The first table below looks at the demand for COM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited COM over the 3 months to 20 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 150 149 140
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -9
Permanent jobs citing COM 10 8 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.299% 0.240% 0.445%
As % of the Application Development category 0.740% 0.683% 1.277%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 11
Average salary £33,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -14.28%
UK excluding London average salary £39,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-1.25% -
All Application Development
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1352 1172 1253
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 40.45% 35.20% 34.82%
Number of salaries quoted 882 899 930
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £29,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
- +2.73%
COM
UK

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland COM Salary Trend

COM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing COM across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Scotland COM Salary Histogram

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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow -14 7 £32,500 -40.90% 3
Aberdeen - 1 £40,000 - 3
Edinburgh - 1 £42,500 - 4
COM
UK

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (45.00%) MS Excel
3 8 (40.00%) HTTP
3 8 (40.00%) .NET
4 7 (35.00%) C#
4 7 (35.00%) Finance
5 5 (25.00%) XML
5 5 (25.00%) Unit Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Oracle
6 4 (20.00%) SQL
6 4 (20.00%) Windows
6 4 (20.00%) Workflow
7 3 (15.00%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (15.00%) VB.NET
7 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
7 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
7 3 (15.00%) MS Office
7 3 (15.00%) Advertising
7 3 (15.00%) ERP
7 3 (15.00%) Project Management
7 3 (15.00%) OOXML
7 3 (15.00%) WPF
7 3 (15.00%) Dynamics AX
7 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 3 (15.00%) CMS
7 3 (15.00%) Equities
8 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (10.00%) Banking
8 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
8 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 (40.00%) .NET
2 5 (25.00%) XML
3 3 (15.00%) OOXML
3 3 (15.00%) WPF
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
4 2 (10.00%) WCF
5 1 (5.000%) HTML
5 1 (5.000%) ASP
5 1 (5.000%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (5.000%) Silverlight
5 1 (5.000%) WebSphere
5 1 (5.000%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) CMS
2 2 (10.00%) Sitecore CMS
2 2 (10.00%) Umbraco
2 2 (10.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (5.000%) IIS
3 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (5.000%) TIBCO EMS
3 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 9 (45.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (15.00%) MS Office
3 2 (10.00%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) HTTP
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.000%) DNS
3 1 (5.000%) Broadband
3 1 (5.000%) FTP
3 1 (5.000%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (10.00%) SQLPlus
3 1 (5.000%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle 9i
3 1 (5.000%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (5.000%) RDBMS
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (5.000%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (5.000%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 1 (5.000%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Advertising
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
1 5 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (15.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Developer
3 2 (10.00%) WPF Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Support Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) DBA
4 1 (5.000%) Development Manager
4 1 (5.000%) Senior Developer
4 1 (5.000%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (5.000%) Field Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Field Service Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.000%) Software Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Equities
2 2 (10.00%) Fixed Income
2 2 (10.00%) Economics
3 1 (5.000%) Derivative
3 1 (5.000%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (5.000%) Symmetrix DMX
3 1 (5.000%) Replication
3 1 (5.000%) Symmetrix
3 1 (5.000%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.000%) UNIX
3 1 (5.000%) Linux
3 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.000%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 4 (20.00%) Workflow
3 3 (15.00%) ERP
3 3 (15.00%) Project Management
4 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (10.00%) Scrum
4 2 (10.00%) Waterfall
4 2 (10.00%) Resource Management
4 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (5.000%) Service Management
5 1 (5.000%) Change Management
5 1 (5.000%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (5.000%) RDF
5 1 (5.000%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.000%) High Availability
5 1 (5.000%) Analytics
5 1 (5.000%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) C#
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) VB.NET
3 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
4 2 (10.00%) X++
4 2 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) VBA
5 1 (5.000%) T-SQL
5 1 (5.000%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.000%) Postgraduate
1 1 (5.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.000%) HL7
1 1 (5.000%) DICOM
System Software
1 1 (5.000%) NFS
1 1 (5.000%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.000%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 1 (5.000%) WMI
1 1 (5.000%) Ionix
1 1 (5.000%) Data Guard
1 1 (5.000%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (5.000%) EMC TimeFinder
1 1 (5.000%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 20 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Sitecore
4 1 (5.000%) Cisco
4 1 (5.000%) IBM
4 1 (5.000%) Sun
4 1 (5.000%) EMC
4 1 (5.000%) NetApp
4 1 (5.000%) StorageTek
4 1 (5.000%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.000%) TIBCO
4 1 (5.000%) Brocade
4 1 (5.000%) VMware
Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Mid Level Project Manager -Dunfermline- £30,000 An international retail company are urgently looking for a project manager to join them in their office to work with the...
Computer Futures
Salary: £28000 - £30000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 5 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
They have a number of greenfield projects going on at the moment, and the successful candidate will be working with the latest .NET Techs and will be working...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
Senior .NET Developer - Edinburgh - c£45kSenior .NET DeveloperEdinburghc£45kThe primary function of the Senior Software Engineer (.NET/WPF/XAML) is to lead the GUI development within an innovative...
Annapurna HR
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
Job Type: PermanentSalary: £50000-£60000 per annum plus an excellent benefits packageLocation: Aberdeen, Scotland.Contact Name: Brian ConnollyTelephone: 0191 230 1883Reference: BC1802A remarkable opportunity has opened up with...
Nigel Frank International Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + plus an incredible benefits package
Posted: 6 June 2013
Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire
Create Detailed Level Designs and Installation and Configuration Guides; develop build scripts along with Proof of Concept and User Acceptance Testing environments... This role will be primarily focused...
Eutopia Solutions Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Salary: £23000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Dundee, Scotland
Computer Futures
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
Aberdeen City, Scotland
Networkers
Salary: Up to UKP 50000 per year
Posted: 4 June 2013
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