The first table below looks at the demand for ADO skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ADO over the 3 months to 17 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
Rank 758 805 788
Rank change year-on-year
+47 -17
Permanent jobs citing ADO 72 58 71
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.071% 0.051% 0.061%
As % of the Application Development category 0.175% 0.121% 0.150%
Number of salaries quoted 58 55 64
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,750 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £49,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £36,750 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.04% -2.00%
All Application Development
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
41189 48023 47407
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 40.84% 42.28% 40.55%
Number of salaries quoted 36199 42918 42019
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
ADO
UK

ADO
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England ADO Jobs Demand Trend

ADO
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ADO across the England region.

England ADO Salary Trend

ADO
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ADO across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England ADO Salary Histogram

ADO
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
South East +38 40 £37,500 +4.16%
London +32 16 £55,000 -
East of England +8 7 £35,000 -6.66%
South West -9 4 £42,500 +14.86%
Yorkshire - 3 £22,000 -
North West -3 1 £21,500 -28.33%
West Midlands - 1 £52,500 -
ADO
UK

ADO
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ADO.

1 108 (83.72%) SQL Server
2 102 (79.07%) SQL
3 96 (74.42%) C#
4 79 (61.24%) T-SQL
5 77 (59.69%) Windows
6 73 (56.59%) C++
7 70 (54.26%) SQL Server 2008
8 69 (53.49%) Java
9 62 (48.06%) OO
9 62 (48.06%) SQL Server 2005
10 48 (37.21%) SOAP
11 38 (29.46%) ATL
11 38 (29.46%) MFC
12 37 (28.68%) MS Excel
12 37 (28.68%) TCP/IP
13 36 (27.91%) .NET
14 26 (20.16%) Agile Software Development
15 24 (18.60%) Microsoft
16 22 (17.05%) VBA
17 21 (16.28%) Web Development
18 19 (14.73%) ASP.NET
19 18 (13.95%) MS Access
20 16 (12.40%) Ajax
20 16 (12.40%) Visual Studio
20 16 (12.40%) HTML
21 15 (11.63%) CSS
21 15 (11.63%) Web Services
22 14 (10.85%) VB
23 12 (9.302%) DAO
24 11 (8.527%) VB.NET

ADO
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ADO. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 48 (37.21%) SOAP
2 38 (29.46%) MFC
2 38 (29.46%) ATL
3 36 (27.91%) .NET
4 19 (14.73%) ASP.NET
5 16 (12.40%) HTML
5 16 (12.40%) Ajax
6 15 (11.63%) Web Services
6 15 (11.63%) CSS
7 12 (9.302%) DAO
8 10 (7.752%) XML
8 10 (7.752%) ASP
8 10 (7.752%) WCF
9 9 (6.977%) jQuery
9 9 (6.977%) .NET Framework
10 8 (6.202%) WPF
11 6 (4.651%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 6 (4.651%) ODBC
12 5 (3.876%) ASP.NET MVC
13 4 (3.101%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 10 (7.752%) IIS
2 6 (4.651%) MSMQ
3 4 (3.101%) Windows Azure
4 2 (1.550%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 37 (28.68%) MS Excel
2 4 (3.101%) MS Visio
2 4 (3.101%) MS Office
3 3 (2.326%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.775%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.326%) Visualfiles
1 3 (2.326%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (2.326%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 37 (28.68%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.876%) Intranet
3 4 (3.101%) Internet
4 1 (0.775%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 108 (83.72%) SQL Server
2 70 (54.26%) SQL Server 2008
3 62 (48.06%) SQL Server 2005
4 18 (13.95%) MS Access
5 5 (3.876%) MySQL
5 5 (3.876%) SQL Server 2000
5 5 (3.876%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 5 (3.876%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (3.101%) RDBMS
6 4 (3.101%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 4 (3.101%) Oracle 9i
7 3 (2.326%) TOAD
7 3 (2.326%) SQLPlus
7 3 (2.326%) Big Data
8 2 (1.550%) Oracle 11g
8 2 (1.550%) DTS
8 2 (1.550%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.775%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.775%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.775%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 16 (12.40%) Visual Studio
2 10 (7.752%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (3.101%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 3 (2.326%) FitNesse
4 3 (2.326%) Dreamweaver
4 3 (2.326%) NUnit
4 3 (2.326%) Moq
5 2 (1.550%) SilkTest
5 2 (1.550%) JIRA
5 2 (1.550%) Selenium
6 1 (0.775%) Expression Blend
6 1 (0.775%) Oracle Forms
General
1 10 (7.752%) Finance
2 6 (4.651%) Retail
3 5 (3.876%) Marketing
4 4 (3.101%) Front Office
5 3 (2.326%) Advertising
6 2 (1.550%) Back Office
6 2 (1.550%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 111 (86.05%) Developer
2 65 (50.39%) C++ Developer
3 24 (18.60%) Software Engineer
4 23 (17.83%) Programmer
5 21 (16.28%) C++ Programmer
6 18 (13.95%) C++ Software Engineer
7 17 (13.18%) .NET Developer
7 17 (13.18%) C++/C# Developer
8 14 (10.85%) Software Developer
9 11 (8.527%) Senior Developer
9 11 (8.527%) C# Developer
10 10 (7.752%) Web Developer
11 9 (6.977%) Analyst
11 9 (6.977%) C++ Software Developer
12 8 (6.202%) .NET Web Developer
13 6 (4.651%) Applications Developer
14 5 (3.876%) Systems Analyst
14 5 (3.876%) Team Leader
14 5 (3.876%) C++ Team Leader
14 5 (3.876%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.326%) Replication
1 3 (2.326%) Fixed Income
1 3 (2.326%) Equities
1 3 (2.326%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (1.550%) Client/Server
2 2 (1.550%) N-Tier
3 1 (0.775%) W3C
3 1 (0.775%) Management Information System
3 1 (0.775%) PDA
3 1 (0.775%) Statistics
3 1 (0.775%) Clustering
3 1 (0.775%) Mathematics
3 1 (0.775%) Physics
3 1 (0.775%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.775%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 77 (59.69%) Windows
2 2 (1.550%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (48.06%) OO
2 26 (20.16%) Agile Software Development
3 21 (16.28%) Web Development
4 10 (7.752%) Systems Analysis
5 9 (6.977%) CRM
6 8 (6.202%) TDD
7 7 (5.426%) Database Security
8 6 (4.651%) System Testing
8 6 (4.651%) SOA
9 5 (3.876%) MVC
9 5 (3.876%) Risk Management
9 5 (3.876%) Software Engineering
9 5 (3.876%) User Acceptance Testing
10 4 (3.101%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (3.101%) Scrum
10 4 (3.101%) Workflow
10 4 (3.101%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (3.101%) UML
10 4 (3.101%) OOP
10 4 (3.101%) OOA/OOD
Programming Languages
1 102 (79.07%) SQL
2 96 (74.42%) C#
3 79 (61.24%) T-SQL
4 73 (56.59%) C++
5 69 (53.49%) Java
6 22 (17.05%) VBA
7 14 (10.85%) VB
8 11 (8.527%) VB.NET
9 7 (5.426%) JavaScript
9 7 (5.426%) PL/SQL
10 6 (4.651%) PHP
10 6 (4.651%) VBScript
11 5 (3.876%) VB6
12 4 (3.101%) XAML
13 3 (2.326%) Python
14 1 (0.775%) Smalltalk
14 1 (0.775%) VC++
14 1 (0.775%) Ruby
14 1 (0.775%) Groovy
14 1 (0.775%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 5 (3.876%) Degree
2 1 (0.775%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.977%) QA
2 1 (0.775%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.775%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 1 (0.775%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 24 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.527%) Oracle
3 5 (3.876%) MKS
4 3 (2.326%) Google
4 3 (2.326%) Adobe
5 2 (1.550%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.550%) Telerik
6 1 (0.775%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.775%) Business Objects
Stockton-on-Tees, North East
Software Engineer (VB6, ADO, SQL Server), Stockton-On-TeesI have fantastic opportunity for an experienced and skilled Developer (VB6, ADO, SQL Server) to provide software development for a...
Mint
Salary: £1 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
A London (City) based fund manager are currently seeking an Excel VBA Developer to join their specialist internal tactical Excel VBA team, that operate throughout the business, including...
Bond Mckenzie
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum + Competitive City Bonus, Pension +
Posted: 13 May 2013