The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COM 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 for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 92 75 72
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -3
Permanent jobs citing COM 3 10 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 0.275% 1.029% 0.237%
As % of the Application Development category 0.971% 2.494% 0.617%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 2
Average salary £35,750 £53,750 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.48% +47.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,350 £32,500 £29,700
10% offered a salary of more than £41,150 £77,500 £43,300
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
309 401 324
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 28.37% 41.26% 38.34%
Number of salaries quoted 282 340 314
Average salary £41,000 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £25,600
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COM
East of England

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire COM Jobs Demand Trend

COM
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing COM across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire COM Salary Trend

COM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COM across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Bedfordshire COM Salary Histogram

COM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COM within the Bedfordshire region 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable - 1 £29,000 -
Luton - 1 - -
COM
East of England

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited COM.

1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
3 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
3 2 (28.57%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) vSphere
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) IIS
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (28.57%) ITIL
3 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 2 (28.57%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (14.29%) Internet
4 1 (14.29%) Smartcard
4 1 (14.29%) Symantec
4 1 (14.29%) X.509
4 1 (14.29%) CCNA
4 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited COM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) XML
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) iSCSI
2 2 (28.57%) HTTP
3 1 (14.29%) Internet
3 1 (14.29%) X.509
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
3 1 (14.29%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
1 1 (14.29%) NUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
1 1 (14.29%) Rhino Mocks
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) MSBuild
1 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Advertising
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Security Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) SharePoint Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Security Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Smartcard
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) SaaS
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
1 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
1 2 (28.57%) Service Management
1 2 (28.57%) Change Management
1 2 (28.57%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) ERP
2 1 (14.29%) SOA
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) TDD
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
2 1 (14.29%) MVC
2 1 (14.29%) Scrum
2 1 (14.29%) Extreme Programming
2 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 1 (14.29%) Dependency Injection
2 1 (14.29%) BDD
2 1 (14.29%) Change Control
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) CISSP
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) MCSE
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) vSphere
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 2 (28.57%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (14.29%) Symantec
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) Nimsoft
Bedfordshire, South East
MS Dynamics NAV, Functional Consultant, £45k-£50k, Bedfordshire, End UserThis multi million pound end user is urgently requiring an experienced functional consultant to join their team based in...
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
Luton, South East
TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC and iSCSI switching Desirable: Windows Server (up to 2008) including Microsoft Cluster Services, Microsoft IIS web...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Bedfordshire
This exciting brand name in the industry is very passionate about focusing their solutions on Microsoft technology including; ASP.NET, C#, Visual Studio and MVC, which enables them...
Testing Circle Ltd
Salary: From £40,000 to £70,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Luton, South East
Essential: At least 5 years commercial Linux data centre experience Linux server (inc. Apache, mySQL) LAMP TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013