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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Component Object Model (COM)
Rank 92 97 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Permanent jobs citing COM 3 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 0.242% 0.087% -
As % of the Application Development category 0.550% 0.225% -
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 0
Average salary £28,500 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.30% -
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -
All Application Development
Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
545 445 451
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wales 44.02% 38.49% 44.13%
Number of salaries quoted 500 400 418
Average salary £32,500 £31,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.17% -16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,800 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £52,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
COM
UK

COM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales 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 Wales region.

Wales COM Salary Trend

COM
Salary Histogram

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

Wales 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 Wales region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
South Wales - 3 £28,500 -
COM
UK

COM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CGI
3 2 (40.00%) Symantec
3 2 (40.00%) Remedy
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) UNIX
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
3 2 (40.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (40.00%) Backup Exec
3 2 (40.00%) Local Government
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2000
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
4 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
4 1 (20.00%) MDX
4 1 (20.00%) ReSharper
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (20.00%) Human Factors

COM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wales 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 3 (60.00%) CGI
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (20.00%) MDX
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (20.00%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Castle Windsor
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (20.00%) Razor View Engine
2 1 (20.00%) .NET
2 1 (20.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2000
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint Server
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (20.00%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) OLAP
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (20.00%) ReSharper
1 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 2 (40.00%) Local Government
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Business Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support
2 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence Developer
2 1 (20.00%) BizTalk Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Design Authority
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (20.00%) Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) Human Factors
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) UNIX
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) OO
1 1 (20.00%) CRM
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (20.00%) MVC
1 1 (20.00%) Scrum
1 1 (20.00%) TDD
1 1 (20.00%) Content Management
1 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (20.00%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (20.00%) C
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (20.00%) MCP
3 1 (20.00%) MCSE
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Terminal Services
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) XenServer
2 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (20.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) vCloud
2 1 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (20.00%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (40.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (40.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (20.00%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (20.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Symantec
2 2 (40.00%) Remedy
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee
3 1 (20.00%) Sophos
3 1 (20.00%) Sitecore
3 1 (20.00%) HP
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle