Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ADO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited ADO over the 6 months to 20 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 843 930 1034
Rank change year-on-year +87 +104 -177
Permanent jobs citing ADO 55 58 156
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.055% 0.10%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.26% 0.18% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 32 34 116
10th Percentile £52,500 £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £60,875 £50,625 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £72,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.17% +20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £89,688 £82,500 £105,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,125 £112,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% +14.29% +5.00%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 20,870 32,377 61,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 21.50% 30.49% 39.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15,647 19,774 30,593
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +8.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £106,250 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing ADO.

Salary trend for ADO in the UK

ADO
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ADO over the 6 months to 20 April 2024.

Salary histogram for ADO in the UK

ADO
Top 11 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +125 41 £77,500 +16.98% 17
UK excluding London +16 31 £75,000 +25.00% 14
Work from Home +106 28 £85,000 +13.33% 16
London +167 20 £80,000 -8.57% 3
South East +24 10 £65,000 -10.34% 5
North of England +67 9 £58,375 +15.59% 2
Yorkshire +91 8 £55,000 +8.91% 2
Wales - 8 - - 1
Scotland - 4 £75,000 - 2
East of England - 3 £85,000 -
North West +20 1 £61,750 -

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 5 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.45%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (3.64%) NEC Housing
4 1 (1.82%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 33 (60.00%) Azure
2 26 (47.27%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (30.91%) Dynamics 365
4 16 (29.09%) Power Platform
5 11 (20.00%) Power Automate
6 7 (12.73%) SaaS
7 6 (10.91%) GCP
8 4 (7.27%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (5.45%) AWS
9 3 (5.45%) GitHub
9 3 (5.45%) PowerApps
10 2 (3.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (3.64%) Serverless
11 1 (1.82%) Azure App Service
11 1 (1.82%) Azure Functions
11 1 (1.82%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.82%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (1.82%) Miro
11 1 (1.82%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.91%) Power BI
2 2 (3.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.82%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.82%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Git
2 9 (16.36%) JIRA
3 4 (7.27%) Bitbucket
4 3 (5.45%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 3 (5.45%) Zephyr
5 2 (3.64%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.82%) Bitbucket Server
6 1 (1.82%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.82%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.82%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.82%) JUnit
6 1 (1.82%) Maven
6 1 (1.82%) Selenium
6 1 (1.82%) Serenity BDD
6 1 (1.82%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.82%) TestNG
6 1 (1.82%) Vagrant
General
1 12 (21.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.55%) Legal
3 6 (10.91%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Banking
5 2 (3.64%) Finance
6 1 (1.82%) Electronics
6 1 (1.82%) Front Office
6 1 (1.82%) German Language
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Marketing
6 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.82%) Retail
6 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (18.18%) Developer
2 9 (16.36%) CRM Developer
3 8 (14.55%) Dynamics CRM Developer
4 7 (12.73%) Project Manager
5 6 (10.91%) Architect
5 6 (10.91%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Cloud Network Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Network Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (7.27%) Applications Engineer
7 4 (7.27%) Senior
7 4 (7.27%) Test Manager
8 3 (5.45%) Lead
8 3 (5.45%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Operations Engineer
9 2 (3.64%) IT Manager
9 2 (3.64%) Power Platform Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.55%) CSS
1 8 (14.55%) HTML
1 8 (14.55%) HTML5 Canvas
2 3 (5.45%) .NET
3 2 (3.64%) EDI
3 2 (3.64%) Express.js
3 2 (3.64%) MERN Stack
3 2 (3.64%) Node.js
3 2 (3.64%) React
4 1 (1.82%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.82%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.82%) JSON
4 1 (1.82%) REST
4 1 (1.82%) RESTful
4 1 (1.82%) SOAP
4 1 (1.82%) Web Services
4 1 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 8 (14.55%) Virtual Team
3 5 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.27%) Algorithms
4 4 (7.27%) Data Structures
4 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 4 (7.27%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (5.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.45%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (3.64%) Housing Association
6 2 (3.64%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.82%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.27%) Windows
2 3 (5.45%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (60.00%) DevOps
2 24 (43.64%) Agile
3 17 (30.91%) CRM
4 15 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 15 (27.27%) Configuration Management
5 13 (23.64%) Roadmaps
6 12 (21.82%) Customer Service
6 12 (21.82%) DevSecOps
6 12 (21.82%) Mentoring
7 11 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (18.18%) Project Delivery
9 9 (16.36%) Software Engineering
10 8 (14.55%) Coaching
10 8 (14.55%) Data Management
10 8 (14.55%) Decision-Making
10 8 (14.55%) ETL
10 8 (14.55%) Information Security
10 8 (14.55%) Project Management
10 8 (14.55%) Scrum
10 8 (14.55%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 11 (20.00%) C#
2 10 (18.18%) Python
3 9 (16.36%) TypeScript
4 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
4 5 (9.09%) Shell Script
4 5 (9.09%) SQL
5 4 (7.27%) Ruby
6 2 (3.64%) Bicep
6 2 (3.64%) Go
6 2 (3.64%) Java
6 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.82%) Bash
7 1 (1.82%) VB
7 1 (1.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (21.82%) Degree
2 8 (14.55%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (9.09%) CCNA
3 5 (9.09%) CCNP
3 5 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (7.27%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.27%) Numerate Degree
5 2 (3.64%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.64%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) QA
2 2 (3.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.82%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.82%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (9.09%) Docker
2 2 (3.64%) Hyper-V
2 2 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (12.73%) Ansible
2 6 (10.91%) Terraform
3 5 (9.09%) Kubernetes
4 4 (7.27%) Puppet
5 1 (1.82%) Consul
5 1 (1.82%) Packer
5 1 (1.82%) Podman
5 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.82%) Salt
5 1 (1.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (47.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.45%) Salesforce
3 3 (5.45%) Workday
4 2 (3.64%) Databricks
4 2 (3.64%) NEC
4 2 (3.64%) SAP
5 1 (1.82%) Ariba
5 1 (1.82%) Google
5 1 (1.82%) Progress
5 1 (1.82%) Rapid7