Reading COM+ Contracts

This section looks at the demand for COM+ (COM Plus) skills within the Reading region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited COM+ over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

COM+ (COM Plus)
Location Abingdon Batley Berkshire Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire City of London Dorset East of England East Yorkshire England Farnham Glasgow Guildford Halifax Hampshire Hull Kent Leeds London Manchester North East North West Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey Thames Valley UK West Yorkshire Weybridge Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£256	£317
% change on same period last year	-19.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.20	£41.96
% change on same period last year	-16.09 %
Application Development Reading
Matching contract IT job ads	243	238
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.324 %	0.241 %
Daily rates quoted	73	77
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£334
Average daily rate	£316	£353
% change on same period last year	-10.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£372
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£336
% change on same period last year	+1.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	19	10
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.29	£29.53
Average hourly rate	£34.03	£29.91
% change on same period last year	+13.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.76	£30.29
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.78	£33.23
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
COM+ Berkshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

COM+
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing COM+ across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

COM+
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing COM+ across the Reading region.

COM+
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing COM+ across the Reading region.