Lancashire COM Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Component Object Model (COM) skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Application Development category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COM over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Component Object Model (COM)
Location Abingdon Aldershot Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Chertsey City of London Coventry Croydon Dorset Dunstable East Midlands East of England England Essex Fareham Farnborough Farnham Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Maidenhead Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Nuneaton Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Shropshire Slough South East South West Southampton St Neots Surrey Swindon UK Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	88	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.436 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	2	0
Average minimum salary	£32,500	-
Average salary	£36,250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£40,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£38,458	£37,570
% change on same period last year	+2.36 %
Application Development Lancashire
Matching permanent IT job ads	459	432
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.251 %	0.181 %
Salaries quoted	381	362
Average minimum salary	£27,323	£29,865
Average salary	£30,352	£32,759
% change on same period last year	-7.34 %
Average maximum salary	£33,381	£35,653
UK excluding London average salary	£35,939	£36,846
% change on same period last year	-2.45 %
COM North West

COM
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COM across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing COM across the Lancashire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COM across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing COM within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Preston	-	2	£36,250	-

COM North West

COM
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 6 (100.00 %) Microsoft 2 4 (66.67 %) MSMQ 2 4 (66.67 %) WinForms 2 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2000 2 4 (66.67 %) VB6 2 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 2 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005 2 4 (66.67 %) .NET Framework 2 4 (66.67 %) N-Tier 2 4 (66.67 %) SQL 2 4 (66.67 %) Transact-SQL 2 4 (66.67 %) VB 2 4 (66.67 %) VB.NET 2 4 (66.67 %) .NET 2 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server

2 4 (66.67 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 4 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 2 4 (66.67 %) WebServices 2 4 (66.67 %) XML 2 4 (66.67 %) Windows 3 3 (50.00 %) MS Excel 4 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (33.33 %) UML 4 2 (33.33 %) C# 4 2 (33.33 %) C++ 4 2 (33.33 %) MCAD 4 2 (33.33 %) MCSD 4 2 (33.33 %) DCOM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire 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 4 (66.67 %) WebServices 1 4 (66.67 %) XML 1 4 (66.67 %) WinForms 1 4 (66.67 %) .NET Framework 1 4 (66.67 %) .NET 1 4 (66.67 %) ASP.NET 2 2 (33.33 %) DCOM	Applications 1 3 (50.00 %) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server 1 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2000 1 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 1 4 (66.67 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 4 (66.67 %) VSS/SourceSafe
Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) Developer 2 3 (50.00 %) .NET Developer 3 2 (33.33 %) Senior Software Engineer 3 2 (33.33 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (16.67 %) VB.NET Developer 4 1 (16.67 %) WinForms Developer	Miscellaneous 1 4 (66.67 %) N-Tier
Operating Systems 1 4 (66.67 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) UML
Programming Languages 1 4 (66.67 %) SQL 1 4 (66.67 %) Transact-SQL 1 4 (66.67 %) VB 1 4 (66.67 %) VB.NET 1 4 (66.67 %) VB6 2 2 (33.33 %) C# 2 2 (33.33 %) C++	Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) MCAD 1 2 (33.33 %) MCSD 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 4 (66.67 %) MSMQ	Vendors 1 6 (100.00 %) Microsoft