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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
Rank - 9 5
Permanent jobs citing LINQ 0 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leighton Buzzard - 5.556% 22.22%
As % of the Application Development category - 9.091% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 4
Average salary - £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.28%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
All Application Development
Leighton Buzzard
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
0 11 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leighton Buzzard - 61.11% 55.56%
Number of salaries quoted 0 11 10
Average salary - £40,000 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +15.94%
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 Leighton Buzzard region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Leighton Buzzard 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 Leighton Buzzard region.

Leighton Buzzard LINQ Salary Trend

LINQ
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leighton Buzzard 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) VC++
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
1 3 (100.00%) VB6
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework

LINQ
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leighton Buzzard 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (100.00%) WCF
1 3 (100.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
1 3 (100.00%) .NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
1 3 (100.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (33.33%) C# Application Developer
2 1 (33.33%) .NET Applications Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) OO
1 3 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VB
1 3 (100.00%) VC++
1 3 (100.00%) VB6
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft