The first table below looks at the demand for ADO skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ADO over the 3 months to 21 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 South East 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
Rank - 242 -
Contract jobs citing ADO 0 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - 0.030% -
As % of the Application Development category - 0.129% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £350 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £350 £300
% change year-on-year
- +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £25.00 -
All Application Development
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
1954 2318 2690
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 24.67% 22.82% 26.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1020 1151 1233
Average daily rate £350 £328 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.87% +0.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 105 196
Average hourly rate £35.00 £35.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.89%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £17.60 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £40.00 £45.00
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region.

South East ADO Hourly Rate Trend

ADO
Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure

ADO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Azure
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#