The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COM over the 3 months to 24 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 226 232 250
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +18
Permanent jobs citing COM 38 35 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.460% 0.402% 0.293%
As % of the Application Development category 1.113% 0.849% 0.679%
Number of salaries quoted 33 35 20
Average salary £37,500 £55,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-31.81% +25.71%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £29,500 £27,950
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £68,000 £52,750
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £39,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +1.26%
All Application Development
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
3413 4121 4123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 41.29% 47.37% 43.21%
Number of salaries quoted 3078 3511 3597
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COM
England

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England COM Salary Trend

COM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COM across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England COM Salary Histogram

COM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COM within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridgeshire +35 28 £50,000 +17.64%
Hertfordshire -2 5 £29,000 -49.56%
Bedfordshire -21 3 £35,750 -33.48%
Essex - 2 £42,500 -
COM
England

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 57 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 45 (78.95%) MS Excel
3 26 (45.61%) SQL
4 24 (42.11%) .NET
5 21 (36.84%) C#
6 20 (35.09%) Degree
7 18 (31.58%) Computer Science
7 18 (31.58%) ASP.NET
7 18 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (31.58%) Finance
8 16 (28.07%) DCOM
8 16 (28.07%) Web Services
8 16 (28.07%) Windows
9 15 (26.32%) WPF
10 14 (24.56%) WCF
11 12 (21.05%) SQL Server
12 10 (17.54%) Linux
13 9 (15.79%) HTTP
13 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
13 9 (15.79%) VMware
14 8 (14.04%) HP
14 8 (14.04%) Citrix
14 8 (14.04%) MS Office
15 7 (12.28%) Cisco
16 6 (10.53%) IBM
16 6 (10.53%) E-Commerce
16 6 (10.53%) Data Analysis
17 5 (8.772%) Application Packaging
17 5 (8.772%) TCP/IP
17 5 (8.772%) IIS

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England 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 (42.11%) .NET
2 18 (31.58%) ASP.NET
3 16 (28.07%) DCOM
3 16 (28.07%) Web Services
4 15 (26.32%) WPF
5 14 (24.56%) WCF
6 5 (8.772%) Application Packaging
6 5 (8.772%) HTML
7 4 (7.018%) XML
7 4 (7.018%) CSS
8 3 (5.263%) jQuery
8 3 (5.263%) Ajax
9 2 (3.509%) VXML
9 2 (3.509%) WSDL
9 2 (3.509%) MFC
9 2 (3.509%) SOAP
9 2 (3.509%) XSLT
9 2 (3.509%) REST
10 1 (1.754%) Silverlight
10 1 (1.754%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 5 (8.772%) IIS
2 3 (5.263%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.263%) Apache
3 2 (3.509%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.754%) WebSphere Message Broker
4 1 (1.754%) SharePoint 2010
4 1 (1.754%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.754%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.754%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 45 (78.95%) MS Excel
2 8 (14.04%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.018%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (5.263%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (3.509%) SalesLogix
3 2 (3.509%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.754%) Documaker
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) HTTP
2 5 (8.772%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.263%) iSCSI
3 3 (5.263%) LAN
3 3 (5.263%) DNS
4 2 (3.509%) Internet
4 2 (3.509%) Firewall
4 2 (3.509%) WAN
4 2 (3.509%) DHCP
5 1 (1.754%) NAS
5 1 (1.754%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (1.754%) FTP
5 1 (1.754%) SMTP
5 1 (1.754%) ADSL
5 1 (1.754%) GPRS
5 1 (1.754%) HTTPS
5 1 (1.754%) VPN
5 1 (1.754%) SNMP
5 1 (1.754%) SAN
5 1 (1.754%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.018%) MySQL
2 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 4 (7.018%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (7.018%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (3.509%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (3.509%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (1.754%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (1.754%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (1.754%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 3 (5.263%) Subversion
1 3 (5.263%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.754%) Expression Blend
2 1 (1.754%) TeamCity
2 1 (1.754%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.754%) MSBuild
2 1 (1.754%) Rhino Mocks
2 1 (1.754%) Selenium
2 1 (1.754%) NUnit
General
1 18 (31.58%) Finance
2 3 (5.263%) Marketing
2 3 (5.263%) Advertising
3 2 (3.509%) Back Office
3 2 (3.509%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.509%) Retail
3 2 (3.509%) Dutch Language
4 1 (1.754%) Local Government
4 1 (1.754%) Finnish Language
4 1 (1.754%) Norwegian Language
4 1 (1.754%) Swedish Language
4 1 (1.754%) Danish Language
4 1 (1.754%) Automotive
4 1 (1.754%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (31.58%) Developer
2 16 (28.07%) Analyst
3 15 (26.32%) C# Developer
4 14 (24.56%) C# Software Developer
4 14 (24.56%) Senior Software Developer
4 14 (24.56%) Senior C# Developer
4 14 (24.56%) Senior Developer
4 14 (24.56%) Software Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) Wintel Analyst
6 4 (7.018%) Consultant
7 3 (5.263%) QA Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Technical Support Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.263%) Technical Support
8 2 (3.509%) Software Engineer
8 2 (3.509%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (3.509%) .NET Developer
8 2 (3.509%) Senior Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.58%) Computer Science
2 3 (5.263%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.509%) IVR
3 2 (3.509%) Speech Recognition
3 2 (3.509%) Open Source
4 1 (1.754%) iSeries
4 1 (1.754%) Data Integration
4 1 (1.754%) SaaS
4 1 (1.754%) PKI
4 1 (1.754%) Life Science
4 1 (1.754%) Clustering
4 1 (1.754%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Windows
2 10 (17.54%) Linux
3 5 (8.772%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (7.018%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (5.263%) Windows XP
6 2 (3.509%) UNIX
7 1 (1.754%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.754%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (1.754%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.754%) Scientific Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (10.53%) E-Commerce
1 6 (10.53%) Data Analysis
2 4 (7.018%) ITIL
2 4 (7.018%) Data Modelling
2 4 (7.018%) Test Scripting
3 3 (5.263%) Online Marketing
3 3 (5.263%) Time Management
3 3 (5.263%) Web Testing
3 3 (5.263%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (5.263%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (5.263%) OOD
3 3 (5.263%) ETL
3 3 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (5.263%) Project Management
3 3 (5.263%) Service Management
3 3 (5.263%) Scrum
3 3 (5.263%) Change Management
4 2 (3.509%) MVC
4 2 (3.509%) Service Delivery
4 2 (3.509%) OO
Programming Languages
1 26 (45.61%) SQL
2 21 (36.84%) C#
3 5 (8.772%) T-SQL
4 3 (5.263%) C++
4 3 (5.263%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.509%) C
5 2 (3.509%) PHP
6 1 (1.754%) VB6
6 1 (1.754%) Python
6 1 (1.754%) VB
6 1 (1.754%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.754%) VBA
6 1 (1.754%) Perl
6 1 (1.754%) Java
6 1 (1.754%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 20 (35.09%) Degree
2 18 (31.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.263%) ISEB
3 3 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.509%) MCSE
4 2 (3.509%) PhD
4 2 (3.509%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.754%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.754%) MCITP
5 1 (1.754%) MCDBA
5 1 (1.754%) CCNA
5 1 (1.754%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.263%) QA
2 1 (1.754%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.754%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.509%) VMware ESX
3 2 (3.509%) vSphere
4 1 (1.754%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.754%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.754%) Tivoli Identity Manager
1 1 (1.754%) Control-M
1 1 (1.754%) Nagios
Vendors
1 57 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (15.79%) VMware
3 8 (14.04%) HP
3 8 (14.04%) Citrix
4 7 (12.28%) Cisco
5 6 (10.53%) IBM
6 5 (8.772%) Oracle
7 4 (7.018%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (1.754%) Twitter
8 1 (1.754%) Isilon
8 1 (1.754%) Trapeze
8 1 (1.754%) Nimsoft
8 1 (1.754%) SAP
8 1 (1.754%) EMC
8 1 (1.754%) Informatica
8 1 (1.754%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.754%) JD Edwards
8 1 (1.754%) Symantec
Essex, South East
NET Developer£25,000 - £30,000Mint recruitment is currently resourcing for a .NET Developer who is actively looking for a new and exciting challenge. Based in Essex the ...
Mint
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Pension
Posted: 10 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
The successful Microsoft SharePoint Developer should have at least 2 years Experience on SharePoint 2010 or MOSS 2007, with excellent skills in C# .NET, and experience of the...
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Flexible Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
They were awarded Microsoft Dynamics NAV Partner of the year 2010 and Global Vertical Partner 2011 ... Additional Information: With over a million users worldwide Microsoft Dynamics NAV is...
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
They have a fantastic relationship with Microsoft and are working on one of the first SharePoint 2013 implementations with Microsoft right now... The role itself will involve working...
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Flexible Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Key Skills: C# Developer with experience of; .Net Compact Framework, or other suitable mobile skillset... SQL Server. ASP.Net/Winforms/Silverlight... Degree Educated... Keywords: C#/ ASP.NET/ SQL...
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bedford, Bedfordshire
NET / C# / ASP.NET / WPF / WCF / SQL / Agile / Design Principles / Patterns - To be considered for this role you should have experience as a Technical Architect / Solution Architect / TDA...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Healthcare
Posted: 22 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
Opportunity: This is an excellent opportunity for you to use your SharePoint skills to design, develop and support a large number of applications using Microsoft Office SharePoint Services...
BGL Group
Salary: £competitive plus excellent benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
This is a varied and demanding role where your experience and technical skills will mean you are involved in: Supporting our infrastructure estate, which consists of Microsoft and...
BGL Group
Salary: £35k - £40k with discretionary company bonus scheme
Posted: 7 May 2013
Great Yarmouth
Graduate / Junior - Software Application Developer - VB.NET/C#/ASP.NETWe have an exciting requirement for a permanent application developer with either a computer science degree or commercial experience...
i4Recruitment
Salary: £20k - 30k per year + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
The ideal candidate will have in-depth knowledge and experience of C#, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Object Oriented Programming. It would be helpful and important to...
Focus IT Recruitment
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum + Great Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Norwich, Norfolk
A C# Developer with a deep knowledge of the following technologies would be suitable: - C# - ASP.NET - .NET 3.5 / 4.0 / 4.5 (beta) - WPF - WCF / Web...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus, Pension, Bupa
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bedfordshire, South East
MS Dynamics NAV, Functional Consultant, £45k-£50k, Bedfordshire, End UserThis multi million pound end user is urgently requiring an experienced functional consultant to join their team based in...
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Java. C# Visual Studio. T-SQL... SQL Server. ASP.Net/Winforms/Silverlight... Degree Educated... Keywords: C#/ ASP.NET/ SQL Server/ ERP/ Microsoft Dynamics Navision/ Cambridge/ Peterborough/ East Anglia.
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The successful applicant will have knowledge in the following skills - C# WPF SQL ASP.NET Any additional skills in WCF, Web Services, COM/DCOM or MS reporting services...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: c50k + benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The CRM Specialist (MS Dynamics) will have relevant experience within Microsoft Dynamics... - Project Management. - MS access and excel good knowledge (MS project desirable). - SAP SD module knowledge as...
Clearwater People Solutions
Salary: £34000 - 35000 Per Annum Excellent bens
Posted: 20 May 2013
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
As a technical infrastructure expert who has excellent practical knowledge of Wintel environments, you will be expected to, amongst other things: Carry out the role of subject matter...
BGL Group
Salary: From £45,000 to £50,000 per annum £45k - £50k with discretionary compa
Posted: 7 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, South East
C# .Net Software Application Developer, Hemel Hempstead, £25-35k NO TRAVEL!... A C# .Net Software Application Developer is required for this leading software company based in Hertfordshire who...
Nigel Frank International
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + pension
Posted: 17 May 2013
Great Yarmouth
Lead - Software Application Developer - VB.NET/C#/ASP.NETWe have an exciting requirement for a permanent Lead Application Developer with strong commercial experience within a Microsoft software development...
i4Recruitment
Salary: £30k - 45k per year + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
Lead - Software Application Developer - VB.NET/C#/ASP.NET... Skills Required: Good understanding of C#.net, SQL Server 2008+ (T-SQL, Stored Procedures), 00 programming and design patterns,...
I4 Recruitment
Salary: £30k - 45k per year + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Essex, South East
Key skills: Good understanding and experience of image processing and analysis C++ development in a multithreaded environment Use of appropriate code management and issue tracking tools Good numerical...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
St. Albans, Hertfordshire
This will involve development across the full SDLC and the successful Senior .NET Developer should have the most of the following skills: - C# - .NET 4.0 - ASP.NET -...
Connectus
Salary: £40000 - £47000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Key skills required: - PHP5 Object orientated programming- AJAX- Apache - SQL (Microsoft, MySQL or Oracle)- HTTP- HTML- JavaScript and Javascript libraries- Creating and executing test plans- Source code management...
Computer Futures
Salary: £47000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Key skills required: - PHP5 Object orientated programming- AJAX- Apache - SQL (Microsoft, MySQL or Oracle)- HTTP- HTML- JavaScript and Javascript libraries- Creating and executing test plans- Source code management...
Computer Futures
Salary: £47000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
We have a state-of-the-art software suite built in the latest Microsoft technologies... Desirable: - OO Analysis and Design skills Personal competencies: The Values Our corporate culture...
Xuber
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Skills/Experience/Qualifications required to perform the role Essential: - DBA experience with Oracle 10g / 11g Standard Edition Databases on the Microsoft Windows platform. - Oracle Database Performance Tuning (manual) -...
Xuber
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 25 May 2013