Birmingham COM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Component Object Model (COM) skills within the Birmingham 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 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Component Object Model (COM)
Location Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf City of London Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England England Essex Exeter Hampshire Hertfordshire Kent London Luton Manchester Middlesex Milton Keynes North West Northampton Northamptonshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Slough South East South West Stevenage Surrey UK Wiltshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£300	£361
% change on same period last year	-16.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£13.06	£37.50
% change on same period last year	-65.18 %
Application Development Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	99	170
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.198 %	0.213 %
Daily rates quoted	31	37
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£267
Average daily rate	£394	£301
% change on same period last year	+30.80 %
Average maximum daily rate	£427	£335
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£334
% change on same period last year	-5.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.23	£27.78
Average hourly rate	£28.30	£32.64
% change on same period last year	-13.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.37	£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.48	£31.45
% change on same period last year	-9.45 %
COM West Midlands

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 Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

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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 Birmingham region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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 1 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham 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.

Applications 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Office 1 1 (100.00 %) MS Excel	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Coordinator
Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Oracle 1 1 (100.00 %) Microsoft