COM Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 North West 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 109 123 128
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +5
Contract jobs citing COM 8 9 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.348% 0.284% 0.130%
As % of the Application Development category 1.276% 0.957% 0.535%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
Average daily rate £213 £275 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.72% -38.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £375 £375
% change year-on-year
-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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 627 940 748
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 27.30% 29.68% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 521 431
Average daily rate £302 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.23% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £233
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 28 24
Average hourly rate £30.00 £19.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.84% -29.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £145.42 £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
England

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Manchester +13 4 - -
Lancashire - 1 £213 -
COM
England

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 22 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (50.00%) Windows
3 7 (31.82%) MS Excel
4 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
4 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
4 5 (22.73%) MS Exchange
4 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (18.18%) Finance
5 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
5 4 (18.18%) HTTP
5 4 (18.18%) .NET
5 4 (18.18%) MS Office
5 4 (18.18%) SQL
6 3 (13.64%) Citrix
6 3 (13.64%) Windows 7
7 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
7 2 (9.091%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (9.091%) NHS
7 2 (9.091%) Internet
7 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (9.091%) Banking
7 2 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (9.091%) Windows Vista
7 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (9.091%) MS Project
7 2 (9.091%) Cisco
7 2 (9.091%) VPN

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 2 (9.091%) Web Services
2 2 (9.091%) XML
2 2 (9.091%) ActiveX
2 2 (9.091%) DCOM
3 1 (4.545%) SOAP
3 1 (4.545%) HTML
3 1 (4.545%) XBRL
3 1 (4.545%) OLE
3 1 (4.545%) Ajax
3 1 (4.545%) .NET Remoting
3 1 (4.545%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.545%) WCF
3 1 (4.545%) Silverlight
3 1 (4.545%) XSD
3 1 (4.545%) XSL
3 1 (4.545%) ODBC
3 1 (4.545%) ADO
3 1 (4.545%) ADO.NET
3 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) MS Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.545%) IIS
3 1 (4.545%) MSMQ
3 1 (4.545%) SAS
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (4.545%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) MS Excel
2 4 (18.18%) MS Office
3 2 (9.091%) MS Project
4 1 (4.545%) MS Visio
4 1 (4.545%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (4.545%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.545%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (18.18%) HTTP
2 2 (9.091%) LAN
2 2 (9.091%) WAN
2 2 (9.091%) VPN
2 2 (9.091%) Internet
3 1 (4.545%) MPLS
3 1 (4.545%) NetScreen
3 1 (4.545%) DNS
3 1 (4.545%) DHCP
3 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.545%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.091%) OLAP
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (4.545%) Base SAS
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.545%) Subversion
2 1 (4.545%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Administrator
3 2 (9.091%) Operations Manager
3 2 (9.091%) Consultant
3 2 (9.091%) IT Operations Manager
3 2 (9.091%) Applications Packager
4 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (4.545%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence Architect
4 1 (4.545%) CRM Developer
4 1 (4.545%) Server Technician
4 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Specialist
4 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support Technician
4 1 (4.545%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Support Technician
4 1 (4.545%) Support Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Architect
4 1 (4.545%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.545%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) NHS
2 1 (4.545%) Grid Computing
2 1 (4.545%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (13.64%) Windows 7
4 2 (9.091%) Windows Vista
4 2 (9.091%) Windows XP
5 1 (4.545%) VMS
5 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (4.545%) AIX
5 1 (4.545%) UNIX
5 1 (4.545%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (9.091%) ITIL
1 2 (9.091%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (4.545%) Project Management
2 1 (4.545%) Change Management
2 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2
2 1 (4.545%) UML
2 1 (4.545%) CRM
2 1 (4.545%) E-Commerce
2 1 (4.545%) ERP
2 1 (4.545%) MVC
2 1 (4.545%) Migration
2 1 (4.545%) Business Analysis
2 1 (4.545%) Project Planning
2 1 (4.545%) Web Development
2 1 (4.545%) Resource Management
2 1 (4.545%) Release Management
2 1 (4.545%) Integration Testing
2 1 (4.545%) Time Management
2 1 (4.545%) MVVM
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (9.091%) VB
2 2 (9.091%) VBA
3 1 (4.545%) VC++
3 1 (4.545%) VB6
3 1 (4.545%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.545%) C#
3 1 (4.545%) C++
3 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.545%) MCITP
2 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (4.545%) MCSE
2 1 (4.545%) CCNP
2 1 (4.545%) CCDP
2 1 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) SLA
1 1 (4.545%) Basel II
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.091%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.545%) XenApp
3 1 (4.545%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (4.545%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (4.545%) SCCM
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Citrix
3 2 (9.091%) Oracle
3 2 (9.091%) Cisco
4 1 (4.545%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (4.545%) SAP
4 1 (4.545%) Cognos
4 1 (4.545%) Juniper
4 1 (4.545%) Epicor
4 1 (4.545%) NetApp
4 1 (4.545%) Veritas
4 1 (4.545%) JD Edwards
4 1 (4.545%) Symantec
4 1 (4.545%) Kaspersky
4 1 (4.545%) Twitter
2nd / 3rd Line Infra Anaylst - Cheshire - Contract
Cheshire, North West
Essential Experience - Microsoft IIS Experience - Windows Server 2003/2008 - Exchange 2003/2007 - Active Directory - Network maintenance, switches, firewalls, routers, lan and wan - Internet, Wi-fi, systems integrity/security...
Computer Futures
Posted: 16 May 2013
About us| Contact us| Copyright| Disclaimer| Privacy Policy & Cookies
Last Updated Friday 17 May 2013
IT Jobs Watch, Tracking the IT Job Market
Copyright © 2004-2013 Paradigm Software (UK) Limited. All rights reserved.