The first table below looks at the demand for DCOM skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DCOM over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
Rank 527 521 565
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +44
Contract jobs citing DCOM 5 24 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.045% 0.026%
As % of the Application Development category 0.041% 0.171% 0.092%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 9
Average daily rate £213 £320 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.59% -39.04%
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £400 £288
% change year-on-year
-46.87% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.50 -
All Application Development
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12120 14009 16221
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 28.01% 26.45% 28.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7804 8578 9744
Average daily rate £375 £363 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -9.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 322 357 519
Average hourly rate £35.00 £33.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
DCOM
UK

DCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England DCOM Jobs Demand Trend

DCOM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DCOM across the England region.

England DCOM Daily Rate Trend

DCOM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DCOM across the England region.

England DCOM Hourly Rate Trend

DCOM
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DCOM within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
London +4 2 £219 -31.64%
South East - - - -
South West - - - -
East of England - - - -
DCOM
UK

DCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing DCOM 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 DCOM.

1 15 (83.33%) C#
2 13 (72.22%) .NET
3 9 (50.00%) Windows
3 9 (50.00%) OO
3 9 (50.00%) Silverlight
4 8 (44.44%) WCF
4 8 (44.44%) Multithreading
4 8 (44.44%) MVVM
4 8 (44.44%) Finance
5 7 (38.89%) MS Excel
5 7 (38.89%) Oracle
6 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
6 6 (33.33%) C++
6 6 (33.33%) Java
6 6 (33.33%) VB
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
6 6 (33.33%) ActiveX
6 6 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (33.33%) Hibernate
6 6 (33.33%) Fixed Income
6 6 (33.33%) WinForms
6 6 (33.33%) Workflow
6 6 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 6 (33.33%) E-Commerce
6 6 (33.33%) Automation Testing
6 6 (33.33%) WPF
6 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
6 6 (33.33%) TDD
6 6 (33.33%) NUnit
6 6 (33.33%) VB6

DCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing DCOM 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 DCOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (72.22%) .NET
2 9 (50.00%) Silverlight
3 8 (44.44%) WCF
4 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 6 (33.33%) ActiveX
4 6 (33.33%) Hibernate
4 6 (33.33%) WinForms
4 6 (33.33%) WPF
5 4 (22.22%) HTML
5 4 (22.22%) XML
6 3 (16.67%) Ajax
6 3 (16.67%) COM
6 3 (16.67%) SOAP
6 3 (16.67%) XSD
6 3 (16.67%) MSMQ
7 2 (11.11%) ASP
7 2 (11.11%) Web Services
7 2 (11.11%) .NET Remoting
8 1 (5.556%) jQuery
8 1 (5.556%) Boost C++ Libraries
Application Platforms
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
1 6 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
2 3 (16.67%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (38.89%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.11%) MS Visio
3 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2000
1 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (11.11%) DTS
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.556%) TOAD
4 1 (5.556%) SQL Navigator
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (5.556%) MS Access
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle 9i
Development Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
1 6 (33.33%) NUnit
2 2 (11.11%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.11%) Subversion
2 2 (11.11%) TortoiseSVN
3 1 (5.556%) JIRA
3 1 (5.556%) ClearQuest
3 1 (5.556%) RequisitePro
3 1 (5.556%) Rational Rose
General
1 8 (44.44%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Front Office
3 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (77.78%) Developer
2 7 (38.89%) C# Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 6 (33.33%) WPF Developer
4 5 (27.78%) C++ Developer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) VB.NET Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) VB.NET Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Analyst Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) Programmer
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Developer
6 1 (5.556%) .NET Consultant
6 1 (5.556%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL Developer
6 1 (5.556%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 6 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (11.11%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.556%) Physics
3 1 (5.556%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) OO
2 8 (44.44%) Multithreading
2 8 (44.44%) MVVM
3 6 (33.33%) Workflow
3 6 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 6 (33.33%) Automation Testing
3 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (33.33%) TDD
4 5 (27.78%) Software Engineering
4 5 (27.78%) Risk Management
5 3 (16.67%) UML
6 2 (11.11%) OOD
6 2 (11.11%) MVC
6 2 (11.11%) Unit Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Integration Testing
7 1 (5.556%) Stress Testing
7 1 (5.556%) Business Development
7 1 (5.556%) RUP
Programming Languages
1 15 (83.33%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) C++
2 6 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (33.33%) VB
2 6 (33.33%) VB6
3 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
4 4 (22.22%) VBA
5 2 (11.11%) T-SQL
5 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
6 1 (5.556%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 7 (38.89%) Oracle
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) Perforce
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Posted: 19 June 2013