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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank 213 214 201
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -13
Permanent jobs citing LINQ to SQL 3 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.057% 0.018% 0.069%
As % of the Application Development category 0.122% 0.039% 0.168%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 4
Average salary £27,500 - £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £39,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-10.82% +12.14%
All Application Development
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2469 2553 2377
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 46.73% 46.07% 40.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2244 2289 2124
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £45,000 £45,000
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 South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South West 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 South West region.

South West LINQ to SQL Salary Trend

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 South West 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
Wiltshire - 3 £27,500 -
LINQ to SQL
England

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) LINQ
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) VB
4 3 (50.00%) C#
4 3 (50.00%) XML
4 3 (50.00%) OOP
4 3 (50.00%) OO
4 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) CSS
4 3 (50.00%) Ajax
4 3 (50.00%) NHibernate
4 3 (50.00%) jQuery
4 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (50.00%) Marketing
4 3 (50.00%) WCF
4 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (33.33%) RESTful
5 2 (33.33%) COBIT
5 2 (33.33%) XPath
5 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (33.33%) Subversion

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
1 6 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 6 (100.00%) LINQ
2 5 (83.33%) HTML
2 5 (83.33%) Web Services
3 3 (50.00%) XML
3 3 (50.00%) CSS
3 3 (50.00%) Ajax
3 3 (50.00%) NHibernate
3 3 (50.00%) jQuery
3 3 (50.00%) WCF
3 3 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 2 (33.33%) RESTful
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (33.33%) XSLT
5 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET
5 1 (16.67%) SOAP
5 1 (16.67%) Spring.NET
5 1 (16.67%) JSON
5 1 (16.67%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Kerberos
2 1 (16.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) MySQL
1 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Subversion
2 2 (33.33%) CruiseControl
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
3 1 (16.67%) StyleCop
3 1 (16.67%) Moq
3 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 1 (16.67%) ReSharper
General
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Web Developer
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Web Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Junior
4 1 (16.67%) VB.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Web Designer
4 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Junior Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Junior Web Developer
4 1 (16.67%) .NET Designer
4 1 (16.67%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Tandem
1 1 (16.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) OOP
1 3 (50.00%) OO
1 3 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (33.33%) TOGAF
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Process Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Dependency Injection
3 1 (16.67%) MVVM
3 1 (16.67%) Web Development
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (66.67%) VB
4 3 (50.00%) C#
5 2 (33.33%) XPath
5 2 (33.33%) XQuery
6 1 (16.67%) Java
6 1 (16.67%) VB.NET
6 1 (16.67%) VBScript
6 1 (16.67%) XAML
6 1 (16.67%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (33.33%) MCSD
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) COBIT
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Infragistics