The first table below looks at the demand for LINQ to SQL skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LINQ to SQL over the 3 months to 22 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LINQ to SQL (L2S)
Rank 192 184 -
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -
Permanent jobs citing LINQ to SQL 7 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.139% 0.130% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.344% 0.304% -
Number of salaries quoted 7 6 0
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £40,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
All Application Development
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
2036 1972 1529
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 40.48% 42.73% 37.54%
Number of salaries quoted 1820 1773 1397
Average salary £37,000 £36,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.06% +3.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,985 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
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 West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Coventry - 5 £45,000 -
Birmingham -15 2 £46,250 +15.62%
LINQ to SQL
England

LINQ to SQL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) XSLT
1 7 (100.00%) XHTML
1 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) W3C
1 7 (100.00%) MVC
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) NUnit
1 7 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 7 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 7 (100.00%) ReSharper
1 7 (100.00%) LINQ
1 7 (100.00%) jQuery
1 7 (100.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 7 (100.00%) Sitecore
1 7 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 7 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 7 (100.00%) NCover
1 7 (100.00%) HTML5
1 7 (100.00%) CMS
1 7 (100.00%) CSS3
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
2 6 (85.71%) Finance

LINQ to SQL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) CSS
1 7 (100.00%) Web Services
1 7 (100.00%) XSLT
1 7 (100.00%) XHTML
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 7 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 7 (100.00%) LINQ
1 7 (100.00%) jQuery
1 7 (100.00%) HTML5
1 7 (100.00%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 7 (100.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 7 (100.00%) CMS
2 4 (57.14%) Umbraco
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 7 (100.00%) NUnit
1 7 (100.00%) ReSharper
1 7 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 7 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 7 (100.00%) NCover
1 7 (100.00%) GitHub
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
1 7 (100.00%) .NET Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Umbraco Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
2 2 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) W3C
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Sitecore