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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank 739 745 796
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +51
Permanent jobs citing LINQ to SQL 121 142 75
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.111% 0.117% 0.061%
As % of the Application Development category 0.275% 0.281% 0.153%
Number of salaries quoted 116 140 74
Average salary £37,500 £41,250 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +0.60%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,850 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £39,250 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-10.82% +12.14%
All Application Development
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
44010 50596 48866
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 40.51% 41.75% 40.04%
Number of salaries quoted 38271 45000 43159
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £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
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

LINQ to SQL Salary Trend

LINQ to SQL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LINQ to SQL over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

LINQ to SQL Salary Histogram

LINQ to SQL
Top 29 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 UK 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
England -10 120 £37,500 -6.25%
London +49 77 £47,500 +7.95%
North West -1 21 £35,000 +27.27%
Manchester -3 20 £32,500 +18.18%
City of London +5 11 £36,500 -23.15%
West Midlands -21 7 £45,000 +12.50%
East of England -25 6 £35,000 -17.64%
Coventry - 5 £45,000 -
Wigan +3 4 £36,000 +30.90%
Essex +23 3 - -
South West +1 3 £27,500 -
Sheffield -1 3 £30,000 -
South Yorkshire -1 3 £30,000 -
Yorkshire -13 3 £30,000 -
Bedfordshire -19 3 £35,000 -33.33%
Swindon - 3 £27,500 -
Bedford - 3 £35,000 -
Brentwood - 3 - -
Wiltshire - 3 £27,500 -
South East -12 2 £37,500 -18.91%
Birmingham -17 2 £46,250 +15.62%
Kent - 2 £37,500 -
Cheshire +8 1 £38,500 -14.44%
East Midlands -3 1 £35,000 -6.66%
Leicestershire -9 1 £35,000 -6.66%
Leicester -13 1 £35,000 -6.66%
Scotland - 1 £37,500 -
Cheadle - 1 £38,500 -
Aberdeen - 1 £37,500 -

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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.

1 219 (100.00%) .NET
2 214 (97.72%) C#
2 214 (97.72%) SQL
3 203 (92.69%) ASP.NET
4 194 (88.58%) SQL Server
5 186 (84.93%) LINQ
6 152 (69.41%) MVC
7 135 (61.64%) JavaScript
8 111 (50.68%) ASP.NET MVC
9 109 (49.77%) jQuery
10 99 (45.21%) TDD
11 98 (44.75%) Finance
12 95 (43.38%) .NET Framework
13 94 (42.92%) WCF
13 94 (42.92%) CSS
14 85 (38.81%) XML
15 84 (38.36%) Web Services
16 83 (37.90%) CMS
17 79 (36.07%) Scrum
17 79 (36.07%) T-SQL
18 73 (33.33%) XSLT
19 72 (32.88%) HTML
20 71 (32.42%) E-Commerce
21 70 (31.96%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
22 67 (30.59%) OO
23 64 (29.22%) SQL Server 2008
24 61 (27.85%) Visual Studio
25 57 (26.03%) Windows
26 54 (24.66%) Microsoft
27 53 (24.20%) Continuous Integration

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK 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
1 219 (100.00%) .NET
2 203 (92.69%) ASP.NET
3 186 (84.93%) LINQ
4 111 (50.68%) ASP.NET MVC
5 109 (49.77%) jQuery
6 95 (43.38%) .NET Framework
7 94 (42.92%) WCF
7 94 (42.92%) CSS
8 85 (38.81%) XML
9 84 (38.36%) Web Services
10 73 (33.33%) XSLT
11 72 (32.88%) HTML
12 70 (31.96%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
13 49 (22.37%) Ajax
14 41 (18.72%) NHibernate
15 36 (16.44%) HTML5
16 27 (12.33%) WinForms
17 23 (10.50%) REST
18 21 (9.589%) ADO.NET
19 20 (9.132%) XSL
Application Platforms
1 83 (37.90%) CMS
2 46 (21.00%) IIS
3 33 (15.07%) SharePoint
4 19 (8.676%) Sitecore CMS
5 16 (7.306%) Umbraco
6 13 (5.936%) Windows Azure
7 6 (2.740%) MSMQ
8 2 (0.913%) RabbitMQ
8 2 (0.913%) Immediacy CMS
Applications
1 13 (5.936%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.913%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.457%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.913%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.457%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.219%) Internet
2 8 (3.653%) DNS
3 4 (1.826%) FTP
3 4 (1.826%) Cisco ICM
3 4 (1.826%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.913%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (88.58%) SQL Server
2 64 (29.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 22 (10.05%) SQL Server 2005
4 17 (7.763%) SQL Server 2012
5 16 (7.306%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (6.393%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 6 (2.740%) SQL Server 2000
7 6 (2.740%) MySQL
7 6 (2.740%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 2 (0.913%) Crystal Reports
8 2 (0.913%) Hadoop
8 2 (0.913%) StreamInsight
8 2 (0.913%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.913%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (0.913%) NoSQL
8 2 (0.913%) Big Data
8 2 (0.913%) Redis
9 1 (0.457%) Oracle 8/8i
9 1 (0.457%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 61 (27.85%) Visual Studio
2 48 (21.92%) Team Foundation Server
3 31 (14.16%) Subversion
4 30 (13.70%) NUnit
5 18 (8.219%) ReSharper
6 17 (7.763%) GitHub
6 17 (7.763%) TeamCity
6 17 (7.763%) NCover
7 10 (4.566%) SpecFlow
7 10 (4.566%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.826%) Rhino Mocks
9 3 (1.370%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.913%) CruiseControl
10 2 (0.913%) VSS/SourceSafe
10 2 (0.913%) TortoiseSVN
10 2 (0.913%) VisualSVN
10 2 (0.913%) JIRA
10 2 (0.913%) Selenium
11 1 (0.457%) Firebug
11 1 (0.457%) Fiddler
General
1 98 (44.75%) Finance
2 42 (19.18%) Back Office
3 41 (18.72%) Law
4 39 (17.81%) Investment Banking
4 39 (17.81%) Banking
5 14 (6.393%) Marketing
6 3 (1.370%) Games
6 3 (1.370%) Publishing
7 2 (0.913%) Legal
7 2 (0.913%) Advertising
8 1 (0.457%) Retail
Job Titles
1 205 (93.61%) Developer
2 154 (70.32%) .NET Developer
3 108 (49.32%) ASP.NET Developer
4 85 (38.81%) C# Developer
5 81 (36.99%) C# .NET Developer
6 72 (32.88%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 59 (26.94%) Senior Developer
8 39 (17.81%) Senior .NET Developer
9 36 (16.44%) Web Developer
10 35 (15.98%) SQL Developer
11 30 (13.70%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
12 28 (12.79%) Agile .NET Developer
13 23 (10.50%) .NET Web Developer
14 19 (8.676%) C# Web Developer
15 15 (6.849%) Microsoft Developer
16 11 (5.023%) Umbraco Developer
16 11 (5.023%) Consultant
17 7 (3.196%) Lead Developer
18 6 (2.740%) Junior
18 6 (2.740%) Junior Developer
Miscellaneous
1 35 (15.98%) Computer Science
2 28 (12.79%) Social Media
3 24 (10.96%) N-Tier
4 17 (7.763%) W3C
5 12 (5.479%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.826%) RIA
6 4 (1.826%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.370%) iPad
7 3 (1.370%) Replication
8 2 (0.913%) Client/Server
8 2 (0.913%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.913%) Social Gaming
8 2 (0.913%) Enterprise Software
9 1 (0.457%) Social Network
9 1 (0.457%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.457%) Open Source
9 1 (0.457%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 57 (26.03%) Windows
2 8 (3.653%) Linux
2 8 (3.653%) Windows Server 2012
3 5 (2.283%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (2.283%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 152 (69.41%) MVC
2 99 (45.21%) TDD
3 79 (36.07%) Scrum
4 71 (32.42%) E-Commerce
5 67 (30.59%) OO
6 53 (24.20%) Continuous Integration
7 45 (20.55%) CRM
7 45 (20.55%) BDD
8 43 (19.63%) Domain-Driven Design
9 39 (17.81%) Agile Software Development
9 39 (17.81%) OOA/OOD
10 21 (9.589%) Unit Testing
11 18 (8.219%) Kanban
12 15 (6.849%) Content Management
12 15 (6.849%) UML
13 13 (5.936%) SOA
14 11 (5.023%) Dependency Injection
14 11 (5.023%) OOP
15 10 (4.566%) Workflow
15 10 (4.566%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 214 (97.72%) C#
1 214 (97.72%) SQL
2 135 (61.64%) JavaScript
3 79 (36.07%) T-SQL
4 38 (17.35%) VB.NET
5 19 (8.676%) VB
6 10 (4.566%) Ruby
7 8 (3.653%) Perl
8 7 (3.196%) XPath
9 5 (2.283%) VB6
9 5 (2.283%) Java
9 5 (2.283%) Tcl
10 4 (1.826%) C++
10 4 (1.826%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.370%) VBScript
12 2 (0.913%) PHP
12 2 (0.913%) ABAP
12 2 (0.913%) XQuery
12 2 (0.913%) PHP5
13 1 (0.457%) XAML
Qualifications
1 36 (16.44%) Degree
2 30 (13.70%) MCPD
2 30 (13.70%) MCTS
3 7 (3.196%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (0.913%) MCSD
4 2 (0.913%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (0.913%) ISEB
4 2 (0.913%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.566%) QA
2 8 (3.653%) Dublin Core
3 2 (0.913%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (3.196%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.740%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (1.826%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 54 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 19 (8.676%) Sitecore
3 9 (4.110%) VMware
4 8 (3.653%) Oracle
5 7 (3.196%) Ektron
6 4 (1.826%) Cisco
6 4 (1.826%) SAP
7 3 (1.370%) Facebook
7 3 (1.370%) Infragistics
8 2 (0.913%) Salesforce.com
8 2 (0.913%) Twitter
8 2 (0.913%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.457%) DevExpress
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