ADO Contract Job Trends in Cardiff

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cardiff requiring ADO skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 33 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 0.51% 0.45% -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.89% 1.69% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - -
75th Percentile £415 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South Wales median daily rate £410 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 53 59 62
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 26.77% 26.82% 27.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 42 53
10th Percentile £299 £209 £217
25th Percentile £363 £375 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year -13.27% +15.29% -15.00%
75th Percentile £488 £548 £538
90th Percentile £643 £551 £635
South Wales median daily rate £450 £490 £425
% change year-on-year -8.16% +15.29% -22.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £25.60 -
South Wales median hourly rate - £21.12 -

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for ADO in Cardiff

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Data Governance
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) T-SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft