The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 51 49 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Permanent jobs citing COM 14 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 2.247% 0.549% -
As % of the Application Development category 6.034% 1.342% -
Number of salaries quoted 14 1 0
Average salary £43,750 £40,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.37% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
232 149 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 37.24% 40.93% 27.13%
Number of salaries quoted 204 139 99
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £24,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COM
West Midlands

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry COM Salary Trend

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 26 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 24 (92.31%) C#
2 24 (92.31%) .NET
2 24 (92.31%) SQL Server
3 23 (88.46%) ASP.NET
3 23 (88.46%) JavaScript
3 23 (88.46%) XML
3 23 (88.46%) SharePoint
4 22 (84.62%) XSL
4 22 (84.62%) Web Services
4 22 (84.62%) DHTML
4 22 (84.62%) MVC
4 22 (84.62%) BizTalk Server
4 22 (84.62%) .NET Framework
4 22 (84.62%) WCF
4 22 (84.62%) WPF
4 22 (84.62%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 20 (76.92%) SAP Business One
5 20 (76.92%) SAP
5 20 (76.92%) Solaris
5 20 (76.92%) UNIX
5 20 (76.92%) OpenVMS
6 13 (50.00%) Web Development
7 12 (46.15%) InfoPath
7 12 (46.15%) SharePoint 2010
7 12 (46.15%) VB
7 12 (46.15%) CSS
8 11 (42.31%) Ajax
8 11 (42.31%) XAML
8 11 (42.31%) MySQL

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 24 (92.31%) .NET
2 23 (88.46%) ASP.NET
2 23 (88.46%) XML
3 22 (84.62%) XSL
3 22 (84.62%) Web Services
3 22 (84.62%) DHTML
3 22 (84.62%) .NET Framework
3 22 (84.62%) WCF
3 22 (84.62%) WPF
3 22 (84.62%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 12 (46.15%) CSS
5 11 (42.31%) Ajax
5 11 (42.31%) LINQ
5 11 (42.31%) jQuery
5 11 (42.31%) Silverlight
6 2 (7.692%) WF
7 1 (3.846%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 23 (88.46%) SharePoint
2 22 (84.62%) BizTalk Server
3 12 (46.15%) SharePoint 2010
4 11 (42.31%) Apache
4 11 (42.31%) Tomcat
4 11 (42.31%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (7.692%) MS Exchange
5 2 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (3.846%) Lync
Applications
1 12 (46.15%) InfoPath
2 1 (3.846%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 20 (76.92%) SAP Business One
2 1 (3.846%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.692%) DHCP
1 2 (7.692%) DNS
1 2 (7.692%) SAN
1 2 (7.692%) Firewall
1 2 (7.692%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (3.846%) Wireshark
2 1 (3.846%) Internet
2 1 (3.846%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (92.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (42.31%) MySQL
3 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (7.692%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (3.846%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (3.846%) Finance
1 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
1 1 (3.846%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (92.31%) Developer
2 22 (84.62%) .NET Developer
3 12 (46.15%) SharePoint Developer
4 11 (42.31%) .NET Web Developer
4 11 (42.31%) Senior .NET Developer
4 11 (42.31%) Web Developer
4 11 (42.31%) Senior Developer
4 11 (42.31%) Senior SharePoint Developer
5 1 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Dynamics NAV Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Navision Developer
5 1 (3.846%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (3.846%) Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Support Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 20 (76.92%) Solaris
1 20 (76.92%) UNIX
1 20 (76.92%) OpenVMS
2 11 (42.31%) Linux
3 2 (7.692%) Windows
3 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (7.692%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (84.62%) MVC
2 13 (50.00%) Web Development
3 2 (7.692%) ITIL
4 1 (3.846%) Incident Management
4 1 (3.846%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 24 (92.31%) C#
2 23 (88.46%) JavaScript
3 12 (46.15%) VB
4 11 (42.31%) XAML
4 11 (42.31%) Java
4 11 (42.31%) C++
4 11 (42.31%) Delphi
4 11 (42.31%) Perl
4 11 (42.31%) PHP
4 11 (42.31%) Python
5 3 (11.54%) SQL
6 1 (3.846%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.846%) MCITP
1 1 (3.846%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.846%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.692%) Active Directory
1 2 (7.692%) Forefront TMG
1 2 (7.692%) IAG
1 2 (7.692%) UAG
1 2 (7.692%) Hyper-V
1 2 (7.692%) XenApp
1 2 (7.692%) XenServer
2 1 (3.846%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.846%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (3.846%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (7.692%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 2 (7.692%) Cacti
2 1 (3.846%) SCCM
2 1 (3.846%) SCOM
2 1 (3.846%) WSUS
2 1 (3.846%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (76.92%) SAP
3 2 (7.692%) Symantec
3 2 (7.692%) CheckPoint
3 2 (7.692%) HP
3 2 (7.692%) EMC
3 2 (7.692%) Citrix
3 2 (7.692%) NetApp
3 2 (7.692%) Cisco
3 2 (7.692%) VMware
3 2 (7.692%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.846%) Blue Coat