COM Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 - 100 107
Contract jobs citing COM 0 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - 0.187% 0.110%
As % of the Application Development category - 1.176% 0.542%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 3
Average daily rate - £330 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.53%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £400 £375
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-29.03% -11.42%
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 819 425 553
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.05% 15.88% 20.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 181 289
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £214 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 15 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.09% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM
UK

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland COM Hourly Rate Trend

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (20.00%) .NET
4 1 (20.00%) C#
4 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (20.00%) OLAP
4 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
4 1 (20.00%) MS Project
4 1 (20.00%) MS Office
4 1 (20.00%) PeopleSoft
4 1 (20.00%) SAP
4 1 (20.00%) Web Services
4 1 (20.00%) MS Access
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) HTTP
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) OLTP
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Basel II
4 1 (20.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Data Mart
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Web Services
1 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (20.00%) WCF
1 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (20.00%) MS Project
2 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) OLAP
2 1 (20.00%) MS Access
2 1 (20.00%) OLTP
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mart
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Data Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft BI Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ERP
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (20.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (20.00%) Information Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Basel II
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Business Objects
2 1 (20.00%) PeopleSoft
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
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