Berkshire COM+ Contracts

This section looks at the demand for COM+ (COM Plus) skills within the Berkshire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited COM+ over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

COM+ (COM Plus)
Location Abingdon Batley Berkshire Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Dorset East of England East Yorkshire England Farnham Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hull Kent Leeds London Manchester North East North West Oxfordshire Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Thames Valley UK West Yorkshire Weybridge Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	101	130
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	28	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.037 %	0.031 %
As % of the category below	3.949 %	2.967 %
Daily rates quoted	11	3
Average minimum daily rate	£245	£260
Average daily rate	£261	£275
% change on same period last year	-4.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£277	£290
UK excluding London average daily rate	£256	£313
% change on same period last year	-18.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£39.68
Average hourly rate	£37.06	£41.11
% change on same period last year	-9.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£39.11	£42.53
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.20	£41.96
% change on same period last year	-16.09 %
Application Development Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	709	1045
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.944 %	1.059 %
Daily rates quoted	191	271
Average minimum daily rate	£295	£323
Average daily rate	£316	£339
% change on same period last year	-6.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£337	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£335
% change on same period last year	+1.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	57	93
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.14	£36.11
Average hourly rate	£36.99	£37.66
% change on same period last year	-1.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.83	£39.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.66	£33.10
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
COM+ South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing COM+ across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing COM+ across the Berkshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COM+ across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing COM+ across the Berkshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COM+ across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COM+ within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Slough	-9	23	£261	+0.52 %

COM+ South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing COM+ 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited COM+.

1 31 (100.00 %) .NET 2 29 (93.55 %) ASP 3 28 (90.32 %) ASP.NET 3 28 (90.32 %) XML 3 28 (90.32 %) SQL 3 28 (90.32 %) Transact-SQL 3 28 (90.32 %) VB.NET 4 27 (87.10 %) DHTML 4 27 (87.10 %) JavaScript 4 27 (87.10 %) XSL 4 27 (87.10 %) SQL Server 5 25 (80.65 %) HTML 6 24 (77.42 %) InterDev 7 23 (74.19 %) N-Tier 8 15 (48.39 %) VB

9 14 (45.16 %) Microsoft 10 9 (29.03 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 9 (29.03 %) System Testing 11 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server 2005 11 2 (6.452 %) WebSphere 11 2 (6.452 %) VB6 11 2 (6.452 %) Automotive 11 2 (6.452 %) Migration 11 2 (6.452 %) VMware 11 2 (6.452 %) VMware ESX 11 2 (6.452 %) HP 11 2 (6.452 %) Red Hat 11 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server 2000 11 2 (6.452 %) IBM 11 2 (6.452 %) VBScript

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing COM+ also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited COM+. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 31 (100.00 %) .NET 2 29 (93.55 %) ASP 3 28 (90.32 %) ASP.NET 3 28 (90.32 %) XML 4 27 (87.10 %) XSL 5 25 (80.65 %) HTML 6 2 (6.452 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (6.452 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 2 (6.452 %) IIS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 27 (87.10 %) SQL Server 2 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server 2000 2 2 (6.452 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 24 (77.42 %) InterDev
General 1 2 (6.452 %) Automotive 2 1 (3.226 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 27 (87.10 %) Developer 2 23 (74.19 %) Applications Developer 3 18 (58.06 %) .NET Developer 4 16 (51.61 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 14 (45.16 %) .NET Applications Developer 6 12 (38.71 %) SQL Developer 6 12 (38.71 %) SQL Server Developer 7 8 (25.81 %) VB.NET/ASP.NET Developer 7 8 (25.81 %) VB.NET Developer 8 6 (19.35 %) Microsoft Developer 9 2 (6.452 %) Consultant 10 1 (3.226 %) Applications Consultant 10 1 (3.226 %) Migration Consultant 10 1 (3.226 %) Team Leader 10 1 (3.226 %) Wintel Engineer 10 1 (3.226 %) WebSphere Consultant 10 1 (3.226 %) Microsoft Consultant 10 1 (3.226 %) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous 1 23 (74.19 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 2 (6.452 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (29.03 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 9 (29.03 %) System Testing 2 2 (6.452 %) Migration 3 1 (3.226 %) Project Management	Programming Languages 1 28 (90.32 %) SQL 1 28 (90.32 %) Transact-SQL 1 28 (90.32 %) VB.NET 2 27 (87.10 %) DHTML 2 27 (87.10 %) JavaScript 3 15 (48.39 %) VB 4 2 (6.452 %) Java 4 2 (6.452 %) VB6 4 2 (6.452 %) VBScript 5 1 (3.226 %) C#
System Software 1 2 (6.452 %) VMware ESX	Vendors 1 14 (45.16 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.452 %) HP 2 2 (6.452 %) Red Hat 2 2 (6.452 %) VMware 2 2 (6.452 %) IBM