COM Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Component Object Model (COM)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring COM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COM 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.11% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.78% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £457 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 - -
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £515 - -
England median daily rate £492 £750 £350
% change year-on-year -34.40% +114.29% -39.13%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 644 397 434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.69% 18.80% 15.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 286 294
10th Percentile £372 £306 £288
25th Percentile £413 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £450 £490
Median % change year-on-year +9.44% -8.07% +3.05%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £618
90th Percentile £645 £638 £709
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 14 18
10th Percentile £23.42 - £10.90
25th Percentile £43.25 £33.91 £14.16
Median hourly rate £58.00 £50.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +16.00% +90.48% -
75th Percentile £69.25 - £51.25
90th Percentile £77.50 - £57.38
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £48.43
% change year-on-year +4.00% +29.05% -25.49%

COM
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

COM job vacancy trend in the Midlands

COM
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

COM
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

COM
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 COM within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 June 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 - 5 £473 - 4
COM
England

COM
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Tuxedo
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub
1 4 (80.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 3 (60.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) Ingres
1 5 (100.00%) RDBMS
1 5 (100.00%) Relational Database
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle Forms
1 5 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) ADO
1 5 (100.00%) ODBC
2 2 (40.00%) ActiveX
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 5 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 5 (100.00%) Migration
1 5 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Runbook
1 5 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 4 (80.00%) Model Validation
2 4 (80.00%) Validation
3 2 (40.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
1 5 (100.00%) VB
1 5 (100.00%) VB6
2 2 (40.00%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Oracle
2 4 (80.00%) Actian