The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COM over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Middlesex 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank - - 36
Contract jobs citing COM 0 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex - - 1.053%
As % of the Application Development category - - 5.000%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £373 £375
% change year-on-year
+0.67% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-8.06% -11.42%
All Application Development
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
30 41 80
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 15.08% 14.19% 21.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 36
Average daily rate £325 £350 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -22.22%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £19.52 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+92.11% -32.68%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%
COM
South East

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex COM Daily Rate Trend

COM
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) Acrobat
1 1 (100.00%) SAP BI
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (100.00%) SAP BI
1 1 (100.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Crystal Reports Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Report Developer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Business Objects
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Adobe