Home Counties COM+ Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for COM+ (COM Plus) skills within the Home Counties region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited COM+ over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

COM+ (COM Plus)
Location Cheshire City of London Dorset England Farnham Home Counties Kent Knutsford London Midlands North West Poole Sevenoaks South East South West Surrey UK Uxbridge	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£263	£335
% change on same period last year	-21.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	£44.20
% change on same period last year	-
Application Development Home Counties
Matching contract IT job ads	20	45
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	7	9
Average minimum daily rate	£493	£384
Average daily rate	£496	£393
% change on same period last year	+26.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.97	£31.52
% change on same period last year	-8.10 %
COM+ South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

COM+
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing COM+ across the Home Counties region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.