The first table below looks at the demand for COM+ skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COM+ over the 3 months to 17 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 City of London 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COM+ (COM Plus)
Rank 200 209 238
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +29
Contract jobs citing COM+ 1 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.016% 0.051% 0.081%
As % of the Application Development category 0.056% 0.206% 0.294%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
Average daily rate £550 £500 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% +28.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £54.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -54.12%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - £42.50
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1796 1946 2721
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.53% 25.01% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1418 1430 2105
Average daily rate £410 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.52% -15.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £288 £313
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 21
Average hourly rate £41.75 £25.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+67.00% -44.44%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £45.00 £125.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM+
London

COM+
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London COM+ Hourly Rate Trend

COM+
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) VB
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) VB6
1 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) VBScript
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (50.00%) NUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) MSMQ

COM+
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 3 (75.00%) ASP
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) WCF
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) JSON
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET
2 2 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (50.00%) CSS
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) XML
2 2 (50.00%) XSLT
2 2 (50.00%) Ajax
2 2 (50.00%) jQuery
2 2 (50.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC 2
3 1 (25.00%) NHibernate
3 1 (25.00%) DHTML
3 1 (25.00%) LINQ
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MSMQ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (25.00%) MSBuild
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst Programmer
1 2 (50.00%) Programmer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Programmer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Analyst Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Analyst Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior .NET Programmer
2 1 (25.00%) C# ASP.NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) W3C
2 1 (25.00%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) UML
2 1 (25.00%) OO
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) MVC
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) Use Case
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) VB
1 3 (75.00%) VB6
2 2 (50.00%) VBScript
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle