COM Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Component Object Model (COM)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring COM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 231 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COM 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.016% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.079% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £475 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.80 - -
England median hourly rate £46.80 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 1,265 684 878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 20.85% 20.99% 18.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 488 601
10th Percentile £358 £358 £350
25th Percentile £411 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £563 £567 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £694
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -3.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 8 28
10th Percentile £52.50 £65.25 £13.87
25th Percentile £55.75 £68.81 £21.13
Median hourly rate £67.50 £86.46 £46.03
Median % change year-on-year -21.93% +87.83% -26.35%
75th Percentile £74.26 £99.42 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.00 £102.00 £72.50
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

COM
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

COM job vacancy trend in the North of England

COM
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing COM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing COM

COM
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing COM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing COM

COM
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COM within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 April 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
North West - 1 - - 1
COM
England

COM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Rational Robot
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Coded UI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) C# Developer
1 1 (100.00%) C# Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) WinForms
1 1 (100.00%) WPF
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSD
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) VB
1 1 (100.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle