ADO Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 100 113
Rank change year-on-year -33 +13 +44
Contract jobs citing ADO 2 16 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.092% 0.93% 0.57%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% 3.35% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
10th Percentile - £400 -
25th Percentile £618 £431 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +45.14% -20.45% +18.92%
75th Percentile £653 £530 £575
90th Percentile - £572 £605
Central London median daily rate £593 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +35.43% -16.67% +13.51%

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 452 477 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.90% 27.60% 21.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 309 344
10th Percentile £363 £413 £397
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -9.60%
75th Percentile £669 £684 £688
90th Percentile £750 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £551
% change year-on-year -0.18% - -11.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £21.09 - -
25th Percentile £27.48 - £46.25
Median hourly rate £38.53 - £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.17%
75th Percentile £50.56 - £48.75
90th Percentile £56.06 - -
Central London median hourly rate £29.53 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -20.17%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

ADO job vacancy trend in the City of London

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ADO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ADO

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ADO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ADO

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Service Bus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Law
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
1 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Thought Leadership
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Aderant
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks