + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Worcestershire
Multithreaded development... - Practical MVVM experience. - Automation testing experience... javascript, css html, css3 and javascript, javascript, sql, web development, html, html/css/js, html/css/js, html/css, html/...
Big Red Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £45,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
This is a fantastic opportunity for an experienced .NET Developer highly experienced in C#... The Lead .Net Developer will be responsible for providing expertise in the application level...
Kyna Associates
Salary: £35000 - 43000 Per Annum + Car Allowance
Posted: 17 May 2013
Birmingham, West Midlands (County)
You would have worked on projects involving C#, ASP.NET, VB6, VB.NET and SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, XML/XSL, COM, DHTML, JavaScript, web services, InfoPath, SQL Server/...
Greythorn
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
We have a clear picture of the person we are looking for: You have worked on projects involving C#, ASP.NET, SharePoint 2010, MOSS 2007, XML/XSL, COM,...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum plus bonus & benefits package
Posted: 22 May 2013
Warwick, Warwickshire
For this position the client is looking for a candidate with strong, .Net, C#, ASP.Net, MVC, WCF and SQL Server skills... Therefore my client is looking for...
Proteus Europe
Salary: Market Rates
Posted: 20 May 2013
Oldbury, West Midlands
My client based in Oldbury are looking for a bright, talented Developer skilled in Visual Studio C#. and SQL... You will be part of a highly professioanl InHouse...
greywood
Salary: £18000 - £22000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 4 May 2013