ADO Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 66 -
Rank change year-on-year -9 - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.36% 0.16% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.83% 0.73% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £135 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £140 -
Median % change year-on-year +221.43% - -
75th Percentile £475 £145 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £530 £569 £500
% change year-on-year -6.81% +13.75% -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 164 137 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 19.95% 21.61% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 84 93
10th Percentile £413 £400 £243
25th Percentile £475 £447 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +15.79% -7.32%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £575
90th Percentile £653 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £25.80 - -
25th Percentile £34.13 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.13 - -
90th Percentile £71.60 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £27.21 £27.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year -1.05% +57.14% -

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

ADO job vacancy trend in Birmingham

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing ADO

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP ERP
1 1 (33.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 2 (66.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) HP ALM
1 2 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Oracle
3 1 (33.33%) Workday