COM Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Component Object Model (COM)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire 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 74 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing COM 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.74% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 6.33% - -
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 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £473 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 79 22 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 11.70% 15.38% 3.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 19 4
10th Percentile £400 £401 £453
25th Percentile £421 £456 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -4.62% -14.85%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £515
90th Percentile £670 £549 £521
West Midlands median daily rate £489 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £60.33 - -
Median hourly rate £60.67 - -
75th Percentile £61.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £60.67 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.33% +25.00% -

COM
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

COM job vacancy trend in Shropshire

COM
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing COM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing COM

COM
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing COM within the Shropshire 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
Telford - 5 £473 - 3
COM
West Midlands

COM
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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