The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dorset 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 Dorset 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
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing COM 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 0.461% - -
As % of the Application Development category 2.083% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-29.03% -11.42%
All Application Development
Dorset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
48 67 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dorset 22.12% 24.01% 19.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 40 32
Average daily rate £300 £395 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-24.05% +8.21%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £363 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £450 £408
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 4
Average hourly rate £47.50 £40.00 £41.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -2.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM
South West

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dorset 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 Dorset region.

Dorset COM Daily Rate Trend

COM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COM within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Poole - 1 - -
COM
South West

COM
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) MS Access
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dorset 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.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MS Access
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VBA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft