ADO Contract Job Trends in the East of England

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

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring ADO skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ADO 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.055% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £525 £519
% change year-on-year -14.29% +1.20% -5.68%

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 228 172 237
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 12.45% 16.29% 12.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 109 150
10th Percentile £406 £315 £309
25th Percentile £463 £400 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £558 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.89% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £671 £600 £572
90th Percentile £762 £675 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 5 16
10th Percentile £37.47 £62.75 £23.38
25th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £42.98
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £55.53
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +26.06% -15.22%
75th Percentile £76.25 £72.50 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.55 £73.25 £70.88
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £52.20
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.74% -19.70%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

ADO job vacancy trend in the East of England

ADO
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ADO.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ADO

ADO
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ADO.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing ADO

ADO
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ADO within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 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
Hertfordshire - 1 £625 -
ADO
England

ADO
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Scrum Master
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 1 (100.00%) Burndown Charts
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Servant Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Volume Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle