The first table below looks at the demand for COM+ skills in IT contracts advertised for the Glasgow 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 Glasgow 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
COM+ (COM Plus)
Rank 79 53 48
Rank change year-on-year
-26 -5
Contract jobs citing COM+ 3 4 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.317% 0.517% 2.119%
As % of the Application Development category 0.685% 2.151% 5.682%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
Average daily rate £300 £400 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +19.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - £42.50
All Application Development
Glasgow
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
438 186 264
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Glasgow 46.30% 24.06% 37.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 78 152
Average daily rate £338 £285 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.42% -18.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £235 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
Average hourly rate £45.00 £22.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% +28.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM+
Scotland

COM+
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow 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 Glasgow region.

Glasgow COM+ Daily Rate Trend

COM+
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 6 (100.00%) C#
1 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) SOAP
2 5 (83.33%) WPF
3 4 (66.67%) VB
3 4 (66.67%) VB6
4 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
4 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (33.33%) WCF
5 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
5 2 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (33.33%) WinForms
6 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (16.67%) QA
6 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
6 1 (16.67%) SQL
6 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
6 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
6 1 (16.67%) Multithreading

COM+
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Glasgow 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 6 (100.00%) .NET
2 5 (83.33%) SOAP
2 5 (83.33%) WPF
3 3 (50.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
4 2 (33.33%) WCF
4 2 (33.33%) ASP.NET
4 2 (33.33%) WinForms
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Developer
2 3 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 3 (50.00%) C# Developer
2 3 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
3 1 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
1 1 (16.67%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) C#
2 4 (66.67%) VB
2 4 (66.67%) VB6
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft