The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wokingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ over the 3 months to 21 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 Wokingham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 22 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wokingham 1.563% 0.826% -
As % of the Application Development category 3.846% 1.111% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £39,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.22% -
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Wokingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
26 90 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wokingham 40.63% 74.38% 68.18%
Number of salaries quoted 26 90 117
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £35,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £50,000 £51,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Berkshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wokingham 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 Wokingham region.

Wokingham LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wokingham 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 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (50.00%) MCTS
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
2 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) Moq
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wokingham 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 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 1 (50.00%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (50.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) jQuery
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (50.00%) Moq
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Inversion of Control
1 1 (50.00%) DTV
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) MVC
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Web Application Development
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCTS
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) MCAD
1 1 (50.00%) MCSD
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification