The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 East of England 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 102 129 116
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -13
Contract jobs citing COM 12 3 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.561% 0.102% 0.416%
As % of the Application Development category 1.964% 0.355% 1.421%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 0
Average daily rate £375 £375 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £394 £375
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-36.29% -11.42%
All Application Development
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
611 844 774
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 28.56% 28.56% 29.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 349 436 355
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 59 60
Average hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.66 £27.50 £22.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.40 £42.50 £47.50
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England 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 of England region over the 3 months to 24 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
Essex - 4 £375 -
Cambridgeshire +13 2 £500 +35.13%
Bedfordshire +2 2 £325 -13.33%
Norfolk +1 2 £450 +16.12%
Hertfordshire - 2 £350 -
COM
England

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) MS Excel
3 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 6 (30.00%) Advertising
3 6 (30.00%) Dynamics AX
4 5 (25.00%) Windows
4 5 (25.00%) ERP
4 5 (25.00%) HTTP
5 4 (20.00%) MS Office
6 3 (15.00%) SQL
6 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
6 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (15.00%) Migration
6 3 (15.00%) Legal
6 3 (15.00%) Data Mapping
6 3 (15.00%) Guidewire
7 2 (10.00%) Degree
7 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
7 2 (10.00%) Publishing
7 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) SCCM
7 2 (10.00%) SCOM
7 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
7 2 (10.00%) Project Management
7 2 (10.00%) DNS
7 2 (10.00%) DHCP
7 2 (10.00%) FTP
7 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
7 2 (10.00%) MS Access
7 2 (10.00%) ITIL

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (5.000%) Web Services
1 1 (5.000%) .NET
1 1 (5.000%) WCF
1 1 (5.000%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (10.00%) IIS
2 1 (5.000%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.000%) SugarCRM
2 1 (5.000%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.000%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 9 (45.00%) MS Excel
2 4 (20.00%) MS Office
3 3 (15.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (10.00%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (5.000%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (5.000%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (25.00%) HTTP
2 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
2 2 (10.00%) FTP
3 1 (5.000%) Internet
3 1 (5.000%) Extranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MS Access
General
1 6 (30.00%) Finance
1 6 (30.00%) Advertising
2 3 (15.00%) Legal
3 2 (10.00%) Publishing
4 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.000%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 5 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Dynamics AX Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Wintel Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) CRM Manager
6 1 (5.000%) SharePoint Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Project Manager
6 1 (5.000%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Navision Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (5.000%) CRM Project Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Support Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.000%) NHS
1 1 (5.000%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) ERP
2 3 (15.00%) Migration
2 3 (15.00%) Data Mapping
3 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (10.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (10.00%) Project Management
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL
4 1 (5.000%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.000%) CRM
4 1 (5.000%) Time Management
4 1 (5.000%) Use Case
4 1 (5.000%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (5.000%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.000%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (5.000%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (5.000%) Software Deployment
4 1 (5.000%) Information Governance
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.000%) C
3 1 (5.000%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.000%) VMware Server
2 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) SCCM
1 2 (10.00%) SCOM
2 1 (5.000%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Guidewire
3 1 (5.000%) Intel
3 1 (5.000%) Citrix
3 1 (5.000%) Salesforce.com
3 1 (5.000%) VMware
3 1 (5.000%) Pega
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