Cambridge COM Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Component Object Model (COM) skills within the Cambridge region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COM over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Component Object Model (COM)
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gloucestershire Great Yarmouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Henley-on-Thames Herefordshire Hertfordshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Lowestoft Lutterworth Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Preston Reading Scotland Slough Solihull South East South West Southampton Spalding Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Whyteleafe Wiltshire Winchester Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	140	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.196 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	0	0
Average minimum salary	-	-
Average salary	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	-
UK excluding London average salary	£38,044	£36,645
% change on same period last year	+3.81 %
Application Development Cambridge
Matching permanent IT job ads	1023	874
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.502 %	0.387 %
Salaries quoted	935	758
Average minimum salary	£32,476	£32,238
Average salary	£35,865	£35,735
% change on same period last year	+0.36 %
Average maximum salary	£39,254	£39,233
UK excluding London average salary	£35,972	£36,627
% change on same period last year	-1.78 %
COM Cambridgeshire

COM
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing COM across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

COM
Salary Trend

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

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing COM also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing COM.

1 7 (100.00 %) C++ 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 6 (85.71 %) Windows 2 6 (85.71 %) MFC 3 5 (71.43 %) C# 3 5 (71.43 %) .NET 3 5 (71.43 %) OO 4 3 (42.86 %) Device Driver 4 3 (42.86 %) Automotive 5 2 (28.57 %) Degree 5 2 (28.57 %) Linux 5 2 (28.57 %) MPEG 5 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 5 2 (28.57 %) WinForms 5 2 (28.57 %) Multimedia

5 2 (28.57 %) VC++ 5 2 (28.57 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (14.29 %) CSS 6 1 (14.29 %) XML 6 1 (14.29 %) XSL 6 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel 6 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint 6 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP 6 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 6 1 (14.29 %) ColdFusion MX 6 1 (14.29 %) Delphi 6 1 (14.29 %) JavaScript 6 1 (14.29 %) VB 6 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing COM also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing COM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (85.71 %) MFC 2 5 (71.43 %) .NET 3 2 (28.57 %) WinForms 4 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (14.29 %) CSS 4 1 (14.29 %) XML 4 1 (14.29 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 1 (14.29 %) ColdFusion MX 1 1 (14.29 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (28.57 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2000 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) Visual Studio
General 1 3 (42.86 %) Automotive 2 2 (28.57 %) Multimedia 3 1 (14.29 %) Pensions 3 1 (14.29 %) Health	Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Developer 2 4 (57.14 %) C++ Developer 3 3 (42.86 %) Software Developer 4 2 (28.57 %) CSharp Software Developer 4 2 (28.57 %) C++ Software Developer 4 2 (28.57 %) C# Developer 5 1 (14.29 %) ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (14.29 %) .NET Developer 5 1 (14.29 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 5 1 (14.29 %) C++/CSharp Developer
Miscellaneous 1 3 (42.86 %) Device Driver 2 2 (28.57 %) MPEG 3 1 (14.29 %) Computer Science 3 1 (14.29 %) Multithreading	Operating Systems 1 6 (85.71 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) Linux 3 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (71.43 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 7 (100.00 %) C++ 2 5 (71.43 %) C# 3 2 (28.57 %) VC++ 4 1 (14.29 %) Delphi 4 1 (14.29 %) JavaScript 4 1 (14.29 %) VB
Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) Degree	Vendors 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft