The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ to SQL over the 3 months to 23 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank 525 580 602
Rank change year-on-year
+55 +22
Permanent jobs citing LINQ to SQL 79 61 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.181% 0.114% 0.068%
As % of the Application Development category 0.451% 0.279% 0.172%
Number of salaries quoted 76 60 38
Average salary £47,500 £44,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.95% +3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £32,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
17513 21845 23258
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 40.22% 40.75% 39.61%
Number of salaries quoted 15178 19460 20414
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £32,500 £33,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
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 London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 23 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
City of London +6 11 £35,750 -24.73%
LINQ to SQL
England

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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.

1 133 (100.00%) SQL
1 133 (100.00%) .NET
2 132 (99.25%) C#
3 127 (95.49%) ASP.NET
4 123 (92.48%) SQL Server
5 114 (85.71%) LINQ
6 94 (70.68%) MVC
7 84 (63.16%) Finance
8 75 (56.39%) jQuery
9 73 (54.89%) CMS
10 71 (53.38%) Scrum
10 71 (53.38%) ASP.NET MVC
11 69 (51.88%) JavaScript
12 59 (44.36%) Web Services
12 59 (44.36%) TDD
13 58 (43.61%) OO
14 57 (42.86%) XSLT
15 55 (41.35%) XML
16 47 (35.34%) Continuous Integration
16 47 (35.34%) E-Commerce
17 42 (31.58%) Ajax
18 41 (30.83%) .NET Framework
19 40 (30.08%) SQL Server 2008
20 39 (29.32%) WCF
20 39 (29.32%) OOA/OOD
20 39 (29.32%) CRM
20 39 (29.32%) Windows
20 39 (29.32%) Law
21 38 (28.57%) T-SQL
22 37 (27.82%) Back Office

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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
1 133 (100.00%) .NET
2 127 (95.49%) ASP.NET
3 114 (85.71%) LINQ
4 75 (56.39%) jQuery
5 71 (53.38%) ASP.NET MVC
6 59 (44.36%) Web Services
7 57 (42.86%) XSLT
8 55 (41.35%) XML
9 42 (31.58%) Ajax
10 41 (30.83%) .NET Framework
11 39 (29.32%) WCF
12 33 (24.81%) CSS
13 31 (23.31%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
14 25 (18.80%) HTML5
15 21 (15.79%) NHibernate
16 19 (14.29%) REST
16 19 (14.29%) HTML
16 19 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC 4
17 16 (12.03%) XSL
18 15 (11.28%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 73 (54.89%) CMS
2 33 (24.81%) IIS
3 18 (13.53%) SharePoint
4 12 (9.023%) Umbraco
4 12 (9.023%) Sitecore CMS
5 8 (6.015%) Windows Azure
6 2 (1.504%) Immediacy CMS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.774%) Internet
2 8 (6.015%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 123 (92.48%) SQL Server
2 40 (30.08%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (11.28%) SQL Server 2005
4 11 (8.271%) SQL Server 2012
5 6 (4.511%) SQL Server 2000
5 6 (4.511%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (4.511%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 25 (18.80%) Team Foundation Server
2 23 (17.29%) Visual Studio
3 21 (15.79%) NUnit
4 15 (11.28%) Subversion
5 11 (8.271%) Cucumber
5 11 (8.271%) SpecFlow
6 10 (7.519%) GitHub
6 10 (7.519%) ReSharper
6 10 (7.519%) NCover
6 10 (7.519%) TeamCity
7 2 (1.504%) JIRA
7 2 (1.504%) Selenium
General
1 84 (63.16%) Finance
2 39 (29.32%) Law
3 37 (27.82%) Back Office
3 37 (27.82%) Banking
3 37 (27.82%) Investment Banking
4 8 (6.015%) Marketing
5 2 (1.504%) Legal
Job Titles
1 128 (96.24%) Developer
2 98 (73.68%) .NET Developer
3 73 (54.89%) ASP.NET Developer
4 58 (43.61%) C# Developer
5 56 (42.11%) C# .NET Developer
6 49 (36.84%) Senior Developer
7 48 (36.09%) C# ASP.NET Developer
8 34 (25.56%) SQL Developer
9 33 (24.81%) Senior .NET Developer
10 26 (19.55%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
10 26 (19.55%) Agile .NET Developer
11 15 (11.28%) Microsoft Developer
12 10 (7.519%) Umbraco Developer
13 5 (3.759%) Software Engineer
13 5 (3.759%) C# Software Engineer
14 4 (3.008%) Senior Technical Consultant
14 4 (3.008%) Technical Consultant
14 4 (3.008%) Senior Consultant
14 4 (3.008%) Consultant
15 3 (2.256%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 31 (23.31%) Computer Science
2 24 (18.05%) Social Media
3 12 (9.023%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (7.519%) W3C
5 3 (2.256%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.504%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 39 (29.32%) Windows
2 8 (6.015%) Linux
2 8 (6.015%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (70.68%) MVC
2 71 (53.38%) Scrum
3 59 (44.36%) TDD
4 58 (43.61%) OO
5 47 (35.34%) Continuous Integration
5 47 (35.34%) E-Commerce
6 39 (29.32%) OOA/OOD
6 39 (29.32%) CRM
7 37 (27.82%) Domain-Driven Design
8 27 (20.30%) BDD
9 19 (14.29%) Kanban
10 15 (11.28%) UML
10 15 (11.28%) Content Management
11 13 (9.774%) SOA
11 13 (9.774%) Agile Software Development
12 11 (8.271%) Unit Testing
12 11 (8.271%) Integration Testing
12 11 (8.271%) Automated Testing
13 8 (6.015%) OOP
13 8 (6.015%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 133 (100.00%) SQL
2 132 (99.25%) C#
3 69 (51.88%) JavaScript
4 38 (28.57%) T-SQL
5 32 (24.06%) VB.NET
6 11 (8.271%) Ruby
6 11 (8.271%) VB
7 8 (6.015%) Perl
8 2 (1.504%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (23.31%) Degree
2 30 (22.56%) MCTS
2 30 (22.56%) MCPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.015%) Dublin Core
2 5 (3.759%) QA
System Software
1 7 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 18 (13.53%) Microsoft
2 12 (9.023%) Sitecore
3 7 (5.263%) Ektron
3 7 (5.263%) VMware
4 2 (1.504%) EPiServer
London
Senior C# Developer (.NET, C#.NET, dot NET, ASP.NET MVC, BDD, Behaviour Driven Development, SpecFlow, Cucumber, Gherkin, ORM, NHibernate, Entity Framework, OO, TDD, Unit Testing, Integration Testing,...
Noir Consulting
Salary: £55000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
London
Required Skills: Expert level C#/.NET (3.5/4.0) Strong multithreading experience in .NET Very strong SQL Server / TSQL Strong LINQ / LINQ to SQL Strong debugging skills...
Progression Recruitment
Salary: From £80,000 to £100,000 per annum plus amazing benefits inc £K traini
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
ROLE DIMENSIONS Taking escalations from the L1 and L2s... Advanced understanding of operating systems ( Linux, or windows)... MCSE/MCSA/RHCE/RHCSA essential. VCAP4-DCA or equivalent experience required.
Rackspace
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 13 May 2013