ADO Contracts in England

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ADO skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ADO over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 431 502 580
Rank change year-on-year +71 +78 -23
Contract jobs citing ADO 107 153 204
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.44% 1.31% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 91 133
10th Percentile £375 £419 £402
25th Percentile £411 £476 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% -
75th Percentile £638 £700 £775
90th Percentile £788 £825 £875
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £38.75 -
UK median hourly rate - £38.75 -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
England

ADO is in the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 7,453 11,673 19,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 20.16% 23.13% 27.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,303 8,631 14,413
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £430 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £675
90th Percentile £775 £798 £763
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 211 138 213
10th Percentile £21.73 £28.73 £22.10
25th Percentile £41.28 £48.88 £35.00
Median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%
75th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.08 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £46.18 £65.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.95% +32.65% +8.89%

ADO
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for ADO in England

ADO
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for ADO in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ADO in England

ADO
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for ADO in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 28 April 2024. 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
London +75 74 £500 -16.67% 4
South East +13 14 - - 3
West Midlands +33 8 £650 +30.00% 4
Midlands +27 8 £650 +30.00% 5
North of England +31 6 £413 -24.91% 2
Yorkshire +25 6 £413 -38.81% 2
South West +17 3 £625 -10.71% 2
ADO
UK

ADO
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (5.61%) Confluence
2 2 (1.87%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.87%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.93%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.93%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.93%) Markit EDM
2 1 (0.93%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.93%) SAP Hybris
2 1 (0.93%) SAP Travel Management
2 1 (0.93%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 53 (49.53%) Azure
2 26 (24.30%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (14.02%) AWS
4 13 (12.15%) AWS CloudFormation
5 9 (8.41%) Power Platform
6 7 (6.54%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (4.67%) dbt
7 5 (4.67%) PowerApps
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Logic Apps
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (3.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 4 (3.74%) GitHub
8 4 (3.74%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.80%) Serverless
10 2 (1.87%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (1.87%) Asana
10 2 (1.87%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (1.87%) Miro
10 2 (1.87%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.80%) Internet
2 1 (0.93%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.67%) Power BI
2 4 (3.74%) Data Lake
2 4 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (3.74%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.80%) BusinessObjects
4 2 (1.87%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.93%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.93%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.93%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 38 (35.51%) JIRA
2 9 (8.41%) Selenium
3 8 (7.48%) JMeter
4 5 (4.67%) Git
5 4 (3.74%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.87%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 1 (0.93%) GitLab
7 1 (0.93%) LoadRunner
7 1 (0.93%) NeoLoad
7 1 (0.93%) NUnit
7 1 (0.93%) SpecFlow
General
1 27 (25.23%) Finance
1 27 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (9.35%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (5.61%) Banking
5 5 (4.67%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Back Office
6 3 (2.80%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.80%) Wholesale Banking
7 2 (1.87%) Billing
7 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.87%) Retail
8 1 (0.93%) Front Office
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (11.21%) Analyst
1 12 (11.21%) Tester
2 9 (8.41%) Developer
2 9 (8.41%) Manual Tester
2 9 (8.41%) Test Manager
3 8 (7.48%) Applications Engineer
3 8 (7.48%) Lead
3 8 (7.48%) Testing Manager
4 7 (6.54%) Project Manager
4 7 (6.54%) Test Analyst
5 5 (4.67%) Software Engineer
6 4 (3.74%) Business Analyst
6 4 (3.74%) Dynamics 365 Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Integration Developer
6 4 (3.74%) Scrum Master
7 3 (2.80%) Automation Tester
7 3 (2.80%) Azure Architect
7 3 (2.80%) Cloud Engineer
7 3 (2.80%) Data Engineer
7 3 (2.80%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) .NET
2 5 (4.67%) .NET Core
3 4 (3.74%) JSON
3 4 (3.74%) Node.js
3 4 (3.74%) React
3 4 (3.74%) XML
4 3 (2.80%) FIX Protocol
4 3 (2.80%) Flask
4 3 (2.80%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.80%) Pandas
4 3 (2.80%) pytest
4 3 (2.80%) YAML
5 2 (1.87%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.93%) Jest
6 1 (0.93%) JWT
6 1 (0.93%) MERN Stack
6 1 (0.93%) Next.js
6 1 (0.93%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.93%) Tailwind CSS
6 1 (0.93%) Tkinter
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.15%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.74%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
4 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.93%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.93%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.93%) Solar Panel
4 1 (0.93%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (10.28%) Linux
2 9 (8.41%) Ubuntu
3 3 (2.80%) Android
3 3 (2.80%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.80%) Unix
4 2 (1.87%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (45.79%) DevOps
2 37 (34.58%) Agile
3 21 (19.63%) Test Management
4 18 (16.82%) End-to-End Testing
4 18 (16.82%) Project Management
5 17 (15.89%) Scrum
6 14 (13.08%) Defect Management
7 13 (12.15%) CI/CD
7 13 (12.15%) Project Delivery
7 13 (12.15%) Scenario Testing
7 13 (12.15%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (10.28%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (10.28%) SDLC
10 10 (9.35%) Data Modelling
10 10 (9.35%) Infrastructure as Code
10 10 (9.35%) Validation
11 9 (8.41%) Programme Management
11 9 (8.41%) Test Automation
12 8 (7.48%) Application Packaging
Programming Languages
1 16 (14.95%) C#
2 13 (12.15%) Python
2 13 (12.15%) SQL
3 11 (10.28%) C++
4 10 (9.35%) Java
5 6 (5.61%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.67%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.74%) T-SQL
7 4 (3.74%) X++
8 2 (1.87%) Bicep
9 1 (0.93%) Bash
9 1 (0.93%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (5.61%) Degree
2 3 (2.80%) Security Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) Azure Certification
3 2 (1.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (1.87%) DV Cleared
3 2 (1.87%) PMP
4 1 (0.93%) AWS Certification
4 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (0.93%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.28%) QA
2 3 (2.80%) PMO
3 2 (1.87%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 1 (0.93%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (9.35%) Active Directory
2 5 (4.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (6.54%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.87%) Grafana
2 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
2 2 (1.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 16 (14.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.67%) Oracle
3 4 (3.74%) Informatica
3 4 (3.74%) SAP
4 3 (2.80%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.80%) Workday
5 1 (0.93%) Apple
5 1 (0.93%) Cadence
5 1 (0.93%) Databricks
5 1 (0.93%) JDA