The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ 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 over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank 33 35 17
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -18
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 16 8 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 6.375% 3.883% 11.66%
As % of the Application Development category 14.16% 7.619% 19.39%
Number of salaries quoted 16 7 19
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £42,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £54,500 £56,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
113 105 98
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 45.02% 50.97% 60.12%
Number of salaries quoted 110 99 98
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ
Bedfordshire

LINQ
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ across the Bedford region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedford LINQ Salary Histogram

LINQ
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 26 (100.00%) C#
1 26 (100.00%) .NET
1 26 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 26 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 26 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 25 (96.15%) SQL Server
3 23 (88.46%) WCF
4 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
5 21 (80.77%) MVC
6 18 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC
7 16 (61.54%) HTML
7 16 (61.54%) JavaScript
7 16 (61.54%) CSS
7 16 (61.54%) Windows
8 14 (53.85%) Team Foundation Server
9 13 (50.00%) TDD
10 12 (46.15%) Scrum
11 11 (42.31%) Windows Azure
12 10 (38.46%) Subversion
13 9 (34.62%) SQL
13 9 (34.62%) SQL Server 2008
14 8 (30.77%) WPF
14 8 (30.77%) T-SQL
15 7 (26.92%) Visual Studio
15 7 (26.92%) MS Excel
15 7 (26.92%) WinForms
15 7 (26.92%) SQL Server 2012
16 6 (23.08%) LINQ to SQL
16 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC 3
16 6 (23.08%) ADO.NET

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 26 (100.00%) .NET
1 26 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 26 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 26 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 23 (88.46%) WCF
3 18 (69.23%) ASP.NET MVC
4 16 (61.54%) HTML
4 16 (61.54%) CSS
5 8 (30.77%) WPF
6 7 (26.92%) WinForms
7 6 (23.08%) LINQ to SQL
7 6 (23.08%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 6 (23.08%) ADO.NET
8 5 (19.23%) ASP.NET MVC 4
8 5 (19.23%) NHibernate
9 4 (15.38%) Silverlight
9 4 (15.38%) XML
10 3 (11.54%) jQuery
10 3 (11.54%) WF
11 1 (3.846%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 11 (42.31%) Windows Azure
2 1 (3.846%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.846%) CMS
2 1 (3.846%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 7 (26.92%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (96.15%) SQL Server
2 9 (34.62%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (26.92%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (15.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.846%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 14 (53.85%) Team Foundation Server
2 10 (38.46%) Subversion
3 7 (26.92%) Visual Studio
4 4 (15.38%) Moq
General
1 2 (7.692%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (80.77%) Developer
2 10 (38.46%) C# .NET Developer
2 10 (38.46%) C# Developer
3 9 (34.62%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (30.77%) Agile C# Developer
5 6 (23.08%) Web Developer
6 4 (15.38%) Consultant
6 4 (15.38%) .NET Developer
7 3 (11.54%) Development Consultant
8 2 (7.692%) Lead Architect
8 2 (7.692%) Technical Leader
8 2 (7.692%) Lead Solutions Architect
8 2 (7.692%) ASP.NET Developer
8 2 (7.692%) Architect
8 2 (7.692%) Lead Developer
8 2 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.846%) Development Manager
9 1 (3.846%) .NET Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (15.38%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 16 (61.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (80.77%) MVC
2 13 (50.00%) TDD
3 12 (46.15%) Scrum
4 5 (19.23%) OO
4 5 (19.23%) Multithreading
4 5 (19.23%) Unit Testing
5 4 (15.38%) OOD
6 2 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (7.692%) E-Commerce
7 1 (3.846%) Project Management
7 1 (3.846%) Product Management
7 1 (3.846%) Domain-Driven Design
7 1 (3.846%) Business Analysis
7 1 (3.846%) Web Development
7 1 (3.846%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 26 (100.00%) C#
2 16 (61.54%) JavaScript
3 9 (34.62%) SQL
4 8 (30.77%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 22 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle
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