The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COM over the 3 months to 21 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 Kent region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 87 73 98
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +25
Permanent jobs citing COM 8 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 0.693% 0.142% 0.381%
As % of the Application Development category 1.782% 0.334% 0.742%
Number of salaries quoted 7 1 2
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £41,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +3.03%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,900 £42,500 £40,250
10% offered a salary of more than £41,000 £42,500 £42,250
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
449 299 539
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 38.91% 42.35% 51.38%
Number of salaries quoted 383 270 505
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COM
South East

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent COM Salary Trend

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 Kent region over the 3 months to 21 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
Dartford - 3 £38,750 -
Westerham - 1 £32,500 -
Canterbury - 1 £31,000 -
COM
South East

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (84.62%) C#
2 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 11 (84.62%) Degree
3 8 (61.54%) MFC
3 8 (61.54%) C++
3 8 (61.54%) ATL
3 8 (61.54%) Windows
3 8 (61.54%) OO
4 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
5 3 (23.08%) SQL
5 3 (23.08%) UML
5 3 (23.08%) OOP
5 3 (23.08%) Salesforce.com
5 3 (23.08%) C
5 3 (23.08%) Advertising
5 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
5 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
5 3 (23.08%) CRM
5 3 (23.08%) WinForms
5 3 (23.08%) Marketing
5 3 (23.08%) WPF
5 3 (23.08%) Image Processing
6 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
6 2 (15.38%) Social Media
6 2 (15.38%) Memcached
6 2 (15.38%) Social Gaming
6 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
6 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (15.38%) NoSQL

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kent 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 11 (84.62%) .NET
2 8 (61.54%) MFC
2 8 (61.54%) ATL
3 3 (23.08%) WinForms
3 3 (23.08%) WPF
4 2 (15.38%) Memcached
4 2 (15.38%) AppFabric
4 2 (15.38%) LINQ to SQL
4 2 (15.38%) Task Parallel Library
4 2 (15.38%) Esper
4 2 (15.38%) LINQ
5 1 (7.692%) XHTML
5 1 (7.692%) CSS
5 1 (7.692%) XML
5 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
1 2 (15.38%) MSMQ
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
2 1 (7.692%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (7.692%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
2 2 (15.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Hadoop
2 2 (15.38%) MongoDB
2 2 (15.38%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (15.38%) StreamInsight
2 2 (15.38%) Redis
2 2 (15.38%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (23.08%) Advertising
1 3 (23.08%) Marketing
2 2 (15.38%) Games
3 1 (7.692%) French Language
3 1 (7.692%) German Language
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Software Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior .NET Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Dynamics NAV Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Marketing Executive
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Social Media
1 2 (15.38%) Social Gaming
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 8 (61.54%) Windows
2 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) OO
2 3 (23.08%) UML
2 3 (23.08%) OOP
2 3 (23.08%) CRM
2 3 (23.08%) Image Processing
3 2 (15.38%) Scrum
3 2 (15.38%) Multithreading
4 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Migration
4 1 (7.692%) B2B
4 1 (7.692%) Software Engineering
4 1 (7.692%) Email Marketing
Programming Languages
1 11 (84.62%) C#
2 8 (61.54%) C++
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 3 (23.08%) C
4 2 (15.38%) T-SQL
5 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (84.62%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) PhD
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (23.08%) Salesforce.com
3 2 (15.38%) Facebook
3 2 (15.38%) Twitter
4 1 (7.692%) Google
Kent
The role requires a strong understanding of both front and back end development using SQL and .Net technologies in order to design and develop software for the company.....
Harnham
Salary: £25000 - £45000 per annum + comprehensive benefits package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Kent, South East
My client is a reputable end user looking for a driven and ambitious consultant who is particularly interested in the opportunity to progress in their career and to...
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
Kent, South East
As a Decision Science Manager you will be solely responsible for supporting the development of credit strategy, prospect targeting, collections recovery, drive modelling and segmentation for core lending...
Progressive Recruitment
Salary: £70000 - £75000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Kent, South East
We deal with both Microsoft Partners & End Users throughout the UK and Europe and we have never had more live requirements, AX, GP & NAV jobs for Microsoft Dynamics...
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Generous Holidays & Excellent Pension
Posted: 21 May 2013
Kent
ERP (Microsoft Dynamics / Nav / Navision / Sage / Axapta / Pegasus / Oracle / SAP) Support Consultant - Kent - up to £30K... Essential Skills: 2+ years ERP support experience (ideally NAV/ Navision) Microsoft Office.....
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013