COM Contracts in London

Component Object Model (COM)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring COM skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited COM over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 381 449 610
Rank change year-on-year +68 +161 -56
Contract jobs citing COM 4 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.025% 0.027% 0.010%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.089% 0.11% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - £436
25th Percentile £325 £563 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -41.67% +6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £375 £626 £644
90th Percentile - £749 £689
England median daily rate £575 £600 £530
% change year-on-year -4.17% +13.21% +17.78%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
London

COM falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 4,473 5,696 12,160
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.48% 25.89% 31.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,055 4,241 9,129
10th Percentile £375 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £481 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £724 £713 £725
90th Percentile £850 £810 £800
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 41 28
10th Percentile £23.84 £35.00 £35.88
25th Percentile £36.25 £36.54 £47.66
Median hourly rate £42.50 £63.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.54% +2.44% +26.05%
75th Percentile £59.51 £75.00 £67.97
90th Percentile £74.00 £86.56 £75.39
England median hourly rate £63.36 £60.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +5.59% -7.69% +32.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing COM as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for COM in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing COM in London.

Daily rate trend for COM in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing COM in London.

Hourly rate trend for COM in London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) eggPlant
1 3 (75.00%) Git
1 3 (75.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (75.00%) NUnit
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) SpecFlow
1 3 (75.00%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Test Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (75.00%) WPF
2 1 (25.00%) NumPy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) BDD
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (75.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (75.00%) Data Management
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) OOP
1 3 (75.00%) TDD
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) MATLAB
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Keysight