The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 127 132 112
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -20
Permanent jobs citing COM 19 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 0.724% 0.095% 0.166%
As % of the Application Development category 1.787% 0.193% 0.353%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 3
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% +26.86%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £40,500 £26,700
10% offered a salary of more than £67,000 £44,500 £34,300
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1063 1037 851
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 40.48% 49.15% 47.09%
Number of salaries quoted 855 945 766
Average salary £34,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.85% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COM
West Yorkshire

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds COM Salary Trend

COM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COM across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds COM Salary Histogram

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 24 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 20 (83.33%) MS Excel
3 17 (70.83%) SQL Server
4 16 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 16 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
5 15 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
5 15 (62.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
5 15 (62.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 14 (58.33%) Dimensional Modelling
6 14 (58.33%) OLAP
6 14 (58.33%) MDX
7 11 (45.83%) Data Warehouse
8 4 (16.67%) SQL
8 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
9 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
9 3 (12.50%) .NET
9 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
9 3 (12.50%) ERP
9 3 (12.50%) Dynamics AX
9 3 (12.50%) C#
10 2 (8.333%) Finance
10 2 (8.333%) Advertising
10 2 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
10 2 (8.333%) Retail
10 2 (8.333%) HTTP
10 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
11 1 (4.167%) Time Management
11 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 14 (58.33%) MDX
2 3 (12.50%) .NET
2 3 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.167%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.167%) SharePoint
1 1 (4.167%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 20 (83.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.167%) MS Project
2 1 (4.167%) MS Office
2 1 (4.167%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (70.83%) SQL Server
2 16 (66.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 16 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (62.50%) SQL Server 2005
3 15 (62.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 15 (62.50%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 14 (58.33%) OLAP
5 11 (45.83%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (8.333%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (4.167%) SQL Server 2000
7 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (4.167%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Visual Studio
1 1 (4.167%) MorphX
1 1 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (8.333%) Finance
1 2 (8.333%) Advertising
1 2 (8.333%) Retail
2 1 (4.167%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Developer
2 14 (58.33%) Business Developer
2 14 (58.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 10 (41.67%) Senior Developer
4 1 (4.167%) Coordinator
4 1 (4.167%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.167%) Database Specialist
4 1 (4.167%) Applications Support
4 1 (4.167%) Administrator
4 1 (4.167%) Consultant
4 1 (4.167%) Account Manager
4 1 (4.167%) DBA
4 1 (4.167%) Sales Executive
4 1 (4.167%) Dynamics AX Consultant
4 1 (4.167%) Integration Manager
4 1 (4.167%) Project Coordinator
4 1 (4.167%) Team Leader
4 1 (4.167%) Support Manager
4 1 (4.167%) Applications Manager
4 1 (4.167%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Replication
1 1 (4.167%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.167%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Business Intelligence
2 14 (58.33%) Dimensional Modelling
3 3 (12.50%) ERP
4 2 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.167%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.167%) Time Management
5 1 (4.167%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.167%) Project Management
5 1 (4.167%) Change Management
5 1 (4.167%) ITIL
5 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.167%) OO
5 1 (4.167%) ITIL V3
5 1 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.167%) Scrum
5 1 (4.167%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) T-SQL
2 3 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (4.167%) VB.NET
3 1 (4.167%) VBA
3 1 (4.167%) X++
Qualifications
1 1 (4.167%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle
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