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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 103 121 118
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -3
Permanent jobs citing COM 16 5 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.938% 0.247% 0.238%
As % of the Application Development category 1.860% 0.459% 0.473%
Number of salaries quoted 15 5 4
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -5.55%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Application Development
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
860 1090 1058
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 50.44% 53.77% 50.43%
Number of salaries quoted 806 949 956
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
COM
Cambridgeshire

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge COM Salary Trend

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 22 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 18 (81.82%) C#
3 16 (72.73%) .NET
3 16 (72.73%) MS Excel
4 15 (68.18%) Finance
4 15 (68.18%) Computer Science
5 14 (63.64%) WCF
5 14 (63.64%) WPF
5 14 (63.64%) Degree
5 14 (63.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (63.64%) ASP.NET
5 14 (63.64%) DCOM
5 14 (63.64%) Web Services
5 14 (63.64%) SQL
6 6 (27.27%) Windows
7 5 (22.73%) UNIX
8 4 (18.18%) Perl
8 4 (18.18%) Python
9 3 (13.64%) Bash shell
9 3 (13.64%) C++
9 3 (13.64%) Java
9 3 (13.64%) MFC
9 3 (13.64%) UML
10 2 (9.091%) Oracle
10 2 (9.091%) Linux
10 2 (9.091%) IIS
10 2 (9.091%) DNS
10 2 (9.091%) Dutch Language
11 1 (4.545%) Finnish Language
11 1 (4.545%) Norwegian Language

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 16 (72.73%) .NET
2 14 (63.64%) WCF
2 14 (63.64%) WPF
2 14 (63.64%) ASP.NET
2 14 (63.64%) DCOM
2 14 (63.64%) Web Services
3 3 (13.64%) MFC
4 1 (4.545%) WebSphere
4 1 (4.545%) JRules
4 1 (4.545%) WebCenter
4 1 (4.545%) ASP
4 1 (4.545%) WebSphere MQ
4 1 (4.545%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.091%) IIS
2 1 (4.545%) WebSphere Message Broker
2 1 (4.545%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.545%) WebLogic
Applications
1 16 (72.73%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (4.545%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (4.545%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) DNS
2 1 (4.545%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (4.545%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.545%) NAS
2 1 (4.545%) HTTPS
2 1 (4.545%) LAN
2 1 (4.545%) WAN
2 1 (4.545%) SMTP
2 1 (4.545%) DHCP
2 1 (4.545%) FTP
2 1 (4.545%) SNMP
2 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.545%) SAN
2 1 (4.545%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (68.18%) Finance
2 2 (9.091%) Dutch Language
3 1 (4.545%) Finnish Language
3 1 (4.545%) Norwegian Language
3 1 (4.545%) Swedish Language
3 1 (4.545%) Danish Language
3 1 (4.545%) Automotive
3 1 (4.545%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.545%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 14 (63.64%) C# Software Developer
1 14 (63.64%) Senior C# Developer
1 14 (63.64%) Senior Software Developer
1 14 (63.64%) C# Developer
1 14 (63.64%) Developer
1 14 (63.64%) Senior Developer
1 14 (63.64%) Software Developer
2 3 (13.64%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Software Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Senior Software Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Technical Support Specialist
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft Consultant
3 1 (4.545%) Dynamics NAV Consultant
3 1 (4.545%) IT Support
3 1 (4.545%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (4.545%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (4.545%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (4.545%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (4.545%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 15 (68.18%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.545%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Windows
2 5 (22.73%) UNIX
3 2 (9.091%) Linux
4 1 (4.545%) Scientific Linux
4 1 (4.545%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.64%) UML
2 1 (4.545%) Data Management
2 1 (4.545%) Data Analysis
2 1 (4.545%) Bioinformatics
2 1 (4.545%) BPMN
2 1 (4.545%) DNA
2 1 (4.545%) ITIL
2 1 (4.545%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 18 (81.82%) C#
2 14 (63.64%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) Perl
3 4 (18.18%) Python
4 3 (13.64%) Bash shell
4 3 (13.64%) C++
4 3 (13.64%) Java
5 1 (4.545%) VB6
5 1 (4.545%) C
5 1 (4.545%) VB
5 1 (4.545%) VB.NET
5 1 (4.545%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (63.64%) Degree
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (4.545%) NFS
1 1 (4.545%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (4.545%) Control-M
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.091%) Oracle
3 1 (4.545%) Isilon
3 1 (4.545%) Cisco
3 1 (4.545%) IBM
3 1 (4.545%) HP
3 1 (4.545%) EMC
3 1 (4.545%) Informatica
3 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Java. C# Visual Studio. T-SQL... SQL Server. ASP.Net/Winforms/Silverlight... Degree Educated... Keywords: C# / ASP.NET / Silverlight / HTML / SQL Server / ERP / Microsoft Dynamics Navision / Birmingham / Midlands.
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
You ideally have around 2 years commercial experience in web application development including C#, ASP.Net, .Net 4.0 and jQuery, HTML / HTML5, CSS / CSS3 and API development...
Senitor Associates
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Front End Developer and User Interface, HTML 5, CSS 3 and JavaScript... The Front End developer will be proficient in all aspects of front end development including HTML...
TEKsystems
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + bonus, benefits, pension
Posted: 16 June 2013