ADO Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 0.29% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £613 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £575 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Bedfordshire

ADO falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 41 12 20
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 11.92% 7.59% 8.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 8 14
10th Percentile £425 £408 £363
25th Percentile £500 £494 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £513 £563
Median % change year-on-year +12.20% -8.89% +8.17%
75th Percentile £606 £541 £742
90th Percentile £638 £687 £756
East of England median daily rate £550 £495 £499
% change year-on-year +11.11% -0.75% -4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £62.97 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £81.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £80.68 £43.00
% change year-on-year -19.43% +87.62% -33.85%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ADO relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

ADO job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing ADO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing ADO

ADO
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Luton - 1 £575 -
ADO
East of England

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budget Management
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) PMI Certification
1 1 (100.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PMO