ActiveX Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Microsoft ActiveX
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands 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 152 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ActiveX 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.25% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.63% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £395 - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £437 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £425 £430 £250
% change year-on-year -1.16% +72.00% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
West 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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 491 232 275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.25% 16.71% 14.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 151 193
10th Percentile £350 £375 £313
25th Percentile £413 £416 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £573 £600 £638
90th Percentile £645 £689 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -1.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 9
10th Percentile £35.31 - £14.23
25th Percentile £56.50 £33.91 £39.92
Median hourly rate £59.33 £41.96 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.42% +4.89% -
75th Percentile £73.37 £50.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 - £60.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%

ActiveX
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

ActiveX job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

ActiveX
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

ActiveX
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for ActiveX in the West Midlands

ActiveX
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

ActiveX
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region 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
Shropshire - 8 £425 - 2
ActiveX
England

ActiveX
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West 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:

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