Worcestershire COM+ Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for COM+ (COM Plus) skills within the Worcestershire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited COM+ over the 3 months to 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

COM+ (COM Plus)
Location Basingstoke Cheshire City of London Coventry East Midlands England Farnham Hampshire Kent Knutsford Leicester Leicestershire London North West Sevenoaks South East Surrey UK Uxbridge West Midlands Worcestershire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£260	£332
% change on same period last year	-21.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£39.00	£42.97
% change on same period last year	-9.22 %
Application Development Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	19	14
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.031 %	0.015 %
Daily rates quoted	3	5
Average minimum daily rate	£303	£225
Average daily rate	£344	£262
% change on same period last year	+31.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£384	£298
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£334
% change on same period last year	-3.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.00	£34.23
Average hourly rate	£34.30	£34.62
% change on same period last year	-0.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.60	£35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.63	£31.54
% change on same period last year	-9.21 %
COM+ West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

COM+
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing COM+ across the Worcestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.