The first table below looks at the demand for COM+ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COM+ over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridgeshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COM+ (COM Plus)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing COM+ 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £294 £320
% change year-on-year
+2.12% -8.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - £42.50
All Application Development
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
131 246 173
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 24.17% 35.96% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 122 77
Average daily rate £350 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 22 16
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.75 £35.00 £15.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.10 £60.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM+
East of England

COM+
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire COM+ Daily Rate Trend

COM+
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire COM+ Hourly Rate Trend

COM+
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) DHTML
1 7 (100.00%) VB
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
1 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) VB6
1 7 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 7 (100.00%) WCF
2 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 5 (71.43%) ASP
2 5 (71.43%) LINQ
2 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (57.14%) Investment Management
4 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
5 2 (28.57%) Banking
5 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
6 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Migration
6 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (14.29%) Sybase

COM+
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 7 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 7 (100.00%) NHibernate
1 7 (100.00%) WCF
1 7 (100.00%) DHTML
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (71.43%) ASP
2 5 (71.43%) LINQ
General
1 5 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Developer
2 6 (85.71%) .NET Developer
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (28.57%) C# Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Analyst Developer
4 2 (28.57%) Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Investment Management
3 3 (42.86%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) Asset Management
5 1 (14.29%) Migration
5 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (14.29%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) VB
1 7 (100.00%) VB6
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Sybase