Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for LINQ skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited LINQ over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 632 922 842
Rank change year-on-year +290 -80 -154
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 267 71 379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.068% 0.25%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.27% 0.22% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 259 58 162
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,375 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,375 £47,813 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +11.68%
75th Percentile £64,375 £66,563 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,250 £80,125 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.67%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

LINQ is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 21,028 31,808 62,015
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.42% 30.35% 40.24%
Number of salaries quoted 15,726 19,512 30,385
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,227 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

LINQ
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing LINQ as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for LINQ in the UK

LINQ
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing LINQ.

Salary trend for LINQ in the UK

LINQ
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing LINQ over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for LINQ in the UK

LINQ
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ within the UK over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +295 255 £51,250 -6.82% 62
UK excluding London +164 215 £50,000 -9.09% 48
Work from Home +253 207 £52,500 -4.55% 88
South East +91 69 £50,000 -9.09% 14
Midlands +48 53 £50,000 -4.76% 8
London +172 52 £60,000 -5.88% 15
North of England +71 46 £55,000 - 18
East Midlands +9 36 £37,500 -28.57% 5
East of England +54 35 £50,000 - 9
North West +15 26 £55,000 - 5
West Midlands +42 17 £55,000 +7.32% 3
Yorkshire +105 10 £48,750 -2.50% 4
North East - 10 £52,500 - 10
Scotland -54 7 - -
Wales - 5 £50,000 - 2

LINQ
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.00%) IIS
2 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.75%) CMS
3 2 (0.75%) Liferay
3 2 (0.75%) Magnolia
3 2 (0.75%) Sitecore CMS
4 1 (0.37%) nginx
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Visualfiles
Cloud Services
1 202 (75.66%) Azure
2 26 (9.74%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (5.24%) GitHub
4 12 (4.49%) Power Platform
5 11 (4.12%) AWS
6 4 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.75%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (0.75%) npm
7 2 (0.75%) PaaS
7 2 (0.75%) Serverless
8 1 (0.37%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 34 (12.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 244 (91.39%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.49%) NonStop SQL
3 13 (4.87%) Azure SQL Database
4 12 (4.49%) Oracle Database
4 12 (4.49%) Power BI
5 11 (4.12%) Redis
6 7 (2.62%) Elasticsearch
7 5 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.75%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.75%) DB2
9 2 (0.75%) DTS
9 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.37%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (11.61%) NUnit
1 31 (11.61%) Visual Studio
2 24 (8.99%) Git
2 24 (8.99%) Moq
3 12 (4.49%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (2.25%) Octopus Deploy
4 6 (2.25%) Selenium
4 6 (2.25%) TeamCity
5 5 (1.87%) FitNesse
5 5 (1.87%) SonarQube
5 5 (1.87%) WebDriver
6 3 (1.12%) JIRA
6 3 (1.12%) MSTest
7 2 (0.75%) Bower
7 2 (0.75%) gulp
7 2 (0.75%) Visual Studio Code
8 1 (0.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.37%) Postman
8 1 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 50 (18.73%) Finance
2 24 (8.99%) Music Industry
3 21 (7.87%) Advertising
4 20 (7.49%) Games
5 18 (6.74%) Banking
6 11 (4.12%) Social Skills
7 9 (3.37%) Investment Banking
7 9 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.62%) Law
8 7 (2.62%) Private Banking
9 6 (2.25%) Legal
10 5 (1.87%) Retail
11 4 (1.50%) Aviation
12 2 (0.75%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 251 (94.01%) Developer
2 201 (75.28%) .NET Developer
3 103 (38.58%) C# Developer
4 82 (30.71%) C# .NET Developer
5 28 (10.49%) Full Stack Developer
6 20 (7.49%) Games Developer
7 19 (7.12%) Internet Developer
8 18 (6.74%) Agile .NET Developer
8 18 (6.74%) Agile C# Developer
8 18 (6.74%) Agile Developer
9 16 (5.99%) Senior
10 14 (5.24%) Senior Developer
11 13 (4.87%) Applications Developer
11 13 (4.87%) C# Application Developer
12 12 (4.49%) .NET Applications Developer
12 12 (4.49%) Full-Stack C# Developer
12 12 (4.49%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.75%) Software Developer
14 9 (3.37%) .NET Software Engineer
14 9 (3.37%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 263 (98.50%) .NET
2 224 (83.90%) ASP.NET
3 201 (75.28%) AngularJS
4 196 (73.41%) HTML
5 194 (72.66%) ASP.NET Web API
6 193 (72.28%) .NET Core
7 182 (68.16%) ASP.NET MVC
8 169 (63.30%) HTML5
9 162 (60.67%) RESTful
10 81 (30.34%) .NET Framework
11 41 (15.36%) Entity Framework
11 41 (15.36%) jQuery
12 28 (10.49%) WinForms
13 26 (9.74%) Web Services
14 24 (8.99%) CSS
15 23 (8.61%) WPF
16 20 (7.49%) WCF
17 19 (7.12%) Razor View Engine
18 17 (6.37%) LINQ to SQL
18 17 (6.37%) React
Miscellaneous
1 43 (16.10%) Enterprise Software
2 30 (11.24%) Greenfield Project
3 12 (4.49%) Legacy Systems
4 8 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (2.62%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.62%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.87%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.12%) Tandem
8 2 (0.75%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.75%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.37%) PlayStation
9 1 (0.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (87.27%) Agile
2 223 (83.52%) MVC
3 193 (72.28%) Full Stack Development
4 178 (66.67%) Microservices
5 167 (62.55%) Multithreading
6 165 (61.80%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
7 32 (11.99%) DevOps
8 24 (8.99%) High Availability
9 20 (7.49%) OO
9 20 (7.49%) Scrum
9 20 (7.49%) SDLC
9 20 (7.49%) TDD
10 19 (7.12%) UML
10 19 (7.12%) Web Development
11 18 (6.74%) Computer Science
12 17 (6.37%) Software Engineering
12 17 (6.37%) Unit Testing
13 16 (5.99%) Continuous Improvement
13 16 (5.99%) SOLID
14 12 (4.49%) Dependency Injection
Programming Languages
1 267 (100.00%) C#
2 215 (80.52%) JavaScript
3 50 (18.73%) SQL
4 20 (7.49%) PowerShell
5 15 (5.62%) T-SQL
6 12 (4.49%) Delphi
7 10 (3.75%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.37%) Java
8 9 (3.37%) VB
8 9 (3.37%) VB.NET
9 8 (3.00%) XAML
10 7 (2.62%) C++
11 2 (0.75%) C
11 2 (0.75%) Go
11 2 (0.75%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.75%) PHP
11 2 (0.75%) Python
11 2 (0.75%) R
12 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (7.12%) Degree
2 16 (5.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (1.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.75%) QA
System Software
1 12 (4.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.87%) Control-M
2 4 (1.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 205 (76.78%) Microsoft
2 21 (7.87%) Facebook
2 21 (7.87%) YouTube
3 13 (4.87%) Oracle
4 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
4 2 (0.75%) OpenText
4 2 (0.75%) Pega
4 2 (0.75%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.37%) Atlassian