ActiveX Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Microsoft ActiveX
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring ActiveX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ActiveX 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.030% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.16% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 - -
England median daily rate £530 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

ActiveX 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 626 393 364
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 18.86% 18.23% 14.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 416 248 257
10th Percentile £360 £355 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.10% +11.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £686 £716 £680
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 8
10th Percentile £20.25 - £10.90
25th Percentile £25.09 £26.25 £15.57
Median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £19.89
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% +38.28% +14.74%
75th Percentile £50.00 £28.75 £38.94
90th Percentile £77.25 - £58.70
England median hourly rate £60.50 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -3.20% +13.64% -15.38%

ActiveX
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ActiveX relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

ActiveX job vacancy trend in the Midlands

ActiveX
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ActiveX.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ActiveX

ActiveX
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ActiveX.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ActiveX

ActiveX
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveX within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 1 £530 - 1
ActiveX
England

ActiveX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Ingres
1 1 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 1 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
1 1 (100.00%) COM
1 1 (100.00%) ODBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle