ADO Contracts in the City of London

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 113 158
Rank change year-on-year +4 +45 +31
Contract jobs citing ADO 14 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.80% 0.64% 0.49%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 2.90% 2.90% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £390 - £417
25th Percentile £406 £475 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £506
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +3.70% -28.95%
75th Percentile £444 £575 £556
90th Percentile £496 - £568
Central London median daily rate £438 £500 £506
% change year-on-year -12.50% -1.23% -28.95%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 482 482 1,032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.45% 21.99% 28.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 312 343 668
10th Percentile £413 £400 £425
25th Percentile £463 £463 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -10.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £738
90th Percentile £775 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £625
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for ADO in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ADO in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for ADO in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ADO in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for ADO in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (21.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (85.71%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Service Fabric
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) DNS
1 7 (50.00%) Firewall
1 7 (50.00%) NGFW
1 7 (50.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Visual Studio Team System
2 1 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Billing
2 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Network Support
1 7 (50.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 7 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Software Tester
3 2 (14.29%) Tester
4 1 (7.14%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Change Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Quantitative Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Quantitative Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) FastAPI
1 1 (7.14%) NumPy
1 1 (7.14%) Pandas
1 1 (7.14%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 7 (50.00%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (78.57%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 7 (50.00%) Kalman Filter
2 7 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) CRM
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) Business Transformation
5 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Prototyping
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Test Management
5 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (14.29%) User Stories
5 2 (14.29%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) C#
2 1 (7.14%) C++
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
2 1 (7.14%) PMP
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) PMO
Systems Management
1 7 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 7 (50.00%) Infoblox
1 7 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 2 (14.29%) Workday