ActiveX Contract Job Trends

Microsoft ActiveX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring ActiveX skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 633 522 583
Rank change year-on-year -111 +61 +104
Contract jobs citing ActiveX 8 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.016% 0.003% 0.005%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.083% 0.015% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 2
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £430 £250
Median % change year-on-year -1.16% +72.00% -
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 9,587 6,543 9,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 19.60% 22.76% 21.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,291 4,496 6,268
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -2.34% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 281 106 251
10th Percentile £31.03 £28.29 £21.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £39.84 £43.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £73.00 £68.75 £65.64
90th Percentile £81.00 £81.18 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £48.43
% change year-on-year - +34.21% -25.49%

ActiveX
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ActiveX job vacancy trend in the UK

ActiveX
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

ActiveX
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ActiveX over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ActiveX in the UK

ActiveX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

ActiveX
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ActiveX within the UK over the 6 months to 29 May 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
England -118 8 £425 -1.16% 2
Midlands - 8 £425 - 2
West Midlands - 8 £425 - 2
UK excluding London - 8 £425 - 2
Work from Home -28 5 £425 -1.16%

ActiveX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Copilot
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Ingres
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (75.00%) Visual Studio
3 2 (25.00%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Developer
2 2 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (25.00%) VB Developer
2 2 (25.00%) VB6 Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) .NET Software Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) VB VBA Developer
3 1 (12.50%) VB.NET Developer
3 1 (12.50%) VBA Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (75.00%) SOAP
1 6 (75.00%) XML
2 2 (25.00%) ADO
2 2 (25.00%) COM
2 2 (25.00%) ODBC
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Low-Code
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Agile
1 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (25.00%) Migration
1 2 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (25.00%) Runbook
1 2 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
2 1 (12.50%) Model Validation
2 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) VB
1 8 (100.00%) VB6
2 6 (75.00%) VBA
3 4 (50.00%) Java
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
5 1 (12.50%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Actian