The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COM over the 3 months to 17 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 Kent 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing COM 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.654% - -
As % of the Application Development category 2.632% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.66% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-29.03% -11.42%
All Application Development
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
76 63 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 24.84% 23.77% 24.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 28 50
Average daily rate £298 £300 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% +3.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £325 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
Average hourly rate £17.50 - £11.20
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 Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent COM Daily Rate Trend

COM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent COM Hourly Rate Trend

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) NHS
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) Advertising
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (25.00%) PKI
3 1 (25.00%) SCOM
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
3 1 (25.00%) IPv6
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) VBScript
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) ITIL
3 1 (25.00%) MCP
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) LAN
1 1 (25.00%) WLAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) IPv6
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
General
1 1 (25.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Manager
2 1 (25.00%) IT Support
2 1 (25.00%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) VMware