The first table below looks at the demand for DCOM 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 DCOM 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing DCOM 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
-29.16% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 -
All Application Development
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
280 392 290
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 30.63% 30.13% 27.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 234 158
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 £185
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 18 12 14
Average hourly rate £33.00 £16.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.25% -41.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £14.50 £16.00
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%
DCOM
North West

DCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester DCOM Jobs Demand Trend

DCOM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DCOM across the Manchester region.

Manchester DCOM Daily Rate Trend

DCOM
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing DCOM 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 DCOM.

1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSL
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) VC++
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Finance

DCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing DCOM 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 DCOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) ADO.NET
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSL
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
1 1 (100.00%) ActiveX
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VC++
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft