COM Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Related Skills

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 24 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 172 198 221
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +23
Contract jobs citing COM 31 20 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.486% 0.254% 0.245%
As % of the Application Development category 1.702% 0.992% 0.876%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 18 19
Average daily rate £438 £500 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £275 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £544 £575 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £394 £375
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £33.25 - £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-36.29% -11.42%
Search 45 COM jobs in the City of London
All Application Development
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 1821 2016 2741
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 28.55% 25.63% 27.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1439 1499 2137
Average daily rate £405 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.70% -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 25 28 22
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £43.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -42.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.58 £15.00 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £75.00 £45.00 £119.00
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
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COM across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London COM Daily Rate Histogram

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
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COM across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London COM Hourly Rate Histogram

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 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 66 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 25 (37.88%) MS Excel
3 23 (34.85%) Finance
4 22 (33.33%) HTTP
5 20 (30.30%) Windows
5 20 (30.30%) C#
6 19 (28.79%) SQL
6 19 (28.79%) Banking
7 16 (24.24%) .NET
8 14 (21.21%) MS Office
9 12 (18.18%) SQL Server
9 12 (18.18%) Investment Banking
10 9 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
10 9 (13.64%) Windows 7
11 8 (12.12%) WCF
12 7 (10.61%) WPF
12 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
12 7 (10.61%) ITIL
13 6 (9.091%) Oracle
13 6 (9.091%) MS Project
13 6 (9.091%) CRM
13 6 (9.091%) SharePoint
13 6 (9.091%) Active Directory
13 6 (9.091%) TDD
13 6 (9.091%) Derivative
13 6 (9.091%) Degree
13 6 (9.091%) Computer Science
13 6 (9.091%) Security Cleared
13 6 (9.091%) MVVM
14 5 (7.576%) CQRS

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 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 16 (24.24%) .NET
2 8 (12.12%) WCF
3 7 (10.61%) WPF
4 5 (7.576%) .NET Framework
4 5 (7.576%) ASP.NET
5 2 (3.030%) Web Services
5 2 (3.030%) Middleware
5 2 (3.030%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (3.030%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (1.515%) Unity DI Container
6 1 (1.515%) Managed Extensibility Framework
6 1 (1.515%) Application Packaging
6 1 (1.515%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.515%) Silverlight
6 1 (1.515%) LINQ
6 1 (1.515%) jQuery
6 1 (1.515%) NHibernate
6 1 (1.515%) WinForms
6 1 (1.515%) DHTML
6 1 (1.515%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (9.091%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.061%) MS Exchange
3 2 (3.030%) IIS
3 2 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (3.030%) Office Communications Server
3 2 (3.030%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.515%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.515%) Lync
4 1 (1.515%) Oracle Coherence
4 1 (1.515%) ESB
4 1 (1.515%) Drupal
4 1 (1.515%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.515%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.515%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (1.515%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (1.515%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (1.515%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 25 (37.88%) MS Excel
2 14 (21.21%) MS Office
3 6 (9.091%) MS Project
4 1 (1.515%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (1.515%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (7.576%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.545%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (3.030%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 22 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (3.030%) DHCP
2 2 (3.030%) FTP
2 2 (3.030%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.030%) DNS
2 2 (3.030%) SAN
3 1 (1.515%) Internet
3 1 (1.515%) Firewall
3 1 (1.515%) SSL
3 1 (1.515%) POP3
3 1 (1.515%) SMTP
3 1 (1.515%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 5 (7.576%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (6.061%) MS Access
3 4 (6.061%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.061%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (3.030%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (3.030%) VLDB
5 2 (3.030%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (3.030%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.515%) UniData
6 1 (1.515%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (1.515%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.515%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (1.515%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.515%) Cognos Powerplay
6 1 (1.515%) Cognos Impromptu
Development Applications
1 4 (6.061%) Visual Studio
1 4 (6.061%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (4.545%) Selenium
2 3 (4.545%) FitNesse
2 3 (4.545%) Subversion
3 2 (3.030%) JIRA
3 2 (3.030%) Concordion
3 2 (3.030%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.030%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.515%) NCover
4 1 (1.515%) MSBuild
4 1 (1.515%) Hudson
4 1 (1.515%) WebDriver
4 1 (1.515%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
4 1 (1.515%) CruiseControl
4 1 (1.515%) MSI
4 1 (1.515%) AdminStudio
4 1 (1.515%) Eclipse
General
1 23 (34.85%) Finance
2 19 (28.79%) Banking
3 12 (18.18%) Investment Banking
4 5 (7.576%) Telecoms
4 5 (7.576%) Advertising
4 5 (7.576%) Front Office
5 3 (4.545%) Publishing
6 2 (3.030%) Law
6 2 (3.030%) Legal
6 2 (3.030%) Retail
7 1 (1.515%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.515%) Marketing
7 1 (1.515%) Back Office
7 1 (1.515%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 16 (24.24%) Analyst
2 13 (19.70%) Developer
3 5 (7.576%) C# Developer
3 5 (7.576%) Architect
3 5 (7.576%) Test Analyst
4 4 (6.061%) Consultant
4 4 (6.061%) Project Manager
5 3 (4.545%) Automation Analyst
5 3 (4.545%) Automation Test Analyst
5 3 (4.545%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (4.545%) Enterprise Architect
5 3 (4.545%) Business Analyst
5 3 (4.545%) Senior Developer
6 2 (3.030%) Trainer
6 2 (3.030%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (3.030%) Team Leader
6 2 (3.030%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.030%) Test Engineer
6 2 (3.030%) IT Trainer
6 2 (3.030%) Technical Trainer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.091%) Derivative
1 6 (9.091%) Computer Science
2 4 (6.061%) Blackberry
3 3 (4.545%) Fixed Income
4 2 (3.030%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (3.030%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.030%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.515%) Visualisation
5 1 (1.515%) Mobile Computing
5 1 (1.515%) Open Source
5 1 (1.515%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.515%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.515%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.515%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (30.30%) Windows
2 9 (13.64%) Windows 7
3 5 (7.576%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (4.545%) Windows XP
4 3 (4.545%) UNIX
5 1 (1.515%) Windows 8
5 1 (1.515%) SUSE
5 1 (1.515%) AIX
5 1 (1.515%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (10.61%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (10.61%) ITIL
3 6 (9.091%) CRM
3 6 (9.091%) TDD
3 6 (9.091%) MVVM
4 5 (7.576%) CQRS
4 5 (7.576%) Migration
4 5 (7.576%) Change Management
4 5 (7.576%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (6.061%) Project Management
6 3 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (4.545%) Business Continuity
6 3 (4.545%) Configuration Management
6 3 (4.545%) Data Modelling
6 3 (4.545%) PRINCE2
7 2 (3.030%) ETL
7 2 (3.030%) PRINCE
7 2 (3.030%) MVC
7 2 (3.030%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.30%) C#
2 19 (28.79%) SQL
3 4 (6.061%) T-SQL
3 4 (6.061%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.545%) Ruby
5 2 (3.030%) C++
5 2 (3.030%) VBA
6 1 (1.515%) C++/CLI
6 1 (1.515%) MATLAB
6 1 (1.515%) XAML
6 1 (1.515%) C
6 1 (1.515%) Java
6 1 (1.515%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.515%) Perl
6 1 (1.515%) VB
6 1 (1.515%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (9.091%) Degree
1 6 (9.091%) Security Cleared
2 5 (7.576%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.030%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.515%) MOS
4 1 (1.515%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (1.515%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (1.515%) MCSE
4 1 (1.515%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.030%) Basel II
1 2 (3.030%) Basel III
System Software
1 6 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.030%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.515%) vSphere
3 1 (1.515%) XenApp
3 1 (1.515%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (1.515%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 4 (6.061%) SCCM
1 4 (6.061%) SCOM
2 2 (3.030%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.515%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 1 (1.515%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (1.515%) MAILsweeper
3 1 (1.515%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 66 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.091%) Oracle
3 4 (6.061%) Citrix
4 3 (4.545%) VMware
5 2 (3.030%) IBM
5 2 (3.030%) Netezza
6 1 (1.515%) DataSynapse
6 1 (1.515%) LANDesk
6 1 (1.515%) Altiris
6 1 (1.515%) Teradata
6 1 (1.515%) Serena
6 1 (1.515%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.515%) Apple
6 1 (1.515%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.515%) Lotus
6 1 (1.515%) HP
6 1 (1.515%) Intel
6 1 (1.515%) Mercator
6 1 (1.515%) Reuters
6 1 (1.515%) Bloomberg
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