The first table below looks at the demand for ADO skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland - - -
As % of the Application Development category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 £310
% change year-on-year
- +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Application Development
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
809 411 564
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 33.14% 15.57% 20.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 175 292
Average daily rate £350 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £210 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £400 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 15 4
Average hourly rate £43.25 £31.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+39.51% +77.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.50 £27.50 £14.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £32.50 £21.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%
ADO
UK

ADO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland ADO Daily Rate Trend

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland ADO Hourly Rate Trend

ADO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) DCOM
2 2 (66.67%) ODBC
2 2 (66.67%) RAD
2 2 (66.67%) ActiveX
2 2 (66.67%) VB
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
2 2 (66.67%) DTS
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (33.33%) X++
3 1 (33.33%) MorphX
3 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Epicor
3 1 (33.33%) JD Edwards

ADO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (66.67%) DCOM
2 2 (66.67%) ODBC
2 2 (66.67%) ActiveX
3 1 (33.33%) ADO.NET
3 1 (33.33%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics NAV
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics AX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DTS
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MorphX
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Applications Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Applications Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) RAD
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Management
2 1 (33.33%) ERP
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) VB
2 2 (66.67%) VB.NET
3 1 (33.33%) X++
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Epicor
1 1 (33.33%) JD Edwards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP