The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the 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 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank 716 720 771
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +51
Permanent jobs citing LINQ to SQL 125 147 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.124% 0.130% 0.067%
As % of the Application Development category 0.303% 0.307% 0.166%
Number of salaries quoted 118 145 77
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -1.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,950 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41278 47846 47649
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.81% 42.21% 40.45%
Number of salaries quoted 36239 42684 42303
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
LINQ to SQL
UK

LINQ to SQL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 England region.

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 England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

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 England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +69 80 £47,500 +7.95%
North West +10 21 £35,000 +27.27%
West Midlands -18 7 £45,000 +12.50%
East of England -30 7 £45,000 +5.88%
South West +1 3 £27,500 -
South East -5 3 £37,500 -11.76%
Yorkshire -5 3 £30,000 -
East Midlands -6 1 £35,000 -6.66%
LINQ to SQL
UK

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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.

1 201 (99.50%) SQL
1 201 (99.50%) .NET
2 197 (97.52%) C#
3 188 (93.07%) ASP.NET
4 178 (88.12%) LINQ
5 177 (87.62%) SQL Server
6 141 (69.80%) MVC
7 121 (59.90%) JavaScript
8 103 (50.99%) ASP.NET MVC
9 102 (50.50%) jQuery
10 90 (44.55%) Finance
11 88 (43.56%) TDD
11 88 (43.56%) .NET Framework
12 87 (43.07%) WCF
13 86 (42.57%) CSS
14 78 (38.61%) CMS
14 78 (38.61%) XML
15 77 (38.12%) Web Services
16 76 (37.62%) T-SQL
16 76 (37.62%) Scrum
17 69 (34.16%) XSLT
18 66 (32.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
18 66 (32.67%) OO
18 66 (32.67%) E-Commerce
19 65 (32.18%) HTML
20 63 (31.19%) SQL Server 2008
21 60 (29.70%) Visual Studio
22 53 (26.24%) Windows
23 50 (24.75%) Microsoft
24 47 (23.27%) Continuous Integration

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the 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
1 201 (99.50%) .NET
2 188 (93.07%) ASP.NET
3 178 (88.12%) LINQ
4 103 (50.99%) ASP.NET MVC
5 102 (50.50%) jQuery
6 88 (43.56%) .NET Framework
7 87 (43.07%) WCF
8 86 (42.57%) CSS
9 78 (38.61%) XML
10 77 (38.12%) Web Services
11 69 (34.16%) XSLT
12 66 (32.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 65 (32.18%) HTML
14 46 (22.77%) Ajax
15 35 (17.33%) NHibernate
16 34 (16.83%) HTML5
17 25 (12.38%) WinForms
18 22 (10.89%) ADO.NET
18 22 (10.89%) REST
19 19 (9.406%) ASP.NET MVC 4
Application Platforms
1 78 (38.61%) CMS
2 42 (20.79%) IIS
3 28 (13.86%) SharePoint
4 19 (9.406%) Sitecore CMS
5 16 (7.921%) Umbraco
6 13 (6.436%) Windows Azure
7 5 (2.475%) MSMQ
8 3 (1.485%) RabbitMQ
9 1 (0.495%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 11 (5.446%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.495%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.495%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.495%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 17 (8.416%) Internet
2 8 (3.960%) DNS
3 2 (0.990%) FTP
3 2 (0.990%) Cisco ICM
3 2 (0.990%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.495%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 177 (87.62%) SQL Server
2 63 (31.19%) SQL Server 2008
3 22 (10.89%) SQL Server 2005
4 18 (8.911%) SQL Server 2012
5 10 (4.950%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 9 (4.455%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.970%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 6 (2.970%) SQL Server 2000
8 3 (1.485%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.485%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.485%) NoSQL
8 3 (1.485%) Hadoop
8 3 (1.485%) StreamInsight
8 3 (1.485%) Redis
8 3 (1.485%) Big Data
9 2 (0.990%) Crystal Reports
9 2 (0.990%) MySQL
10 1 (0.495%) Oracle 8/8i
10 1 (0.495%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 60 (29.70%) Visual Studio
2 43 (21.29%) Team Foundation Server
3 32 (15.84%) NUnit
4 25 (12.38%) Subversion
5 20 (9.901%) ReSharper
6 18 (8.911%) GitHub
6 18 (8.911%) NCover
6 18 (8.911%) TeamCity
7 11 (5.446%) SpecFlow
7 11 (5.446%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.980%) Rhino Mocks
9 2 (0.990%) Jenkins
9 2 (0.990%) Moq
9 2 (0.990%) StyleCop
10 1 (0.495%) FxCop
10 1 (0.495%) TortoiseSVN
10 1 (0.495%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
10 1 (0.495%) VisualSVN
10 1 (0.495%) Firebug
10 1 (0.495%) Fiddler
General
1 90 (44.55%) Finance
2 37 (18.32%) Law
3 35 (17.33%) Back Office
3 35 (17.33%) Banking
3 35 (17.33%) Investment Banking
4 14 (6.931%) Marketing
5 3 (1.485%) Games
5 3 (1.485%) Advertising
6 2 (0.990%) Legal
7 1 (0.495%) Retail
Job Titles
1 189 (93.56%) Developer
2 139 (68.81%) .NET Developer
3 100 (49.50%) ASP.NET Developer
4 81 (40.10%) C# Developer
5 78 (38.61%) C# .NET Developer
6 68 (33.66%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 58 (28.71%) Senior Developer
8 37 (18.32%) Web Developer
9 35 (17.33%) SQL Developer
9 35 (17.33%) Senior .NET Developer
10 25 (12.38%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
11 24 (11.88%) Agile .NET Developer
12 23 (11.39%) .NET Web Developer
13 19 (9.406%) C# Web Developer
14 15 (7.426%) Microsoft Developer
15 12 (5.941%) Umbraco Developer
16 11 (5.446%) Consultant
17 6 (2.970%) Development Consultant
18 5 (2.475%) Junior
18 5 (2.475%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 34 (16.83%) Computer Science
2 25 (12.38%) Social Media
3 24 (11.88%) N-Tier
4 18 (8.911%) W3C
5 10 (4.950%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.980%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.980%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.485%) Social Gaming
7 3 (1.485%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.990%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.990%) RIA
8 2 (0.990%) iPad
9 1 (0.495%) Open Source
9 1 (0.495%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.495%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 53 (26.24%) Windows
2 8 (3.960%) Windows Server 2012
2 8 (3.960%) Linux
3 3 (1.485%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (1.485%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (69.80%) MVC
2 88 (43.56%) TDD
3 76 (37.62%) Scrum
4 66 (32.67%) OO
4 66 (32.67%) E-Commerce
5 47 (23.27%) Continuous Integration
6 45 (22.28%) BDD
7 43 (21.29%) CRM
8 39 (19.31%) Domain-Driven Design
9 38 (18.81%) OOA/OOD
10 34 (16.83%) Agile Software Development
11 19 (9.406%) Unit Testing
11 19 (9.406%) Kanban
12 15 (7.426%) UML
12 15 (7.426%) Content Management
13 12 (5.941%) SOA
14 11 (5.446%) OOP
14 11 (5.446%) Dependency Injection
14 11 (5.446%) Integration Testing
14 11 (5.446%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 201 (99.50%) SQL
2 197 (97.52%) C#
3 121 (59.90%) JavaScript
4 76 (37.62%) T-SQL
5 35 (17.33%) VB.NET
6 19 (9.406%) VB
7 11 (5.446%) Ruby
8 8 (3.960%) Perl
9 4 (1.980%) VBScript
9 4 (1.980%) XPath
10 3 (1.485%) VB6
10 3 (1.485%) Java
10 3 (1.485%) Tcl
11 2 (0.990%) C++
11 2 (0.990%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.495%) PHP5
12 1 (0.495%) XAML
12 1 (0.495%) C
12 1 (0.495%) ABAP
12 1 (0.495%) PHP
Qualifications
1 35 (17.33%) Degree
2 29 (14.36%) MCPD
2 29 (14.36%) MCTS
3 3 (1.485%) PhD
4 1 (0.495%) MCSD
4 1 (0.495%) ISEB
4 1 (0.495%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.495%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.436%) QA
2 8 (3.960%) Dublin Core
3 1 (0.495%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (3.465%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.485%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (0.990%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 50 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.406%) Sitecore
3 8 (3.960%) VMware
4 7 (3.465%) Ektron
5 6 (2.970%) Oracle
6 3 (1.485%) Facebook
6 3 (1.485%) Twitter
6 3 (1.485%) Salesforce.com
6 3 (1.485%) Infragistics
7 2 (0.990%) Cisco
7 2 (0.990%) SAP
8 1 (0.495%) DevExpress
8 1 (0.495%) EPiServer
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Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
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Salary: £30k - 32k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Key Skills: * Experience of C# with at least 3 years' experience * ASP.net web forms * Razor Engine * LINQ to SQL * T-SQL skills including stored procedures, triggers etc.
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
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