The first table below looks at the demand for ADO skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ADO over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
Rank 367 386 383
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -3
Contract jobs citing ADO 10 24 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.046% 0.089% 0.164%
As % of the Application Development category 0.159% 0.318% 0.538%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 38
Average daily rate £525 £525 £555
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 £310
% change year-on-year
- +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Application Development
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
6299 7537 9673
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 29.11% 27.99% 30.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4542 4965 6506
Average daily rate £405 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.25% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £280 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 106 137
Average hourly rate £40.00 £34.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+17.64% -2.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £15.90 £17.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £54.00 £47.50 £57.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ADO
England

ADO
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ADO across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

London ADO Jobs Demand Trend

ADO
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ADO across the London region.

London ADO Daily Rate Trend

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ADO across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London ADO Daily Rate Histogram

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ADO across the London region.

London ADO Hourly Rate Trend

ADO
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +11 5 £525 -
ADO
England

ADO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ADO also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ADO.

1 13 (68.42%) VBA
2 11 (57.89%) Banking
3 10 (52.63%) Finance
3 10 (52.63%) Oracle
4 9 (47.37%) .NET
5 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
5 8 (42.11%) C++
5 8 (42.11%) SQL
5 8 (42.11%) ODBC
6 7 (36.84%) C#
6 7 (36.84%) Systems Analysis
7 6 (31.58%) Investment Banking
7 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
8 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET
8 5 (26.32%) Front Office
8 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
8 5 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (21.05%) Reuters
9 4 (21.05%) MS Access
9 4 (21.05%) Windows
9 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
9 4 (21.05%) WCF
10 3 (15.79%) Silverlight
10 3 (15.79%) SQL Server 2005
10 3 (15.79%) SQL Server 2008
10 3 (15.79%) Financial Modelling
10 3 (15.79%) N-Tier
10 3 (15.79%) XML
10 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
10 3 (15.79%) Sybase

ADO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ADO also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ADO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (47.37%) .NET
2 8 (42.11%) ODBC
3 5 (26.32%) ASP.NET
4 4 (21.05%) .NET Framework
4 4 (21.05%) WCF
5 3 (15.79%) Silverlight
5 3 (15.79%) XML
5 3 (15.79%) DAO
6 2 (10.53%) Ajax
6 2 (10.53%) CSS
6 2 (10.53%) Razor View Engine
6 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (10.53%) LINQ
6 2 (10.53%) jQuery
7 1 (5.263%) Google Maps API
7 1 (5.263%) ASP.NET 2.0
7 1 (5.263%) soapUI
7 1 (5.263%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 1 (5.263%) Bing Maps
7 1 (5.263%) ActiveX
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) CMS
1 2 (10.53%) Windows Azure
2 1 (5.263%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
2 2 (10.53%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Bond Adapt
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.53%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (42.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) MS Access
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (15.79%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.263%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (5.263%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Selenium
1 1 (5.263%) JIRA
1 1 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (5.263%) Visual Studio
1 1 (5.263%) SilkTest
General
1 11 (57.89%) Banking
2 10 (52.63%) Finance
3 6 (31.58%) Investment Banking
4 5 (26.32%) Front Office
5 1 (5.263%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.263%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (73.68%) Developer
2 6 (31.58%) C++ Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) VBA Developer
4 3 (15.79%) Developer Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Excel Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Front Office Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (5.263%) Analyst Developer
6 1 (5.263%) SQL Developer
6 1 (5.263%) Access Developer
6 1 (5.263%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Excel VBA Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) N-Tier
2 2 (10.53%) Hedge funds
2 2 (10.53%) Credit Risk
3 1 (5.263%) Market Risk
3 1 (5.263%) Mathematics
3 1 (5.263%) Physics
3 1 (5.263%) Computer Science
3 1 (5.263%) Derivative
3 1 (5.263%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Systems Analysis
2 5 (26.32%) Risk Management
2 5 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (15.79%) Financial Modelling
4 2 (10.53%) Content Management
4 2 (10.53%) TDD
4 2 (10.53%) MVC
4 2 (10.53%) RAD
5 1 (5.263%) Fund Management
5 1 (5.263%) Test Automation
5 1 (5.263%) Product Management
5 1 (5.263%) ITIL
5 1 (5.263%) SOA
5 1 (5.263%) Change Management
5 1 (5.263%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (68.42%) VBA
2 8 (42.11%) C++
2 8 (42.11%) SQL
3 7 (36.84%) C#
4 3 (15.79%) T-SQL
5 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (5.263%) VC++
6 1 (5.263%) Python
6 1 (5.263%) MATLAB
6 1 (5.263%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (5.263%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (52.63%) Oracle
2 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
3 4 (21.05%) Reuters
4 3 (15.79%) Sybase
5 2 (10.53%) Bloomberg
6 1 (5.263%) Atlassian
6 1 (5.263%) UC4
6 1 (5.263%) Telerik
6 1 (5.263%) Google