Birmingham DCOM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM) 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 DCOM over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
Location Abingdon Berkshire Birmingham Cardiff City of London Docklands, London East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Farnham Hampshire Hull London Manchester North West Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland South East South Wales Southampton Surrey UK Wales West Midlands Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	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	£330	£278
% change on same period last year	+18.96 %
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	£32.50	£40.67
% change on same period last year	-20.08 %
Application Development Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	154	209
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.205 %	0.211 %
Daily rates quoted	36	44
Average minimum daily rate	£297	£318
Average daily rate	£322	£342
% change on same period last year	-5.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£347	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.75	£36.90
Average hourly rate	£25.94	£37.91
% change on same period last year	-31.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.13	£38.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
DCOM 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.

DCOM
Demand Trend

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

DCOM
Hourly Rate Trend

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