ADO Contracts in Central London

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 125 155
Rank change year-on-year +9 +30 +45
Contract jobs citing ADO 20 7 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.97% 0.31% 0.50%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 3.96% 1.30% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 5
10th Percentile £380 £360 £408
25th Percentile £409 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £444 £425 £550
90th Percentile £738 £440 £565
London median daily rate £425 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -15.00% -9.09% -18.52%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 505 537 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.57% 23.42% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 370 591
10th Percentile £396 £424 £413
25th Percentile £425 £489 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £625
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £750
90th Percentile £762 £838 £838
London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £52.83 - -
25th Percentile £55.99 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.58%
75th Percentile £76.25 - -
90th Percentile £83.75 - -
London median hourly rate £52.50 £37.50 £67.00
% change year-on-year +40.00% -44.03% +30.73%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for ADO in Central London

ADO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADO in Central London.

Daily rate trend for ADO in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in Central London over the 6 months to 5 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in Central London

ADO
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADO in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for ADO in Central London

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Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +16 20 £425 - 1
ADO
London

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (15.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (10.00%) MS Visio
1 2 (10.00%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.00%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 15 (75.00%) Azure
2 8 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (5.00%) AWS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Storage
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Table
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub
5 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (5.00%) IaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (5.00%) PaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (40.00%) DNS
1 8 (40.00%) Firewall
1 8 (40.00%) NGFW
1 8 (40.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Power BI
2 1 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (20.00%) JIRA
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (10.00%) Billing
2 2 (10.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Azure Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Network Support
2 8 (40.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Support Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Software Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Technical Business Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Tester
6 1 (5.00%) Architect
6 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Change Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) PMO Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Project Planner
6 1 (5.00%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) .NET
1 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (5.00%) ActiveX
1 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.00%) JSON
1 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (5.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (40.00%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 9 (45.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
3 8 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
3 8 (40.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) User Stories
5 5 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
7 3 (15.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
7 3 (15.00%) CRM
7 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (15.00%) Test Management
8 2 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (10.00%) Data Modelling
8 2 (10.00%) Project Management
8 2 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
8 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
8 2 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (10.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (10.00%) PMO
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 9 (45.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) Grafana
2 1 (5.00%) Istio
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (40.00%) CheckPoint
1 8 (40.00%) Infoblox
1 8 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.00%) Salesforce
4 2 (10.00%) Workday
5 1 (5.00%) Okta