The first table below looks at the demand for COM+ skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. 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.

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
COM+ (COM Plus)
Rank 520 536 545
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +9
Contract jobs citing COM+ 21 34 56
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.044% 0.059% 0.090%
As % of the Application Development category 0.157% 0.228% 0.325%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 17
Average daily rate £475 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.66% +7.14%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £375 £350
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -41.17%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £42.50
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
13369 14943 17245
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.79% 25.75% 27.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8406 8920 10221
Average daily rate £375 £353 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -11.87%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 342 381 538
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £17.50 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £31.50 £35.70
% change year-on-year
+11.11% -11.76%

COM+
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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+ within the UK.

COM+ Daily Rate Trend

COM+
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COM+ within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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+ within the UK.

COM+ Hourly Rate Trend

COM+
Top 19 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 UK over the 3 months to 19 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
London +24 20 £475 +26.66% 1
England +4 20 £475 +28.81% 1
East of England - - - -
Cirencester - - - -
Erith - - - - 1
Hertford - - - -
Leeds - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Thames Ditton - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Staffordshire - - - -
Surrey - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
North West - - - -
South East - - - -
South West - - - -
West Midlands - - - -

COM+
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 56 (64.37%) Microsoft
2 48 (55.17%) XML
3 46 (52.87%) Windows
4 42 (48.28%) VB
5 41 (47.13%) .NET
5 41 (47.13%) IIS
6 40 (45.98%) Firewall
7 39 (44.83%) SQL Server
8 38 (43.68%) XSLT
9 37 (42.53%) SOAP
9 37 (42.53%) TCP/IP
10 36 (41.38%) ASP
11 35 (40.23%) C#
12 34 (39.08%) Apache
12 34 (39.08%) VB6
13 33 (37.93%) Perl
14 32 (36.78%) Java
14 32 (36.78%) UNIX
14 32 (36.78%) Linux
14 32 (36.78%) WebSphere Application Server
14 32 (36.78%) JBoss
14 32 (36.78%) LDAP
14 32 (36.78%) E-Commerce
14 32 (36.78%) Windows XP
14 32 (36.78%) Citrix
14 32 (36.78%) Red Hat
14 32 (36.78%) BIG-IP
14 32 (36.78%) PKI
14 32 (36.78%) WebSphere
14 32 (36.78%) Java EE

COM+
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 48 (55.17%) XML
2 41 (47.13%) .NET
3 38 (43.68%) XSLT
4 37 (42.53%) SOAP
5 36 (41.38%) ASP
6 32 (36.78%) WebSphere
6 32 (36.78%) Java EE
7 26 (29.89%) ASP.NET
8 20 (22.99%) WCF
9 18 (20.69%) Web Services
10 13 (14.94%) MSMQ
11 11 (12.64%) jQuery
11 11 (12.64%) DHTML
11 11 (12.64%) HTML
12 8 (9.195%) NHibernate
13 7 (8.046%) LINQ
13 7 (8.046%) XSL
14 6 (6.897%) ADO.NET
15 5 (5.747%) WPF
15 5 (5.747%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 41 (47.13%) IIS
2 34 (39.08%) Apache
3 32 (36.78%) WebSphere Application Server
4 8 (9.195%) SharePoint
4 8 (9.195%) MTS
5 5 (5.747%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (2.299%) CMS
Applications
1 23 (26.44%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 40 (45.98%) Firewall
2 37 (42.53%) TCP/IP
3 32 (36.78%) LDAP
3 32 (36.78%) BIG-IP
3 32 (36.78%) NetScaler
4 8 (9.195%) LAN
4 8 (9.195%) WAN
5 5 (5.747%) SAN
5 5 (5.747%) NetScreen
6 3 (3.448%) DNS
7 1 (1.149%) Internet
7 1 (1.149%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (44.83%) SQL Server
2 25 (28.74%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (16.09%) SQL Server 2000
4 11 (12.64%) SQL Server 2005
5 7 (8.046%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (6.897%) DTS
7 4 (4.598%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (9.195%) Subversion
1 8 (9.195%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 8 (9.195%) JIRA
2 5 (5.747%) Rhino Mocks
2 5 (5.747%) NUnit
3 4 (4.598%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.448%) MSBuild
General
1 9 (10.34%) Finance
2 4 (4.598%) Banking
3 1 (1.149%) Investment Banking
3 1 (1.149%) Back Office
3 1 (1.149%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 32 (36.78%) Developer
2 22 (25.29%) Support Engineer
2 22 (25.29%) Senior Support Engineer
3 15 (17.24%) .NET Developer
4 10 (11.49%) Security Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Firewall Engineer
4 10 (11.49%) Web Engineer
5 7 (8.046%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (8.046%) ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (8.046%) C# Developer
6 6 (6.897%) VB Developer
6 6 (6.897%) Analyst
6 6 (6.897%) Team Leader
6 6 (6.897%) SQL Developer
7 5 (5.747%) C# ASP.NET Developer
7 5 (5.747%) SQL Server Developer
7 5 (5.747%) Infrastructure Architect
7 5 (5.747%) Technical Leader
7 5 (5.747%) Architect
8 4 (4.598%) Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 32 (36.78%) PKI
2 5 (5.747%) W3C
3 2 (2.299%) N-Tier
4 1 (1.149%) Clustering
4 1 (1.149%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 46 (52.87%) Windows
2 32 (36.78%) UNIX
2 32 (36.78%) Linux
2 32 (36.78%) Windows XP
2 32 (36.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 12 (13.79%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (10.34%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (5.747%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.149%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (36.78%) E-Commerce
2 22 (25.29%) Time Management
2 22 (25.29%) Change Control
3 11 (12.64%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (8.046%) SOA
5 6 (6.897%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (4.598%) Project Management
6 4 (4.598%) UML
6 4 (4.598%) Web Development
6 4 (4.598%) Use Case
6 4 (4.598%) Unit Testing
6 4 (4.598%) Investment Management
7 3 (3.448%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (3.448%) MVC
7 3 (3.448%) Risk Management
8 2 (2.299%) Regression Testing
8 2 (2.299%) Asset Management
8 2 (2.299%) TDD
8 2 (2.299%) Data Modelling
8 2 (2.299%) OO
Programming Languages
1 42 (48.28%) VB
2 35 (40.23%) C#
3 34 (39.08%) VB6
4 33 (37.93%) Perl
5 32 (36.78%) Java
6 26 (29.89%) SQL
7 15 (17.24%) JavaScript
8 14 (16.09%) T-SQL
9 10 (11.49%) VBScript
10 8 (9.195%) VB.NET
11 2 (2.299%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (11.49%) GIAC
1 10 (11.49%) GWAPT
1 10 (11.49%) GPEN
2 5 (5.747%) MCITP
2 5 (5.747%) MCTS
2 5 (5.747%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (5.747%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (5.747%) CCNA
2 5 (5.747%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (3.448%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.448%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.149%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.448%) QA
System Software
1 5 (5.747%) vSphere
1 5 (5.747%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.448%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.747%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 56 (64.37%) Microsoft
2 32 (36.78%) JBoss
2 32 (36.78%) Citrix
2 32 (36.78%) Red Hat
2 32 (36.78%) F5
3 10 (11.49%) Imperva
4 9 (10.34%) Oracle
5 5 (5.747%) Cisco
5 5 (5.747%) EMC
5 5 (5.747%) VMware
6 2 (2.299%) EPiServer
7 1 (1.149%) Sybase
7 1 (1.149%) BT
7 1 (1.149%) InterSystems
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