The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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 93 90 90
Rank change year-on-year
-3 0
Contract jobs citing COM 7 9 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.460% 0.567% 0.692%
As % of the Application Development category 1.577% 2.013% 2.495%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
Average daily rate £450 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% +6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
Average hourly rate - £31.00 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -13.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-36.29% -11.42%
All Application Development
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
444 447 521
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 29.15% 28.18% 27.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 195 212
Average daily rate £350 £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% +1.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £463 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 51 72
Average hourly rate £39.00 £37.50 £36.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +2.73%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.13 £19.00 £33.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM
South East

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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
Andover - 2 £575 -
Southampton - 1 - -
COM
South East

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle
3 7 (77.78%) MS Excel
4 6 (66.67%) ITIL
4 6 (66.67%) Linux
5 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
5 5 (55.56%) VMware
5 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
6 4 (44.44%) Information Security
6 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
6 4 (44.44%) Windows
6 4 (44.44%) PRINCE2
6 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
6 4 (44.44%) LAN
6 4 (44.44%) WAN
6 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
6 4 (44.44%) HP
7 3 (33.33%) UNIX
7 3 (33.33%) SQL
7 3 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
7 3 (33.33%) Cisco
7 3 (33.33%) SAN
7 3 (33.33%) Migration
7 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
7 3 (33.33%) IPsec
7 3 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
7 3 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
7 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 2 (22.22%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) GlassFish
1 2 (22.22%) Apache
1 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
1 2 (22.22%) IIS
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle Coherence
Applications
1 7 (77.78%) MS Excel
2 1 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (11.11%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) LAN
1 4 (44.44%) WAN
2 3 (33.33%) SAN
2 3 (33.33%) IPsec
3 2 (22.22%) GPRS
3 2 (22.22%) SSL
3 2 (22.22%) 3G
3 2 (22.22%) Wireless
3 2 (22.22%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) LDAP
3 2 (22.22%) PSTN
3 2 (22.22%) VoIP
4 1 (11.11%) ATM
4 1 (11.11%) Broadband
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) IPv6
4 1 (11.11%) DMZ
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) SQL Server
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (33.33%) Oracle 11g
2 3 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle OWB
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (22.22%) Oracle 10g
3 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle APEX
1 2 (22.22%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (11.11%) Military
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
1 1 (11.11%) Avionics
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Test Consultant
2 2 (22.22%) Architect
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architect
3 1 (11.11%) DBA
3 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Writer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Management Information System
2 2 (22.22%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (66.67%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (44.44%) Risk Management
2 4 (44.44%) Information Security
2 4 (44.44%) Configuration Management
2 4 (44.44%) PRINCE2
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Management
4 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 2 (22.22%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Identity Management
5 1 (11.11%) UML
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security Management
5 1 (11.11%) Security Management
5 1 (11.11%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Data Management
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Perl
2 2 (22.22%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) DV Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (22.22%) ISEB
3 1 (11.11%) CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) HP AIS
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (33.33%) Oracle RAC
4 2 (22.22%) Terminal Services
5 1 (11.11%) ISA Server
5 1 (11.11%) Xen
5 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
5 1 (11.11%) Shibboleth
5 1 (11.11%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (11.11%) SCOM
2 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle
3 5 (55.56%) VMware
4 4 (44.44%) HP
5 3 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 3 (33.33%) Cisco
6 2 (22.22%) Juniper
7 1 (11.11%) JBoss
7 1 (11.11%) Remedy
7 1 (11.11%) BMC
7 1 (11.11%) 3PAR
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