The first table below looks at the demand for DCOM skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited DCOM 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.

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
Distributed Component Object Model (DCOM)
Rank 529 557 572
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +15
Contract jobs citing DCOM 5 29 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.049% 0.023%
As % of the Application Development category 0.039% 0.191% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 8
Average daily rate £213 £320 £423
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-33.59% -24.26%
UK excluding London average daily rate £213 £300 £304
% change year-on-year
-29.16% -1.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £31.00 -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12831 15156 16571
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.23% 25.57% 27.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8032 8869 9678
Average daily rate £375 £350 £395
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -11.39%
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 371 395 571
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

DCOM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

DCOM Jobs Demand Trend

DCOM
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing DCOM within the UK.

DCOM Daily Rate Trend

DCOM
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing DCOM within the UK.

DCOM Hourly Rate Trend

DCOM
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing DCOM within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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
England +36 4 £213 -33.59%
London +14 2 £219 -39.23%
Scotland -20 1 - -
Glasgow -20 1 - -
Sunderland - 1 - -
Lancashire - 1 £213 -
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 £213 -
Tyne and Wear - 1 - -

DCOM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DCOM 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 DCOM.

1 24 (80.00%) C#
2 23 (76.67%) .NET
3 17 (56.67%) Finance
4 15 (50.00%) Oracle
4 15 (50.00%) Windows
5 14 (46.67%) OO
5 14 (46.67%) MS Excel
6 13 (43.33%) VB
6 13 (43.33%) Silverlight
6 13 (43.33%) Multithreading
7 12 (40.00%) WCF
7 12 (40.00%) MVVM
7 12 (40.00%) SQL
8 11 (36.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (33.33%) WinForms
9 10 (33.33%) Workflow
9 10 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
9 10 (33.33%) TDD
9 10 (33.33%) NUnit
9 10 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
9 10 (33.33%) Automation Testing
9 10 (33.33%) WPF
9 10 (33.33%) E-Commerce
9 10 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
9 10 (33.33%) Hibernate
9 10 (33.33%) Fixed Income
9 10 (33.33%) Java
9 10 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
10 9 (30.00%) ActiveX
10 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET

DCOM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing DCOM 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 DCOM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (76.67%) .NET
2 13 (43.33%) Silverlight
3 12 (40.00%) WCF
4 10 (33.33%) WinForms
4 10 (33.33%) WPF
4 10 (33.33%) Hibernate
5 9 (30.00%) ActiveX
5 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET
6 7 (23.33%) XML
7 5 (16.67%) HTML
7 5 (16.67%) ODBC
8 4 (13.33%) COM
9 3 (10.00%) Ajax
9 3 (10.00%) ADO
9 3 (10.00%) SOAP
9 3 (10.00%) Web Services
9 3 (10.00%) XSD
10 2 (6.667%) ASP
10 2 (6.667%) STL
10 2 (6.667%) .NET Remoting
Application Platforms
1 10 (33.33%) SharePoint Server
1 10 (33.33%) Oracle Workflow
2 4 (13.33%) IIS
3 3 (10.00%) MSMQ
Applications
1 14 (46.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.667%) MS Office
2 2 (6.667%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 4 (13.33%) MS Access
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (10.00%) DTS
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (6.667%) Oracle 9i
5 2 (6.667%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (6.667%) TOAD
5 2 (6.667%) SQL Navigator
5 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (6.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 10 (33.33%) NUnit
1 10 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
2 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 2 (6.667%) ClearQuest
3 2 (6.667%) RequisitePro
3 2 (6.667%) Rational Rose
3 2 (6.667%) Subversion
3 2 (6.667%) TortoiseSVN
4 1 (3.333%) JIRA
4 1 (3.333%) CruiseControl
4 1 (3.333%) ClearCase
4 1 (3.333%) Log4Cxx
General
1 17 (56.67%) Finance
2 5 (16.67%) Front Office
3 4 (13.33%) Banking
3 4 (13.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (86.67%) Developer
2 14 (46.67%) Senior Developer
3 11 (36.67%) C# Developer
4 10 (33.33%) Senior C# Developer
4 10 (33.33%) WPF Developer
5 6 (20.00%) C++ Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Applications Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Senior Applications Developer
7 3 (10.00%) .NET Developer
7 3 (10.00%) Consultant
8 2 (6.667%) VB.NET Developer
8 2 (6.667%) SQL Developer
8 2 (6.667%) PL/SQL Developer
9 1 (3.333%) VB.NET Programmer
9 1 (3.333%) .NET Analyst Programmer
9 1 (3.333%) Access Developer
9 1 (3.333%) .NET Consultant
9 1 (3.333%) .NET Programmer
9 1 (3.333%) VB.NET Analyst Programmer
9 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (33.33%) Fixed Income
3 2 (6.667%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.333%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.333%) Physics
4 1 (3.333%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.333%) Credit Derivative
4 1 (3.333%) Equities
4 1 (3.333%) Derivative
4 1 (3.333%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (3.333%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) OO
2 13 (43.33%) Multithreading
3 12 (40.00%) MVVM
4 10 (33.33%) Workflow
4 10 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (33.33%) TDD
4 10 (33.33%) Automation Testing
4 10 (33.33%) E-Commerce
5 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 4 (13.33%) UML
6 4 (13.33%) RAD
6 4 (13.33%) Unit Testing
7 3 (10.00%) OOD
8 2 (6.667%) RUP
8 2 (6.667%) MVC
8 2 (6.667%) Business Development
8 2 (6.667%) Time Management
8 2 (6.667%) Release Management
8 2 (6.667%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (80.00%) C#
2 13 (43.33%) VB
3 12 (40.00%) SQL
4 10 (33.33%) Java
5 8 (26.67%) C++
5 8 (26.67%) VB6
6 7 (23.33%) VB.NET
7 5 (16.67%) VBA
8 4 (13.33%) JavaScript
8 4 (13.33%) PL/SQL
9 1 (3.333%) PowerShell
9 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
9 1 (3.333%) VC++
Qualifications
1 3 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 15 (50.00%) Oracle
2 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.667%) Perforce
4 1 (3.333%) DataSynapse
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