ADO Contracts in England

Microsoft ActiveX Data Objects (ADO)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 399 434 500
Rank change year-on-year +35 +66 +79
Contract jobs citing ADO 86 108 153
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.29% 0.30%
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 1.58% 1.44% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 63 91
10th Percentile £363 £375 £419
25th Percentile £388 £411 £476
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% -9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £580 £638 £700
90th Percentile £638 £788 £825
UK median daily rate £493 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -1.50% -9.09% -10.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £38.13
Median hourly rate - - £38.75
75th Percentile - - £39.38
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £38.75

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 5,454 7,511 11,676
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 22.39% 20.19% 23.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,783 5,341 8,633
10th Percentile £368 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £430 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% -
75th Percentile £669 £675 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £798
UK median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 218 138
10th Percentile £30.13 £22.27 £28.73
25th Percentile £51.25 £43.00 £48.88
Median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%
75th Percentile £68.19 £65.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £82.19 £75.00 £80.08
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £46.18 £65.00
% change year-on-year +40.75% -28.95% +32.65%

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

ADO
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ADO in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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

ADO
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 1 May 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
London +11 48 £468 -6.50% 20
South East +51 19 £425 - 9
Midlands +24 10 £538 -17.31% 2
West Midlands +15 9 £550 -15.38% 2
North of England +20 7 £450 +8.96% 4
North West - 6 £475 - 2
Yorkshire +3 1 £315 -23.73% 2
East Midlands - 1 £375 -
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 7 (8.14%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.33%) CMS
2 2 (2.33%) Confluence
3 1 (1.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.81%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (3.49%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.33%) Kondor
3 1 (1.16%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 74 (86.05%) Azure
2 47 (54.65%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (18.60%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 14 (16.28%) Power Platform
5 11 (12.79%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (9.30%) GitHub
7 7 (8.14%) Azure API Management
7 7 (8.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 6 (6.98%) Azure AKS
8 6 (6.98%) Azure Service Bus
9 5 (5.81%) Azure Storage
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (4.65%) Azure Service Fabric
10 4 (4.65%) IaaS
10 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (3.49%) Miro
11 3 (3.49%) PaaS
11 3 (3.49%) Power Automate
11 3 (3.49%) PowerApps
11 3 (3.49%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.60%) DNS
1 16 (18.60%) Firewall
1 16 (18.60%) NGFW
1 16 (18.60%) VPN
2 1 (1.16%) LAN
2 1 (1.16%) WAN
2 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.79%) Power BI
2 8 (9.30%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (4.65%) Metadata
4 3 (3.49%) SQL Server
5 2 (2.33%) Delta Lake
5 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.16%) GIS
6 1 (1.16%) MySQL
6 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (10.47%) Git
2 8 (9.30%) JIRA
3 6 (6.98%) Selenium
4 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (1.16%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.16%) GitLab
6 1 (1.16%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (1.16%) Poetry
6 1 (1.16%) Postman
6 1 (1.16%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (18.60%) Finance
2 12 (13.95%) Social Skills
3 5 (5.81%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.49%) Banking
5 3 (3.49%) Billing
5 3 (3.49%) Law
6 2 (2.33%) Front Office
6 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.33%) Private Banking
7 1 (1.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.16%) Retail
7 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Azure Engineer
2 16 (18.60%) Network Engineer
2 16 (18.60%) Network Support
2 16 (18.60%) Network Support Engineer
2 16 (18.60%) Support Engineer
3 12 (13.95%) Developer
4 10 (11.63%) Analyst
5 8 (9.30%) DevOps Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Site Engineer
6 7 (8.14%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Azure Developer
7 6 (6.98%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 6 (6.98%) Business Analyst
7 6 (6.98%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (5.81%) Administrator
8 5 (5.81%) Lead
9 4 (4.65%) .NET Developer
9 4 (4.65%) PMO Administrator
9 4 (4.65%) Project Manager
10 3 (3.49%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.14%) .NET
2 4 (4.65%) ARM Templates
3 3 (3.49%) PySpark
3 3 (3.49%) YAML
4 2 (2.33%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.33%) CSS
5 1 (1.16%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (1.16%) Blazor
5 1 (1.16%) EDI
5 1 (1.16%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.16%) HTML
5 1 (1.16%) NumPy
5 1 (1.16%) OpenTelemetry
5 1 (1.16%) Pandas
5 1 (1.16%) pytest
5 1 (1.16%) React
5 1 (1.16%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.16%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.60%) Anti-Spyware
2 10 (11.63%) Product Ownership
3 6 (6.98%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.33%) Online Banking
5 2 (2.33%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.33%) Wiki
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Applications
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.16%) N-Tier
6 1 (1.16%) Replication
6 1 (1.16%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
1 1 (1.16%) Unix
1 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (59.30%) Agile
2 50 (58.14%) DevOps
3 21 (24.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 18 (20.93%) CI/CD
5 17 (19.77%) Migration
6 16 (18.60%) Kalman Filter
7 13 (15.12%) Project Management
7 13 (15.12%) Test Automation
8 10 (11.63%) Scrum
8 10 (11.63%) User Stories
9 9 (10.47%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (10.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (9.30%) Sprint Planning
11 7 (8.14%) Roadmaps
11 7 (8.14%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 7 (8.14%) Site Reliability Engineering
12 6 (6.98%) CRM
12 6 (6.98%) Full-Stack Development
12 6 (6.98%) Project Delivery
13 5 (5.81%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.77%) Python
2 15 (17.44%) SQL
3 9 (10.47%) C#
4 8 (9.30%) PowerShell
5 7 (8.14%) Java
6 4 (4.65%) Bash
7 2 (2.33%) Bicep
7 2 (2.33%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.16%) C++
8 1 (1.16%) Perl
8 1 (1.16%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.16%) R
8 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
2 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) Azure Certification
4 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.16%) APMP
6 1 (1.16%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.98%) PMO
2 3 (3.49%) QA
3 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (24.42%) Terraform
2 9 (10.47%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.33%) Grafana
3 2 (2.33%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (25.58%) Microsoft
2 16 (18.60%) CheckPoint
2 16 (18.60%) Infoblox
2 16 (18.60%) Palo Alto
3 3 (3.49%) Databricks
3 3 (3.49%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.33%) Calypso
4 2 (2.33%) Workday
5 1 (1.16%) Cisco
5 1 (1.16%) OneTrust
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle
5 1 (1.16%) Perforce
5 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.16%) Sitecore
5 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds