Cheshire COM Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Component Object Model (COM) skills within the Cheshire 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 Cheshire 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	-	132
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	17
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.220 %
Salaries quoted	0	17
Average minimum salary	-	£30,024
Average salary	-	£36,124
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£42,224
UK excluding London average salary	£38,044	£36,645
% change on same period last year	+3.81 %
Application Development Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1053	1394
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.516 %	0.617 %
Salaries quoted	983	1274
Average minimum salary	£31,616	£30,513
Average salary	£34,623	£33,605
% change on same period last year	+3.02 %
Average maximum salary	£37,629	£36,697
UK excluding London average salary	£35,972	£36,627
% change on same period last year	-1.78 %
COM North West

COM
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing COM across the Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 %) MFC 1 7 (100.00 %) XML 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 5 (71.43 %) Citrix 2 5 (71.43 %) XSLT 2 5 (71.43 %) DCOM 2 5 (71.43 %) OO 2 5 (71.43 %) HTML 3 4 (57.14 %) C# 3 4 (57.14 %) WebServices 3 4 (57.14 %) MetaFrame 4 3 (42.86 %) OOD 4 3 (42.86 %) C

4 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 4 3 (42.86 %) SQL 4 3 (42.86 %) WinForms 5 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 5 2 (28.57 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 2 (28.57 %) VC++ 5 2 (28.57 %) ActiveX 5 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel 5 2 (28.57 %) Device Driver 6 1 (14.29 %) VMware 6 1 (14.29 %) Macrovision 6 1 (14.29 %) BT 6 1 (14.29 %) Electronics 6 1 (14.29 %) HTTP 6 1 (14.29 %) TCP/IP

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 7 (100.00 %) MFC 1 7 (100.00 %) XML 2 5 (71.43 %) XSLT 2 5 (71.43 %) DCOM 2 5 (71.43 %) HTML 3 4 (57.14 %) WebServices 4 3 (42.86 %) WinForms 5 2 (28.57 %) ActiveX 6 1 (14.29 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (14.29 %) .NET	Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) HTTP 1 1 (14.29 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (14.29 %) WINS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) VSS/SourceSafe	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Electronics
Job Titles 1 5 (71.43 %) Developer 2 4 (57.14 %) Software Developer 3 2 (28.57 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (14.29 %) C++ Developer 4 1 (14.29 %) C++ Software Engineer 4 1 (14.29 %) C++ Software Developer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (28.57 %) Device Driver 2 1 (14.29 %) Computer Science 2 1 (14.29 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 7 (100.00 %) Windows 2 1 (14.29 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (14.29 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (71.43 %) OO 2 3 (42.86 %) OOD 3 1 (14.29 %) Software Engineering 3 1 (14.29 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 7 (100.00 %) C++ 2 4 (57.14 %) C# 3 3 (42.86 %) C 3 3 (42.86 %) SQL 4 2 (28.57 %) VC++ 4 2 (28.57 %) JavaScript 5 1 (14.29 %) Java	Qualifications 1 1 (14.29 %) Degree
System Software 1 4 (57.14 %) MetaFrame	Vendors 1 7 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 5 (71.43 %) Citrix 3 1 (14.29 %) BT 3 1 (14.29 %) VMware 3 1 (14.29 %) Macrovision 3 1 (14.29 %) HP