The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COM over the 3 months to 17 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 Surrey 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 79 91 99
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +8
Contract jobs citing COM 3 1 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.243% 0.062% 0.329%
As % of the Application Development category 0.800% 0.246% 1.119%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £225 £150 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -62.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £375
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
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
375 407 536
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 30.32% 25.06% 29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 224 285
Average daily rate £350 £333 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 20 14
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.00 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+12.90% -13.16%
COM
South East

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey 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 Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Dorking - - - -
Guildford - - - - 2
Redhill - - - -
COM
South East

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
3 2 (28.57%) CRM
3 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (28.57%) VB.NET
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) NHS
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (28.57%) Twitter
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Facebook
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Insight
4 1 (14.29%) Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Web Analytics
4 1 (14.29%) Omniture
4 1 (14.29%) Google
4 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
2 1 (14.29%) ASP
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) WinForms
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) HTTPS
2 1 (14.29%) Intranet
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (14.29%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Applications Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Support Specialist
1 2 (28.57%) Applications Support
1 2 (28.57%) Applications Support Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Information Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) DBA
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Web Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Informatics
2 1 (14.29%) Blog
2 1 (14.29%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
1 2 (28.57%) CRM
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
1 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
1 2 (28.57%) Change Control
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Insight
2 1 (14.29%) Analytics
2 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
2 1 (14.29%) Email Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
2 1 (14.29%) Online Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Direct Marketing
2 1 (14.29%) Wealth Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Modelling
2 1 (14.29%) Project Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) SEO
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) VB.NET
3 1 (14.29%) VB6
3 1 (14.29%) VB
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Twitter
3 1 (14.29%) Omniture
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Facebook