The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ to SQL over the 3 months to 24 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 Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank 46 - 34
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing LINQ to SQL 3 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 1.195% - 2.439%
As % of the Application Development category 2.679% - 4.040%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
Average salary £35,000 - £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
112 105 99
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 44.62% 51.98% 60.37%
Number of salaries quoted 109 99 99
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% +7.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £57,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ to SQL
Bedfordshire

LINQ to SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford LINQ to SQL Jobs Demand Trend

LINQ to SQL
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LINQ to SQL across the Bedford region.

Bedford LINQ to SQL Salary Trend

LINQ to SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ to SQL across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Bedford LINQ to SQL Salary Histogram

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing LINQ to SQL 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 to SQL.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 6 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 6 (100.00%) WCF
1 6 (100.00%) LINQ
1 6 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) Silverlight
2 4 (66.67%) WPF
2 4 (66.67%) WinForms
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (66.67%) XML
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 3 (50.00%) WF
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (33.33%) MVC
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
4 2 (33.33%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) OO

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford region citing LINQ to SQL 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 to SQL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 6 (100.00%) WCF
1 6 (100.00%) LINQ
1 6 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 4 (66.67%) Silverlight
2 4 (66.67%) WPF
2 4 (66.67%) WinForms
2 4 (66.67%) XML
3 3 (50.00%) WF
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (33.33%) HTML
4 2 (33.33%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
2 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Development Consultant
3 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Development Manager
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (16.67%) OO
2 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Domain-Driven Design
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) T-SQL
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle