The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COM over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 127 136 116
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -20
Permanent jobs citing COM 9 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.400% 0.043% 0.261%
As % of the Application Development category 1.339% 0.103% 0.668%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 4
Average salary £45,000 £25,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+80.00% -44.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £25,000 £50,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Application Development
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
672 970 748
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 29.85% 41.44% 39.10%
Number of salaries quoted 589 871 646
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
COM
Berkshire

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading COM Salary Trend

COM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COM across the Reading region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Reading COM Salary Histogram

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 13 (61.90%) Windows
3 11 (52.38%) SQL
3 11 (52.38%) SQL Server
4 9 (42.86%) VMware
5 8 (38.10%) .NET
5 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
6 6 (28.57%) C#
6 6 (28.57%) MS Excel
7 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
7 5 (23.81%) DNS
7 5 (23.81%) SAN
7 5 (23.81%) Web Services
7 5 (23.81%) Linux
7 5 (23.81%) ITIL
7 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
7 5 (23.81%) vSphere
7 5 (23.81%) Mobile App
8 4 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (19.05%) Bash shell
8 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
8 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
8 4 (19.05%) CentOS
8 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (19.05%) Firewall
8 4 (19.05%) VMware ESX
8 4 (19.05%) Debian
8 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (19.05%) ITIL Certification

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 8 (38.10%) .NET
2 5 (23.81%) Web Services
3 4 (19.05%) XML
3 4 (19.05%) .NET Framework
4 3 (14.29%) WPF
5 2 (9.524%) Silverlight
5 2 (9.524%) HTML
5 2 (9.524%) CSS
6 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET
6 1 (4.762%) Application Packaging
6 1 (4.762%) Ajax
6 1 (4.762%) jQuery
6 1 (4.762%) HTML5
6 1 (4.762%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 4 (19.05%) Apache
1 4 (19.05%) Tomcat
2 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
3 1 (4.762%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (4.762%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (4.762%) Lync
3 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 6 (28.57%) MS Excel
2 3 (14.29%) MS Office
3 1 (4.762%) Photoshop
3 1 (4.762%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (4.762%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.762%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) TCP/IP
1 5 (23.81%) DNS
1 5 (23.81%) SAN
2 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) HTTP
3 1 (4.762%) IMAP
3 1 (4.762%) iSCSI
3 1 (4.762%) Unified Communications
3 1 (4.762%) ADSL
3 1 (4.762%) LAN
3 1 (4.762%) WAN
3 1 (4.762%) POP3
3 1 (4.762%) SMTP
3 1 (4.762%) DHCP
3 1 (4.762%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (52.38%) SQL Server
2 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (19.05%) MySQL
3 3 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (9.524%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (4.762%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) MSI
1 3 (14.29%) InstallShield
1 3 (14.29%) Selenium
1 3 (14.29%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 2 (9.524%) TestComplete
2 2 (9.524%) Rational Robot
3 1 (4.762%) Visual Studio
3 1 (4.762%) CruiseControl
3 1 (4.762%) TeamCity
3 1 (4.762%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (4.762%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.762%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (14.29%) Marketing
2 2 (9.524%) Advertising
3 1 (4.762%) Finance
3 1 (4.762%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (23.81%) Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Linux Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
2 4 (19.05%) Linux Administrator
3 3 (14.29%) Software Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Developer
4 2 (9.524%) Senior Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Microsoft Consultant
4 2 (9.524%) QA Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Senior QA Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) SharePoint Developer
5 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Security Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Technical Support Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Information Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Mobile App
2 4 (19.05%) Clustering
3 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 2 (9.524%) EPoS
4 2 (9.524%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (9.524%) Open Source
5 1 (4.762%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 13 (61.90%) Windows
2 6 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (23.81%) Linux
4 4 (19.05%) Debian
4 4 (19.05%) Ubuntu
4 4 (19.05%) CentOS
4 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (19.05%) Windows 7
5 2 (9.524%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) ITIL
1 5 (23.81%) Service Delivery
2 4 (19.05%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (19.05%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (14.29%) OOA/OOD
3 3 (14.29%) OO
3 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
3 3 (14.29%) Use Case
3 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
3 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (14.29%) Time Management
3 3 (14.29%) MVVM
4 2 (9.524%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (9.524%) Integration Testing
4 2 (9.524%) Scalability Testing
4 2 (9.524%) Software Testing
4 2 (9.524%) E-Commerce
4 2 (9.524%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.762%) Scrum
5 1 (4.762%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (52.38%) SQL
2 6 (28.57%) C#
3 4 (19.05%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) Perl
3 4 (19.05%) PHP
3 4 (19.05%) Python
3 4 (19.05%) Ruby
3 4 (19.05%) Bash shell
4 3 (14.29%) XAML
4 3 (14.29%) C++
5 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.524%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) ITIL Certification
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 2 (9.524%) MCSE
2 2 (9.524%) ISEB
2 2 (9.524%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (4.762%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.762%) MCP
3 1 (4.762%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) SLA
2 2 (9.524%) QA
3 1 (4.762%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.762%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.762%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (23.81%) vSphere
3 4 (19.05%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (19.05%) Hyper-V
3 4 (19.05%) VMware ESX
4 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (4.762%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (4.762%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) SCCM
1 1 (4.762%) SCVMM
1 1 (4.762%) Plesk
1 1 (4.762%) AppDNA
1 1 (4.762%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (42.86%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
3 4 (19.05%) JBoss
4 3 (14.29%) DevExpress
5 1 (4.762%) Symantec
5 1 (4.762%) Sitecore
5 1 (4.762%) Adobe
5 1 (4.762%) HP
5 1 (4.762%) Dell
5 1 (4.762%) EMC
5 1 (4.762%) Citrix
5 1 (4.762%) NetApp
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