Middlesex COM+ Jobs

This section looks at the demand for COM+ (COM Plus) skills within the Middlesex 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

COM+ (COM Plus)
Location Abingdon Barnsley Basingstoke Batley Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cirencester City of London Coventry Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorking East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Gravesend Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Reading Renfrewshire Rochester Scotland Sheffield Slough South East South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wembley West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	93
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	21
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.660 %	4.930 %
Salaries quoted	10	12
Average minimum salary	£26,800	£34,750
Average salary	£37,650	£36,417
% change on same period last year	+3.38 %
Average maximum salary	£48,500	£38,083
UK excluding London average salary	£35,012	£34,338
% change on same period last year	+1.96 %
Application Development Middlesex
Matching permanent IT job ads	376	426
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.198 %	0.174 %
Salaries quoted	322	348
Average minimum salary	£39,046	£39,067
Average salary	£43,642	£41,204
% change on same period last year	+5.91 %
Average maximum salary	£48,238	£43,341
UK excluding London average salary	£35,873	£36,830
% change on same period last year	-2.59 %
COM+ South East

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing COM+ across the Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COM+ across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 22 (91.67 %) SQL Server 2 21 (87.50 %) Windows 3 20 (83.33 %) UNIX 3 20 (83.33 %) Microsoft 3 20 (83.33 %) JavaScript 3 20 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2005 4 19 (79.17 %) SQL Server 2000 4 19 (79.17 %) C# 4 19 (79.17 %) Windows 2000 5 17 (70.83 %) XML 6 16 (66.67 %) VSS/SourceSafe 7 15 (62.50 %) XSLT 7 15 (62.50 %) Oracle 7 15 (62.50 %) VB 7 15 (62.50 %) UML

7 15 (62.50 %) Oracle 9i 7 15 (62.50 %) XHTML 7 15 (62.50 %) Oracle 10g 7 15 (62.50 %) VB6 8 14 (58.33 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 8 14 (58.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 8 14 (58.33 %) Systems Analysis 8 14 (58.33 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 8 14 (58.33 %) Client/Server 8 14 (58.33 %) HPUX 9 8 (33.33 %) Project Management 10 7 (29.17 %) Degree 11 6 (25.00 %) Health 12 5 (20.83 %) French Language 12 5 (20.83 %) PowerShell

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 17 (70.83 %) XML 2 15 (62.50 %) XSLT 2 15 (62.50 %) XHTML 3 5 (20.83 %) .NET 4 4 (16.67 %) MFC 4 4 (16.67 %) ADO.NET 5 2 (8.333 %) .NET Remoting 5 2 (8.333 %) ADO 5 2 (8.333 %) ODBC 6 1 (4.167 %) .NET Framework	Applications 1 1 (4.167 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 5 (20.83 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 22 (91.67 %) SQL Server 2 20 (83.33 %) SQL Server 2005 3 19 (79.17 %) SQL Server 2000 4 15 (62.50 %) Oracle 9i 4 15 (62.50 %) Oracle 10g 5 14 (58.33 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 5 14 (58.33 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 5 14 (58.33 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 16 (66.67 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 2 (8.333 %) Visual Studio	General 1 6 (25.00 %) Health 2 2 (8.333 %) Finance 3 1 (4.167 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 14 (58.33 %) Analyst 1 14 (58.33 %) Systems Analyst 2 5 (20.83 %) Systems Administrator 2 5 (20.83 %) Developer 2 5 (20.83 %) Administrator 2 5 (20.83 %) IT Administrator 3 2 (8.333 %) C# Developer 3 2 (8.333 %) Applications Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) .NET Developer 4 1 (4.167 %) Junior 4 1 (4.167 %) Junior Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Junior Systems Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) C# Application Developer	Miscellaneous 1 14 (58.33 %) Client/Server 2 5 (20.83 %) French Language 3 4 (16.67 %) Multithreading
Operating Systems 1 21 (87.50 %) Windows 2 20 (83.33 %) UNIX 3 19 (79.17 %) Windows 2000 4 14 (58.33 %) HPUX 5 5 (20.83 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (62.50 %) UML 2 14 (58.33 %) Systems Analysis 3 8 (33.33 %) Project Management
Programming Languages 1 20 (83.33 %) JavaScript 2 19 (79.17 %) C# 3 15 (62.50 %) VB 3 15 (62.50 %) VB6 4 5 (20.83 %) PowerShell 4 5 (20.83 %) VBScript 4 5 (20.83 %) Perl 5 3 (12.50 %) SQL 5 3 (12.50 %) C 6 2 (8.333 %) VC++ 6 2 (8.333 %) C++	Qualifications 1 7 (29.17 %) Degree 2 5 (20.83 %) MCSE 2 5 (20.83 %) Microsoft Certification
Vendors 1 20 (83.33 %) Microsoft 2 15 (62.50 %) Oracle