ActiveX Contracts

Microsoft ActiveX
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring ActiveX skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ActiveX over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 695 826
Rank change year-on-year +113 +131 -105
Contract jobs citing ActiveX 2 2 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.004% 0.025%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.022% 0.016% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £534
25th Percentile - - £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - +79.69%
75th Percentile - - £609
90th Percentile - - £626
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 9,217 12,733 23,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 21.10% 22.93% 26.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,352 9,286 17,244
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £670
90th Percentile £775 £775 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 153 227
10th Percentile £22.20 £31.60 £22.50
25th Percentile £43.00 £51.25 £35.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £65.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +23.81% +16.67%
75th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £67.18
90th Percentile £74.48 £80.85 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +22.22%

ActiveX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ActiveX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ActiveX in the UK

ActiveX
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ActiveX.

Daily rate trend for ActiveX in the UK

ActiveX
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ActiveX.

Hourly rate trend for ActiveX in the UK

ActiveX
Top 2 Contract 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 12 June 2024. 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 +87 2 £250 - 1
London +83 2 £250 -

ActiveX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Support
1 2 (100.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Remote Support Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) ASP.NET
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VB
1 2 (100.00%) VBA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft