The first table below looks at the demand for COM+ skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COM+ over the 3 months to 22 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 London 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
COM+ (COM Plus)
Rank 363 396 400
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +4
Contract jobs citing COM+ 24 22 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.109% 0.080% 0.108%
As % of the Application Development category 0.376% 0.287% 0.352%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 16 21
Average daily rate £475 £438 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% +2.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £54.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -54.12%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 - £42.50
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6387 7659 9377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.04% 28.01% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4619 5048 6312
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 106 136
Average hourly rate £41.50 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.05% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM+
England

COM+
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London 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 London region.

London 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 London region over the 3 months to 22 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
City of London +7 1 £550 +10.00%
COM+
England

COM+
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 38 (90.48%) XML
1 38 (90.48%) Microsoft
2 37 (88.10%) Windows
3 36 (85.71%) XSLT
4 32 (76.19%) Apache
4 32 (76.19%) IIS
4 32 (76.19%) Firewall
5 31 (73.81%) Citrix
5 31 (73.81%) Red Hat
5 31 (73.81%) E-Commerce
5 31 (73.81%) Windows XP
5 31 (73.81%) LDAP
5 31 (73.81%) TCP/IP
5 31 (73.81%) WebSphere Application Server
5 31 (73.81%) Java
5 31 (73.81%) Perl
5 31 (73.81%) JBoss
5 31 (73.81%) Linux
5 31 (73.81%) UNIX
5 31 (73.81%) SOAP
5 31 (73.81%) BIG-IP
5 31 (73.81%) PKI
5 31 (73.81%) WebSphere
5 31 (73.81%) Java EE
5 31 (73.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 31 (73.81%) F5
5 31 (73.81%) NetScaler
6 21 (50.00%) Change Control
6 21 (50.00%) Time Management
6 21 (50.00%) MS Excel

COM+
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 38 (90.48%) XML
2 36 (85.71%) XSLT
3 31 (73.81%) SOAP
3 31 (73.81%) WebSphere
3 31 (73.81%) Java EE
4 15 (35.71%) Web Services
5 9 (21.43%) ASP
5 9 (21.43%) .NET
6 7 (16.67%) WCF
7 6 (14.29%) ASP.NET
8 5 (11.90%) CSS
8 5 (11.90%) HTML
8 5 (11.90%) ADO.NET
8 5 (11.90%) Ajax
8 5 (11.90%) JSON
8 5 (11.90%) jQuery
9 4 (9.524%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
9 4 (9.524%) .NET Framework
10 3 (7.143%) ASP.NET MVC 2
11 2 (4.762%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 32 (76.19%) Apache
1 32 (76.19%) IIS
2 31 (73.81%) WebSphere Application Server
3 6 (14.29%) MSMQ
4 2 (4.762%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.381%) MTS
Applications
1 21 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 32 (76.19%) Firewall
2 31 (73.81%) LDAP
2 31 (73.81%) TCP/IP
2 31 (73.81%) BIG-IP
2 31 (73.81%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.381%) LAN
3 1 (2.381%) WAN
3 1 (2.381%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (19.05%) SQL Server
2 7 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (14.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (14.29%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (2.381%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (11.90%) NUnit
1 5 (11.90%) Rhino Mocks
2 4 (9.524%) Visual Studio
3 3 (7.143%) MSBuild
4 1 (2.381%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (2.381%) Subversion
4 1 (2.381%) JIRA
General
1 2 (4.762%) Banking
2 1 (2.381%) Finance
2 1 (2.381%) Back Office
2 1 (2.381%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 21 (50.00%) Senior Support Engineer
1 21 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Security Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Firewall Engineer
2 10 (23.81%) Web Engineer
3 4 (9.524%) Developer
3 4 (9.524%) Analyst
3 4 (9.524%) Analyst Programmer
3 4 (9.524%) Programmer
4 3 (7.143%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (7.143%) Senior Analyst Programmer
4 3 (7.143%) Senior Programmer
5 2 (4.762%) .NET Programmer
5 2 (4.762%) .NET Analyst Programmer
5 2 (4.762%) .NET Developer
6 1 (2.381%) C++ Developer
6 1 (2.381%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.381%) Senior Developer
6 1 (2.381%) Applications Support
6 1 (2.381%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 31 (73.81%) PKI
2 5 (11.90%) W3C
3 1 (2.381%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 37 (88.10%) Windows
2 31 (73.81%) Windows XP
2 31 (73.81%) Linux
2 31 (73.81%) UNIX
2 31 (73.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (9.524%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (73.81%) E-Commerce
2 21 (50.00%) Change Control
2 21 (50.00%) Time Management
3 4 (9.524%) Use Case
3 4 (9.524%) UML
4 3 (7.143%) MVC
4 3 (7.143%) Unit Testing
4 3 (7.143%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (7.143%) Project Management
5 2 (4.762%) TDD
5 2 (4.762%) Data Modelling
5 2 (4.762%) OO
6 1 (2.381%) Regression Testing
6 1 (2.381%) SOA
6 1 (2.381%) Web Development
6 1 (2.381%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (2.381%) Dependency Injection
6 1 (2.381%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (2.381%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 31 (73.81%) Java
1 31 (73.81%) Perl
2 9 (21.43%) VB
3 8 (19.05%) C#
3 8 (19.05%) VB6
4 5 (11.90%) JavaScript
4 5 (11.90%) VBScript
5 4 (9.524%) SQL
6 1 (2.381%) C++
6 1 (2.381%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (23.81%) GIAC
1 10 (23.81%) GWAPT
1 10 (23.81%) GPEN
2 1 (2.381%) SC Cleared
2 1 (2.381%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.381%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.381%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.381%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 38 (90.48%) Microsoft
2 31 (73.81%) Citrix
2 31 (73.81%) Red Hat
2 31 (73.81%) JBoss
2 31 (73.81%) F5
3 10 (23.81%) Imperva
4 2 (4.762%) Oracle
5 1 (2.381%) BT
5 1 (2.381%) EPiServer