The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Dartford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COM over the 3 months to 20 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 Dartford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 14 - 20
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing COM 3 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dartford 5.882% - 3.636%
As % of the Application Development category 14.29% - 4.167%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
Average salary £38,750 - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Dartford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
21 13 48
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dartford 41.18% 32.50% 87.27%
Number of salaries quoted 19 12 47
Average salary £40,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £26,215 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,750 £45,000 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COM
Kent

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dartford 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 Dartford region.

Dartford COM Salary Trend

COM
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dartford 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%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) C++
1 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) MFC
1 7 (100.00%) ATL
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) OO
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) WPF
2 2 (28.57%) Image Processing
2 2 (28.57%) WinForms
2 2 (28.57%) C
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) UML
2 2 (28.57%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dartford 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 7 (100.00%) .NET
1 7 (100.00%) MFC
1 7 (100.00%) ATL
2 2 (28.57%) WinForms
2 2 (28.57%) WPF
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) OO
2 2 (28.57%) Image Processing
2 2 (28.57%) UML
2 2 (28.57%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) C#
1 7 (100.00%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft