Hybrid/Remote COM Contract Job Trends

Component Object Model (COM)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring COM skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 326 - 345
Rank change year-on-year - - +119
Contract jobs citing COM 4 0 1
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.033% - 0.006%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.14% - 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £253 - -
25th Percentile £331 - £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - £350
Median % change year-on-year - - -36.36%
75th Percentile £529 - £375
90th Percentile £564 - -
UK median daily rate £475 - £350
% change year-on-year - - -26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £46.80 - -
UK median hourly rate £46.80 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options 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 2,913 2,572 3,684
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 24.32% 25.63% 23.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,935 1,869 2,568
10th Percentile £356 £365 £331
25th Percentile £419 £425 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.78%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £775
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 30 81
10th Percentile £46.00 £50.75 £24.00
25th Percentile £61.25 £61.25 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +51.16% -33.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £71.38 £62.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £94.23 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year - +40.75% -28.95%

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Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing COM and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

COM job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

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Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing COM.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing COM

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Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing COM over the 6 months to 25 April 2026.

COM daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

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Hourly Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing COM.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing COM

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) InDesign
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Figma
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Google Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) HTTP
1 1 (25.00%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (25.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (25.00%) GIS
2 1 (25.00%) Ingres
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Database
2 1 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Git
2 2 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (25.00%) ClearCase
3 1 (25.00%) MSI
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (25.00%) Rational Robot
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Coded UI
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
3 1 (25.00%) webpack
General
1 1 (25.00%) Publishing
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C++ Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 2 (50.00%) Entity Framework
3 1 (25.00%) ActiveX
3 1 (25.00%) ADO
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (25.00%) ATL
3 1 (25.00%) Blazor
3 1 (25.00%) GeoJSON
3 1 (25.00%) MFC
3 1 (25.00%) ODBC
3 1 (25.00%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (25.00%) SignalR
3 1 (25.00%) WPF
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) XSD
3 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (25.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) SOLID
2 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) VB
2 2 (50.00%) VB6
3 1 (25.00%) Bicep
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Actian
2 1 (25.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Google
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft