ADO Contracts in Berkshire

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring ADO skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ADO over the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 99 108
Rank change year-on-year +29 +9 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ADO 25 15 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.12% 0.87% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 9.73% 4.85% 4.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 13 9
10th Percentile £400 £412 £410
25th Percentile £413 £430 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £613 £625
Median % change year-on-year -30.61% -2.00% +30.21%
75th Percentile £472 £638 £675
90th Percentile £536 £644 £685
South East median daily rate £425 £546 £625
% change year-on-year -22.20% -12.60% +25.00%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 257 309 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 21.84% 18.01% 14.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 209 177
10th Percentile £335 £363 £313
25th Percentile £410 £455 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.79% +5.45% +6.02%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £650
90th Percentile £638 £664 £706
South East median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 10 3
10th Percentile £30.46 £53.76 £24.68
25th Percentile £30.77 - £36.45
Median hourly rate £31.91 £61.60 £56.06
Median % change year-on-year -48.21% +9.88% +16.19%
75th Percentile £32.64 - £67.63
90th Percentile £32.71 £62.93 £74.56
South East median hourly rate £50.00 £61.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -18.83% +2.67% -2.44%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for ADO in Berkshire

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ADO

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in Berkshire over the 6 months to 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in Berkshire

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ADO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing ADO

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 28 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Wokingham - 16 £425 - 1
Reading +17 7 £502 -18.00%
Bracknell - 2 £413 -
ADO
South East

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (92.00%) Azure
1 23 (92.00%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (56.00%) Azure AKS
3 12 (48.00%) Azure Storage
4 9 (36.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 9 (36.00%) IaaS
4 9 (36.00%) PaaS
5 5 (20.00%) Power Platform
6 4 (16.00%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (12.00%) Azure Table
7 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (12.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (8.00%) GitHub
8 2 (8.00%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (4.00%) dbt
9 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (48.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 5 (20.00%) Power BI
3 1 (4.00%) MySQL
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Git
2 1 (4.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (12.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (52.00%) Azure Engineer
2 12 (48.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 12 (48.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 11 (44.00%) Site Engineer
3 11 (44.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
5 2 (8.00%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Lead
5 2 (8.00%) Operational Security Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Project Manager - Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.00%) Security Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Security Operations Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Security Project Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (8.00%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Business Analyst
6 1 (4.00%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (20.00%) .NET
1 5 (20.00%) ARM Templates
2 3 (12.00%) .NET Core
3 2 (8.00%) YAML
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (4.00%) Blazor
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) DevOps
2 13 (52.00%) CI/CD
3 12 (48.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
4 6 (24.00%) Agile
4 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (12.00%) Identity Management
6 3 (12.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (12.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (12.00%) Project Management
6 3 (12.00%) Waterfall
7 2 (8.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (8.00%) Change Control
7 2 (8.00%) Cyber Resilience
7 2 (8.00%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (8.00%) Platform Engineering
7 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (8.00%) RBAC
7 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (8.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 13 (52.00%) SQL
2 5 (20.00%) Bicep
2 5 (20.00%) C#
3 3 (12.00%) Bash
3 3 (12.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (12.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Azure Certification
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (52.00%) Kubernetes
2 8 (32.00%) Terraform
3 4 (16.00%) Grafana
3 4 (16.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft