The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester 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
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 71 86 68
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -18
Contract jobs citing COM 4 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.425% 0.152% 0.098%
As % of the Application Development category 1.375% 0.510% 0.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £213 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -57.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £19.75 £17.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.17% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-29.03% -11.42%
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
291 392 287
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.89% 29.86% 28.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 230 156
Average daily rate £290 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 12
Average hourly rate £21.00 £17.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -36.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £15.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £160.50 £33.32 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM
North West

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester COM Hourly Rate Trend

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (22.22%) OLAP
4 2 (22.22%) MS Office
4 2 (22.22%) .NET
4 2 (22.22%) HTTP
4 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
5 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
5 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
5 1 (11.11%) SAS
5 1 (11.11%) ADSL
5 1 (11.11%) LAN
5 1 (11.11%) WAN
5 1 (11.11%) VMS
5 1 (11.11%) DHCP
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
5 1 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (11.11%) DNS
5 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco
5 1 (11.11%) Oracle
5 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
5 1 (11.11%) CRM
5 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
2 1 (11.11%) ADO.NET
2 1 (11.11%) DCOM
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) XSL
2 1 (11.11%) ODBC
2 1 (11.11%) ActiveX
2 1 (11.11%) OLE
2 1 (11.11%) XBRL
2 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
2 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 1 (11.11%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (55.56%) MS Excel
2 2 (22.22%) MS Office
3 1 (11.11%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
2 1 (11.11%) ADSL
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
2 1 (11.11%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) OLAP
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (11.11%) Base SAS
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (22.22%) Administrator
2 2 (22.22%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Project Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) Network Administrator
3 1 (11.11%) SQL Developer
3 1 (11.11%) VBA Developer
3 1 (11.11%) SAS Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence Architect
3 1 (11.11%) CRM Developer
3 1 (11.11%) Server Technician
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) NHS
1 1 (11.11%) Grid Computing
1 1 (11.11%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
3 1 (11.11%) VMS
3 1 (11.11%) UNIX
3 1 (11.11%) AIX
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Vista
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) CRM
1 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
1 1 (11.11%) Release Management
1 1 (11.11%) Time Management
1 1 (11.11%) Change Management
1 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) T-SQL
2 1 (11.11%) VB
2 1 (11.11%) VBA
2 1 (11.11%) VC++
2 1 (11.11%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (11.11%) MCSE
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) CCDP
2 1 (11.11%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Basel II
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 1 (11.11%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Cisco
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) Veritas
2 1 (11.11%) Symantec
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (11.11%) Kaspersky
2 1 (11.11%) Twitter