The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ to SQL 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank 256 231 260
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +29
Permanent jobs citing LINQ to SQL 6 39 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.072% 0.445% 0.107%
As % of the Application Development category 0.177% 0.932% 0.246%
Number of salaries quoted 3 39 10
Average salary £35,000 £42,500 £31,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.64% +36.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £39,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-10.82% +12.14%
All Application Development
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3392 4183 4065
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 40.88% 47.71% 43.33%
Number of salaries quoted 3057 3567 3544
Average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,844 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ to SQL
England

LINQ to SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England LINQ to SQL Salary Histogram

LINQ to SQL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LINQ to SQL within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Essex +23 3 - -
Bedfordshire -19 3 £35,000 -33.33%
LINQ to SQL
England

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 17 (100.00%) C#
1 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 17 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 17 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 17 (100.00%) WCF
2 16 (94.12%) SQL
3 15 (88.24%) Windows
4 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
4 12 (70.59%) T-SQL
4 12 (70.59%) ADO.NET
4 12 (70.59%) LINQ
4 12 (70.59%) .NET Framework
4 12 (70.59%) WinForms
4 12 (70.59%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 11 (64.71%) XML
6 10 (58.82%) WPF
6 10 (58.82%) Subversion
6 10 (58.82%) SQL Server 2008
6 10 (58.82%) Silverlight
7 9 (52.94%) MVC
7 9 (52.94%) HTML
8 8 (47.06%) CSS
8 8 (47.06%) MS Excel
9 7 (41.18%) Oracle
9 7 (41.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2012
10 6 (35.29%) Team Foundation Server
10 6 (35.29%) Multithreading

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 17 (100.00%) .NET
1 17 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 17 (100.00%) WCF
2 12 (70.59%) ADO.NET
2 12 (70.59%) LINQ
2 12 (70.59%) .NET Framework
2 12 (70.59%) WinForms
2 12 (70.59%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 11 (64.71%) XML
4 10 (58.82%) WPF
4 10 (58.82%) Silverlight
5 9 (52.94%) HTML
6 8 (47.06%) CSS
7 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET MVC
8 6 (35.29%) WF
9 5 (29.41%) NHibernate
9 5 (29.41%) jQuery
10 4 (23.53%) VXML
10 4 (23.53%) XSL
11 3 (17.65%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) IIS
1 5 (29.41%) Windows Azure
2 4 (23.53%) MSMQ
3 1 (5.882%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (47.06%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.76%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco ICM
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco IOS
1 4 (23.53%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 10 (58.82%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (41.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 7 (41.18%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (29.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 17 (100.00%) Visual Studio
2 10 (58.82%) Subversion
3 6 (35.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (11.76%) NUnit
General
1 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Developer
2 7 (41.18%) Consultant
3 6 (35.29%) Development Consultant
4 4 (23.53%) Web Developer
5 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
6 2 (11.76%) Development Manager
6 2 (11.76%) Senior Web Developer
7 1 (5.882%) .NET Consultant
7 1 (5.882%) Lead Developer
7 1 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
7 1 (5.882%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) RIA
1 4 (23.53%) N-Tier
2 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) MVC
2 6 (35.29%) Multithreading
2 6 (35.29%) Software Engineering
2 6 (35.29%) TDD
2 6 (35.29%) OO
3 5 (29.41%) Change Control
4 4 (23.53%) Domain-Driven Design
5 3 (17.65%) Code Coverage
5 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Dependency Injection
6 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
6 2 (11.76%) Web Development
7 1 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (5.882%) Business Analysis
7 1 (5.882%) Scrum
7 1 (5.882%) Project Management
7 1 (5.882%) Product Management
7 1 (5.882%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.882%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) C#
2 16 (94.12%) SQL
3 12 (70.59%) T-SQL
4 5 (29.41%) Tcl
4 5 (29.41%) VB
5 4 (23.53%) PowerShell
5 4 (23.53%) XPath
5 4 (23.53%) VB6
5 4 (23.53%) VB.NET
5 4 (23.53%) Java
5 4 (23.53%) JavaScript
5 4 (23.53%) C++
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 12 (70.59%) Microsoft
2 7 (41.18%) Oracle
3 4 (23.53%) Cisco