COM Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited COM over the 3 months to 24 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 West Midlands 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 90 98 93
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -5
Contract jobs citing COM 5 5 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.306% 0.223% 0.476%
As % of the Application Development category 1.295% 0.929% 1.911%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
Average daily rate £311 £463 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-32.70% +23.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £433 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £452 £493 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £394 £375
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £11.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.75 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-36.29% -11.42%
Search 36 COM jobs in the West Midlands
All Application Development
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category		 386 538 471
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 23.64% 24.00% 24.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 293 255
Average daily rate £300 £300 £318
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 22
Average hourly rate £28.50 £17.50 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+62.85% -4.10%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £12.50 £11.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.00 £40.00 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
COM
England

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands COM Daily Rate Trend

COM
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing COM across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham +15 3 £488 -2.50%
Staffordshire +13 1 £135 -68.23%
COM
England

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 16 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (43.75%) SQL
3 5 (31.25%) .NET
3 5 (31.25%) HTTP
4 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (25.00%) Windows
4 4 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (18.75%) Finance
5 3 (18.75%) ERP
5 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (18.75%) VMware
6 2 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (12.50%) Citrix
6 2 (12.50%) NetApp
6 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
6 2 (12.50%) CRM
6 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
6 2 (12.50%) VBA
6 2 (12.50%) Java
6 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
6 2 (12.50%) MS Office
6 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
6 2 (12.50%) ASP
6 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
6 2 (12.50%) XML
6 2 (12.50%) XSLT

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands 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 5 (31.25%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) ASP
2 2 (12.50%) ASP.NET
2 2 (12.50%) XML
2 2 (12.50%) XSLT
3 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.250%) MDX
3 1 (6.250%) CGI
3 1 (6.250%) WCF
3 1 (6.250%) WPF
3 1 (6.250%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (6.250%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.250%) Lync
2 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) MS Office
3 1 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (6.250%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (25.00%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (6.250%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) HTTP
2 1 (6.250%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (18.75%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Advertising
3 1 (6.250%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) .NET Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Dynamics AX Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Business Developer
4 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (6.250%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (6.250%) SQL Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Cognos Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 1 (6.250%) ERP Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Systems Integrator
4 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) ERP Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Client/Server
2 1 (6.250%) Informatics
2 1 (6.250%) N-Tier
2 1 (6.250%) NHS
2 1 (6.250%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) ERP
1 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (12.50%) CRM
2 2 (12.50%) PRINCE2
3 1 (6.250%) Project Management
3 1 (6.250%) Service Delivery
3 1 (6.250%) Regression Testing
3 1 (6.250%) Risk Management
3 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.250%) Information Management
3 1 (6.250%) Data Analysis
3 1 (6.250%) Logistics
3 1 (6.250%) OO
3 1 (6.250%) Data Modelling
3 1 (6.250%) OOD
3 1 (6.250%) ETL
3 1 (6.250%) PRINCE
3 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.250%) Test Scripting
3 1 (6.250%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
2 2 (12.50%) VBA
2 2 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (6.250%) C#
3 1 (6.250%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
1 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) QA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.250%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.250%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (18.75%) VMware
3 2 (12.50%) Citrix
3 2 (12.50%) NetApp
4 1 (6.250%) Cognos
4 1 (6.250%) Intel
4 1 (6.250%) DevExpress
4 1 (6.250%) Teradata
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