Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ADO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ADO over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 484 544 600
Rank change year-on-year +60 +56 -14
Contract jobs citing ADO 114 176 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.29% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.28% 1.26% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 107 162
10th Percentile £375 £410 £401
25th Percentile £411 £474 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
75th Percentile £631 £669 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +10.00% -5.88% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
UK

ADO is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 8,876 13,931 24,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 20.50% 23.29% 27.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,162 10,182 17,689
10th Percentile £338 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £660
90th Percentile £767 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 153 242
10th Percentile £20.91 £31.60 £21.10
25th Percentile £39.98 £48.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £64.94
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.85 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -26.92% +32.65% +8.89%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ADO in the UK

ADO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ADO in the UK

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the UK

ADO
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ADO in the UK

ADO
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +83 107 £500 -9.09% 17
London +70 74 £500 -16.67% 4
Work from Home +101 33 £550 - 14
UK excluding London +46 32 £550 +10.00% 15
South East +19 14 - - 4
West Midlands +32 8 £650 +30.00% 4
Midlands +23 8 £650 +30.00% 5
North of England +32 6 £413 -24.91% 2
Yorkshire +22 6 £413 -38.81% 2
South West +24 3 £625 -10.71% 2
Wales - 1 - - 2

ADO
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (1.75%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.88%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.63%) Trello
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.88%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.88%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.88%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.88%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.88%) SAP Travel Management
2 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 56 (49.12%) Azure
2 28 (24.56%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (14.04%) AWS
4 14 (12.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (7.89%) Power Platform
6 8 (7.02%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.39%) dbt
7 5 (4.39%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.51%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.51%) GitHub
8 4 (3.51%) Power Automate
8 4 (3.51%) Serverless
9 3 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.63%) Miro
10 2 (1.75%) Azure AKS
10 2 (1.75%) Oracle CX
10 2 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.63%) Internet
2 1 (0.88%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.39%) Power BI
2 4 (3.51%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.51%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.63%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.75%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.88%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.88%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 41 (35.96%) JIRA
2 9 (7.89%) Selenium
3 8 (7.02%) JMeter
4 5 (4.39%) Git
5 4 (3.51%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.75%) GitLab
6 2 (1.75%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.88%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.88%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.88%) NUnit
7 1 (0.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 28 (24.56%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.68%) Finance
3 12 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (5.26%) Banking
6 5 (4.39%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Back Office
7 3 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.63%) Wholesale Banking
8 2 (1.75%) Billing
8 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Front Office
8 2 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.75%) Retail
9 1 (0.88%) Legal
9 1 (0.88%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (13.16%) Analyst
2 12 (10.53%) Tester
3 9 (7.89%) Developer
3 9 (7.89%) Manual Tester
3 9 (7.89%) Test Manager
4 8 (7.02%) Applications Engineer
4 8 (7.02%) Lead
4 8 (7.02%) Testing Manager
5 7 (6.14%) Project Manager
5 7 (6.14%) Test Analyst
6 5 (4.39%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.39%) Software Engineer
7 4 (3.51%) Dynamics 365 Developer
7 4 (3.51%) Integration Developer
7 4 (3.51%) Scrum Master
7 4 (3.51%) Senior
8 3 (2.63%) AWS Engineer
8 3 (2.63%) Azure Architect
8 3 (2.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 3 (2.63%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.14%) .NET
2 5 (4.39%) .NET Core
3 4 (3.51%) JSON
3 4 (3.51%) Node.js
3 4 (3.51%) React
3 4 (3.51%) XML
4 3 (2.63%) ARM Templates
4 3 (2.63%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (2.63%) Flask
4 3 (2.63%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.63%) Pandas
4 3 (2.63%) pytest
4 3 (2.63%) YAML
5 1 (0.88%) Jest
5 1 (0.88%) JWT
5 1 (0.88%) MERN Stack
5 1 (0.88%) Next.js
5 1 (0.88%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.88%) Tailwind CSS
5 1 (0.88%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.40%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.51%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.88%) Solar Panel
5 1 (0.88%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.65%) Linux
2 9 (7.89%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.63%) Android
3 3 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.63%) Unix
4 2 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (45.61%) DevOps
2 42 (36.84%) Agile
3 21 (18.42%) Test Management
4 19 (16.67%) Project Management
5 18 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
6 17 (14.91%) Scrum
7 14 (12.28%) CI/CD
7 14 (12.28%) Defect Management
7 14 (12.28%) Project Delivery
7 14 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (11.40%) Scenario Testing
8 13 (11.40%) User Acceptance Testing
9 11 (9.65%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (9.65%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (9.65%) SDLC
10 10 (8.77%) Data Modelling
10 10 (8.77%) Test Automation
10 10 (8.77%) Validation
11 9 (7.89%) Programme Management
12 8 (7.02%) Application Packaging
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.04%) C#
2 13 (11.40%) Python
2 13 (11.40%) SQL
3 11 (9.65%) C++
4 10 (8.77%) Java
5 6 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.51%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.51%) X++
8 2 (1.75%) Bicep
9 1 (0.88%) Bash
9 1 (0.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (7.02%) Degree
2 4 (3.51%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.63%) PMP
4 2 (1.75%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.75%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
4 2 (1.75%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) PMO
3 2 (1.75%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (7.02%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.63%) Terraform
3 2 (1.75%) Grafana
3 2 (1.75%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.88%) Ansible
Vendors
1 18 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 8 (7.02%) Oracle
3 5 (4.39%) Salesforce
3 5 (4.39%) SAP
4 4 (3.51%) Informatica
5 3 (2.63%) Workday
6 2 (1.75%) Genesys
7 1 (0.88%) Apple
7 1 (0.88%) Cadence
7 1 (0.88%) Databricks
7 1 (0.88%) Dynatrace
7 1 (0.88%) JDA
7 1 (0.88%) Planview
7 1 (0.88%) Splunk