The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COM over the 3 months to 23 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 Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 82 81 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing COM 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.225% 0.138% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.460% 0.240% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
435 416 227
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 48.99% 57.46% 48.40%
Number of salaries quoted 382 401 211
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,750 £26,650
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COM
Surrey

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford COM Salary Trend

COM
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (50.00%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 1 (50.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) 1st Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) QA Manager
1 1 (50.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
Guildford, South East
C or C++ programming language.- Software configuration management (e.g. Perforce) and awareness of the software lifecycle.- Experience developing test applications using Microsoft Visual Studio (C++, C#)- Experience...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013