The first table below looks at the demand for COM+ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COM+ 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 Brighton region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COM+ (COM Plus)
Rank - 33 -
Contract jobs citing COM+ 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton - 0.382% -
As % of the Application Development category - 1.266% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - £42.50
All Application Development
Brighton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
68 79 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Brighton 47.55% 30.15% 38.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 26
Average daily rate £315 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £183 £200 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +122.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM+
East Sussex

COM+
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing COM+ across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Brighton COM+ Jobs Demand Trend

COM+
Daily Rate Trend

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

Brighton COM+ Daily Rate Trend

COM+
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) EMC
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 4 (100.00%) MCTS
1 4 (100.00%) MCITP
1 4 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (25.00%) Finance

COM+
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Brighton 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 Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) IIS
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) LAN
1 4 (100.00%) WAN
1 4 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) NetScreen
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 4 (100.00%) MCTS
1 4 (100.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) EMC
1 4 (100.00%) VMware