The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COM over the 3 months to 23 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 East Midlands 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 79 83 76
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -7
Contract jobs citing COM 4 1 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.321% 0.073% 0.354%
As % of the Application Development category 1.223% 0.281% 1.502%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
Average daily rate £381 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.75% -
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 £19.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-36.29% -11.42%
All Application Development
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
327 356 333
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 26.22% 25.85% 23.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 186 120
Average daily rate £310 £275 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.72% -5.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £225 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £405 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 38
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £33.63
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -74.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM
England

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

East Midlands 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 East Midlands region.

East Midlands COM Hourly 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 23 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
Derbyshire +14 1 £475 -5.00%
Leicestershire - 1 £425 -
Lincolnshire - 1 £338 -
COM
England

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (50.00%) Advertising
3 4 (40.00%) Dynamics AX
4 3 (30.00%) Finance
4 3 (30.00%) Dynamics NAV
4 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
4 3 (30.00%) ERP
5 2 (20.00%) MS Office
5 2 (20.00%) HTTP
5 2 (20.00%) Windows
5 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 2 (20.00%) QA
6 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
6 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (10.00%) Information Management
6 1 (10.00%) Marketing
6 1 (10.00%) Informatics
6 1 (10.00%) VMware
6 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
6 1 (10.00%) Clustering
6 1 (10.00%) DNS
6 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
6 1 (10.00%) HP
6 1 (10.00%) NHS
6 1 (10.00%) PRINCE

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 (10.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (20.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (30.00%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 5 (50.00%) Advertising
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics AX Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics NAV Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Project Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Project Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) HTML Developer
4 1 (10.00%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Developer
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Informatics
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ERP
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Information Management
3 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) VMware
2 1 (10.00%) HP
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