ADO Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.27% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.96% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East of England median daily rate - - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 51 58 80
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 13.60% 19.27% 16.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 50
10th Percentile £363 £400 £348
25th Percentile £409 £413 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £454 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.16% -9.20% -4.76%
75th Percentile £576 £531 £582
90th Percentile £633 £654 £702
East of England median daily rate £550 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +22.22% -10.00% -7.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £30.97 - £41.46
25th Percentile £32.69 - £58.75
Median hourly rate £37.25 - £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £41.36 - £70.88
90th Percentile £42.79 - £83.00
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.50
% change year-on-year -7.14% +26.13% -15.27%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

ADO job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing ADO

ADO
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 28 February 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
Cambridge - 1 - - 1
ADO
East of England

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lineage
1 1 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) ServiceNow